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Neo-Dragon

July 3rd, 2008, 04:22 PM

Hmmm, seems to be an error with vista.
I downloaded the game on my XP desktop and loaded fine.

I enjoyed the game.
I liked the screens when you opten the game first(the stuff before selecting the new game). I'm so used to the Rm2k3 stuff, it was nice to see a start-up like the way the pokemon games do.
Kyledoves shinoh tiles look really nice at Odysseys resolution. When showing text, the flowers go crazy lol.
The real time clock is cool.
I actually liked the battle system.
Really really well done man. I seriously don't no if you need to worry about it. It's fine. Like this is a fan game after all. I enjoyed the battle. I was battling a Bulbasaur (I picked Totodile)- the guy nearly killed me!! I had one HP by the end of the battle lol.

But,
I glitched the game durning the storyline events, by walking around when I wasn't ment to be walking around. Both when in the lab, and with dawn on the route. The game crashed :(
Oh,
The text is a bit weird the way it kinda goes funky just before it goes to the second line.

Overall, I really liked it. I was looking at the game in sphere, reading the scripts and looking at the maps, and I can tell you put alot of effort in! Good job.

Waudby

July 3rd, 2008, 04:27 PM

I'm not sure why you couldn't attack in battle Wichu, i've never had this problem. I'll fix those text problems.

The reason why the flowers go crazy is because, i still need to set up the FPS throttling for the text, because the Map Engine and the Frame Rate are set at different rates, when the text box is opened the map engine hands over the frame rate to the video buffer, which in this case, is unthrottled.

I don't think I rushed the game, it's just sometimes there's errors that the game maker just wont notice. Especially run time errors, because I have all the required files I dont have to worry, where as someone who hasnt got sphere will maybe get problems.

So what did everyone actually think to the game, give a rating out of 10 and reasons why please.

Mitchman Is

July 3rd, 2008, 08:10 PM

I thought nothing damn thing is not working. GAh.Also the whole file you uploaded the games playable just with that no?

Waudby

July 3rd, 2008, 08:19 PM

Yes it is playable, it does work, people have played it, try redownloading it, or downloading the latest version of sphere from www.spheredev.net.

I'm sorry that it hasn't worked for you, i'm not sure why everyone else can play it but not you :/

Atomic_Reactor

July 3rd, 2008, 08:58 PM

actually i can't play either.
could you maybe upload ito n a couple other sites or something?
or winzip it?

sorry for the annoyance -_-'

Waudby

July 3rd, 2008, 09:02 PM

Are you having problems with the .rar file?

just download and install winrar, it's a much better file version, compresses smaller, as I can't overload my webspace too much :P

Atomic_Reactor

July 3rd, 2008, 09:39 PM

ok. i played the game a little bit
i got up to the 2nd town, and then to route 2
the girl battled me and as soon as her rattata was sent out, i got an error...
something about the script. idk.

one thing really annoyed me. it was palying like 3 or 4 different music peices at a time XD
you may wanna check that out.

dont worry about the flower glitch. its funyn! lol XD

other than that its good!!

i also managed to get -8 hp on my cyndaquil o_0 lol

keep up the great owrk.

Yuoaman

July 3rd, 2008, 09:48 PM

Ooh! Ooh! I just realized there was a demo! I'm downloading! It's at 31%....2 Minutes remaining....

I'm guessing I shouldn't review this for PC Gamer eh? Seems that there are a lot of bugs... O.o

Waudby

July 3rd, 2008, 10:12 PM

Ooh! Ooh! I just realized there was a demo! I'm downloading! It's at 31%....2 Minutes remaining....

I'm guessing I shouldn't review this for PC Gamer eh? Seems that there are a lot of bugs... O.o

There will be a new release after i get back off holiday. One with all the bugs fixed as good as i can. This release is an open beta, basically the gamers are the beta testers.

Yuoaman

July 3rd, 2008, 10:22 PM

You'd better fix all the bugs.... I don't like bugs... Well I'll tell you my opinions soon, I'm booting it up now...

Waudby

July 3rd, 2008, 10:55 PM

okay. Could you also tell me if when you select load game, are there any save files included?

Yuoaman

July 3rd, 2008, 11:08 PM

Nope, no files to load...

Also; there's something wrong with the first rival battle... After I lost (yes I lost) my rival left, leaving the screen tinted, and the battle music kept playing, along with the normal music... It corrected itself when I entered the first town again, but when I went back to the route, it tinted again and played both musics again...

Finally after that awful trip, I tried to save after getting my Pokedex... Long story short: ten minutes later it was still saving so I closed the program....

Bugs, need I say more?

Waudby

July 3rd, 2008, 11:13 PM

hmmm saving shouldn't take that long. I'm not sure why it does. I'll look into it.

The reason the music overlaps each other is because the battle script is missing the command to stop the battle theme

megiddo

July 4th, 2008, 01:22 AM

Here's a pic of that music error. http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh139/oddigem/?action=view&current=odysseyerror.jpg

rikabryne

July 4th, 2008, 02:51 AM

One quick question, I'm on a Mac. That wouldn't at all effect the playing of the game. It can run on both Mac and Windows correct?

Waudby

July 4th, 2008, 06:35 AM

One quick question, I'm on a Mac. That wouldn't at all effect the playing of the game. It can run on both Mac and Windows correct?

It's possible to play on a mac, but you will need to download the latest mac release of sphere from www.spheredev.org

I'm going to hopefully fix a few of the bugs today.

Would people like me to reupload it afterwards?

Yuoaman

July 4th, 2008, 06:51 AM

Yeah... This one's good, but the bugs do pile up...

Waudby

July 4th, 2008, 10:03 AM

Yeah... This one's good, but the bugs do pile up...

I did warn people that it was a buggy release, but it's helped catch some bugs I may not have found.

Long story short: ten minutes later it was still saving so I closed the program....

Bugs, need I say more?

I think I may know why your file wouldn't save.

I forgot to save that because the text box that says now saving, is just a regular text box at the moment, you have to press the Z button for it to save.

Okay I now have Release Candidate 2, there have been a few bug fixes in this version;

1. Problems with a few of the base sprites have been fixed.
2. Trouble with the battle music after being defeated by Dawn is now fixed.
3. There shouldn't be any problems with the Pokemon Cry sound files.
4. Saving now works as well (press Z when the box says Saving....")
5. A few text problems have also been fixed now.
There are still some things to be fixed;

1. Being able to move when Uing is talking.
2. Errors that occur when you try to run from a wild pokemon.
3. Errors that occur if you lose a battle and get into another one.
4. Fix the bag system for in battles.
5. Fix the music looping.
Download Link: www.spheredev.org/~waudby/uploads/PokemonOdyssey.rar (http://www.spheredev.org/%7Ewaudby/uploads/PokemonOdyssey.rar)

There are a few save files that were just tests that I've included, don't use the second one as it is invalid and will throw out an error. The first one will take you to the bit where you choose your pokemon, skipping the intro, the talk with mum, and the first part of the talk in the lab.

Mitchman Is

July 4th, 2008, 10:41 AM

Aha good im goin to try the second release. But if this doesnt work for me damn.

janvandekar

July 4th, 2008, 11:05 AM

it still doesn't work for me. it can't load a music file. And before, there was another file. i can download it. but when click on pokemonodyssey.exe it loads everything, but i can't play it because it will disappear immediately.

Mitchman Is

July 4th, 2008, 11:29 AM

Yeah man do you need sphere on computer?

Waudby

July 4th, 2008, 12:42 PM

Yeah man do you need sphere on computer?

Well sphere is included in the file. What kind of computer are you running, i.e mac, windows or linux. Because for some reason the é in some file names is causing troubles.

Are you still having the load file error?

Rhuan

July 4th, 2008, 12:59 PM

If you get the not loading a sound file error

Inside the game's folder (called startup in waudby's download) open the folder called sounds, in there open the folder called battle and change "Battle! Wild Pokémon.mp3" to "Battle! Wild Pokemon.mp3" then, go back into the game's folder, open the folder called scripts, open the file called Vars.js with a text editor, look for "Battle! Wild Pokémon.mp3" and change it to "Battle! Wild Pokemon.mp3".

If you're on a mac

As well as waudby's game download, also get: spheredev.org/~rhuan/sphere.zip and spheredev.org/~rhuan/frameworks.zip

Put the contents of frameworks.zip in ~/library/frameworks, drop the game folder (startup) from waudby's download into the folder produced by opening sphere.zip, then run SphereEngine.app, if it doesn't work, you may need to run Config.app first and select a video driver, I recommend sdl_gl it's faster than sdl32. You may also get the music file error mentioned above, if so, follow the fix I give above.

