Some of the absences on Scarlet/Violet. Some of these could have since left or were just doing contract work. I've left out artists for the most part, as it's more difficult to tell if they work at GF, Creatures, or a contract/freelance role.
Giga Wrecker Alt
Little Town Hero
Sword/Shield
Arceus
Planning
- Tetsuya Odate
- Masahito Nagasu
- Atsushi Terachi
- Rena Koda
- Katsunori Suginaka
- Kensaku Iwata
- Hidenaga Endo
- Keita Okamoto
- Kazumasa Iwao (Directed USUM/Arceus)
- Toshinobu Matsumiya (Main writer for most of the original titles)
- Miku Yoshida
- Tetsuji Ohta
- Yuki Asada
Programming
- Kazuhiko Takata
- Yuji Tomura
- Kei Fujita
- Shimon Sakamoto
- Yuji Tomura
- Masao Taya (Directed Pocket Card Jockey/Little Town Hero)
- Manabu Ishioka
- Katsuhiko Ichiraku
- Akira Endo
- Naoya Uematsu
- Masateru Ishiguro
- Masayuki Onoue (Directed Giga Wrecker/Alt)
- Takafumi Uechi
- Nicholas Dahms
- Hiroyuki Nakamura
- Katsumi Ono
- Syo Araki
- Koji Kawada
- Takumi Harada
- Junya Ikuta
- Yuya Ikeuchi
Art
- Tsubasa Matsuzaki
- Hitomi Ogawa
- Junsei Kuninobu
We know that GF has at least one Gear Project game in development, but a lot of work for those is usually outsourced. I wonder if this next one will be noticeably bigger in scope or if another Pokemon game has been in the works since at least late last year. Matsumiya not being involved in SV at all kind of makes me think the latter. I don't know if they would put the above staff on DLC that early instead of the initial release.