{"id":21737,"date":"2018-05-25T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/pokemon_switch_studio_reveals_game_design_details_in_job_posting"},"modified":"2018-05-25T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T08:20:00","slug":"pokemon-switch-studio-reveals-game-design-details-in-job-posting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/25\/pokemon-switch-studio-reveals-game-design-details-in-job-posting\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Switch Studio Reveals Game Design Details In Job Posting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/pokemon_switch_studio_reveals_game_design_details_in_job_posting\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/pokemon_switch_studio_reveals_game_design_details_in_job_posting\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Job listing, I choose you!\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/pokemon_switch_studio_reveals_game_design_details_in_job_posting\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/pokemon_switch_studio_reveals_game_design_details_in_job_posting\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Job listing, I choose you!\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>GAME FREAK inc. \u2013 best known as the development team behind the <strong>Pok\u00e9mon<\/strong> videogame series \u2013 recently posted a job opening that may hint at the design of the latest game in the series for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon\">Nintendo Switch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter user <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pixelpar\">@pixelpar<\/a> \u2013 who tweeted a photo of the listing, along with a brief translation \u2013 says they\u2019re \u201chiring a UI Designer to handle animations in the user interface\u201d, specifically in the \u201cdeformed\/manga\/caricature style\u201d, for an upcoming game.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\" readability=\"3.11449275362\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" readability=\"8.89855072464\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Game Freak are hiring a UI Designer to handle animations in the user interface. Notable bits:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 UI animation design in deformed\/manga\/caricature style<br \/>\u2022 Create UI in accordance with design specs<br \/>\u2022 Incorporate data into the game<br \/>\u2022 Some involvement with overseas language data <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BOt3Rlr1UV\">pic.twitter.com\/BOt3Rlr1UV<\/a>\u2014 Pixelpar (@pixelpar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pixelpar\/status\/999583383444434944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>This last bit regarding the appearance of the unnamed game is particularly interesting, considering the manga style is iconic to the series. If the developers behind Pok\u00e9mon Switch are looking to hire a dedicated animator for their UI, does this mean we\u2019ll be seeing a new art style in upcoming games?<\/p>\n<p>According to @pixelpar, there may be a myriad of reasons for Game Freak to make this new hire:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p><em>Could be a last minute polish up for Let&#8217;s Go, could be for mini-games or online stuff, could be for dlc \/ later patches, could be for a completely different game.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This latest opportunity to join the development team behind Pok\u00e9mon can be viewed <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefreak.co.jp\/recruit\/english.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think? Is this job opening for the incoming Pok<\/em>\u00e9<em>mon Switch game \u2013 or could it be in preparation for a completely different instalment\u00a0in the series<\/em><em>? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAME FREAK inc. \u2013 best known as the development team behind the Pok\u00e9mon videogame series \u2013 recently posted a job opening that may hint at the design of the latest game in the series for Nintendo Switch. Twitter user @pixelpar \u2013 who tweeted a photo of the listing, along with a brief translation \u2013 says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}