Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games - Season 2

1. Flash, Blast, and Smoke [Effects]

Aired: 1/2/2023

2. Deconstruct, Analyze, and Rebuild [Planning & Game Design]

Aired: 1/4/2023

3. Team Digital or Team Physical? [Grab Bag]

Aired: 1/6/2023

4. Kirby Air Ride [Game Concepts]

Aired: 1/9/2023

5. Don't Wait to Speak Your Mind [Team Management]

Aired: 1/11/2023

6. Don't Anchor Your Center Point [Design Specifics]

Aired: 1/13/2023

7. Attack Poses [Animation]

Aired: 1/16/2023

8. Get the Sense of Scale Right [Graphics]

Aired: 1/18/2023

9. Good Errands and Bad Errands [Planning & Game Design]

Aired: 1/20/2023

10. Falling Sells the Feeling of Flight [Game Essence]

Aired: 1/23/2023

11. Sora's Work-From-Home Strategies [Grab Bag]

Aired: 1/25/2023

12. You'll Forget the Hardship, But the Game Will Endure! [Work Ethic]

Aired: 1/27/2023

13. Put Parameters in Brackets [Programming & Tech]

Aired: 1/30/2023

14. Game Music and Ambient Sounds [Audio]

Aired: 2/1/2023

15. Directors Need to Be Unique [Work Ethic]

Aired: 2/3/2023

16. Do We Really Need Enemies? [Game Essence]

Aired: 2/6/2023

17. Competing with the Past [Grab Bag]

Aired: 2/9/2023

18. Say No to Slow! [Design Specifics]

Aired: 2/11/2023

19. Meteos [Game Concepts]

Aired: 2/14/2023

20. Consider Rewards First [Game Essence]

Aired: 2/17/2023

21. Learn to Count Frames! [Planning & Game Design]

Aired: 2/20/2023

22. Follow-Throughs Make the Impact [Animation]

Aired: 2/22/2023

23. Loading Screens [UI]

Aired: 2/24/2023

24. Visual Effects in Slow Motion [Effects]

Aired: 2/28/2023

25. Marketing is Multiplicative [Marketing]

Aired: 3/3/2023

26. Games and Eye Strain [Grab Bag]

Aired: 3/6/2023

27. Do Competitive Games Have to Be Complex? [Game Essence]

Aired: 3/8/2023

28. Just Do It Already! [Work Ethic]

Aired: 3/10/2023

29. Units of Speed [Design Specifics]

Aired: 3/14/2023

30. Making Tutorials Feel Natural [Planning & Game Design]

Aired: 3/17/2023

31. Game Essence in Falling-Block Puzzle Games [Game Essence]

Aired: 3/20/2023

32. Mastering Up [Grab Bag]

Aired: 3/22/2023

33. Ten People Can Produce Seven People's Work [Team Management]

Aired: 3/24/2023

34. Audio as Fiction and Non-Fiction [Audio]

Aired: 3/28/2023

35. Supervising Art Through Retouches [Graphics]

Aired: 3/31/2023

36. Exaggerate to Make Up for Information Loss [Animation]

Aired: 4/3/2023

37. Sodatete! Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking [Game Concepts]

Aired: 4/5/2023

38. Emphasizing Text [UI]

Aired: 4/8/2023

39. Using Tickets to Manage Tasks [Programming & Tech]

Aired: 4/11/2023

40. Praise the Player! [Planning & Game Design]

Aired: 4/14/2023

41. The Family Computer (and the NES) [Grab Bag]

Aired: 4/17/2023

42. Dying Comes as a Relief? [Game Essence]

Aired: 4/19/2023

43. How I Stuck With My Column [Work Ethic]

Aired: 4/21/2023

44. An Up-Close Look at Smash Bros. Stages [Graphics]

Aired: 4/24/2023

45. Development Secrets of the Original Kirby [Grab Bag]

Aired: 4/27/2023

46. Paint an Accurate Picture of Your Game [Marketing]

Aired: 4/30/2023

47. Behavior at Ledges [Design Specifics]

Aired: 5/2/2023

48. Screen Shake [Effects]

Aired: 5/5/2023

49. Don't Be Unresponsive [Planning & Game Design]

Aired: 5/8/2023

50. Mountain Climbing Is More Than Just Climbing [Game Essence]

Aired: 5/10/2023

51. Posing Suggestions [Animation]

Aired: 5/13/2023

52. Voice Recording [Audio]

Aired: 5/16/2023

53. Super Smash Bros. Brawl [Game Concepts]

Aired: 5/19/2023

54. Don't Rely on a "Plan B" [Work Ethic]

Aired: 5/21/2023

55. Canceled Games [Grab Bag]

Aired: 5/25/2023

56. Menus Define Your World [UI]

Aired: 5/27/2023

57. Branching Tastes [Work Ethic]

Aired: 5/29/2023

58. Game Writing is Unique [Planning & Game Design]

Aired: 6/1/2023

59. Explain Ideas to Everyone at Once [Team Management]

Aired: 6/5/2023

60. The Basics of Pixel Art [Graphics]

Aired: 6/7/2023

61. ♪ PRESS START [Grab Bag]

