Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai is ending his acclaimed game design YouTube series this month
Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai has announced he’ll be wrapping up his acclaimed YouTube series Creating Games on 15th October, bringing his regular video uploads to an end.
Sakurai launched his YouTube channel back in August 2022, with the aim of helping “make games around the world a little more fun”. His Creating Games series, available in both Japanese and English, saw Sakurai sharing his decades of expertise on “good” or “fun” game design, and was intended to be as accessible as possible.
Since then, Sakurai has uploaded an impressive 265 videos for his Creating Games series, covering everything from UI design and tips for using audio to marketing and work ethic. It is, in other words, an incredible resource from a world-renowned designer, and it’s popped out more than a few gems of wisdom and fascinating tidbits along the way.
Back in 2023, for instance, Sakurai shared the frankly upsetting news a follow-up to Kid Icarus: Uprising was “unlikely”, and he more recently jokingly apologised to Smash Bros. players for the “hundreds or even thousands of hours” they’d poured into the series thanks to his design.