Eurogamer posted an excellent interview with Game Freak director Junichi Masuda, who has been working on the Pokemon series since the very beginning. Masuda covers many topics, including how new Pokemon are created. Here’s an excerpt:
At first I think of ideas about what kind of play I can include. I consider playing content at first, and then what kinds of new elements I can bring in, and the world and communication aspects.
I bring up all the ideas at first. Then I start to think about what the world will be like. Which region? What town should we have? What type of gym should we have? I start to map the world next.
Once those are fixed I can start to think, so, this gym should have this type of trainer, so we should have this type of Pokemon. Then we start to think about the Pokemon characters.
You might think we always start to think from the Pokemon first, but actually we don’t. We do it in this order.
Now you know how new Pokemon are “born”! Seriously though, Masuda is a very cool guy and I highly recommend checking out this interview.
That is interesting to me that they come up with the story elements and gym types before some of the pokemon and their types, etc. Cool interview. And although I'm not exactly positive what I would ask if I were in an interview like that, I can't help but feel like most interviews like this are pretty similar. Still interesting enough for me to read though.
What? Pokemon are BORN?! I thought the DayCare Man bought them at a store or something and just picked a random passerby with two opposite-gendered pokemon in his day care, then gave it to them! Everything I know is a lie!!!
Maybe this isn't the best time to tell you, but the stork isn't real either. lol.
http://www.threadless.com/submission/66639/You_ve…
and this is just plain funny, if the stork were real. haha.