Goro Abe, best known for his work on Nintendo's anarchic WarioWare series, has left the Japanese gaming giant after over 25 years. He'll be working as a professor at a major Osaka university.
According to a social media post by Abe earlier today (thanks, ResetEra user delete12345), the WarioWare: Get It Together! director will be working on a brand new gaming-focused course at Osaka Electro-Communication University.
Machine translation tells us Abe's course will be called "Game and Social Design", but given that it also mistranslates the name of Abe's university destination, I'd take that one with a pinch of salt. Still, it'll be a course themed around game design and production, as you'd expect from someone with Abe's experience.
In closing (again, according to machine translation), Abe says he hopes to "connect with an even broader range of people in various ways than before". I'd imagine helping to tutor the next generation of WarioWare-style geniuses is a good way to do that.
Abe's on-record career with Nintendo began with 2001's Wario Land 4, where he worked as a programmer. He then served as a designer and director across the entire WarioWare series, mostly working as a...
