I was on a panel about Pokémon Pokopia at Comic Con Portugal 2026

May 8, 2026
11:45 am

At Comic Con Portugal 2026, I joined Sara Meess and Nicole Concha on the Playforge Stage for a panel about Pokémon Pokopia, the new cozy life sim where you play as a Pokémon instead of catching one. The panel ran for about an hour.

We talked about what makes Pokopia different from the classic Pokémon games, the cozy gameplay rhythm (house building, transformation mechanics, the level of detail in the biomes), and what each of us wanted to see in possible future DLC.

Here’s the panel, up until the moment my camera ran out of battery (one of several technical humiliations of the weekend, which will have to wait for another post).

(Part 2 coming soon)

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Marti Silvestre
May 8, 2026
11:45 am
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