(I'm the mac sphere developer BTW, so if you have any mac sphere related problems, ask me)

Vampire://Krimm

July 4th, 2008, 01:49 PM

Alright, I'll give this another shot XD

With the bugged version narrowed down, I'm sure this version of the demo will be good. Now I will watch ALZip download it ^__^ *stares at 4%*

By the way, now that it's open, I can't find a vars.js file in the scripts. With the new file all it says is that there's an error with the music in the vars.js script or something x_x

Nevermind ~_~

Waudby

July 4th, 2008, 01:53 PM

Okay, open the game using the game.sgm found in the start up folder.

After this, the sphere editor will open, open the folder called scripts and go to the bottom, there should be vars.js in there somewhere :P

Rhuan

July 4th, 2008, 01:55 PM

I've got waudby's latest version and vars.js is there... startup/scripts/vars.js

waudby: that will only work if he's using a windows machine.

Vampire://Krimm

July 4th, 2008, 02:04 PM

Yep, I am using Windows. Thanks but I've probably got something outdated. It won't let me open game.sgm either XD. Does it matter what exaclty I use to edit the vars.js folder?

Rhuan

July 4th, 2008, 02:06 PM

Yep, I am using Windows. Thanks but I've probably got something outdated. It won't let me open game.sgm either XD. Does it matter what exaclty I use to edit the vars.js folder?

vars.js is a file not a folder, you can use any text editor you like e.g. notepad

Vampire://Krimm

July 4th, 2008, 02:17 PM

Rhuan

July 4th, 2008, 02:19 PM

Oh, right. Mistake x_x Yep, it's a file. So I editted both of the music titles and it says now it can't find the music. Hmm.

"Script Error in 'vars.js', line 245

Could not load sound 'Battle/Battle! Wild Pokemon.mp3'You changed "Battle! Wild Pokémon.mp3" to "Battle! Wild Pokemon.mp3" in vars.js, did you also change the name of the file in startup/sounds/battle from "Battle! Wild Pokémon.mp3" to "Battle! Wild Pokemon.mp3"?

Vampire://Krimm

July 4th, 2008, 02:26 PM

Yeah, I changed both of them and just copied and pasted the name of the first one to the second, so I'm sure they match however I'm still getting the same error. I'm probably doing something wrong XD Don't worry about it.

Rhuan

July 4th, 2008, 02:34 PM

If you've done something wrong... I'll do it for you...

replace startup/scripts/vars.js with the contents of spheredev.org/~rhuan/vars.js.zip

replace startup/sounds/Battle with the contents of spheredev.org/~rhuan/Battle.zip

(the second of those two files is still uploading, give it a minute)

edit: File now uploaded.

Mitchman Is

July 4th, 2008, 06:07 PM

Aha the e is the problem. Ill change it and see what happens.Eleos. I change the e and the file corrupts. Wtfu!

Vampire://Krimm

July 4th, 2008, 06:25 PM

Thanks randomer ^^

The demo was pretty good from what I played, but lol, I died to a Level 2 Weedle. I think some of your stats are a bit over powered XD Other than that everything seemed pretty smooth.

Rhuan

July 4th, 2008, 07:04 PM

Aha the e is the problem. Ill change it and see what happens.Eleos. I change the e and the file corrupts. Wtfu!

If you can't sort it yourself, see my previous post.

Waudby

July 4th, 2008, 08:11 PM

thanks for the explaining. I'm guessing it is Rhuan yes?

So people, is the newer one better or worse?

ryushin5

July 4th, 2008, 09:12 PM

well it's better but ther is this glitch if u go to options you know it says it will be implented it just keeps saying that over and over about 10 times till the game freezes

Rhuan

July 4th, 2008, 09:16 PM

thanks for the explaining. I'm guessing it is Rhuan yes?I kinda gave it away, by mentioning that I'm the mac sphere developer. And by using my webspace...

Waudby

July 4th, 2008, 09:28 PM

I kinda gave it away, by mentioning that I'm the mac sphere developer. And by using my webspace...

I only just saw that. Lol.

I didn't think you'd be seen around here :P

Rhuan

July 4th, 2008, 09:36 PM

I'm still kinda annoyed that you didn't let me check over your demo before releasing it, especially considering how many bugs people are finding...

InMooseWeTrust

July 4th, 2008, 10:17 PM

What happened to your other games? Did they get canceled?

rikabryne

July 4th, 2008, 11:23 PM

Rhuan

July 4th, 2008, 11:33 PM

I did what you said for if I used a Mac, and then I clicked Sphere Engine.app and it began to load, it showed up on the dock and then disappeared. So I tried Config.app and it did the same thing. Any idea?Sounds to me like you forgot the frameworks. the file frameworks.zip should expand to give a folder, you have to put the contents of that folder in ~/library/frameworks (where ~ is your home folder)

If you don't do that they will just quit.

rikabryne

July 4th, 2008, 11:46 PM

Rhuan

July 4th, 2008, 11:47 PM

Well now its working, but It won't pick up the game. I downloaded it, put it into the folder created by sphere.zip, but all that was in the game folder was another folder with Release and a couple .exe files, and it won't pick up the game.Oops, waudby's first release had the game in the startup folder, he's shifted it to the normal location, games, copy the games folder in it's entirety to the folder made by sphere.zip.

Just for reference, sphere will load whatever is in startup if there is no games folder, or it's empty, or if it has multiple games in it, if games just has one game in it, sphere will load that.

rikabryne

July 4th, 2008, 11:50 PM

When I downloaded the second version there was only the Release folder. No start up or game folders present.

Rhuan

July 5th, 2008, 12:15 AM

When I downloaded the second version there was only the Release folder. No start up or game folders present.Inside release there's a folder called startup. The other stuff in release is the windows version of sphere. So, from what I said above, either put that startup in the folder with the mac version of sphere, or stick it in a folder called games and then put games in the sphere folder.

(regarding my previous post, as rikabryne had said that there was no startup folder, I assumed the game would have to be in the games folder, I should always check before typing...)

rikabryne

July 5th, 2008, 04:03 AM

Hm... I didn't get another folder within Release, and when I tried to download it again I got an error saying there was an error while expanding.

Rhuan

July 5th, 2008, 01:23 PM

Hm... I didn't get another folder within Release, and when I tried to download it again I got an error saying there was an error while expanding.edit maybe not, just tried to upload it twice, I give up...

If you're still trying to run this on a mac, assuming you've installed the frameworks, and downloaded my mac version of sphere from above, open waudby's release, a folder called release, it contains among other things a folder called startup, drop that into the sphere mac folder, then run sphereengine.app if it throws an error, run config.app and play with the video driver settings then run sphereengine.app again.

If you're getting video errors on windows run config.exe and in video settings turn off fullscreen mode. Waudby uses a weird screen resolution, and so most computers will not support full screen mode.

Evandeck

July 6th, 2008, 02:41 AM

when is tgere going to be more screenshots

Mitchman Is

July 6th, 2008, 06:42 AM

Not for a while since he will be in kos. An island. In greece.

Waudby

July 6th, 2008, 08:22 AM

Well i haven't been working on anything new because i've been fixing bugs in the demo. When all the bugs are gone, i'll rerelease the demo with a slightly extended version just so people who have already played it twice will have some new things to look at.

On another note, how many towns in do you usually have to go before you recieve the Cut hm?

Also in the extended demo it will feature a proper items system and hopefully the new, better, battle system :)

Wichu

July 6th, 2008, 09:01 AM

It's usually 4 or 5 (including the starting town), I think.

Waudby

July 6th, 2008, 11:17 AM

Ahh awesome, well I may bring it forward into Cresent City the 3rd town.

The way you will get it will not be the usual, as there are no HMs.

You will be trained by the Pokemon Guild and will be given the "ADVENTURER'S KIT" for graduating the Guild.

The kit first contains an axe. That is all. After that you can use the axe straight away. However to bring a bit of strategy to the game, the axe will only have a limited number of uses until you need to get it resharpened at the Pokemon Guild or one of the Guild halls scattered around the region, there are also freelance people scattered around the routes.

wildarms001

July 6th, 2008, 04:08 PM

wow nice the beta is out now :D so waudy how long the beta? and how many d/p pokes there? :D well keep it up :D

Rhuan

July 6th, 2008, 04:10 PM

Tried again, and succeeded at uploading Waudby's game packaged with my mac version of sphere:
http://www.spheredev.org/~rhuan/SphereW.dmg (W for Waudby)

As I said before, you'll also need the frameworks:

http://www.spheredev.org/~rhuan/frameworks.zip

wildarms001

July 6th, 2008, 04:26 PM

ei dude your beta is hard to download.. is there any chance you can upload it in megaupload?

