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Once the new buildings are ready and new developers hired, what are the odds of another restructure?
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I feel like we barely know the current structure of the development teams, god knows what will happen if they change it up again
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Imo you can read RFA as a successful and representative stand-in for "experimental blue ocean projects tied to unique hardware peripheral R&D". Labo moved some good units but it wasn't the runaway success that RFA ended up being eventually (impacted by the global pandemic context, naturally).
Well we do know the structure, we just don't really know who's running the projects and who is exactly and currently group manager like we used to when they frequently interviewed them (Iwata Asks) and when PR kits had short bios in them for interviewable and present devs.
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Game Freak more like Graphics Freak amirite
well if their R&D pans out, at least they won't have to reuse Hau's animation anymore
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Which one? There's two lead animator credits and Keita Usami's Linkedin says he's still at Square Enix.
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As Chief Animator of TLG... but Keita Usami was Lead Animator.
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The Last Guardian is a 3D platform game with puzzle elements set in a fantasy world. The story centers around the bond between a little boy and a huge Griffin-like creature called Trico. It is framed as a flashback as the boy, now an old man, narrates...
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... Who was the bigger one? Lead or Chief?
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Ah; they're credited as chief animatior so the terminology mixed me up.
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So this is the new development building on the site in Kyoto?
It’s a bigger plot of land than I thought.
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I enjoy construction for the plot.
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Its the new waterworks and sewerage bureau,nintendo will rent the sixth and seventh floors starting in may,the big building i think will take a while
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imagine if a sewage exec leaks monkepdIts the new waterworks and sewerage bureau,nintendo will rent the sixth and seventh floors starting in may,the big building i think will take a while
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Some interesting staff from Pokemon Arceus
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【CEDEC 2010】『アイマス2』ではココまでこだわる！ かわいいアイドルの作り方
メインホール最後のセッションは『アイマス』の話。バンダイナムコゲームスの開発スタッフがこだわりをアツく語った。
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Ooh, Shinichi Yoshikawa was a Pokémon vet from the 90's and early 2000's on Pokémon modeling for the Stadium and Orre games and even worked on Pokemon Snap as a designer it looks like. Welcome home!Some interesting staff from Pokemon Arceus
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Game credits, biography, portraits and other game industry information for Henrique Dan Fuzitani - MobyGames【CEDEC 2010】『アイマス2』ではココまでこだわる！ かわいいアイドルの作り方
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The Giga Wrecker director and Little Town Hero art director have lead positions here, along with Kazumasa Iwao who was the planning director for SwSh.
Interesting that Masuda wasn't a producer on this game, only a supervisor.
One of the composers is Hiromitsu Maeba, who previously worked at Capcom. Not sure if they're a GF employee now or just freelance. No Minako Adachi, so she's either the Gen 9 music lead or working on a Gear Project game.
Lots of other no-shows who are likely working on Gen 9.
Interesting that Masuda wasn't a producer on this game, only a supervisor.
One of the composers is Hiromitsu Maeba, who previously worked at Capcom. Not sure if they're a GF employee now or just freelance. No Minako Adachi, so she's either the Gen 9 music lead or working on a Gear Project game.
Lots of other no-shows who are likely working on Gen 9.
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GF seems to have worked with a lot of these companies before, particularly on SwSh. Monolith isn't listed, but neither is Creatures and I know they were involved because the Pokemon CG Studio lead is credited.
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Some of the prior roles from some of the key staff on Legends Arceus:
Kazumasa Iwao
Director - Pokemon Legends Arceus
Planning Director - Pokemon Sword and Shield
Director - Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon
Game Battle System Design Section Director - Pokemon Sun and Moon
Haruka Tochigi
CG Director, Field Design Team (Lead), and Lighting Team (Lead) - Pokemon Legends Arceus
Art Director and Character Design - Little Town Hero
3D Map Graphics - Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee
Pokemon Characters Design - Pokemon Sun and Moon
Masayuki Onoue
Programming Section Director and Field Programming Team (Lead) - Pokemon Legends Arceus
Director and Programming - Giga Wrecker Alt.
