Konami Shows WaiWai World Craft Demo at Tokyo Game Show 2026
The Magic Pod and the arrange-existing-games option mean Konami is targeting players who have never opened a game creation tool, not the audience already served by dedicated engines.
Key Facts
- Konami exhibited WaiWai World Craft at Tokyo Game Show 2026 and held a playable demo of the game creation network.
- WaiWai World Craft is planned for PC via Steam, Android, and iOS.
- The Magic Pod in WaiWai World Craft generates a game base in about three minutes by answering a few questions.
- WaiWai World Craft supports both 2D and 3D games, plus solo, co-op, and competitive play styles.
- The WaiWai World Craft hands-on session at Tokyo Game Show 2026 lasted about 15 minutes.
Reporting from 2 sources: Inside, Game Spark.
Konami displayed WaiWai World Craft at the Tokyo Game Show 2026 venue and ran a playable demo of the game creation network. The titles are planned for PC via Steam, Android, and iOS. The concept is straightforward: players build original games, publish them, and let other players play them. Players assemble stages, rules, items, and gimmicks using prepared game systems, with no programming knowledge required. The World Editor handles fine settings, and the project supports both 2D and 3D games. Play styles can assume solo play, co-op, or competitive formats. Stage decoration, background music, and sound effects can all be customized. The demo ran about 15 minutes. Konami also built in a way to start from existing material: officially prepared games can be arranged by changing their rules and stages. A separate tool called the Magic Pod generates a game base in about three minutes by answering a few questions.
The demo also includes systems for evaluating and supporting other people's games. Players can leave a "like" on a game they find interesting, and use an item called "Oshi Dori," collected during play, to support the creator. Two positions sit side by side: creator and player, and players move between them as they like.
- The Magic Pod generates a game base in about three minutes by answering a few questions from prepared options.
- The generated game is not the finished form. Players refine it afterward with the World Editor and other tools.
- Games start from officially prepared titles, whose rules and stages can be modified into an original work.
- Both 2D and 3D games can be created, used differently depending on genre and presentation.
- Stage decoration, items, gimmicks, BGM, and sound effects can all be set in detail.
- Finished games can be published and searched by other players around the world.
- Players with no interest in making games can find and play works made by others.
- Officially prepared games can be played directly.
The demo at Tokyo Game Show 2026 was the game's first playable demo, and the hands-on session ran about 15 minutes.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.