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Looks like a really neat hack I must say! I love screenshots, so visually stimulating.

I'd have to agree on that one though. Maybe introduce custom tiles to make a grassy elevation?

One thing I always look for are custom character sprites for the Player.
I just can't bear playing as Red/Gold in a hack that is supposed to be a new region.
I hope that comes along as the hack progresses.

Thanks for feedback guys, I have to straighten few things:

- these "green moutains" aren't really mountains, they are supposed to be hills - this tileset appears only in one region which contains of few maps. Think of them as of this - I want to create a feel of a pure, green lands with rivers of crystallic water. Rest (most of) maps moutain palette will be brown, like in original game.

- now the Nuzlocke part - I'm not going to implement any scripts - player can do all the actions by himself. Maybe i put things inaccurately: by being Nuzlocke friendly I meant making many kinds of Pokemon catchable as early as possible (Dark pokemon catchable only after Elite Four in original game is something i want to avoid). Wide selection of pokemon will make every Nuzlocke challenge original. I will also try to tenderly 'force' some unusual Pokemon into game by altering them, making them habit more maps, tradeable or parts of a quest. For example, who, if decides to have a Flying pokemon, chooses Farfetch'D over Pidgeot, Fearow or Dodrio?

And about custom character's sprite - I will take this into account in further phase of hack development.

Awesome, sounds great! And nice, I do like the way you are using the lush hills and the rock ones together. Perhaps a new graphic could be used for the grassy hills to give them a smoother less rocky texture? But still, very nice idea.
Also, thanks for clarifying on the nuzlocke part, and I also like the increased Pokemon diversity as well. Looking to be very promising, but take your time working on it. I don't want to rush you because I know that these things take time (and that hey, sometimes you go a while without an update because you have other things you do with your life, lol).

Time for some small update :)

This is a small Fight Club. You are going to fight with other trainer in order to satisfy blood lusting audience (I exaggerated a bit). The first prize is going to be "one-time special" Flash HM. You can fight once per day. Its script is done, I only need to put some stronger trainers as game will progress and put some prizes like HP UPs or a TM. Maybe even a Pokemon. As you see, I have many possibilities to make it fun ;)

I swear this shiny Cyndaquil isn't cheated, I really got it from lab! Also this made me thinking about increasing shininess chance from 1/8192 to 1/512 or 1/1024..

I put in few new attacks and started to rework Pokemon learnsets. Mud Slap won't be a TM given by Gym Leader so some Pokemon will learn this move by level-ups - e.g. Wooper. I want these 0/1-evolution Pokemon to stand up to strong two-evolution families which learn many moves and in the end have some powerful move like Hydro Pump - for example Murkrow is pretty crap with Faint Attack as strongest move.

And an important question to you people:
What would you say if I added few fakemon? I would rather do that than importing Pokemon from next gens. Some new type combinations would bring novelty to game (e.g. there's no pure Ice or Steel type Pokemon). This would also bring back the "wtf is this Kingdra, how do I beat it" feeling.

Also, I really need someone to tell me how to add new attack effects, like 3rd gen's Bulk Up or Will-o' Wisp.

Last edited by Akwa (2012-07-21 11:04:52)

Howl is using Roar animation. Same as Growl but the cry is not lengthened.

If I had to make room for Fakemon, I'd first get rid of baby Pokemon who only make pokedex completion harder (you evolve them or put in box after hatching out). Next, I would propably delete few rarer legendaries, like Mew or Celebi. Legendaries like Entei and Zapdos can still take part in game. I don't think I would remove anything else (well, maybe Porygons -> 2 new moves in place of Conversions)

I'm not really into adding next-gen Pokemon, because it's weird to me to import only few Pokemon from other region. Either all, or none. And faking their cries is a big issue for me too ;)

I tried spriting this fake evolution of Muk by myself and here is the result:

What do you think about it? I suck at lighting and shading and it looks a bit flat when compared to Muk from Gold (). But it doesn't really look that bad. You can say goodbye to Smoochum as this big pile of toxic waste takes its place. It's going to have a funky type combination.

I realized it's better to make this pokemon an alternative evolution of Muk. And yes, he will play a role in game's plot. You're thinking in a right direction. The combination will be Poison/Dark, an interesting twist to those who use Psychic against Poison.

I have few words to say (no screenshots today):

I'm giving up on Fakemon - making sprites is a bit of work while there are some nice Pokemon from newer gens I could add to my hack. Trying hard can lead to depression and abandonment of project ;) how many projects promised gold mountains and their authors simply vanished? I swear the only ASM thing I'm going to do is adding new attack effects and editing some of them (prolonging Sandstorm, etc.)

I'm going to add newer gen Pokemon in place of baby pokemon, some legendaries, utterly useless Pokemon (I think noone is going to miss Qwilfish, Tangela, Farfetch'D), sea fossil Pokemon (Kabutos, Omanytes, Aerodactyl might stay). Their place is going to be taken by Pokemon of either similiar type combo (compensation) or some unusual types. In some time, I will post a list of rejected and new Pokemon.
* the alternative evolution of Grimer, Toxitive (as I decided to name it) is most likely going to be in final version, I just need to work a bit on its sprite (it also needs backsprite too).

I'm going to remove some rare/not very useful attacks, like Frustration, Spider Web, Kinesis, Thief, Spite, even Splash (if I do so, Magikarp will have Tail Whip instead of it) so I have room for new ones. I'm also adding few moves to learnsets of many families (for example Sandshrew family will now learn Rollout, Fury Swipes and Swords Dance on level-ups) to make them less boring than most 3-Pokemon families who learn more moves.

Right now I'm going to work on maps up to 3rd/4th gym, then edit scripts (plot), sidequests and then trainers and wild pokemon, and release a beta version so this project gets more attention. You can expect some screenshots in this week.

Last edited by Akwa (2012-08-06 11:59:49)

I'm usually not a fan of Fakemon at all, but you're evolution of Muk, Toxitive, and the way you are involving it in the story actually sounds very interesting!
At the moment, the sprite does look a little "flat" but it really isn't half bad the way it is! Keep it up!

Are you saying here that Grimer will either evolve into Muk or Toxitive? Rather than Grimer->Muk->Toxitive? If that's not what you were trying to say, than I would consider it ;)

I'm quite happy to see that there will be a snow tileset near the mountains! I think it's clever (and something I should have done but too lazy to do).
It makes sense that towns like Mahogany (or the equivalent in your hack) be covered in snow.

I think it'd be quite fun if Grimer was your starter Pokemon. Will Toxitive have that kind of role, or as an antagonist?

Sprites seem to need a little work but other than that looking great as always.

Nice, I definitely like the way you've put my snow tileset to use in the mountains, very fitting. Looks like you're doing a good job with the new Pokemon as well, especially Torkoal. Very promising work so far, keep it up!

Looks cool dude ! Also wil you add genIII pokemon ? I've seen breloom., shroomish and torkoal... will you add torchic ?
Also it would be great if there wasn't fakemon.I'm definitely going to play it