Hey guys! this is my first game/ first time actually starting a big project so please bare with me, my schedule of "Working" on this game varies, some days i feel like doing hours of work and some i wont even open RPG xp. So for now, please just give me feedback and ideas and i'll try to get out a working beta in the next coming months.
What is Pokemon Dark Sky?:
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You start out just like your average pokemon. Some Prof is giving you the basics, you choose your sex (Boy/girl) and name (In this game, still haven't decided on the main characters name or backstory, so more to come on that)
Once youre able to start moving like in any pokemon game to date, you begin in your room. This is where I change it up a bit, and i'll explain further below.
This is a Fan made pokemon game, i'll give credit to everyone once i'm about to release demo because theres alot of kinks I need to work out before the gem (hopefully) is produced.
Setting:
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Taking Place in the Kanto Region.
Think of this as taking place in RED/BLUE/GREEN/YELLOW version, only 10 years into the future.
Main Characters:(More Information to Come.)
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You(boy/girl)(name = Dark or Sky): age - 17
Recently Moved to Pallet Town. You loved the people, the Air, and the surroundings you newly acquired. Unfortunately, you never felt like you fit in. Even though your neighbor was your best friend, there felt like there was something missing. With the recent attack on the village, you awoke and finally realized what it was.
Rival/Neighbor(boy)(name = Teal) age - 15
Green's Son( Gary's Son ). He's laid back, calm and cool. Never really saw his dad much because of his various adventures he was on. Saw RED more often, who became more of a father-figure and in return turned out to be a lot like him. Green resents that and grew even colder because of it. The years had not been kind to his father, and he felt the whiplash of it. Still, with his recent neighbor moving in after Reds mother passed, he received someone to take away the sorrow from his life.
Professor Oak
Now Quite Old, his legacy in tact, he merely collects data and shares insight amongst the other Various Professors. Unfortunately, with the recent attack on mankind, Power has been lost and the ability to contact others is Gone. Will he finally have to share his secret with the village, or is it already too late?
RED
(Yes, THAT red!) age: 25 ( yes, this would be a good 15 years after he began his journey.)
Ash happened to be visiting the Professor to share information on newly sighted pokemon, breeding, and other tips and tricks. He stayed the night in the town, planning to return back with his Charizard the following day. Unfortunately, when he awoke, his plan was destroyed by the vigorous flames of the Pokemon that was no longer his. The time had finally come, and he knew it.
There will be many other appearances of various pokemon characters from the manga and game. Also, I plan on including cameo's from other games - still trying to figure how i plan to link the story.
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Many NPC's in various cities will have the opportunity to aid you in your journey, temporarily or permanently. Thinking of doing it like how star ocean does it, you can have 8 characters in that game but you encounter 10+ and have to choose who you want. Might change it up but i like that idea of everyone playing the way they want to play their journey.
Storyline:
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Bet you guys been waiting for this part right? (Not really) Well, here it goes:
You wake up in your room, only its not the morning and you're not starting an adventure. you wake up in the middle of the night to blood curdling screams, and you hurry downstairs to see your house trashed and flames everywhere. You make your way outside to find bodies laying in your quaint town, and taken aback you frantically wonder about your parents and your rival. Not locating your parents, you quickly change your focus on your Rivals burning house, which you enter and find him stuck under fallen rubble. He tells you to get help, and so you do, heading to the Lab to find the remaining survivors Grouped together, weapons at hand. (skipping a bit ahead) After the scare is over and your Rival is safe, you and the survivors discuss the events and come to the realization that it was pokemon that attacked your village. As soon as television begins to work again, you realize that this is happening everywhere, and you want to know why, but most of all you want to know what happened to your parents (Whom where not discovered in the town). All of the pokemon in the game are evil, and you are not trying to catch any of them.
Battle System:
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It will not have the generic battle system of a pokemon game, instead it is currently up in the air, either the atoa system or something else (Which i will not expound on just yet). So for now, just imagine that its going to be interesting.
Yes, if youre not catching pokemon, that means your party = Humans, and you party together like it was a final fantasy game. The concept is interesting, and could be a boom-bust effect.
Credit:
So far only the Pokemon Essentials System And mr. diagostimo for all of his help in getting me started.
Its really early in the morning so i'll edit this later with colors and pictures.
Storyline needs to be edited too, i just threw done w\e came to mind without looking at my notes. I'll edit it later too.
Team:
Me: Everything
Chris: Mapper/ Scripter
Phoenix: Scripter
Inari: Mapper/ Scripter
If you can sprite or 3D design get ahold of me please.
As of right now what I need help with:
1.)Resizing sprites. Going to post about it in the sprite area once i finish up doing a few things.
2.)This is my first time diving into RPGXP, i've read tuts before and such so my map making and eventing is average or so. Otherwise i'm a little in the dark when it comes to making things look sexy. Making animations, skins, sprites, etc = uncharted territory. IF anyone has any pokemon things they're willing to share or is willing to help, I would be most grateful
Here's the basics. any questions, please post below.
