Sakurai Believes Industry Will "Slowly Die" Without Innovation As He Discontinues Game Designers Award
"We always need new discoveries". Game developer Masahiro Sakurai has announced that The Game Designer award for the Japan Game Awards has been…
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| Factor | Weight | Score | Contribution | Where it came from |
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| Corroboration | 0.35 | 0.39 | +0.135 42% | 1 independent org on the story. Tier-3 aggregators never corroborate — they can show something is circulating, never that it is true. |
| Source trustleads | 0.25 | 0.70 | +0.175 54% | Nintendo Life is the highest-trust source on this story. Trust is taken from the best source, not averaged. |
| Pickup rate | 0.20 | 0.00 | +0.000 0% | One counted organisation, so there is no spread to measure — nothing has picked this up to set a rate. |
| Freshness | 0.20 | 0.07 | +0.014 4% | Halves every 10 hours from the newest item on the story. This is the only factor that rewards a story for nothing more than being recent. |
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What happened
Game developer Masahiro Sakurai has announced that The Game Designer award for the Japan Game Awards has been discontinued, as he has been unable to find a successor to carry it on into the future. As reported by IGN, Sakurai made the announcement at this year's ceremony. He originally founded The Game Designer award in 2010, with the intention of recognising games for their creativity and originality. The last game to receive the prize was Word Game from independent studio Team9. com
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