Rhuan

July 6th, 2008, 04:41 PM

ei dude your beta is hard to download.. is there any chance you can upload it in megaupload?

Spheredev was down for a little while, it's back now, try again.

rikabryne

July 6th, 2008, 06:23 PM

Rhuan

July 6th, 2008, 07:07 PM

I did find some glitches though:
When you chose the female hero and battle Lucas the image of Lucas in the battle is Dawn.
None of the buildings in the second town (I forgot the name) would let me in.That's just stuff that's not done yet.It won't let me save, it says Map engine failure: could not open raw file save/temp.dot.Firstly, is it TempFile.dot or temp.dot? (If it's the later I don't know what's going on as there is no temp.dot mentioned anywhere in the code, if it's the former, are you playing the game from a read only volume, such as a disk image? If so, copy the sphere folder to somewhere that can be written to.
And it kept kicking me out of the game, for various reasons, one was map engine failure? It said that Oak did not exist or something, and another was for No character priorities.I was meant to find all of these bugs for waudby before the demo was released, but he was in a rush to release it, so didn't send me it first...

Waudby

July 6th, 2008, 07:32 PM

I finally got it to work. Yay!

Anyways, so Waudby, this is a great game! I like the different tiles and I think you did an amazing job.

I did find some glitches though:
When you chose the female hero and battle Lucas the image of Lucas in the battle is Dawn.
None of the buildings in the second town (I forgot the name) would let me in.
It won't let me save, it says Map engine failure: could not open raw file save/temp.dot.
And it kept kicking me out of the game, for various reasons, one was map engine failure? It said that Oak did not exist or something, and another was for No character priorities.

But otherwise it's fantastic.

Hmm I had no problem saving with the version I played before I compressed and uploaded it.

@Rhuan: (I'll still call you it here lol) The mac version of sphere still handles all file i/o right? That's the only thing I could tell that would stop it working :S.

Also I have the insides of that town mapped and half scripted, but not fully finished. They will be included inside the "Version 1.0 Full Release". Which will be completed sometime after the beginning of august. It will feature a more than the current release.

It will be classed as demo 2, and Rhuan, I will send it to you this time for thorough testing, the testing could last a few days or up to a week or so based on how buggy it is.

Mitchman Is

July 6th, 2008, 07:45 PM

Well waudby am I the ooooonly one who still cant frikin play it?!

Waudby

July 6th, 2008, 07:48 PM

Well waudby am I the ooooonly one who still cant frikin play it?!

Hmmm I think so :P

what OS are you using? If it's mac did you try downloading the files that randomer uploaded?

Rhuan

July 6th, 2008, 07:51 PM

@Waudby: The download I put up was a self mounting read only disk, so if he's playing it straight off of that without copying it to his disc he wouldn't be able to save, as I said in my above post. My mac version of sphere is fully featured. Well, it doesn't have an editor, but that is all that it's missing.

@darkcookie_93: What's going wrong?

edit: lol, simultaneous post (with waudby's above)

Mitchman Is

July 6th, 2008, 07:53 PM

No its windows and I dont have sphere on computer cause you said it runs without it being installed. Is that the problem?

Rhuan

July 6th, 2008, 07:56 PM

No its windows and I dont have sphere on computer cause you said it runs without it being installed. Is that the problem?What happens when you try and run the game?

(Waudby's download came with a windows version of sphere)

Waudby

July 6th, 2008, 07:56 PM

Well it should work because the game was packaged with the sphere engine inside.

Try downloading it though it may fix the problem, go to spheredev.org and get the latest version, there should be an installer, then open the game and try playing it, I'll include some instructions next time :P

@ Rhuan: Sphere really needs a better packaged file system so that you can package it up from within the editor, like .spk files but better lol, so that it includes the engine with it all as an exe file.

@ LOL at another simultaneous post.

Mitchman Is

July 6th, 2008, 08:00 PM

Well the stupid battle cry thing cause of the e. I change the e and file corrupts. GAH!

Rhuan

July 6th, 2008, 08:06 PM

Well the stupid battle cry thing cause of the e. I change the e and file corrupts. GAH!

Try my downloadable edited versions:

replace vars.js with the expanded form of http://www.spheredev.org/~rhuan/vars.js.zip

and replace sounds/battle with the expanded form of http://www.spheredev.org/~rhuan/Battle.zip

Mitchman Is

July 6th, 2008, 08:09 PM

Wait. I extracted files into a folder on my desktop. Now do I have to delete it or replace somethings?

Waudby

July 6th, 2008, 08:10 PM

Rhuan, as I'm going away for three weeks and you have a good understanding of my coding.

If people run into any major bugs, could you possibly take note of them and try your best to help people out with them?

Mitchman Is

July 6th, 2008, 08:14 PM

Could I get an answer?! Im looking at the maps scripts everything but I wanna play!

Rhuan

July 6th, 2008, 08:20 PM

Could I get an answer?! Im looking at the maps scripts everything but I wanna play!

Assuming you have waudby's release.

Inside his release folder there's a folder called startup, inside startup there's a folder called scripts, stick my version of vars.js in there instead of the current one.

Back in startup there's a folder called sounds, in there there is a folder called battle, replace it with my one. Then back in release run Pokemon Odyssey.exe

Waudby: Basically you want me to do all your testing and bug fixing for you... Ok.

rikabryne

July 6th, 2008, 08:22 PM

That's just stuff that's not done yet.Firstly, is it TempFile.dot or temp.dot? (If it's the later I don't know what's going on as there is no temp.dot mentioned anywhere in the code, if it's the former, are you playing the game from a read only volume, such as a disk image? If so, copy the sphere folder to somewhere that can be written to.I was meant to find all of these bugs for waudby before the demo was released, but he was in a rush to release it, so didn't send me it first...

Randomer, i'm playing it from the link you supplied in one of your other posts. Is there something else I have to do?

Well, if none of the things I found were bugs then great job. :) Its a very nice looking game so far.

Mitchman Is

July 6th, 2008, 08:23 PM

Assuming you have waudby's release.

Inside his release folder there's a folder called startup, inside startup there's a folder called scripts, stick my version of vars.js in there instead of the current one.

Back in startup there's a folder called sounds, in there there is a folder called battle, replace it with my one. Then back in release run Pokemon Odyssey.exe

Waudby: Basically you want me to do all your testing and bug fixing for you... Ok.
No prob ill try.But if it no work i give ups.

Waudby

July 6th, 2008, 08:27 PM

Rhuan, well you don't have to do any of the fixing, but if it's something like the sound file thing etc it would be handy just in case people think I'm ignoring them.

The best thing would be if you could possibly put some of the bugs that may get mentioned into a txt file and i'll fix them when I get back.

Rhuan

July 6th, 2008, 08:30 PM

Randomer, i'm playing it from the link you supplied in one of your other posts. Is there something else I have to do?

Well, if none of the things I found were bugs then great job. :) Its a very nice looking game so far.

The link I gave is a disk image, it's not writeable, so if you play on that you can't save, to be able to save, copy everything in there to somewhere else.

The times when the game kicked you out were bugs, as Waudby has just asked me to be his tester and fixer, I'll get to work on them now.

@Waudby: I've got free time, and I wrote quite a bit of this game's scripts, so if it's not working properly it reflects badly on me, even if the bits that don't work are your work rather than mine :P.

Mitchman Is

July 6th, 2008, 08:32 PM

Ok i put in the vaj(orwhtever file of rhyuen and well i get no starting animation or anything. And no one talks. and the phone aint working.Otherwaise tisss is an imba game.

Rhuan

July 6th, 2008, 08:39 PM

Ok i put in the vaj(orwhtever file of rhyuen and well i get no starting animation or anything. And no one talks. and the phone aint working.Otherwaise tisss is an imba game.

It's just not finished, the animation and title screen for example are only half done, so Waudby disabled them for the demo.

Mitchman Is

July 6th, 2008, 08:41 PM

Oh ok. Also stupid things buttons go to fast and made me pic by default chikorita. Also the flee glitches.

rikabryne

July 6th, 2008, 08:44 PM

Alright, it works now, although I'm not getting any sound.

Rhuan

July 6th, 2008, 09:01 PM

Alright, it works now, although I'm not getting any sound.

Open Config.app select audio, and make sure it's set to "always use sound".