I also could use any help that anyone would like to give, so if you have tons of creative things/ ideas for my pokemon game, please don't hesitate to share.
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How the game is going:
As of June 20, 2011:
Reading Through Pokemon Manga since thats alot of what i'm basing this off of.
Read to book 40 of 422. Thats the end of Red/Green/Blue. Thats where I will stop for now as thats what mostly will have effect on this game. Yes, if you put things together that means I plan on making sequels, if this one is received well.
Game Overall Completion:
Storyline: 40%
Database: 20%
Mapping: 80% ( all towns fully mapped, Just need to add events, Npcs, etc. )
Graphics: 60% ( Need to script/ Edit. )
Music: 0% ( Haven't contacted musicians yet, didn't think i'd be on such a roll )
Scripts: 0% ( Finishing basics before i touch this. )
Overall: 34%
We're getting there guys! As soon as i get some sleep ill upload some screens and videos.
I spent too many hours on this past few days, need a break.
Hmmm... This is... Different. I've never seen a Pokemon game like this and it could be interesting to see what happens in the outcome..
I'm hoping to make it good. Only reason i want to do it is because i've had RPG xp for over a year but i kept seeing the same ideas.
I just waited until I thought up one that i hadn't seen before, and this one seemed satisfactory, so i went with it.
sounds pretty good, what if you woke to the scream of a charizard, then you look out your window to see him staring right at you, quickly you jump out the way and your room is engulfed in flames through the window
I must say that the story does sound really good. It such a twist from the usual story (which is always the same lol). If you think you can accomplish this, by all means, go for it.
sounds pretty good, what if you woke to the scream of a charizard, then you look out your window to see him staring right at you, quickly you jump out the way and your room is engulfed in flames through the window
That definitely works.
I still want to twist it up, but i like this idea
Looks fun ^^! Get us a screenshot when you can, I want to see how it will looks like and your mapping skills !
Lmao.
Pretty much. I should figure a way to edit the dex to show how many times you've killed certain guys lmao.
I'm learning mapping and making it as i go, so it should look better and better as you go through the game.
RATED-RKOFRANKLIN, on 19 June 2011 - 02:16 AM, said:
LOL! The story sounds cool. It's funny. You need to give a reason why the Pokemon are now evil.
Still working on that. of course you wouldn't find that out till later and I don't think I'm going to give the reason i Decide on because that would be an epic spoiler. I'll take suggestions, but that one will be the one choice i don't think ill share with the public.
easy man, if you want i can resize all the sprites if ya want, i will also need to know what charset you are using for your main character, if i was you i would go with the default sized ones like on pokemon as of the building scale on the tileset, if you want i can also customize some of these for your liking, here is one of the sprites i just scalled, does it look any better on your map? also i will go through all the pokemon a to z just to make it a bit easyer on myself abomasnow.PNG5.7K8 downloads
easy man, if you want i can resize all the sprites if ya want, i will also need to know what charset you are using for your main character, if i was you i would go with the default sized ones like on pokemon as of the building scale on the tileset, if you want i can also customize some of these for your liking, here is one of the sprites i just scalled, does it look any better on your map? also i will go through all the pokemon a to z just to make it a bit easyer on myself abomasnow.PNG
To make it easier on you i only need the original pokemon 151 just for this game (will need the rest in the future but thats a long way away), This game is the kanto region based on red/blue/yellow/green and only contains those original pokemon. I plan to make sequels which go on and on like the games currently do.
For the main character, I dont have one yet.
want to try your luck at making me on?just an overworld one for now.
Give it a shot.
i have no idea ill look at that sprite in a bit, right now having issues starting my game. :X
Reading the story as an actual Pokemon game, it sounds bad. But, as a gritty dramatic Pokemon RPG, it sounds different and brilliant.
The only thing I would change is the thing about ALL Pokemon being bad. How about including "Dark" Pokemon like in the TCG? and having the "Light" Pokemon (the good ones) being the ones you catch?
I think a Pokemon game without actually catching Pokemon is just terrible.
Reading the story as an actual Pokemon game, it sounds bad. But, as a gritty dramatic Pokemon RPG, it sounds different and brilliant.
The only thing I would change is the thing about ALL Pokemon being bad. How about including "Dark" Pokemon like in the TCG? and having the "Light" Pokemon (the good ones) being the ones you catch?
I think a Pokemon game without actually catching Pokemon is just terrible.
I didn't want to explain this in detail because its really confusing without seeing what i mean.
I'm going to try to explain this.
Depending on different choices, you obtain a power that lets you reclaim the pokemon to the light. It becomes part of you and you obtain its powers/ ability to use it in combat. Think of it like catching a pokemon and then having the ability to do certain things while you use it, and receiving certain bonuses. Obviously im still tweaking it, so i didn't say anything about it
Still deciding on how you use that power, whether it be the unit has to be near death before you can reclaim its powers or something of another effect. I'm almost 100% sure i'm not going to have a battle scene like this:
Encounter pokemon
battle it
get it low
throw pokeball
you caught pidgey!@! yay!
