Hi?

Hi /vp/. I'm a developer at TPC, mostly for QA and localization bugfixes, and wanted to give some insight on Scarlet and Violet.
>production of the game started in 2020, but it was in the concept phase as early as 2018
>development teams were stretched between three segments of the studio, who were working on Legends Arceus, Scarlet/Violet, and Kami (codename).
>a prototype was shown to the developers sometime late 2020, around when we were coming back to work after the pandemic.
>the prototype was basically a laggier version of the wild area, but much bigger, with sprawling caves and river systems, and a cyclizar-like creature you could ride.
>terastalizing was pitched and added around summer 2021, and was being debugged in about 3 weeks. a lot of the discussion was about "how can we make these designs look good for the TCG?"
>LOTS of content didn't make it into the game. over 20 pokemon got cut, including paradox forms. Some included a barbaric Weavile, a robotic Meowth, and the DLC legendaries.
>character designs were scrapped mid development and were designed around late 2021. lots of npcs suffered because of this.
>early versions of the game included many more uniform choices, including skirts, but were cut due to Area Zero's crystal reflections.
>tons of glitches were being discovered all the way to the time the game went gold, but the production team was rushing it out the door.
>toby fox showed up multiple times to the studio, talking with the development team about game design.
>scarlet/violet were planned for a mobile release with nintendo's consent, but was cancelled early due to technical limitations.
>upper management only cared that the game release "working," and seemed more concerned about merchandise and TCG sales.
>expect another patch in the next couple weeks, and a DLC announcement in January (filling out the unfinished content, hopefully.)

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    nice fanfic

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >mix in proven information like Fox turning up to make redditors believe you

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >early versions of the game included many more uniform choices, including skirts, but were cut due to Area Zero's crystal reflections.
    I choose to believe this, even if it isn't true because it's moronic enough to make sense.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's been said by anons for months lol. Not new.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Ok I’ll bite. What the frick happened to QA testing? This thing barely runs docked, surely more people would notice that.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      the team did the best we could, but as features kept getting added late into development there wasn't enough time to fix everything. there's a lot of "we can fix it later" discussion by the rest of the team.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    versions of the game included many more uniform choices, including skirts, but were cut due to Area Zero's crystal reflections.
    Fake and gay and also outed yourself as a m*le, have you ever heard of shorts or skorts?

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Israel?

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    God even the development of this game pisses me off, at least tell me if the next thing with the code name will be more quality and have an artstyle a bit more pokemon like character design like legends arceus and xy

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Kami is only in the conception phase right now, besides the heads we don't know anything besides that we're contracted to work on it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >two years in concept phase not knowing what it even is
        Sure

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Notice how OP never addressed this point that outs him as UA and also a moron

        versions of the game included many more uniform choices, including skirts, but were cut due to Area Zero's crystal reflections.
        Fake and gay and also outed yourself as a m*le, have you ever heard of shorts or skorts?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          notice how you are a fricking homosexual by posting sonic.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Says anon posting on the Pokemon board

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              so you then?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Alright bro, but if you have any news on the art style for the humans could you post something later to confirm if it is more akin to masters, xy, arceus, Thanks in advance

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Online stress tests were done inhouse with about 150 development kits. I'm not joking.

          Sorry for being annoying but could you confirm, this is really make or break for me for the next game

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            No idea. I'd say it's likely though, character designs were changed late into development. Most of the concept art was done by interns shadowing Sugimori, and generic NPCs were designed using random elements blended together based on a set of internal models.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Thanks bro, hope they don’t do the thing they did with the generic npc again, just hope they make one model for each type and reuse that one like old games

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Are you 15?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Nope, I’m just broken and want to believe something good will come out that looks good, it’s just so tiring that every mainline pokemon game that has come out since the switch came out were so subpar, I want to believe the internet man

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You bought it anyway. Its your own fault.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I emulated it just like any gay in here

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You have no right to comment on the game.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You bought SwSh, BDSP, PLA and now SV, didn't you?

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Are you like the guy who swore up and down XY was going to be sci-fi based and there was a Year of Luigi event in it?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Daily reminder that was the first time Nintendo was in the red, that's how bad that era was

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >muh 60 years of savings!

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        They're not exactly out of the woods yet, they're only 1 gen past that point and still surviving on ports from games that no one played that gen so chill

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Alright bro, but if you have any news on the art style for the humans could you post something later to confirm if it is more akin to masters, xy, arceus, Thanks in advance

          End your life

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Why? It's a fact that Nintendo are still in uncharted territory, cope

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Nintendo can livemform300 years without ,asking a profcitt

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >so chill
          What?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Let's not get too hyped about the big N's future because who knows is all I'm saying sadly

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >big N
              Underaged

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              He didn't even say a thing about their future. E said that was an awful time, which it was. You're fricking weird.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Daily reminder that was the first time Nintendo was in the red, that's how bad that era was
                It subtly implies that tough times for Nintendo are a closed book, in the past if you will, which is not the case.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >first time Nintendo was in the red
                Does not mean
                >it can never happen again, you autist.
                Go back, seriously.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >subtly implies
                Jesus shut the frick up you cretin

                "wuhhhh muh video game company might die"
                cope

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >making up more shit
                You're a fricking idiot. Lurk for 4 years before you think you can post here again.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >subtly implies
                Jesus shut the frick up you cretin

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Sure anon, and my uncle works at Nintendo.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >production of the game started in 2020
    the absolute state.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's the most believable thing about this.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The mention of cutting a special form for Meowth made me believe OP.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That sounds about right. Pokemon games usually start production right after the previous mainline game releases.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Hey while you're here can you get the morons in charge of coding the tera raids to make it refresh more often or show how many people are in the raid live so we can actually join them