Also stupid things buttons go to fast and made me pic by default chikorita....Waudby, sometimes I wonder how you ever made something so big, such primitive mistakes... :P

To fix this problem, replace startup/scripts/Question.js with the expanded version of http://www.spheredev.org/~rhuan/Question.js.zip

jaysonic1991

July 7th, 2008, 01:08 AM

Ahh so randomer is Rhaun. :P
Hehe. How's the release been going over here guys? :D
I sometimes drop in to see how people are looking into your game Waudby.

Rhuan

July 7th, 2008, 01:11 AM

Ahh so randomer is Rhaun. :P
Hehe.Was originally intending to be sort of anonymous here, as that's kinda failed now, I would switch my name to Rhuan, but you're not allowed to switch within 4 months of signing up... :(

Waudby

July 7th, 2008, 06:50 AM

jaysonic, you've played the game right? What do you think?

EDIT: Ignore that just saw your post on spherical :P

jaysonic1991

July 7th, 2008, 06:52 AM

Yeah I played it. I found it entertaining. Although you do have bugs here and there that need to be fixed. It plays well. Storyline sounds good and should be promising. I'm looking forward to more.

Waudby

July 7th, 2008, 06:59 AM

Ah thanks man, some of those bugs are because of how old the functions and that are, it's hard to go through them, I started the project after a loooooong break from sphere so most of the older stuff is rubbish. The battle system is being replaced so I haven't done much work on it for some time.

Rhuan

July 7th, 2008, 12:50 PM

Just to keep track, bugs fixed (I'm not uploading fixes for these at the moment, it's waudby's game not mine, so I've sent him the fixes):

Being able to move while the menu was up.
Being able to move during a cutscene after being asked a question.
Map animations speeding up when menus were shown or when talking.
Crash on the bag menu and cancel option not working.

Any bugs I haven't listed here that you've found, please post, except for battle related stuff. Waudby has started the battle system from scratch, so there's no point fixing the version that's in the demo.

jaysonic1991

July 8th, 2008, 03:24 AM

Haha I liked your sig Rhuan. :P Very nice.

=Zack=

July 8th, 2008, 03:37 AM

Forgive me, but I accidentally voted "Terrible" where I meant "Good" xD.

It all looks nice, but use DP interiors, not FRLG. If the graphics are DP based, don't use FRLG graphics. Just a suggestion though.

jaysonic1991

July 8th, 2008, 03:59 AM

I think he would be there isn't any DP inside graphics made yet, Kyledove is doing the graphics and I don't think he's done inside yet. Might be wrong, but meh.

Waudby

July 8th, 2008, 07:44 AM

The interior graphics are being custom made as I go along with certain things, some objects like tv's and that will stayed the same, and there will be certain graphics in there from FRLG, remember the D/P ones are in 2d style not D/P style.

In other news: The battle system is progressing a bit further, however today is the last day I will be able to work on the game for the next few weeks.

I'll try and do as much as possible, but I wont rush it.

InMooseWeTrust

July 8th, 2008, 06:46 PM

Overall this looks like a good idea. I just don't want to see another game like this die before making any significant progress.

Waudby

July 8th, 2008, 07:13 PM

Overall this looks like a good idea. I just don't want to see another game like this die before making any significant progress.

Well the game's already made significant progress, I've scripted the whole thing myself so far (with the help of Rhuan or randomer as he is known here)

A demo has been release, more than what most fangames get done nowdays.

InMooseWeTrust

July 8th, 2008, 07:28 PM

I know, it's upsetting to see so many good ideas die. So far I've only seen one fangame where an entire region was done, and I just joined in that game.

fudgy

July 9th, 2008, 02:12 AM

pwease let me barrow tiles ={

Captain Arcane

July 9th, 2008, 04:12 AM

Ay man :D

How ya do'n? I'm officially back now.

It seems like your game is getting a lot of attention now man, I'm really happy for you :D. Well, I can't wait for the next update man, and I hope to talk to you on msn soon.

Great work man, your always impressing me,
Captain Arcane :pirate:

Virtual Chatot

July 9th, 2008, 12:50 PM

pwease let me barrow tiles ={They are part of Kyledoves Sinnoh Project, they are free for anyone to use o:

wildarms001

July 9th, 2008, 03:52 PM

finally i playd your beta and all i can say is omg the game is great :D hope you can finish it and add some fresh events :D also fakemons maybe in near future :D keep it up

Evandeck

July 13th, 2008, 09:47 PM

noooo the thread died it looked like a good game too

Atomic_Reactor

July 13th, 2008, 09:51 PM

No... it's been 4 days since someone has posted.
That doesn't mean the thread is dead <_<'
Waudby won't be around for a few weeks i believe. so just sit tight...

sheesh

Rhuan

July 13th, 2008, 10:03 PM

Waudby's on holiday, and does not have access to a computer, he'll be back in a few weeks.

In the meantime, please tell me about any bugs you find in his demo, so I can fix them for him, so when he gets back he can progress the game rather than having to fix what he's already made.

Chary

July 14th, 2008, 08:52 PM

Uh i downloaded this and it says i havent dowloaded sphere what do i do cause tthis game looks fun and im dieing to play

Rhuan

July 14th, 2008, 10:15 PM

Uh i downloaded this and it says i havent dowloaded sphere what do i do cause tthis game looks fun and im dieing to play
What type of computer are you on?

What did you download? Waudby's latest release?

What is the exact error message?

dDave

July 15th, 2008, 03:18 AM

Rhuan

July 15th, 2008, 01:27 PM

Hi...

i have a little problem... and couldnt find it in this thread. when i start this demo, the only buttons which were ok are the move-buttons. i tried to use the config to choose the buttons, but it doesnt work.The buttons aren't currently configurable.

Waudby has hard coded in:
Z for ok
X for cancel
enter for mennu
and the arrows for movement

dDave

July 15th, 2008, 04:36 PM

xD ohh sry...

those must be the only buttons i didnt tried^^

WhippedCream

July 19th, 2008, 03:10 AM

This looks great!! Might I ask, WHERE did you get those D/P tiles and sprites!? I can't find any anywhere!

Atomic_Reactor

July 19th, 2008, 05:00 AM

go to the spriters-resource ... It's all in there.

WhippedCream

July 19th, 2008, 07:37 PM

go to the spriters-resource ... It's all in there.

Honestly? Because I couldn't find nearly as many sprites on the spriters resource...

Atomic_Reactor

July 19th, 2008, 09:54 PM

lol yes honestly.
nintendo>pokemon>D/P

Look in there.

WhippedCream

July 20th, 2008, 01:04 AM

Doesn't have all the sprites, but it'll work... thanks xD

Pokehero22

July 21st, 2008, 04:35 PM

This game looks amazing! I played the demo, and i loved the story!

(Even though I lost to the rival...)

Keep it up!

HACKER OF ROM

July 22nd, 2008, 04:59 PM

Looks good hope it turn out like a REAL Pokemon game...

Ya know what I mean...not a mix of Pokémon and Final Fantasy...
Even though that is only possible through the RPGMaker programs...which thankfully your not using...

By the way did you figure out the scripts your self or did you use tutorials???

Wichu

July 22nd, 2008, 06:50 PM

None of the newer RPG Maker Pokémon games have an FF-like battle system...

Look at mine, for example. It's a RPG Maker game, but with a full Pokémon battle system... You should get up to date :P

And I doubt someone could learn a programming language without any help - even experts need to look at guides sometimes!

Hall Of Famer

July 22nd, 2008, 07:46 PM

Well, I must say this game has the best visual effects among all the fan games on Pokecommunity. I like the D/P style graphics and it's significant for your game's growing popularity. I'm not quite familiar with the plot yet but I'm sure it ought to be excellent as well. Just keep it up and you'll make it the best fan game on PC sooner or later.

HACKER OF ROM

July 23rd, 2008, 04:18 PM

@ Wichu

SOrry i forgot about the XP Pokemon Games...
I really can't play those i only have Win98...>.<
I know dumb huh?
@Waudby
Well from what I've played its good...
I am just wondering why no title screen or music in menu area????
And are you letting people use Pokémon Odyssey as an engine to start theirs of course if they give you credit...

Rhuan

July 23rd, 2008, 07:09 PM

delyemerald2

July 23rd, 2008, 07:21 PM

Wow!
Cool game man.
Did you make all those scripts and such things by yourself?!

Rhuan

July 24th, 2008, 12:31 AM

Wow!
Cool game man.
Did you make all those scripts and such things by yourself?!I helped waudby with a lot of the scripts. He got a tile movement script from someone else as well (default movement in sphere is by pixel not tile, if you want tile movement you have to script it, not hard to do though)

HACKER OF ROM

July 24th, 2008, 01:14 AM

Rhuan

July 24th, 2008, 11:12 AM

@ randomer

Thanks but how long did it take for you to learn the sphere game editor's language???
And are there any tut's worth looking at seeing as you're the main scripter here...
just thought i'd askJust to clarify, Waudby did a lot of his scripts himself, I just helped with bits he found tricky (like the battlesystem), and sorted out errors he'd made in a few cases.

