Pokemon Trading Card Game
ThePokémon World Championships 2023are afoot in Yokohama , Japan , and the return home for the franchise has already begun to capture the attention of its audience . As part of Worlds coverage , Screen Rantwas ask over to discuss the Pokémon TCG with Creatures Director Atsushi Nagashima , a veteran of secret plan design and of card secret plan itself .
While Nagashima surely did n’t bring out the inner mystery of the long - runningPokémon TCG ’s succeeder , he shed some light on the squad at Creatures ' design philosophies and approaches to keeping the biz accessible to its extremely varied demographic . He also does n’t lack for confidence - during one question , Nagashima plainly submit that he loosely knows where a competitive meta is last ahead of a fit liberation .
First , could you explain what a theater director does ? - IGN
Atsushi Nagashima : So as the executive director of the card development squad , I oversee car-mechanic , plot development , as well as artwork , illustrations , reasonably much everything that goes into developing and creating a posting .
What is the process like of when you put out a really safe batting order , and how you deal with that ? And do you specifically design ways to dole out with that strong card ? - IGN
Atsushi Nagashima : So first , to create a strong card for the surround , one , there ’s an intentional innovation , we want to create a inviolable card . And then there ’s the second part when there ’s a deck that seems to just stock on , and so it just dwell long , it ’s been play long . So then we think about how to equilibrate it out with a sure deck . So there ’s a multiple approach to creating a strong card .
So for the Mew VMAX example , yes , there were some cards that were designedly created to counter , however , there were other circuit board that was just in the process of creating . So it ’s not necessarily that we focalise on one matter .
I ’m curious about how your squad handles the unveiling of newfangled Pokemon . How early in the mental process are you involved in that ? And do you have any influence over maybe the design or any aspects of new Pokemon ? - TheGamer
Atsushi Nagashima : So in general , it takes around a twelvemonth to uprise a set . So for unexampled Pokemon I would know about in the middle of the maturation phase , I would know more point of these new Pokemon .
So the difficult part is that even through that process , details change for these Modern Pokemon . So that becomes a challenge when create game and grow the secret plan . So sometimes I wonder if I remember thing aright because for certain Pokemon , the details may change very quickly .
So the priority of introducing see New Pokemon is to assure that the characteristic of that Pokemon is evidence in the plug-in itself , you really desire to make certain that it ’s true to how the Pokemon are depicted in the game as well as in the card . So when it ’s a new one , we seek to be really dead on target and postdate the rules , per se .
I was wonder if there were ever any intent that the team really loved that just did n’t quite fit into a exercise set , what the process is when that chance ? And if you ’ve ever had that and then brought a set or brought a design from the late one that got throw away and put it into a new set once it conform to ? - Screen Rant
Atsushi Nagashima : So we come up with the variety of logics , and approach , and information , at first . And then from there , we pick together , should this come at the first set of the season ? Should this get in the later part of the slice ? But at the very rootage , we total up with a number , tons and net ton , of dissimilar melodic theme .
So actually , the tag squad auto-mechanic and the data was really initially concepted during the BW era .
Every time you bring out a Modern enlargement , do you have it away where the meta is going to go or is just a responsibility of the players ? - Meristation
Atsushi Nagashima : So basic condition , I screw where the meta is pop off to go . I will predict that and it will trace that . But these days there ’s many players and there could be some things that I do not consider about . So it could be a variety ground on the players too . But in full general I do see . I do previse the meta .
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