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Online stress tests were done inhouse with about 150 development kits. I'm not joking.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >I'm not joking
        No, you're lying.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    the TCG bits make no sense btw, the TCG is will be shilling Sword & Shield cards at least until next may

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Kami (codename).
    cringe ass plagay

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >scarlet/violet were planned for a mobile release with nintendo's consent, but was cancelled early due to technical limitations.

    why every fricking fanfiction maker must write this bullshit?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      because GF is desperate to make as much money with their games as Niantic/DeNA/Tencent before they get axed.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I could see gamefreak/creatures wanting to release a mainline on mobile (they didn't believe in the switch at all), but nintendo? they'd absolutely hate it since it would drive sales away from the console, so that by itself makes the whole story op made faker than it already is

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I'm not sure if it would've been a direct port, more so a playable "simplified" version of the game. Think FFXV Pocket Edition.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          please tell them to fire Ohmori and make pokemon GO mainline title with animations, better breeding mechanic ect

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        but you can literally add turn based battles to pokemon GO, my goodness, why ever making something different when you have a fantastic product people can play basically until pokemon will die? pokemon go is wasted potential

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Bdspsistas will win by the end of 2025 with bdsp mobile edition, trust

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >robot meowth
    It's a larp but doing another fricking meowth does sound very gamefreak and then leaving normal meowth in the game as a leftover

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I just want Pokemon games to get a PC release so I can actually enjoy it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      you can do that right now with emulators, which can run the game better than the actual console

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They do, it comes out a week before the Switch version.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      But they do.
      >release early
      >have better performance
      >have mods
      >have a separate online battling platform with every single Pokemon and alternative rulesets (but no animations)

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >(but no animations)
        Showdown's animations are arguably better than in game. They're only a fraction of a second, so I actually keep them turned on. Meanwhile, in game animations are so slow I disable them the first chance I get.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Hello, I'm Bruce Wayne.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Imagine if pokemon GO was working just like console games. Why they are so fricking BLIND AND IGNORANT

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Obviously real because no one is allowed to go on the internet and just tell lies.
    Godspeed OP, I hope you don't get fired.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You do realize there was a Sword and Shield beta in December 2017 right?

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    judging by the mechanic and the animations it went like this;
    2018; alpha for scarlet and violet
    2019; models and stuff
    2020; copy paste world map and mechanic to create legends from scratch by the other team
    2021; beta for scarlet and violet, other team polished legends, meanwhile the first team struggle to make the game work
    2022; release year and polishing stuff

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    TCG is selling sword & shield cards for at least other 6 months moron

    • 1 year ago
      SAGE

      Tcg expansions are planned and made months in advance you moronic Black person.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      CGs plan releases nearly a year+ ahead anon

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What is the game engine like for this game? It seems so barebones I wouldn't doubt it was coded in OpenGL

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This homosexual actually believes a dev came to give info on /vp/

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Nice fanfic. I'm bored so I'll bite.
    When you say they only cared about the game "wroking" that means they were very aware of the broken state the game is right?
    That means they are not afraid of a massive backlass like with Cryberpunk or Sonic 06 and the like? Do the higher ups REALLY have a "they'll buy it anyway" mentality?

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >early versions of the game included many more uniform choices, including skirts, but were cut due to Area Zero's crystal reflections.
    Yea, no. Clearly you wrote this appeal to the pedo Ganker audience and crystal reflections wouldn’t matter if there is free camera for the entire game.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm desperate enough to ask to a bait post on Ganker. Are they going to fix this game or not?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Ask on Twitter and buy the blue check mark before you do it gets better results. If they dont respond make a fake Nintendo account with Twitter blue and make some normal Nintendo tweets then say something about how everyone who bought scarlet and violet at release will get a 20$ eshop credit to compensate for the buggy release so people spam the real Nintendo about it.

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    unverifiable and moronic

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't have anything to do so i will ask. Are they going to add the battle tower later? Even it's just fanfic i'm interesting to know anything

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just got the call from my nintedo dad that there will be no dlc

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Seems like a believable story am not sure if you can say this but can you elaborate on the dlc a bit more on what it will include if your allowed?

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I know this is bullshit but my darn soft heart is so hopeful it's true

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >over 20 pokemon got cut, including paradox forms. Some included a barbaric Weavile, a robotic Meowth, and the DLC legendaries
    Can you tell us anything about "Okaking" and "Okagyarados" who were eventually replaced by Toedscool and Toedscruel?
    Were there any plans for a Paldean Meowth or any other Paldean forms?

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The DLC will be announced on Pokémon Day in late February.

    The fact you didn't know this outs you as an idiot.

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    proofs please

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >scarlet/violet were planned for a mobile release with nintendo's consent
    You were doing so good Anon.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Honestly I'd believe it at this point. OP's Lies or not. It seems obvious with multiple mobile games and and multiple motherfricking Facebook games that Gamefreak just wants to make bottom of the barrel mobile trash that even the most smoothbrained normie could enjoy to milk them for all their worth. Gamers are not the main audience of Pokemon, hell not even kids who are into video games are the main audience anymore. The main audience is the modern Gen Z normie who needs a screen in front of them almost 24/7. It doesn't matter what they're doing as long as they're being stimulated. Gamefreak does not want to make real games anymore they want to make a Pokemon version of Cookie Clicker that was cobbled together in less than a day and make billions off of it.

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Any additional info about the robot meowth?

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