The creator of the Super Smash Bros and Kirby game series has started working on his upcoming game project in 2022. This is what Masahiro Sakurai told us in the latest episode of his YouTube series « Creating Games, » which was published on Tuesday and can be viewed below.
He said:
« It was around July 2021 when I started working on the downloadable content (DLC) for the game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. To be specific, I was putting together the video « Mr. Sakurai Presents: Kazuya. » Sora was also in development, of course. And by « Sora » I mean the fighter. Not the company you may have heard of. »
« While I was busy with those tasks, I received a request to write a game proposal, which I quickly completed. I apologize for not being able to share more about this project, but assuming we can pull it off, it will be announced sooner or later. »
And he continued:
« Then, in late October 2021… Sora was released, and I finished my work commitments one way or another. » « There was, of course, the new game proposal I had written. I had received approval to proceed with production, but it would take some time to assemble the right team. The target timeline was April 2022. Until then, I had to wait. »
With this gap in his schedule, Sakurai decided to create his YouTube channel.
« How can I pass on the knowledge I have gained over the years to as many people as possible? I had been thinking about that for a long time. » « And in the end, I decided to create this channel – a permanent archive of information that people can access whenever they want. »
Sakurai said that he ended up planning the entire path of the YouTube channel in the months leading up to the start of production for his next game, writing all 260 episodes except for the final episode today.
« In other words, the final number and content of all these videos had already been decided since the beginning of the channel. Everything was planned from start to finish. This way, I can say that the channel will end at some point this year, and all the footage preceding this video was recorded over two and a half years ago. »
« By August 2022, when the channel was launched, the game project I mentioned had already begun production, so I had to work on both projects at the same time as I prepared for that. »
Sakurai said that his usual day involved waking up at 8 a.m. and working primarily on his game development project until 6:30 p.m. He would then rest for dinner before starting work on his YouTube channel at 8 p.m. And try to finish that before midnight, giving him some time to play games or exercise before heading to bed between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m.