System Programming (Lead) - Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee
Director and Programming - Giga Wrecker
Event Programming- Pokemon Sun and Moon
Takao Unno
3D Graphics Section Director, Pokemon Production Team (Lead), Pokemon 3D Modeling & Motion Design (Lead), and Delivery Review Team (Lead) - Pokemon Legends Arceus
UI Section Director - Pokemon Sword and Shield
Graphics Section Director - Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee
Graphics Director - Pokemon Sun and Moon
3-D Art Director - Pokemon X and Y
Director and Art Director - Pokemon Black 2 and White 2
Yuichi Murase
Planning Section Director and Story Team (Lead) - Pokemon Legends Arceus
Story Planning - Pokemon Sword and Shield
Planning Director - Ni No Kuni II
Planning Support - Layon's Mystery Journey
Planner - Yo-kai Watch 2
Kazumasa Iwao
Director - Pokemon Legends Arceus
Planning Director - Pokemon Sword and Shield
Director - Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon
Game Battle System Design Section Director - Pokemon Sun and Moon
Haruka Tochigi
CG Director, Field Design Team (Lead), and Lighting Team (Lead) - Pokemon Legends Arceus
Art Director and Character Design - Little Town Hero
3D Map Graphics - Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee
Pokemon Characters Design - Pokemon Sun and Moon
Masayuki Onoue
Programming Section Director and Field Programming Team (Lead) - Pokemon Legends Arceus
Director and Programming - Giga Wrecker Alt.
System Programming (Lead) - Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee
Director and Programming - Giga Wrecker
Event Programming- Pokemon Sun and Moon
Takao Unno
3D Graphics Section Director, Pokemon Production Team (Lead), Pokemon 3D Modeling & Motion Design (Lead), and Delivery Review Team (Lead) - Pokemon Legends Arceus
UI Section Director - Pokemon Sword and Shield
Graphics Section Director - Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee
Graphics Director - Pokemon Sun and Moon
3-D Art Director - Pokemon X and Y
Director and Art Director - Pokemon Black 2 and White 2
Yuichi Murase
Planning Section Director and Story Team (Lead) - Pokemon Legends Arceus
Story Planning - Pokemon Sword and Shield
Planning Director - Ni No Kuni II
Planning Support - Layon's Mystery Journey
Planner - Yo-kai Watch 2
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Are Ambrella credited? Can someone transcribe their section please?
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Its just Yoshiyuki Oku,they not credited because creatures absorved them
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Right, that's why I was (pleasantly) surprised Ambrella would've had a named credit.
wouldn't be surprised if more Level 5 devs moved to Game Freak
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Iwao might be directing the mid-gen games from now on, similar to what Morimoto did in Gen 3/4.
Game Freak has done a pretty good job in propping up the newer/younger employees. Most of the old guard have more or less moved into producer/supervisory or less prominent roles.
As for some of the notable absences: James Turner, Shigeki Morimoto, Maiko Fujiwara, Mana Ibe, Minako Adachi, Shigeru Ohmori (as director).
Game Freak has done a pretty good job in propping up the newer/younger employees. Most of the old guard have more or less moved into producer/supervisory or less prominent roles.
As for some of the notable absences: James Turner, Shigeki Morimoto, Maiko Fujiwara, Mana Ibe, Minako Adachi, Shigeru Ohmori (as director).
everyone: does something pokemon-like and good
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Presumably another round of hiring for the new medieval fantasy game they were hiring for in February 2021?
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The description "medieval and stylish" makes me think this is going to be a successor to Tri-Force Heroes but I'm pretty confident that they're working on another 2D Zelda remake.
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This is the exact same project they’ve been recruiting for since last year. I’m guessing that it just recently popped up on their English website.
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I only brought it up because it had been reported recently.
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It makes sense, for many smaller sized studios maintaining a proprietary engine isn't worth it
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Please be a new IP
for everything but the switch
Camelot has maintained their own tools. they made the transition quite well and their games are a looker. wonder how the engine would fair with a more open game, say like a Golden Sun revival
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Time for Nintendo to buy them before that happensfor everything but the switch
Indeed. 4 years is a good amount of time. Good Dane launch year material for sure
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I hope it's an interesting fantasy ARPG/RPG IP would be nice to have more of those kinds of games in the Switch lineup.
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Wouldn't that make it a 2024 title, then?Good Dane launch year material for sure
None of this is new, but I forgot that the recruitment specified a "original work". I guess they're actually working on a The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls sequel rather than a remake; wild.
