{"id":62546,"date":"2026-03-10T16:58:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=62546"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:58:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:58:39","slug":"following-departure-from-nintendo-warioware-series-creator-goro-abe-will-continue-making-small-scale-unconventional-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/following-departure-from-nintendo-warioware-series-creator-goro-abe-will-continue-making-small-scale-unconventional-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Following departure from Nintendo,\u00a0WarioWare\u00a0series creator Goro Abe will continue making small-scale,\u00a0unconventional\u00a0games\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday,&nbsp;veteran game developer&nbsp;and&nbsp;WarioWare&nbsp;series creator&nbsp;Goro Abe&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/goroemon\/status\/2030905901046169601?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a>&nbsp;that he had&nbsp;left&nbsp;Nintendo after&nbsp;almost 30&nbsp;years at the company.&nbsp;However, fans of his work will be happy to know that he plans to continue making games, albeit in a&nbsp;slightly&nbsp;different capacity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of February 2026, Abe left Nintendo to take up&nbsp;an academic role at&nbsp;Osaka Electro-Communication University, where&nbsp;he\u2019ll&nbsp;become a professor&nbsp;at the newly established \u201cGames&nbsp;For&nbsp;Social Design Department.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u5927\u5b66\u6559\u54e1\u306b\u306a\u3063\u3066\u3082\u3001\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u4f5c\u308a\u3092\u3084\u3081\u308b\u308f\u3051\u3067\u306f\u3042\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093\u3002\u7814\u7a76\u306e\u5ef6\u9577\u3068\u3057\u3066\u3001\u5546\u696d\u30d9\u30fc\u30b9\u306b\u306f\u4e57\u308a\u306b\u304f\u3044\u30d8\u30f3\u30c6\u30b3\u306a\u3082\u306e\u3084\u5c0f\u898f\u6a21\u306a\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u3092\u4f5c\u3063\u305f\u308a\u3001\u7523\u5b66\u9023\u643a\u3092\u6d3b\u7528\u3057\u305f\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u7684\u306a\u793e\u4f1a\u30b5\u30fc\u30d3\u30b9\u306b\u95a2\u308f\u3063\u305f\u308a\u3068\u3001\u3053\u308c\u307e\u3067\u3068\u306f\u9055\u3046\u30a2\u30d7\u30ed\u30fc\u30c1\u3067\u300c\u4f5c\u308b\u300d\u3053\u3068\u3092\u7d9a\u3051\u3066\u3044\u304d\u305f\u3044\u3068\u8003\u3048\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059\u3002<\/p>&mdash; \u963f\u90e8\u609f\u90ce \/ GORO ABE (@goroemon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/goroemon\/status\/2031243458317590823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In an&nbsp;update on his personal X account, Abe wrote on March 10 that becoming a professor&nbsp;doesn\u2019t&nbsp;mean&nbsp;he&#8217;ll&nbsp;be retiring from game creation. He plans to continue making&nbsp;games, particularly small and experimental titles where he can dabble in mechanics not commonly&nbsp;seen in commercial games.&nbsp;He\u2019ll&nbsp;also be dedicated to bringing together academia and the game industry through&nbsp;development&nbsp;of gamified social services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abe also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/goroemon\/status\/2031244413188583430?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expressed positive sentiments<\/a>&nbsp;toward Nintendo, commenting that&nbsp;he\u2019s&nbsp;excited to see how the company and the&nbsp;WarioWare&nbsp;series will evolve going forward.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an update on his personal X account, Goro Abe has assured fans of his work that he will keep making games despite becoming a professor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":62549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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