Pokémon Switch Studio Reveals Game Design Details In Job Posting

Wow

So it's a menu that has graphics and contains game data. Amazing!

I think that this new game will be a huge beast for the serie. Surely the best. After Pokemon go, the quality and the capacity of the switch, the new Pokemon game will be at its best. I was very hoping that they would not take the same graphic than the 3ds serie game. I hope so much more mechanic, deepness and adjustable difficulty for both child and adult. It have to be that way. It can't be the same and same forever than it was with the 3ds serie. It's gonna sell so much other millions of Switch. Good luck Game freak.

Maybe they only just started hiring and the game will be released in 2020? Hahhaa

@Banjos_Backpack Well Rumors say the games artstyle will be a cross of US/UM and Zelda: Breath of the Wild. So maybe lol

If they move away from the 3DS version of design, that’ll be so great! I kind of expect their first game to be like that so that they can reuse assets and make things quicker, but I really hope they make something visually similar to the cartoons, Breath of the Wild or classic GBA style Pokémon.

Well, let's hope it's for a different game or the position is to replace someone that is going to quit or quit recently.

Because, if they now starting to hire a UI designer for the upcoming Pokémon Switch game, then there is no chance in hell it's going to release this year. :-/

@NewAdvent

He didn't state any of his speculation as fact, though. He just gave his opinion about something on Twitter, which is what the platform is used for. Your speculation is no more conclusive than his.

Mmm.... okay, not sure why I opened this article.

Breath of the wild engine! Open world !

Really [removed] stoked for Pokémon Lets Go tbh!!

A pretty generic listing that doesn't tell us much for obvious reasons. Still, at least we know the corporate gears are still a-turning!

Move along. Nothing to see here.

Even the most insignificant and inconsequential of information pertaining to (or at least believed to pertain to) Pokémon Switch makes headlines around here.

I don't remember any Pokémon entry not having a Japanese artstyle.

So, a game is gonna have UI ir GameFreak needs UI expert in general to their team?

@Njh100617 Mind your language!

Feels like all of these games journos are desperately reaching for more Pokemon info. This doesn't give us any useful information, since EVERY game uses a UI. Most modern games include animated elements in said UI, including the recent Pokemon games.

Oehhh! Manga anime style. I love it already!
even if they go back to first generation! And start from there. Lol a 34 yr old playing pokemon, yup that's me.

Guh! But we finally were rid of the chibi/deformed style with Sun/Moon. I love manga and anime style, but the overworld being chibi with giant heads has not continued to work as graphics have improved, in my opinion. Hopefully this isn't a sign they are returning to chibi/super-deformed character style.

There go my hopes and dreams of only being able to navigate invisible menus through a memorized pattern of clicks and beeps in response to laborious button combinations; Pokemon Stare

@Banjos_Backpack With breakable pokeballs. And lightning.

@austin_voigt Just to note that the "deformed" & "caricature" part of the style listing are actually very not Pokémon. Deformed (also know as SD) refers to the small characters with giant heads & eyes on smaller bodies.. think the SD Gundam series or Pop Vinyls, which would fit with the caricature label. Plus the hire would be working on a Japanese game, so uhm, a manga style wouldn't be THAT unusual.

very unlikely but how sick would a hand-drawn pokemon game be

As long as the game doesn't get any easier. After Gen 5, the difficulty dropped off horribly. I just want difficulty settings.

im no fan of the pokemon series, but a open world pokemon game with cell shaded graphics in the style of dragon quest or breath of the wild is always welcome.

This probably isn't for the new game that'll hopefully be this year. I suspect by now they're probably just polishing up this year's game and fixing bugs.

I'm trying to keep my expectations low, but I can't help but feel some how that they'll do something big. I would love to hear that Nintendo lent Game Freak some of the Monolith developers who handle their big open worlds (the same ones who helped with BotW). Imagine roaming around and seeing actual Pokemon in the distance and hunting them down, or accidentally stepping on a Weedle and having it initiate combat?

I feel like ditching the turn based combat would be a gigantic risk. At the same time it would be epic if your Pokemon actually darted around a battle field and moved around of its own accord and the trainer simply shouted out which attacks it should start using. (They could even stick to the whole "four attacks" thing and assign one to each direction of the D Pad Joycon. (Somewhat similar to how XBC2 does combat.)

Don't get me wrong, I suspect that it kill the competitive scene, which is one reason why it probably won't happen. But if they do overhaul the battle system I hope that they do it in a manner where you function more like an actual trainer would, giving commands while the Pokemon would act more like a real animal would, IE it could be taunted into using attacks against your will, or if you didn't give a command but it would still being attacked it would lash out back, or if it's getting it's ass kicked and you're doing a bad job, it would run away and you'd have to track it down and recapture it while using a different pokemon.

@DanteSolablood Very good points - appreciate the additional context!

I think it's great they are hiring a new UI Designer, gaming like graphics improves and changes everyday, If they have had the same designer its time for a new set of eyes and ideas to innovate the game that everyone loves!!! Hey check out this link this is how I make side money testing out video games. http://7e8c31o5x3-mgcl6o8xhn1nwdf.hop.clickbank.net/

Pretty sure the human characters are already in this style.

And if this game is about to be revealed and is due for release this year, it's pretty damn late to be hiring for anything significant. Don't expect much to come from this job listing.

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Why is Nintendo Life including a bit about Lets Go as if it's fact?

@Jeronan Which would be a good thing if it didn't come this year.

@Banjos_Backpack Everything already looks like plastic, I think Pokemon games already looks like their anime.

@Banjos_Backpack Animals aren't orange, dude. Pokemon have looked plastic since they've been in color.