How To Smash At Game Design

August 27, 2022 10:40 AM

Super Smash Brothers director Masahiro Sakurai has started a YouTube channel on how to make games, an extention of previous educational efforts he has done in other media. (SLYT)

So far, Sakurai has presented the following videos:

* An overview of the games he's worked on.

* Using hit stops to improve the feel of moves.

* An overview of Kirby's Dream Land.

* An overview of frames and frame rates.

posted by NoxAeternum (5 comments total)

I saw this earlier in the week and the videos up now are fairly introductory but really promising. In a few months this is going to be a really valuable repository of game development knowledge. I am curious how the ~5 minute videos will work out for the channel because it seems like YouTube either wants you to make 1 minute videos or 30+ minute ones.
posted by JZig at 11:40 AM on August 27, 2022 [1 favorite]

Maybe a silly question: is this suitable for a 9-year-old to watch? My son's interested in making games, has dabbled in coding with Scratch, and loves Mario and Kirby and other Nintendo characters and so he'd probably love this.
posted by synecdoche at 4:04 PM on August 27, 2022 [1 favorite]

Maybe a silly question: is this suitable for a 9-year-old to watch?

In my opinion, yes. From my understanding, Sakurai has been doing similar work in media like Famitsu, and the channel trailer in the OP makes it clear that he intends this to be accessible to all.
posted by NoxAeternum at 4:30 PM on August 27, 2022

In his latest video, Sakurai discusses what it means to be a professional developer.
posted by NoxAeternum at 12:29 PM on August 31, 2022

And Sakurai speedruns the climb to 100k subs.
posted by NoxAeternum at 3:03 PM on September 11, 2022