During the Pokémon presents released this week, The Pokémon Company announced remakes of Nintendo DS games, Diamond and Pearl Pokémon. While Game Freak usually handles games like this, right now it’s busy with the prequel to the open world Pokémon Legends: Arceus, which will have to come out next year.
This leaves the release of Pokémon Shiny Diamond and Shining Pearl in 2021 by a Japanese study called ILCA. Game Freak’s Junichi Masuda will oversee the project as director, alongside ILCA’s Yuichi Ueda. If you are unfamiliar with this study, here is a quick summary:
Who is ILCA?
ILCA, Inc. is a Japanese studio based in Tokyo, with other offices in Shinjuku, Nagoya and Kyoto. It was established on October 1, 2010 as a CG-based video production company focused on animation, film, and television, and finally added video game development to the list. As of December 1, 2020, it had 288 employees.
What is the ILCA logo like?
Here it is in all its splendor (without these beautiful walls):
So who commands?
ILCA is led by CEO Takuya Iwasaki and Director Satoshi Takamori.
What does ILCA mean?
According to the company’s website, ILCA is named after the acronym “I Love Computer Art.”
“I LOVE COMPUTER ART”
Has the studio worked on any Pokémon projects before?
Yes, before Diamond and Pearl did it again, I was responsible for the cloud-based storage application, Pokémon HOME.
In what other games has it worked?
As mentioned above, ILCA is a supportive study. As a result, work has been done on all types of games, including the usual ones, augmented reality titles, virtual reality games and other things, including a Domino’s pizza app that includes Hatsune Miku.
Some of the more serious projects he attends include Yakuza 0, Dragon Quest XI, NieR: automata, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 and more recently Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown.
Want to know more about ILCA?
Of course, visit the company’s official website, it’s even hiring. There are also officers Twitter and Facebook pages.
So there’s your accidental course at ILCA, the team behind Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. Do you think they have what it takes to remake Generation IV Pokémon games? Share your thoughts below.