Tencent recruits “Pokémon Concept Consultant” conditions: you must have watched more than 500 episodes of animation, and the entire generation of games will be cleared | 4Gamers

The Pokemon Company (The Pokemon Company) announced in June this year that it had cooperated with China’s Tencent to release Pokémon’s new IP game “Pokemon Unite”.Will work together to develop more cross-platform gamesFor this reason, Tencent naturally has to openly recruit to continue to introduce game developers, but some of the job requirements are quite eye-catching-you have to be a Pokémon master.

Overseas reporter Daniel Ahmad noticed that Tencent recently released a number of job vacancies related to “Pokémon” on its official website. One of them is “Pokémon Concept Consultant”. The conditions are quite interesting. You must clear all generations of Pokémon games. , The game time must not be less than 900 hours, understand the world view and history of Pokémon, and be familiar with the characteristics of Pokémon in different eras, “Pokémon Sword/Shield” must be at least master level, and you must have watched more than 500 episodes Pokémon animation.

Tencent is recruiting for 19 Pokémon related jobs right now, the most interesting of which is for a “Pokémon consultant”

Requirements:

– Clear all Pokémon games w/ 900hrs+ playtime
– Know history of Pokémon
– Have master ball ranking in Pokémon
– Watched 500+ episodes of anime pic.twitter.com/u4w3lFOb6U

— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) December 18, 2020

In fact, the news of this job opening is also on China WeiboCommunity diffusion, But about the 18th, even if the recruitment page for the position is removed, it may be that Tencent officially cancelled the recruitment or revised the content. Of course, it may also be that a Pokémon master has successfully applied for the job.

Of course, in addition to concept consultants, Tencent has a number of relatedPokémon positions open, Including related job vacancies such as operations and planning, shows that Tencent is actively engaged in IP development work related to Pokémon.

Of course, when this vacancy was first released, it attracted heated discussions among netizens at home and abroad. Some people thought that such conditions were quite difficult, but there were also Pokémon fans who believed that many master-level players met such conditions. Of course, if your job is to think about and create game ideas related to “Pokémon”, naturally you have to understand the “Pokémon” IP very well.

In June this year, Pokémon announced that it would cooperate with Tencent Tianmei Studio to develop a new MOBA new work “Pokemon Unite”. At the same time, Tencent has also obtained authorization to develop more new works. In the next few years, we may be able to see more China Pokémon game made.

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