Smash Bros. creator starts YouTube channel to try to make games around the world a little more fun

Since the character reveal, you have been missing your Masahiro Sakurai regular dose.Super Smash Bros. Ultimate last October? The director of Super Smash Bros. and creator of Kirby have launched a YouTube channel to share his three-decades of knowledge in game design.

“Don’t expect me to stream games or anything like that,” Sakurai said in the inaugural video for the channel. “I’ll instead be talking about topics like game development and what makes games fun.”

Sakurai has uploaded two other videos to the channel at the moment, a retrospective on the designer’s career from 1992 to 2021, and another video focused on the use of “hit stop” in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to give impact to significant game momentsAnd how this effect can be (and has been) applied to other games, including shoot-’em-ups like Defender and Fantasy Zone.

The launch of the channel follows Sakurai’s announcement on TwitterHe would stop posting screenshots daily from Super Smash Bros. UltimateSakurai did this every day since December 2019, and it was a tradition they have continued to do. With UltimateSakurai now has the ability to train up future game designers.