- puts you in the role of a football team manager
- your job is to train your players, choose tactics, create a customized team, and send it out to participate in matches
- you don’t actually control individual players
- you can alter your team’s tactics and create custom formations
- development of the game began on the Nintendo DS
- the first Nintendo Pocket Football Club game was released at the very end of the Game Boy Advance’s life in 2006
- development lasted all throughout the DS’s life and eventually shifted to the Nintendo 3DS
- took six years until the game was completed
- this time allowed for a focus on network features, such as using StreetPass and SpotPass to allow you to take on teams trained by other players
- dev's intention was to make a game that thrives primarily on the player’s imagination to feel like a simulation
- the team spent time sifting through all the different elements of a game and retaining what’s most essential
- believes if the graphics are too detailed, the player’s imagination doesn’t fill in the details that it otherwise would
- goal is make it feel convincing
- aiming to recreate the way the action swings from one team to the other
- single match lasts about eight minutes