Square Enix recently updated their job opportunities in the career section of their website, and some of these new listings are for positions on the Osaka team of Square Enix Business Division 3, which is the team currently working on Kingdom Hearts III. We previously reported on the majority of the listings found on the site, but four new positions on the Kingdom Hearts team have opened up. The titles of the positions and brief descriptions of the jobs are listed below, thanks to R Kane.

Assistant Director: Responsible for planning, administration, and management assistance on BD3's new and/or existing projects.

 

Effect Designer: Duties include effect creation using the company's customized version of Unreal Engine 4.

 

Production Planner: Duties include camera and production work during explanations of maps, the game player's skills; introductions, advancement, and completion of missions and battles.

 

Lighting Artist: Duties include working on KH3's lighting and general post-production.

Interesting to note is the role of the Lighting Artist, which hints at a role in post-production. For those who don't know, post-production usually implies the final stages of the development process, which are used to polish and tweak minor things before development ends. Major thanks goes to KH13 user SnowPint7Fourths for the tip!

 

Based on these new job openings, how far along do you think Kingdom Hearts III is? Let us know in the comments below!

 

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*DEEP INHALE* OOOOOOOOOH YEAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaah....... *smacks lips* I can smell *a Rage Awakened trailer this winter*.

Maybe, maybe not. We'll just have to wait it out.

Do people really think this game is near completion?

 

Post-production will surely start in summer 2017 so it's a little bit far away from being completed. They just start preparations for this.

 

In December there will be "KH3 Uncovered" event and by the end of 2017 we will get the game. My prediction.

The game has actually been in development since 2010 so its 6 years. nomura said as much in an interview a year or two ago.

 

 

Nooo...... don't mean for this to sound condescending but you might wanna check your sources before posting. Development as in actual full throttle "In engine" development did not start until 2013. There were "concepts" being tossed around since 07 yes but ONLY concepts.

Doesn't anyone think we're over-analysing this just a little bit?

Maybe, maybe not. We'll just have to wait it out.

My sniffer is never wrong!!!! lol

I'm just going to completely come out now and say there is no doubt in my mind 100%, that this game will release in 2017 on its 15th year anniversary. I think if the FF7 Remake part 1 gets released next year too that's fine, all they would have to do is leave a 3 month gap between them both with it being FF7 20th anniversary. But I now think KH3 has a better chance of releasing in 2017 just due to the fact its had a year longer in development.

 

Duuude, I hope you're right!  I mean, lately, we've been getting way too many low key signs that Kingdom Hearts III will likely be a 2017 release!  Good God, SQUARE IS TEASING THE FUDGE OUT OF US!!!!  Now I'm really hoping that whatever announcement we get on December relates to a release date, or at least release window, for Kingdom Hearts III! X_X