Pokémon Oregon o_o

[[_DarkDragon_]]

ok, this is my plan:
I'm using sphere to create a pokemon game, this pokemon game is supposed to use all the graphics from previous versions (tilesets), the graphics for the pokemon will also be available for the people to choose I hope. The battle system will be improved, there will be more pokeballs (some that before only existed in the anime) and all the stuff exclusive from Gold/Silver added up to the stuff from the rest of the pokemon games (Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald/FireRed/LeafGreen and hopefully Pearl/Diamond when those come out), appart from that it will be completely similar to the engine on the GBA, with a lot of new stuff and the most important part of all: free. I know there's always gonna be these guys that use the engine and will not give credit, saying it's their own, but if I really succeed in creating it, every true pokemon fan will know the real creator of it. Considering sphere uses JavaScript and I dunno much about it I would ask people to please tell me where can I find good tutorials to make battle systems and other stuff in sphere, as well as just common javascript tutorials that don't have anything to do with sphere. The only programming languages I know are BASIC and Java (I know it doesn't have anything to do with JavaScript :P) but I bet I will learn fast. If anyone is interested in the project and would like to help in some way (even if it is only to give ideas): post here, PM me or send me an email to rpg_man@hotmail.com/add me to msn :)

Some features I thought about the game:
- Situated in a new region called Oregon, I might include others like Johto, Kanto, etc later
- Morning, Day, Evening and Night System (Some pokemon only available at night while others only available during day (the rest of them will be available at any time)
- You will be able to catch all pokemon.
- Weather System (will give advantage/disadvantage depending of the pokemon in battle).
- Normal, Shadow and Shiny pokemon will be available (I'll probably have to work on the Shadow one's sprites or maybe just make sphere darken the normal sprite).
- Shadow pokemon will exceed the rest in Special Defence, Attack and Hit Points while Shiny will exceed in Speed, Defense and Special Attack.
- As pokemon born, live and breed it will be possible for them to die as well, legendary pokemon don't die and semi-legendary will leave an egg before they do so which will ensure they keep going on through generations.
- There will be more virus in addition to the PokeRus, some might even kill the pokemon.
- The trainer will need to eat, as well as its pokemon, otherwise they will be weak and... :\
- The game will use all the other pokemon GBA games graphics.
- Pokedex, Movedex, Berrydex, Battlechart, Pokeballdex, Pokegear, etc will all be available.
- Maybe later I will put the contests working as they are a part of the game mechanics I quite don't understand.
- At some point when u are really advanced in the game, such things as IV calculators, etc will be available.
- I hope I can create a Fly with two stages, before you finish the game it will be the normal "fly" where you choose the city that you want to go to and the pokemon will take u there. The second stage (after you finish the game) the character will appear over a black pokemon with wings (like when you use surf) and you will be able to hover over the maps (no collisions) and land anywhere allowed.

As I said before, it's hard but not impossible, it will take time. But the more people involved in the project the faster it will be ready to be released.

Why did I choose Sphere instead of Gamemaker or RPG Maker XP?
Reason: because 1. gamemaker sucks for rpgs, 2. RPG Maker XP uses Ruby scripting (which seemed to me as being more complicated to learn and less flexible than JavaScript), RPG Maker XP already has a predefined Battlesystem and team system that I don't quite like, Sphere supports bigger tilesets and more layers than RPG Maker XP, etc, etc
The only thing I found in RMXP that I didn't find in Sphere is the Autotile thingy (that doesn't mean it's not there), but that will probably not be a problem.
This doesn't mean I don't like RPG Maker XP, I love it, been using RM since the 95 version :o
I just think sphere will be better for this game.

Any ideas, etc u know what to do :)

Screens:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/menu.png
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/Map_1.pnghttp://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/Map_2.png
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/Clock.png
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/Phone_1.pnghttp://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/Phone_2.pnghttp://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/Phone_3.png
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/TC.png
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/welcome.png
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/hello_1.pnghttp://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/hello_2.pnghttp://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/hello_3.png

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/7509/swizzlerseal7lc.png

[Berserk]

Seems like an awesome game, but how about some screens?

[[_DarkDragon_]]

As I said, I'm starting the project, so there's no screens yet, that's why I asked for some java script tutorials so I can start putting the game more pokemonish :o
As soon as I manage to put collisions, and some other problems I will post some screens. :)

[Rm2k3Guy]

You need a screen or this will be locked sounds good for tutorials erm their are not many :\ ask in help and requests :P

[[_DarkDragon_]]

lol, I will have screens soon, I dunno why it would be locked this is supposed to be about "Game Development" if the game just started being developed how could I show screens, anyways, if you want screens I'll map smth quickly and show it although it's nothing amazing might keep people in a good mood :P I read some tutorials about JavaScript and I'm getting really good with it so soon the game will start having a bunch of cool features, I'm currently working on the Trainer ID Number, it will use the date on the computer (year, month, hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds) to generate a ID number (it will multiply all of them and use mod 100000 to come up with a 6 number ID.

