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*''Kirby's Epic Yarn'' originally started as a non-Kirby game starring a character named Fluff named ''Fluff's Epic Yarn'',<ref>{{Cite|I see. By the way, Kirby’s Epic Yarn wasn’t originally intended to be a Kirby game. You really did start from scratch and for a while were making a completely new title called Fluff’s Epic Yarn. Fluff, the main character at that time, shows up in Kirby’s Epic Yarn, too. A "world of yarn" has been the setting for this game from the very start. How did you come up with the idea of a world of yarn?|Satoru Iwata|[https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Iwata-Asks/Iwata-Asks-Kirby-s-Epic-Yarn/Iwata-Asks-Kirby-s-Epic-Yarn/1-Using-Real-Yarn-and-Cloth/1-Using-Real-Yarn-and-Cloth-206925.html Iwata Asks: Kirby's Epic Yarn - Part 1: Using Real Yarn and Cloth]}}</ref> (Japanese: ''Keito no Fluff'', lit. "Fluff of Yarn"), which is where [[Prince Fluff]] comes from. However, in the summer of 2009, it was decided to turn the game into a ''Kirby'' game, as the original prototype didn't meet Good-Feel's expectations, and they thought that attaching Kirby would make the game more enjoyable.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20101010120727/http://wii.ign.com/articles/112/1126374p1.html IGN article about the story of ''Kirby's Epic Yarn'' (archive)]</ref> The internal codename of ''Kirby's Epic Yarn'' and ''[[Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn]]'' is "fluff". | *''Kirby's Epic Yarn'' originally started as a non-Kirby game starring a character named Fluff named ''Fluff's Epic Yarn'',<ref>{{Cite|I see. By the way, Kirby’s Epic Yarn wasn’t originally intended to be a Kirby game. You really did start from scratch and for a while were making a completely new title called Fluff’s Epic Yarn. Fluff, the main character at that time, shows up in Kirby’s Epic Yarn, too. A "world of yarn" has been the setting for this game from the very start. How did you come up with the idea of a world of yarn?|Satoru Iwata|[https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Iwata-Asks/Iwata-Asks-Kirby-s-Epic-Yarn/Iwata-Asks-Kirby-s-Epic-Yarn/1-Using-Real-Yarn-and-Cloth/1-Using-Real-Yarn-and-Cloth-206925.html Iwata Asks: Kirby's Epic Yarn - Part 1: Using Real Yarn and Cloth]}}</ref> (Japanese: ''Keito no Fluff'', lit. "Fluff of Yarn"), which is where [[Prince Fluff]] comes from. However, in the summer of 2009, it was decided to turn the game into a ''Kirby'' game, as the original prototype didn't meet Good-Feel's expectations, and they thought that attaching Kirby would make the game more enjoyable.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20101010120727/http://wii.ign.com/articles/112/1126374p1.html IGN article about the story of ''Kirby's Epic Yarn'' (archive)]</ref> The internal codename of ''Kirby's Epic Yarn'' and ''[[Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn]]'' is "fluff". | ||
**Notably, the original idea of making a game featuring a world of yarn was provided by Madoka Yamauchi, the same person who directed ''[[mariowiki:Wario Land: Shake It!|Wario Land: Shake It!]]''.<ref>{{Cite|The person who came up with the original idea was Madoka Yamauchi, director of Wario Land: The Shake Dimension. He’s Planning Section Manager of Good-Feel, and one day he came to me with that idea. When I asked him how he came up with it, he said it just sort of came to him.|Ebisu|[https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Iwata-Asks/Iwata-Asks-Kirby-s-Epic-Yarn/Iwata-Asks-Kirby-s-Epic-Yarn/1-Using-Real-Yarn-and-Cloth/1-Using-Real-Yarn-and-Cloth-206925.html Iwata Asks: Kirby's Epic Yarn - Part 1: Using Real Yarn and Cloth]}}</ref> | **Notably, the original idea of making a game featuring a world of yarn was provided by Madoka Yamauchi, the same person who directed ''[[mariowiki:Wario Land: Shake It!|Wario Land: Shake It!]]''.<ref>{{Cite|The person who came up with the original idea was Madoka Yamauchi, director of Wario Land: The Shake Dimension. He’s Planning Section Manager of Good-Feel, and one day he came to me with that idea. When I asked him how he came up with it, he said it just sort of came to him.|Ebisu|[https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Iwata-Asks/Iwata-Asks-Kirby-s-Epic-Yarn/Iwata-Asks-Kirby-s-Epic-Yarn/1-Using-Real-Yarn-and-Cloth/1-Using-Real-Yarn-and-Cloth-206925.html Iwata Asks: Kirby's Epic Yarn - Part 1: Using Real Yarn and Cloth]}}</ref> | ||
**According to [[Tomoya Tomita]], the original story of ''Fluff's Epic Yarn'' involved Prince Fluff searching for his lost mother. The [[ | **According to [[Tomoya Tomita]], the original story of ''Fluff's Epic Yarn'' involved Prince Fluff searching for his lost mother. The [[Staff Credits (theme from Kirby's Epic Yarn)|staff credits theme]] was initially planned to be the stage theme for [[Fountain Gardens]], which would reflect the bittersweet emotions that Fluff had been feeling in the story. As development progressed, Tomita decided to create a more conventional theme by taking [[Flower Fields (theme)|the theme]] he wrote for [[Flower Fields]] and giving it a fuller arrangement, which is how [[Fountain Gardens (theme)|the final theme for Fountain Gardens]] came to be. Tomita also included this motif into the theme of the level [[mariowiki:Yoshi and Cookies|Yoshi and Cookies]] from ''[[mariowiki:Yoshi's Woolly World|Yoshi's Woolly World]]'' as an easter egg.<ref>[https://www.heypoorplayer.com/2017/03/17/tomoya-tomita-interview/ An Interview with Game Composer Tomoya Tomita - Hey Poor Player]</ref> | ||
*The developers of ''Kirby's Epic Yarn'', [[nwiki:Good-Feel|Good-Feel]], have also released ''Yoshi'' games with similar concepts: ''Yoshi's Woolly World'', ''[[mariowiki:Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World|Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World]]'' and ''[[mariowiki:Yoshi's Crafted World|Yoshi's Crafted World]]''. | *The developers of ''Kirby's Epic Yarn'', [[nwiki:Good-Feel|Good-Feel]], have also released ''Yoshi'' games with similar concepts: ''Yoshi's Woolly World'', ''[[mariowiki:Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World|Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World]]'' and ''[[mariowiki:Yoshi's Crafted World|Yoshi's Crafted World]]''. | ||
**Interestingly, the data for every stage in this game appears deep in the files of ''Yoshi's Woolly World''. These were most likely used for testing in the early stages of development. | **Interestingly, the data for every stage in this game appears deep in the files of ''Yoshi's Woolly World''. These were most likely used for testing in the early stages of development. |