 Students and freelancers were proposing projects to HAL at this time, so Yoshimiru began working on an original game based upon his cancelled "Fixallia" manga.From his experience with the Famicom hardware, he was able to create character portraits with blinking eyes and mouth animations.As he was preparing his presentation, the head of development at HAL, Satoru Iwata, walked by and saw the game, and gave Yoshimiru project approval on the spot without needing to give a presentation.