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But i do want to have things that go along with the storyline, Like you end up finding an Eevee that happens to be fending off Primeapes attacking Viridian City. This is just an example, but you would help it and be able to take it along with your journey.
Pokemon in this game I view as like Summons. If you've ever played Kingdom Hearts, they'd so something like that, only i plan on doing more with mine. Making them almost become a part of you. Not going into too much detail, because its too much spoilers.
But to answer you, you will be able to have pokemon do things for you.
Will you throw and catch each pokemon and have a party of only pokemon?
No.
Will you party alongside pokemon and have them battle with you/ effect you in a multitude of ways?
Yes.
easy man, if you want i can resize all the sprites if ya want, i will also need to know what charset you are using for your main character, if i was you i would go with the default sized ones like on pokemon as of the building scale on the tileset, if you want i can also customize some of these for your liking, here is one of the sprites i just scalled, does it look any better on your map? also i will go through all the pokemon a to z just to make it a bit easyer on myself abomasnow.PNG
Btw i need your help with putting something together.
can we teamviewer or something?
No catching Pokemon at all? then at least make it so you're not playing as a trainer. Make the protagonist a specialist ranger or something, cause if you're a trainer and you don't capture Pokemon then that really sucks :/
Btw i need your help with putting something together.
can we teamviewer or something?
iv never used team viewer but if you send me a link to the right software ill be happy to help, im working today so i can sort it when i finish, what time zone are you in?
No catching Pokemon at all? then at least make it so you're not playing as a trainer. Make the protagonist a specialist ranger or something, cause if you're a trainer and you don't capture Pokemon then that really sucks :/
Its sorta hard to explain.
You are a trainer but how the story plays out pokemon are uncatchable. You do get an ability to reclaim the pokemon to your side which is pretty much catching, and then you can use them in battle. So you can catch pokemon, just not the way you would do it in a regular pokemon game.
Im not finished with this because its not at the top of my to do list.
XD
once i finish how it works ill post a full dialogue.
iv installed team viewer, now i need a time you will be online, im uk timezone, my availibility other the next few days is when im not at work, im working sat 5pm till 11pm sun 5pm till 12pm working mon but havnt checked schedual and got tues of, im a bit of a night owl so i can team view with you just before im at work 12pm onward(depending what time i actually get up) or after work(1 hour after to be safe) or tonight if you get this in time
iv installed team viewer, now i need a time you will be online, im uk timezone, my availibility other the next few days is when im not at work, im working sat 5pm till 11pm sun 5pm till 12pm working mon but havnt checked schedual and got tues of, im a bit of a night owl so i can team view with you just before im at work 12pm onward(depending what time i actually get up) or after work(1 hour after to be safe) or tonight if you get this in time
I'm available now, I'm usw gmt -7 arizona time now: 3:40.
Im always available usually.
Its sorta hard to explain.
You are a trainer but how the story plays out pokemon are uncatchable. You do get an ability to reclaim the pokemon to your side which is pretty much catching, and then you can use them in battle. So you can catch pokemon, just not the way you would do it in a regular pokemon game.
Im not finished with this because its not at the top of my to do list.
XD
once i finish how it works ill post a full dialogue.
No. you're not trying to catch all 151 pokemon, if that's what you mean.
But you can end up getting any pokemon you want but its situational and you don't need them to win the game. It'll be easier to explain once i get the story fully established and stuff.
Sorry, but you have to think of a new name. Cause what a Trainer does, you don't do in this project...
Sorry but I don't.
I think you should play it before you hate on the name.
This is supposed to be a new type of Pokemon Series for a Reason, that's why I'm starting at the beginning with a different storyline.
After catching 600 pokemon throughout the past few games, doing the same thing over and over again is hella boring.
Besides, there's 500 pokemon fan games that already do that, so why would anyone want to touch mine if its the same as the other look-alikes?
I'm trying to be different, you don't have to like it just because its not your Cookie-Cutter Pokemon.
I never said I didn't like it, I just said that what you play as isn't a Pokemon Trainer.
Well I'm just saying there's plenty of pokemon games where you're not a trainer.
Your job in this game wont be to catch a party of pokemon to defeat the gym leaders and make it to the pokemon league, but that to me is what makes it more indulging. The difference is that its not typical, and you won't expect the end results before you beat it. I know what you mean that its probably not what alot of fans are looking for, But I'm mostly making this for me Just because i love the idea of pokemon, I just wish they would try to broaden it a bit. Targeting children is great, but I think they can reel in adult gamers more often is the deepen the story and gameplay, Like what i'm trying to do here.: O
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Also, on this game note, been sick last few days - getting back to my project tomorrow.
Sorry chaps
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