I learnt enough to feel confident enough with sphere to start on my first sphere game in about two weeks, though my skill grew a lot while working on that game. (Don't ask for the game I gave up on it because I'd let it get too complicated, and I'd decided that the only way to do the game idea justice now was for it to be fully 3d, which would be very hard to do in sphere, I also needed more graphical support)

Anyway, I learnt mainly from this tutorial (I couldn't find it on the web anymore, so I've uploaded it in my webspace): www.spheredev.org/~rhuan/WT_tutorial.doc

It's not perfect, for instance, at one point it suggests writing:

" " + "hello"

Which will have an identical result to:
" hello"

It's aimed at people with no prior scripting/coding experience of any kind, and it was never finished, but it should sort the basics out for you I looked at a few other tutorials, but really, after that one I mainly went by experimentation and use of a file that comes with sphere called doc_functions.txt. (which probably won't make much sense to you till you've gone through the tutorial I linked above)

If you want me to help with any specifics, pm me, depending how bored I am, I may write example code for you, do some of you scripting for you, or try and explain in detail how to do want you want to do.

One other point, make sure you have the latest version of sphere, when I started that was 1.10988, now it's 1.5.

Now, lets not de-rail waudby's topic any further.

HACKER OF ROM

July 26th, 2008, 04:10 PM

Yeah I suppose so...
Anyways thanks for the help randomer...
@ Waudby & randomer

Why are the screen transitions so jumpy???
I mean it a great game and all...but the transistions take time that could be spent completing the game

Rhuan

July 26th, 2008, 08:52 PM

I haven't looked at the transition code, it was done by waudby :p Remember, it's his game, I'm just an assistant, I help people with their games.

Space Guard

July 30th, 2008, 02:43 PM

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s257/Waudby_bucket/screenshot200805181719280935.png

Surprise for everyone!

I have been working hard getting the new battle system graphics sorted out.

I know I quoted this from a while back BUT. Next time you use some of MY CUSTOM work would you mind leaving me credit? I worked really hard on originally producing these HP bars so i would like you to leave me some credit! (And yes, I have compied and pasted the HP bar and compared them in paint, they are excaly the same, right down to the purposley left off end part!)

Proof:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b206/spaceguard05/Pokemon%20Platinum/HPBars.png

(EDIT: And is that MY Platinum text box I see in your other screenshots?)

lightou

July 30th, 2008, 05:41 PM

It's not "YOUR"'s.

Nintendo made them. You just copy them. You didn't need credits.

Space Guard

July 30th, 2008, 07:02 PM

Actually, the HP bar for your charcaters Pokémon is my custom and not the offical one. I can show you a picture of the offical HP bar and they are very different. The fact is that he used my custom sprite and then claimed 'I have been working hard getting the new battle system graphics sorted out' when he actually took them from my sheet and then claimed them as his own!

Atomic_Reactor

July 30th, 2008, 07:03 PM

Yeah, to bad he never claimed them. All he said was that he was trying to get them to work. not that they were his. -_-

Death_Mande

July 30th, 2008, 07:13 PM

The story is awesome.

One question though (Sorry if this has been answered)

Is the game built on RPGMaker, or on Sphere? If it's made one RPG Maker XP/2k3 i might be able to help in mapping :/

Space Guard

July 30th, 2008, 07:14 PM

Yer but he could have at least given me some credit. It wouldn't have taken much, otherwise it ould be classified as stealing my custom sprites.

Atomic_Reactor

July 30th, 2008, 07:16 PM

well, maybe he forgot.
I'm sure waudby isn't the type of person to steal.
He'll give you cred wen he gets back im sure.

it's made in sphere :P

Chary

July 30th, 2008, 07:40 PM

OK when i click it and it loads when it does ERROR Could not initilize video subsystem
i use windos vista

Death_Mande

July 30th, 2008, 07:48 PM

Aw man, the game is in Sphere? I can't map there since i'd have to grab piece by piece of a tile in the tileset >.< Anyways, i downloaded the demo, and whenever i tried to Run from a wild battle, it gave me an error.

Rhuan

July 31st, 2008, 01:50 AM

'I have been working hard getting the new battle system graphics sorted out' when he actually took them from my sheet and then claimed them as his own!What he meant was that he'd been working on integrating those graphics with his code. But, yeah, he probably should have given you some credit.

To be honest he probably should have given me credit far sooner than he did, but I don't really care, I enjoy working on the code, I'm not looking for credit, just as I wouldn't want credit for having enjoyed reading a book.

OK when i click it and it loads when it does ERROR Could not initilize video subsystem
i use windos vistaOpen Config.exe and in the video settings, select standard32 and tell it to run in windowed mode.

Waudby

July 31st, 2008, 08:50 AM

Space Guard

July 31st, 2008, 09:16 AM

Adam_148

July 31st, 2008, 09:17 AM

Okay I've just returned from holiday so don't expect updates yet :P

For the record, when the credits list is finished everybody will be mentioned in there, The same way as the official games don't rant on about who made what before the end of the game :P

I also never claimed them as my own, I merely said I was working hard on sorting them out, because the coding side of things had to be sorted, I was talking about the images themselves.

However, you do give credit when you're making a fan game, as in the real games, they make everything themselves, you haven't, so you give credit when using something made by someone else.

Waudby

July 31st, 2008, 09:47 AM

I haven't updated the first post for a while, when I do next update it then you will be added.

And what I said does make sense, when I said to everyone I was sorting out the new battle system graphics, I never once said I had made them or claim them as my own, I merely said I was sorting them out, adding them into the game if you will.

Please stop spamming the thread about the whether they have been stolen, I will add you to the credits when I update.

However at the moment, I have no time to work on the game, as I've just returned from a holiday and have a lot of work to catch up on.

Houndoomed

July 31st, 2008, 02:35 PM

...eh that makes no sense? From My point of view, 'I merely said I was working hard on sorting them out, because the coding side of things had to be sorted, I was talking about the images themselves.
' doesn't make any sense! Also, you could have said in the credit's part in the first post that the HP bars are by me, you;ve credited Kyledove for the Chipset's, why no-one else?

If I were the one who made them, I wouldn't even as for credit, seeing as they're Nintendo's. It's fully custom stuff I would ask credit for.

Anyway, I think we've been fighting about this too long, we should get back to talking about the game.

Space Guard

August 1st, 2008, 08:24 AM

...the HP bars for your Pokémon that are used in his game are fully custom!

Anyway, as long as you give me credit, you can use these HP bars and any other graphics I've ripped. Your game is looking really good so far, and I think that by using the platinum graphics it brings it to a new level.

(Do you want the offical HP bars from the latest set of screenshots Waubdy? If you send me a PM I'll send them to you!)

Mitchman Is

August 1st, 2008, 09:13 AM

HAHA! You really got to stop. So there are similarities to it. Big deal. If you dont stop youll just get reported so stop.

jrookie

August 1st, 2008, 11:25 AM

help~~~
i downloaded the game but i cant play.....

Rhuan

August 1st, 2008, 05:17 PM

help~~~
i downloaded the game but i cant play.....If I'm going to help you I'll need more details that that. E.g. Are you using Windows, Mac or Linux (if you're on Linux, you should be able to sort stuff out yourself though), if you're on windows, just run Pokemon Odyssey.exe, if it throws an error, tell me what the error is. If you're on mac, you'll need to download something from a couple of pages back.

Darksun

August 1st, 2008, 05:40 PM

I can't play it either. I'm using Windows and getting this error:

Error: Could not initialize video subsystem

Space Guard

August 1st, 2008, 05:55 PM

HAHA! You really got to stop. So there are similarities to it. Big deal. If you dont stop youll just get reported so stop.

We have, and actually Waudby and I ae actually in the process of sharing some more rescources, so I guess you could say 'watch this space'!

Rhuan

August 2nd, 2008, 12:31 AM

I can't play it either. I'm using Windows and getting this error:

Error: Could not initialize video subsystemI've answered this so many times now, open config.exe, go on video, select standard32 and tell it to run in windowed mode.

jrookie

August 2nd, 2008, 04:59 AM

i downloaded it on win pro XP sp2 and when i double click, it pop out a window, asking me to choose a programe to open it (open-with function), now how?

*Dark*Master

August 2nd, 2008, 06:13 AM

Well this game looks great. Apart from the fact that a Totodile is in Kanto? O well what can we do. I rated it Good

andrécanedo

August 3rd, 2008, 01:22 PM

how i can download it???????????

