Sakurai Creates Gamedev YouTube Channel

One of the Brightest Minds in Gaming Shares Tips and Tricks

Saying goodbye to sharing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate screenshots on Twitter, Masahiro Sakurai has revealed that he has created a new YouTube channel that focuses on teaching game development techniques. We will likely see a broad range of topics covered from animation principles to character mechanics design. The channel is subtitled and oozes the slick design we’ve seen for years in Nintendo Direct presentations.

Three videos are available now: an introduction to the channel, a brief history of Sakurai’s work, and one on selling big moments through stopped frames. Sakurai’s humble goal for the channel “Make Games More Fun” is just the mindset one would expect from the creator of Kirby.

Game design history and tips are things we get less often from Nintendo than from most active development companies. This makes the creation of “Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games” is an exciting moment for those in the industry, potential developers, and anyone curious about what goes into the design choices behind Sakurai and the teams he has worked with over the years.

Sakurai has asked on Twitter that people subscribe to the channel which can be found in full here.

Alex McCumbers

Twitter: @ACMcCumbers

Alex has been steadily shaping his writing, networking, and production skills for over a decade. He got into games journalism to keep his writing skills and habits in check as he has always wanted to create a novel or write a game's narrative. Sites that have published his work include Giga Geek Magazine, Marooners' Rock, Twin Galaxies, and Popular Mechanics. Several guest pieces have been uploaded on other sites. His work has also been physically published in both volumes of the SNES Omnibus where he contributed essays on several games. He grew up in rural West Virginia, surrounded by Appalachian music and culture.

Forever Classic was the branding that was invented during a faithful summer where he became absolutely fascinated by the world of Let's Play videos and video essays on YouTube. The Forever Classic brand name has always been at the back of his mind, tying it to projects here and there, but this website will be able to collect all of those efforts into a single place as Forever Classic Games LLC. 

"Welcome to Forever Classic Games, I'm Alex McCumbers."

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