Masahiro Sakurai Youtube on Game Dev

Weiqing Teh, Akiraman
CG Boss Media Games
1 min readJul 28, 2024

Discovered that the designer and director of Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros has an extensive YouTube channel on game development which started over a year ago. I do like it gives a peek into the design philosophy of Nintendo through the educational videos.

The videos are well edited and information quite different from Dev Logs. It has the style of a NHK News TV style presenter program.

Topics are general but it covers design, marketing, tech and other aspects of working in games and work ethics.

Work Ethic

Check out the rest of the playlists for compilation on these topics.

Quitting YouTube for Next Game Project

Unfortunately the YouTube channel will have no new updates as heh quietly announced quitting YouTube the end of the videos sometime around August 2024.

It’s possible he might be ramping up on a new game Project some speculating the next Smash Bros or something else.

More Reading Links:

Masahiro Sakurai English YouTube Channel on Game Dev: https://m.youtube.com/@sora_sakurai_en

https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2024/jan/09/sakurai-step-away-youtube/ https://sea.ign.com/super-smash-bros-ultimate/210750/news/super-smash-bros-chief-masahiro-sakurai-quitting-youtube-in-2024

Playlist of Game Dev Topics: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgKCjZ2WsVLRTyQdpuEsCm0Lde5bO2WUv

Originally published at https://cgboss.substack.com.

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