Rhuan

August 3rd, 2008, 04:26 PM

how i can download it???????????First, go and learn english.

jrookie

August 5th, 2008, 11:44 AM

i downloaded it on win pro XP sp2 and when i double click, it pop out a window, asking me to choose a programe to open it (open-with function), now how?

randomer...help....i really cant play it nmow.

Evandeck

August 6th, 2008, 02:51 AM

when is Waudby coming back?

it has been a month no one takes a vacation this long

Mitchman Is

August 6th, 2008, 06:49 AM

I dunno but if he is in santorini still then hes probably traumatized. If he was in that city then yeah probably. You know why? This guy chopped his girlfriends had off after chopping the dogs head off and then paraded the head round the town square and gone on a rampage almost killing a cop. They had to shoot him but not kill him so he can be in court. And thats probably why. As a tourist of santorini if still there woundt you be afraid to leave the house?

Waudby

August 6th, 2008, 09:11 AM

I have been back for a week now, I wasn't on Santorini, I was staying on Kos, a different island, luckily.

I've had no time to update the game yet as I am busy with other things, I have had a few new ideas though.

More revealed at a later date.

Mitchman Is

August 6th, 2008, 09:36 AM

Αha lol yeah luckily. No prob i was just saying that out of speculation.

Sk8er Prince

August 6th, 2008, 01:14 PM

I feel stupid for posting this: But like other people, I can't play the game.
Just for you(Randomer) to know:
I use Windows.
The error message is like this: "Script Error in 'vars.js', line: 245. Could not load sound 'Battle/09 Battle! Wild Pokemon.mp3".
That is Waudby's lastest release.
I'm not 100% sure if that is Pokemon Odyssey.exe though.

Waudby

August 6th, 2008, 03:15 PM

Rhuan

August 9th, 2008, 10:17 AM

You need to download the files that Randomer uploaded a few pages back and replace the correct files, there are instructions in his post.

Waudby, you could update your release, or just remove it, and tell everyone to wait for a newer one, at the moment, people just go on and on and on about the same couple of problems, and it's rather annoying :p.

Evandeck

August 25th, 2008, 12:40 PM

ok we need an update to keep this thread from dying

Atomic_Reactor

August 25th, 2008, 04:23 PM

you don't NEED an update to keep a thread alive.
You just want one. :P

Shadowlurker

August 25th, 2008, 05:36 PM

Aww i want to play this but i dont want to get winrar doh

heylol987

September 7th, 2008, 04:22 AM

i cannot press the button. can only up and down

Evandeck

September 8th, 2008, 09:39 PM

wow 1.5 months and no update

Yuoaman

September 9th, 2008, 01:16 AM

wow 1.5 months and no update

... You haven't been here very long have you? Sometimes we see no updates for more than 3 months, then bang! We get a bigger update than we could even imagine, just be patient.

Waudby

September 9th, 2008, 10:40 AM

Pokémon Odyssey is undergoing so major changes, so this is the reason there hasn't been an update.

So really major things are going to change so it's taking me a long time to do all this by myself. Hopefully after these changes the old version will only be a shadow of the new version :)

Everybody please keep the thread alive.

I'd like some more suggestions of things you would like to see in the game. I wasn't very happy with the release of the first demo, too many bugs for my liking. The next demo will be alot better but may take some time, alot of work is being done from scratch to improve the older systems.

Rhuan

September 9th, 2008, 10:45 AM

If that's the case, I'm surprised that I haven't heard a thing.

I guess you don't need me any more.

Waudby

September 9th, 2008, 06:41 PM

Here's a sneak preview at the first stages of the new menu implementation, it's lacking the actually menu for now while i test everything else however, it does include the new side bar that I have scripted, It shows a clock, the semi circle, and an event window, of what event's are happening, and if you select them, they will tell you were to go and any extra details.

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s257/Waudby_bucket/screenshot200809091937570433.png

Also that map is a new WIP, so that's why it's not even got the player on it yet XD

Vampire://Krimm

September 9th, 2008, 08:16 PM

Looking good :D -is first to post-

I'm definitely liking the clock, its very creative. Can't wait to see the map either :p

ryushin5

September 9th, 2008, 08:42 PM

i like it waudby nice hope to see more amazing stuff in the future.

Waudby

September 9th, 2008, 09:19 PM

Thanks guys.

There will be a few more extra features that will be shown over time.

I'm planning on making time alot more important in the game, so alot of things will happen on certain days, that way i can script myself special events days, like christmas, or the player's birthday etc.

palkiadude

September 12th, 2008, 12:35 PM

Hi guys! Games looking great, i love the clock idea. Do you need any pokemon sprites or are you o.k. at the moment? I hope you keep up the great work with the game, and i would like to be a part of it

Waudby

September 12th, 2008, 05:28 PM

I'm not looking for any help at the moment, unless you can design and make brilliant custom GUI's for the new features.

Obe3

September 12th, 2008, 06:18 PM

Waudby

September 12th, 2008, 06:25 PM

Got a quick question, after I download the demo and extract it, i'm getting a pop-up titled "sphere". It says Error: could not initialize video subsystem.

Anyone know what this is all about??
help would be great

Click the search button on the thread and search for it, it's already been discussed before, I will add it to the first post as well.

johannes

September 14th, 2008, 08:41 AM

THAT GAME IS SO GOOD IT MAKES MY HACK LOOK CRAP I CANT POST IT I DONT KNOW HOW

Waudby

September 17th, 2008, 06:54 PM

Updates in the form of screenshots have clearly been thin on the ground for a few weeks.

I have one for you guys today, a new town from the new version of Odyssey. I've rewritten the textbox system and the intro as well, it has a slightly different approach that you will all appreciate :)

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s257/Waudby_bucket/screenshot200809171949260235.png

Evandeck

September 18th, 2008, 02:46 AM

r u gonig to add Lucas' new Platinum overworld sprite?

Waudby

September 18th, 2008, 02:24 PM

I will add the new Lucas sprite when I can get a good rip off him, as some of the sprites i've seen aren't brilliant, so if anyone has one in either rm2k3 or rmxp format let me know.

wildarms001

September 18th, 2008, 03:42 PM

nice update there waudby and im happy you are back again working in your game :D hope you can add also platinum trees :D GL

kay3o

September 18th, 2008, 04:37 PM

Woo!~

Really nice looking game you've got going there, Its good to see an update :D

shinylugia249

September 19th, 2008, 04:14 AM

If you change the lucas sprite won't you have to change the tiles aswell? The new lucas ow is meant to fit the new colder climate.

Waudby

September 19th, 2008, 09:21 AM

His clothes were changed to fit the colder climate of Sinnoh, not of the Everglade region :P however, as more background information, the game will feature a time system, and it will also (fingers crossed) have it's own seasons, which may contain new areas to find.

The time will play a larger use in this game than most in that, certain things and storyline events will only happen on certain days, as there will be about 3 or 4 storylines all crossing other, as is normal with most modern rpgs

CoN~

September 19th, 2008, 12:47 PM

Best looking FanGame, easily.

Waudby

September 19th, 2008, 01:43 PM

Best looking FanGame, easily.

I wouldn't quite go that far, there are some very good looking games here, but thank you.

Okay, I want people to suggest ideas they would like to see in the game, whether it's new features or storyline features etc.

You name it and if i like it, i'll adapt it in :)

Mitchman Is

September 19th, 2008, 01:53 PM

Hehe waudby ive been waiting for the day youll post that. I got a list so long that youll be reading for hours! Nah kiddin but yeah its big.
1. The region is located inbetween kanto johto if i remember correctly right? So why not make that river next to the home town flow to tohjo falls? And make that the main connection point!
2. I really want to see a rank system. No acually dont cause then i cant use that.
3. We are goin to be comeptetors soon cause i have a sphere game on my hands so yeah im not goin to make the list long cause some of my ideas are saved for my use to make stuff clear.
4. Hmm i would like some kinda amity park in everglade.
5. If you add the season you would need every single city route town(and caves mabye) to match the season. So that would mean 20 or so maps times 4. Uggghhhh. I would feel bad for the spriter.
6.The rotom forms if included should get there own little haunted mansion in the everglade region. And please do what nintendo didnt and make there typage match the appliance they are and give em movesets.

Abd thats all i have to offer. A reason is number 3 mostly.

Waudby

September 19th, 2008, 02:08 PM

The season idea is actually quite easy in Sphere really, no more difficult than the time system, you just have to have an update script that checks the month, and turn on the correct seasonal layer as necessary.