Aired: 6/9/2023

62. Make Retries Quick [Game Essence]

Aired: 6/12/2023

63. Family BASIC [Programming & Tech]

Aired: 6/14/2023

64. Maps Are Game Screens, Too [Design Specifics]

Aired: 6/16/2023

65. The Fun in Picking Sides [Planning & Game Design]

Aired: 6/19/2023

66. Squashing and Scaling [Animation]

Aired: 6/21/2023

67. Game Demos [Marketing]

Aired: 6/23/2023

68. Daily Report Suggestions [Team Management]

Aired: 6/26/2023

69. Games During My Childhood [Grab Bag]

Aired: 6/29/2023

70. Kid Icarus: Uprising [Game Concepts]

Aired: 7/4/2023

71. Broad Input, Broad Output [Work Ethic]

Aired: 7/7/2023

72. Arranging Music [Audio]

Aired: 7/10/2023

73. Is Your Game Appealing Enough to Start Over? [Game Essence]

Aired: 7/13/2023

74. Motion Sickness in 3D Games [Planning & Game Design]

Aired: 7/17/2023

75. Unifying Visual Style [Graphics]

Aired: 7/20/2023

76. Hit Marks [Effects]

Aired: 7/25/2023

77. The Team Behind Super Smash Bros. Brawl [Grab Bag]

Aired: 7/28/2023

78. Color-Coding Your Game [UI]

Aired: 8/1/2023

79. Game Essence in Shooting Games [Game Essence]

Aired: 8/4/2023

80. Super Smash Bros. for 3DS / Wii U [Game Concepts]

Aired: 8/8/2023

81. Bug Testing Never Ends [Team Management]

Aired: 8/12/2023

82. Staying Organized with Hierarchical Outlines [Planning & Game Design]

Aired: 8/15/2023

83. A Fight Between Live Action and Animation [Graphics]

Aired: 8/18/2023

84. Guidelines [Grab Bag]

Aired: 8/22/2023

85. Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games Introduction Video

Aired: 8/24/2023

86. Unexpected Results [Design Specifics]

Aired: 8/25/2023

87. Damage Animations [Animation]

Aired: 8/29/2023

88. Official Websites [Marketing]

Aired: 9/1/2023

89. Keep Your Internal Pressure High [Work Ethic]

Aired: 9/5/2023

90. Knockback in Super Smash Bros. [Programming & Tech]

Aired: 9/8/2023

91. The Original Piece is Always Right [Audio]

Aired: 9/12/2023

92. Make Important Elements Bigger [UI]

Aired: 9/15/2023

93. More Game Essence Means Less Broad Appeal [Game Essence]

Aired: 9/19/2023

94. Show and Tell: Some Rare Belongings [Grab Bag]

Aired: 9/22/2023

95. The Perils of Interpolation [Animation]

Aired: 9/25/2023

96. Planning Your Game’s Rewards [Planning & Game Design]

Aired: 9/28/2023

97. Do Graphics Impact Fun? [Graphics]

Aired: 10/3/2023

98. Billboards [Effects]

Aired: 10/6/2023

99. Flick Input [Design Specifics]

Aired: 10/10/2023

100. Special Crossover! #1 [Special]

Aired: 10/13/2023

For our portion of the Retro Game Master crossover, we take a tour through a curated selection of arcade games released between 1978 and 1987—"The Space Invaders Decade". We hope it provides a unique look at the history and evolution of video games!

101. Special Crossover! #2 [Special]

Aired: 10/16/2023

The second installment of the Retro Game Master crossover is here! Join me as I play classic arcade games with legendary Let's Player Arino Kacho. In the four short years covered in this episode, games evolved rather dramatically!

102. Special Crossover! #3 [Special]

Aired: 10/19/2023

Welcome to the final episode of the Retro Game Master crossover! I never imagined doing a crossover like this—I'm so glad we had a chance to play so many games!

103. The Majority Shouldn't Always Rule [Work Ethic]

Aired: 10/24/2023

104. The Shoryuken Command [Game Essence]

Aired: 10/27/2023

105. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate [Game Concepts]

Aired: 10/30/2023

106. Avoiding Comparison [Planning & Game Design]

Aired: 11/2/2023

107. Making Games as Part of a Company [Team Management]

Aired: 11/7/2023

108. Fighter Reveal Videos [Marketing]

Aired: 11/10/2023

109. Making Sequels [Planning & Game Design]

Aired: 11/14/2023

110. Odds and Ends of Supervising [Graphics]

Aired: 11/17/2023

111. Facial Animations [Animation]

Aired: 11/21/2023

112. Strong Attack, Light Reverb [Audio]

Aired: 11/24/2023

113. Game & Watch Designs [Grab Bag]

Aired: 11/28/2023

114. I Want to Choose Fast! [UI]

Aired: 12/1/2023

115. The Pros and Cons of Leaderboards [Game Essence]

Aired: 12/5/2023

116. The Power of Suggestion [Work Ethic]

Aired: 12/8/2023

117. How Multiple People Work on One File [Programming & Tech]

Aired: 12/12/2023

118. Teaching Players How to Play [Design Specifics]

Aired: 12/16/2023

119. Making Things Look Miniature [Graphics]

Aired: 12/19/2023

120. It’s Easier If They Already Know [Planning & Game Design]

Aired: 12/22/2023

121. Creators Change, Too [Grab Bag]

Aired: 12/26/2023

122. Finish Everything Within the Day [Team Management]

Aired: 12/29/2023