Valuable materials such as design, idea sketches, etc. that allow you to see how Pocket monsters are made & movies that you can listen to interviews are open to the public

Series cumulative sales volume is200 million booksHe composed music for the game "Pocket Monster" that broke through, and served as director and producerJunichi Masudato Mr. or Ms,Pokemon Red and GreenYaPocket Monsters Black / White,Pocket Monsters Sun MoonA valuable movie that listens to development confidential stories such as, and shows the initial design, idea sketches, etc. is released.

An Exclusive Look At Pokemon's Early Design Documents - YouTube


It is Mr. Junichi Masuda of the game freak who responds to the interview.


Ms. Masuda asked about archives of materials in game development, and Mr. Masuda said, "Recently there is a storage process, but in the past it was on paper based sending like FAX, so if you draw a picture with a computer I did not have anything else since I did not think there was anything left, especially since I did not expect to see such things in the red / green age or the ruby ​​/ sapphire era, "he replied while laughing.


Pokemon appears in gold and silverGantetsballMaterials that describe the type of material and materials of the ball. In the upper right of the paper is a secret stamp pushed.


In the portion shown by hand, a memo indicating where and where the back of the program of the red / green age program is located.


Moreover, it seems that the report at the time of development is written as "loss of 2 days due to computer crash". While watching the report at the time, Mr. Masuda said, "Since computers used to crash often, I think that Pokemon did not disappear."


The ruby ​​· sapphire material is written about the idea of ​​incorporating Braille in the event to get three Pokemon named Resurlock · Regi-Ice · Resistyl.


It seems from the development of black / white released in 2010 that I began to be conscious of the archive of materials, and from that there seems to be writing dates for idea sketches as well. In addition, I also continued to draw ideas by handwriting, so I started to use sketchbooks because it was easy to summarize as paper materials.


Like "How the window system is", it seems that a bit of things are writing what I came up with.


Talking with people is a difficult situation because of localization, so I decided not to combine sentences and stamp it.


"If you write it in this kind of paper (paper), you can proceed to the next idea from this idea, or you can add ideas to the idea.It is like an illustration and such things (ideas are left on the paper ) When there was, then Mr. Masuda talks about the importance of leaving ideas, saying, "Well then, I can put out something like this (new idea)."



For example, it seems that the idea of ​​own handed Pokemon turning back in the battle was invented in the Black / White era, but it seems that this could not be implemented in Black / White. In addition, it seems that it is written in the memo to decide whether to turn around with the personality of Pokemon, but in fact it is supposed to be implemented with X · Y, with the specification that it will turn around when I cute Pokemon .


Served as director at Sun MoonShigeru OmoriAlso appeared.


He said that he is writing ideas and sketches in the sketchbook while actually meeting, he says he uses a large sketchbook to share the image. The sketchbook below shows sun moon's flow of the trainer and the appearance scene of Pokemon at the start of the battle.


In addition, idea notes about Pokelef implemented in Sun Moon. The process of how to make friends with Pokemon through Poker reflex, and the idea are detailed down to each action.


The following materials are parameters on damage given during battle. However, "Because we are changing numbers rapidly while programing, it will be different whether the numbers written here are correct."


In addition, "Since the red-green era is written in assembly language, it is a multiplication-free language, so we do it by multiplying the number of additions," Masuda said, while looking back on the development of red and green.


If you are currently using a sine curve you can get as many details as possible ....


In the past it was impossible to record countless data along a curve.


Therefore, in order to reduce the number of data, the plus part is simply expressed with 8 data ... ...


It seems that the negative part expressed expressing to invert the plus part. This means that the sine curve could be controlled with 8 bytes and 1 bit.


Also, it seems that Mr. Masuda wrote a sound program of Pokemon by himself in red and green times. It seems that barks were expressed by making multiple waveforms as follows.


The finger indicates the waveform of the A pattern. Let's say that this waveform sounds "Phu".


This is the waveform of the B pattern, it will sound "Po".


The difference between A and B is the difference in the length of the part written with magic.


In red and green, switching these different waveforms, it seems that Pokemon 's barks were expressed like "pupopopupo". It seems that there are only about 40 kinds of bass sounds, which means that by changing the length and pitch of the sounds, we made evolutionary cries of each Pokemon, too.


Mr. Masuda talks about the end, "It feels like Pokemon's singing voice resembles somewhere," for that reason, the movie is over.