Quite an easy system to do really, I just need to make a few different tiles now.

Mitchman Is

September 19th, 2008, 02:23 PM

Aha and the rotom factor is it in?

Clark13

September 20th, 2008, 06:45 AM

i can't play this game i dont think i have the program to use .rar or something like that. Can anyone send me the game in .sgm format.

Waudby

September 25th, 2008, 04:33 PM

Small map update again, thanks to Kyledove's tiles I have D/P based tiles now, well a few anyway :P

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/186/screenshot2008092517051sg9.png

:D

Houndoomed

September 25th, 2008, 06:03 PM

Looking nice. Although I suggest you give the player's overworld a shadow, it looks like it copy and pasted. Especially on the indoors screenshot.

Waudby

September 26th, 2008, 10:31 AM

Looking nice. Although I suggest you give the player's overworld a shadow, it looks like it copy and pasted. Especially on the indoors screenshot.

Okay thanks for that, I think most sprites miss off the shadow anyway, but i'm going to add it now, shouldn't be too hard to be honest.

Anyone else got any comments? or has support pretty much died now?

Captain Arcane

October 6th, 2008, 08:38 PM

Okay thanks for that, I think most sprites miss off the shadow anyway, but i'm going to add it now, shouldn't be too hard to be honest.

Anyone else got any comments? or has support pretty much died now?

I'm still here, and supporting you all the way man. ^__^

Oh, yeah, I got my computer back yesterday (FINALLY) I hope to see you on msn soon.

Keep it up man, I'm really excited about your game,
Captain Arcane

Waudby

October 7th, 2008, 01:55 PM

Thanks for the support man, It's good to hear from you again. Been too long :P

News on the game, the text box system has been completely rewritten and is now a lot better, it only requires one TextBox function call for any amount of continuous text, which makes things easier for me :D

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The way you select a gender has changed :)

It has now taken on the form of the "Touch Screen". Highlight the character you want to be and press the left mouse button.. and as if by magic, you choose that character to play as :P

http://www.spheredev.org/~waudby/screenshots/screenshot%202008.10.07%2014.37.08.0872.png http://www.spheredev.org/~waudby/screenshots/screenshot%202008.10.07%2014.37.11.0850.png

And what's this... Platinum characters... yes, I have recently updated the game to use the platinum heroes.

Now many people will comment on the reason they were introduce in Platinum due to the colder climate.

This isn't the same in Odyssey, however the area of the region in which the player originates from is significantly colder then many other places. So the clothes are needed.

Here is a video of the gender selection animation;

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s257/Waudby_bucket/th_engine2008-10-0717-11-24-36.jpg (http://s154.photobucket.com/albums/s257/Waudby_bucket/?action=view&current=engine2008-10-0717-11-24-36.flv)

^ Click to view.

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Yes the story has changed. Little detail will be given on this area, however I will say that players will spend more times in towns and cities than in previous games, due to the abundance of things to do in each.

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http://www.spheredev.org/~waudby/uploads/logbook.png

The Journal has been upgraded! Now it's a fully fledged logbook, to keep track of tasks and quests that you have been asked to complete.

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Neo-Dragon

October 7th, 2008, 06:47 PM

Cool update. Sounds good. Hopefully you do more with the mouse, I think that would be a really neat way of inputing stuff.
The video doesn't load for me btw.

ryushin5

October 7th, 2008, 07:20 PM

wow love the update waudby looks nice hey and the video doesn't load for me i can't see it.

PokettoMonsuta

October 7th, 2008, 08:28 PM

What a sick game, nice job. I hope it ends up a nice game.

Waudby

October 8th, 2008, 08:35 AM

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WOW! After so long without updates you get two on consecutive days. This time showing off another brand new feature using the mouse :P

http://www.spheredev.org/~waudby/screenshots/screenshot%202008.10.08%2009.26.41.0553.png

A small image editor, which will allow you to draw pictures and save them to your game folder

for a feature that will be shown later......

:P

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Red Gyrados

October 8th, 2008, 08:46 AM

wow is this so cool xD
i like the way you use the mouse
i hope there are more mouse use stuff xD
hmm that would be funny if you can use the mouse to move the player xD

Waudby

October 8th, 2008, 02:20 PM

It would be possible to use the mouse for movement, but i'm not going to add it in, it takes away the real pokémon feel.

The Poketch will feature 9 of the standard features from previous games, as well as some new ideas I have come up with.

I'm now finishing the basic version of the naming system, so expect a few screenshots and perhaps another animation video.

This is not the final version as it does not contain the symbols page or some of the punctuation used in the official games. But it will be added if i get the right fonts, would someone be interested in making the font for me, from a resource sheet?

Work in progress shot of the naming system, please note the rest of the symbols etc will be added in on the final version.

http://www.spheredev.org/~waudby/screenshots/screenshot%202008.10.08%2018.24.43.0421.png

D.aisuke

October 10th, 2008, 03:24 AM

\I love this, I can't wait for the final release!!!!

Have you thought about making this a Homebrew DS game?
It'd also be cool if it was compatible with DP and Pt, but that's asking for alot.

And I have some ideas/requests for you: You can let a pokemon walk outside of it's pokeball behind you, When you surf, the sprite is of the pokemon you're surfing on, not a blob, or generic sprite, and Pokemon can learn up to 8 different moves.

Keep up the Good Work!!!!!

Mitchman Is

October 10th, 2008, 01:04 PM

Question are you making this um you know dual screen?

D.aisuke

October 10th, 2008, 10:37 PM

D: I"m having trouble playing the game! Is there a tutorial that I missed?

DARKSHADE

October 11th, 2008, 03:13 PM

this is an amazing game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
congrats it takes a lot to impress me!

Wichu

October 11th, 2008, 03:17 PM

Not a hack... This is the Games Showcase, not the Hacks Showcase.

Waudby

October 15th, 2008, 10:24 AM

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A new naming convention is now in place, the first Route of the game is now, Route 301!

Now i'd like to present that Route to you.

Enjoy;

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I edited the snow tiles before anyone asks.

That's right, a snow covered route, ignore Lucas' D/P clothes, I haven't finished updating the spritesets yet, but he will be in platinum atire shortly.

While on the route, there is a Snow System, as I now have a decent weather system.

As of now, i'm stopping any support for the first demo, if it works for you, congratulations, if not, sorry.

That demo is an appauling display of what I want odyssey to be, so hence why the next demo will be completely different, yes this may set times back a little bit, but things are more planned now.

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ashton8907

October 15th, 2008, 11:47 AM

I've been through this site so many times to download hacks only recently I registered at my first post shall go to you yesterday was my first day accually going through the games showcase and I find yours the best by far I support this game all the way I spent all day reading every page in this thread XD I hope you finish soon the demo doesn't work for me -_- but I didn't try the fix its I've seen posted sometime yesterday my internet got cut off yet I still have my Sidekick to keep up on the updates till I have the money to pay my bill and by the way THANK YOU for actually making something worth while to play KUDOS

Shun

October 15th, 2008, 06:35 PM

Amazing another good ame i have seen on here keep up to good work

Evandeck

October 22nd, 2008, 01:26 AM

nice an update

looks good

Xaviar

October 22nd, 2008, 04:34 AM

Not sure how outdated this is, but I compiled a list of minor grammatical errors and some glitches up to and including the battle with Dawn.

Intro:: Only two periods after "Now"

Room:: On the sign it says "Press Enter to enter the menu." It may be better to rephrase it as "Press Enter to open the menu."

Mom's Talk:: There is a comma missing in the "Oh, [name]!" part.

Professor Uing's Talk:: Near the beginning there is an it's when it should be its. PC is typically capitalized because it is an abbreviation, but it doesn't really matter. "It contains a small piece of the fragment[,] so be careful." You can't talk to Uing again until you pick a Pokemon.

Dawn, after the battle:: She capitalizes both see and ya in her sentence.

Glitches::
1. If you have the menu open and you press Left/Right, your character begins to move quickly on the screen. The game crashes a bit afterwards.
2. If you save before taking your Pokemon and load the screen again, it automatically asks you if you want to pick Chikorita.
3. Doors aren't working quite right, but I'm sure you know that.
4. The run option in the battle screen doesn't work.

However, the game is still very playable! I really hope this game goes far, and if you need any help, I'll try my best.

Waudby

October 23rd, 2008, 08:22 AM

Thanks for the comments and glitches etc, however, as previously stated, the demo is a very early version of the game, a newer version is now in development, with a touch screen being implemented and an overall more reliable system.

This has put back development times, but it will give an far better game in the long run.

