Comments on: Masahiro Sakurai discontinues Game Designers Award after 16 years after failing to find successor, warns fellow devs that an industry without originality “will die a slow death” https://automaton-media.com/en/news/masahiro-sakurai-discontinues-game-designers-award-after-16-years-after-failing-to-find-successor-warns-fellow-devs-that-an-industry-without-originality-will-die-a-slow-death/ AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:30:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Lorenzo https://automaton-media.com/en/news/masahiro-sakurai-discontinues-game-designers-award-after-16-years-after-failing-to-find-successor-warns-fellow-devs-that-an-industry-without-originality-will-die-a-slow-death/#comment-9678 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:30:27 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=72548#comment-9678 I can not blame him. Sadly as much as there is good Indies, the majority of AA and Indies fall into the Genre Homogenization camp of Roguelike, Roguelite, Deckbuilders, and Soulslikes. It’s people who like to take shortcuts and chase popularity like everyone else does while at the same time believing they are creating original ideas and make a lot of money because it’s “safe” and the only way to do things.

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