I can safely say,. i'm very pleased with the results so far :D

Waudby

October 27th, 2008, 01:38 PM

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I now have a very basic, yet working, ellipse menu system.

I'm still working on the graphical side of things, so if you have an ideas that will make it look realllly good, then suggest some :D

http://www.spheredev.org/~waudby/screenshots/screenshot%202008.10.27%2013.33.08.0500.png

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Neo-Dragon

October 27th, 2008, 02:11 PM

Maybe have a circle frame with a transparent background (around 25-35%) and have a whole in the center so the hero is still fully visible. I think that would look cool.

Wichu

October 27th, 2008, 04:51 PM

It looks pretty nice. But it looks very similar to mine :S

Waudby

October 27th, 2008, 05:46 PM

It looks pretty nice. But it looks very similar to mine :S

Only in the sense that it's a ring/ellipse menu.

The icons are the standard D/P/P menu icons. I'll be finishing this off the next time i get chance to work on the graphical side of things.

Souls1996

October 27th, 2008, 06:26 PM

That game looks awesome! Keep up the good work! I can't to play it! =D

CollosalPokemon

October 29th, 2008, 04:37 AM

Not half bad Waudby, the intro is good and the game is a okay!

Waudby

October 29th, 2008, 11:33 AM

I'm glad to say that I have a special surprise in the mix!

You will (hopefully) all be amazed by this, it's not a brand new concept for a fan made Pokémon however i believe only one game so far has tried and succeeded.

This is where I come in, not only have I attempted to implement this feature, I've got it working brilliantly, and also to a level where it gives me a huge amount of flexibility with the NPC's and characters of the game.

I'd like people to try and guess what this is :P

I will post screenshots at the weekend if nobody has guessed by then :D

Shadowlurker

October 29th, 2008, 11:43 AM

Text choises, that would be fun, something like NPC: Hi You: Get Lost
or You: Oh Hi Pleased To Meet You!

Atomic_Reactor

October 29th, 2008, 08:26 PM

Is it like in protectors, where the NPC's go home or do something at a certain time?

Waudby

October 29th, 2008, 09:16 PM

nope it's not that atomic.

There's a few newer features that I really wanna show off, however i'm holding back for a little while so that when i show them off they are more impressive.

But i will speak of one of them.

The new yes or no screen, it features a touch screen system and will be a fairly important part of the new game.

Atomic_Reactor

October 29th, 2008, 09:22 PM

well.. which fan game has succeeded in whatever your talking about?

that sounds pretty cool btw :)

Waudby

October 29th, 2008, 10:29 PM

i don't want to give too much away, there's a good possibility that I will have a few screenshots tomorrow.
They will show off the feature slightly. The feature will play a huge part in the game and you will find yourself happy with the outcome.

I'm also looking for spriters to help with some new character sprites and clothing.

Waudby

October 30th, 2008, 02:49 PM

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I've spent a lot of today working on getting the new Quest and Logbook system set up.
Some of this time was also getting it to merge into my Storyline system. This is now finished to a very workable state, so I bring to you the Log book and Quests screens...

http://www.spheredev.org/~waudby/screenshots/screenshot%202008.10.30%2014.27.29.0822.png

^ The new Log Book icon for the menu system.

http://www.spheredev.org/~waudby/screenshots/screenshot%202008.10.30%2014.26.19.0786.png

^ The quest details screen inside the log book.

[css-div="font-variant: small-caps; "]Alignment and Reputation System:[/css-div]

Now if you looked at the images above, inside the quest details you would've seen two things new.

Alignment and Reputation.

I have promised these from the start but never got round to doing them. But because I started most things from scratch it gave me the chance to implement these smoothly into the game.

http://www.spheredev.org/~waudby/screenshots/screenshot%202008.10.30%2014.36.42.0892.pnghttp://www.spheredev.org/~waudby/screenshots/screenshot%202008.10.30%2014.36.58.0550.png

As you can see, the same person will be friendly or rude based around your alignment. It will eventually be based around your reputation as well, so you will get a big mix of text from just one character.

This has increased the game script by around 4 times the size of before. There are different lines for;

1. Being good and unknown.
2. Being good and well known.
3. Being bad and unknown.
4. Being bad and well known.

If you aren't very well known, your bad actions will not have as big effect on your alignment as if you were very famous.

http://www.spheredev.org/~waudby/screenshots/screenshot%202008.10.30%2014.31.28.0664.pnghttp://www.spheredev.org/~waudby/screenshots/screenshot%202008.10.30%2014.31.30.0583.png

You will get good quests and bad quests, the example above is obviously a quests with negative rewards.

Certain quests will only be available if you are famous enough and people trust your name.

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This also shows off the next touch screen yes and no menu.

Please post comments and critisms.

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blazefire

October 30th, 2008, 04:33 PM

very nice update . this defently gives a slightly diffrent gameplay to peaople playing it and also replay value.

Neo-Dragon

October 30th, 2008, 04:34 PM

Looks good. I'm looking forward to seeing how you will link all of it together rather then make it a gimmicky feature.

Waudby

October 30th, 2008, 05:13 PM

Thanks for the comments.

@Neo: The way it will work is actually quite simple in Sphere, so hopefully I wont mess up on it :P
It's one of the most complex systems that I've had to write. But now that it's set up it's quite easy to use.

It's only one line to create a new Quest, and then a few lines to add it to the storyline, and then it's finished.

So hopefully it'll make the game more unique.

popetaffy

October 30th, 2008, 08:10 PM

wowzas, nice update.

the log book is an awesome addition. i have a bad habit of getting distracted in the middle of games, and not getting back to them for a few days... which usually ends up with me spending a half an hour trying to figure out what to do. =P

the reputation/alignment makes everything a lot more interesting, and definitely adds a lot more replay value.

best of luck, and keep up the good work! this is going to be a wonderful game. ^^
*goes back to lurking*

Atomic_Reactor

October 30th, 2008, 10:24 PM

Waudby

October 31st, 2008, 09:15 PM

wow, those all look great :D
i like the yes/no screen aswell XD

just one thing, maybe the icons for the menu should have like a ... backround icon behind them or something? eh idk... do you know what i mean?

I'm working on creating a background for it but don't really know what would look really good with it.

how about just a simple square or circle background?

Atomic_Reactor

October 31st, 2008, 09:26 PM

i can maybe whip somethin together and give you an idea...
:P
ill send it to you later tonight though.

Waudby

October 31st, 2008, 09:30 PM

okay then.

thanks a lot.

Rhuan

November 3rd, 2008, 10:43 AM

okay then.

thanks a lot.How about doing an ellipse made up out of points like the first example I did for you when you asked about how to do an ellipse menu, then the images could appear to be moving around a ring.

Waudby

November 3rd, 2008, 02:28 PM

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I've added another small feature ( i like adding these small features it helps fill the game up a bit :P)

Another new use of the mouse!

http://www.spheredev.org/~waudby/screenshots/screenshot%202008.11.03%2014.25.15.0348.png http://www.spheredev.org/~waudby/screenshots/screenshot%202008.11.03%2014.16.55.0738.png

A revamp of the old G/S/C banking system that your mum offers.
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ryushin5

November 3rd, 2008, 08:14 PM

I like the update waudby the new bank system looks awesome keep it up. :D

Waudby

November 3rd, 2008, 09:59 PM

thanks alot.

this isn't the finished version that's on display, it's an early version, i decided to add more to it.

I now have a min and max button for easily changing the amount and also an OK button :D

DaSpirit

November 4th, 2008, 12:43 AM

super arrow

November 4th, 2008, 05:47 AM

cool are there any new pokemon sprites and can someone help me with my game pokemon blue chill under game development

Waudby

November 4th, 2008, 10:05 AM

Thats looks really good. Instead of the touch things on the normal screen, would you be able to make it on a seperate screen like a bottom screen like Pokemon Beta? Not saying you have to be it makes it seem more like a DS and that makes it seem more official.

I was considering making it like that, however I don't want this to be an exact clone of the official games (system wise) so i think leaving it all on one screen is just as good.

It works really well, I really hope that I can make some good progress within the game's storyline so that I can release another demo soon.

cool are there any new pokemon sprites and can someone help me with my game pokemon blue chill under game development

Please don't advertise your game in my thread.

And as for new Pokémon Sprites, if someone can tell me where I can find the new Platinum sprites (m/f and shiny) then I will add the Platinum sprites in.

As for brand new fan made Pokémon... unless I can get a very good spriter and designer... no.

Waudby

November 5th, 2008, 10:41 PM

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Just a few screen shots from the new version of Sundale Town, and as a special treat, the whole map to look at as well :P

http://www.spheredev.org/~waudby/uploads/map.png

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