[Avatar]

']lol, I will have screens soon, I dunno why it would be locked this is supposed to be about "Game Development" if the game just started being developed how could I show screens
It's a requirement to have both a story and screenshots, so we have something to go by. Had you read the rules you'd know.

[QFred]

Looks a good idea, I like to see Sphere games!

But still, you should try to get some done and screens before you post the game!

[[_DarkDragon_]]

meh, ur mean ;)
I rarely disobey the rules even not reading them :P

[QFred]

Yes I understand what you mean but I'm also doing a game but I won't post it until I have enough mapping and scripting done!

[[_DarkDragon_]]

ok then I should delete this :\

[TheAbsol]

Dude even though you haven't finished collsion so so screens. It's great to see another Sphere game.

[[_DarkDragon_]]

OK, here's a simple screen. I'm trying to work out the reflection in the water, right now it appears everywhere, I'm trying to put it only on the water:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/Reflection.png

Tomorrow I'll try to fix that and add some custom menu graphics, etc :)

[Sceptile_Master]

This looks like it could become a good game. Sphere makes very good RPGs. I'm looking forward to it. Really am, seriously. It might be the beginning of something great. Just don't give up k.

[BleachXP.com]

you should change the opactity of the reflection so it looks more realer. lol. but good job! keep it up!

[[_DarkDragon_]]

I finally managed to make the reflection appear only on the water, I'll try to change the oppacity and show it here later. I won't give up cause I'm tired of seeing a lot of people making very good engines and then keeping the secret for themselves, I hope to share this project when finished so that anyone can add to it or just make new maps, history, etc :)

As I said before as well, if anyone is interested in helping me I'll be on msn, and here :D

[Sceptile_Master]

Learning sphere is still something I've been meaning to get round to so sorry I wish I could help, but I can't. And it's godd your releasing the scripts. it will stop all the starters asking about it over and over.

[Webmaster Tyler]

Try and make it so you can just do certain terrin files

[[_DarkDragon_]]

That's what I'm trying to do, but before that I'm trying to make the player being able to move like in the pokemon games (only north, west, east and south (not the rest: southeast, etc)) and also making the player move by tiles instead of pixels and whenever not walking the animation stops in the one where the character is stopped (both feet on the ground). I might look at some projects made with sphere that can do that and learn how to do it :)

[TheAbsol]

Ok we got the tile movement working now. As soon as we can get a good message box picture we'll show the message box system.

[[_DarkDragon_]]

ye, thanks to TheAbsol we got the tile movement working, here'S the message system in action:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/pic1.png
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/pic2.png

notice that as the scond part of the message is the last part that is going to show up the arrow disappears which means there's no more text after that ;)

TrainerID generator (Just a simple test):

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/pic4.png

And our menu :P (still needs to be improved):

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/pic3.png


Tomorrow I'll make a better menu, add the trainer card and hopefully the save/load feature, oh, and the world map :D

[Sinmora]

*POST* Woot...

Anywayz those systems look cool, cant wait to see more updates!

And is there a story yet or are you just...iono...

[BleachXP.com]

hey dude nice screens. menu looks a bit weird but ur gonna fix it... lol. sphere is the hardest thing in the world. I GAVE UP AFTER 5 minutes! lol.

[[_DarkDragon_]]

lol, I didn't give up because it was easy to learn JavaScript and it lets me do everything that RM doesn't :o

Anyways, menu is fixed now, tomorrow I'll post the screens.
As for the story, I still have to think about it. Right now I'm more interested in getting the engine ready, after that comes the easy part :P

[BleachXP.com]

what;s the easy part. i rekon most of making a PKMN game is hard. o the story and mapping r easy.

[Sceptile_Master]

Looks sexual. It's coming along quite quickly. Can't wait for the screens.

[[_DarkDragon_]]

New screen, menu fixed:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/pic6.png

In a couple of hours I'll show a part of the pokegear working (map)
and the trainercard will be working as well :)

[Sceptile_Master]

Still looks good. Just wondering though. What are using to learn spher? I wanna learn to lol. Buyt seriously. keep up the good work.The menu looks great.

[[_DarkDragon_]]

What am I using? hum, lemme see:

JavaScript Tutorial (http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_intro.asp)
Sphere Tutorials (http://www.spheredev.net/reference.php?sect=tutorials)

And the help files that come with sphere :P

--EDIT--

More screens!!!

Menu now shows the trainer name instead of "Trainer":
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/pic7.png

and when you press space at [trainer name] guess what?
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/pic8.png

If you press ESC it will go back to the menu and then if you press again it goes back to the game :D

I'm so proud of myself ^_^ this really gives me energy to continue :P

In a couple of minutes I'll bring the map feature of the pokegear :)

[[_DarkDragon_]]

*bump* just so that people notice I actually posted smth new :P

And there's our cool-looking menu again, this time we pay a visit to the map feature of the Pokegear :)

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/pic9.png
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/pic10.png

As you can see it looks really cool, now each city has it's own "map coordinates" and name (notice the name and the red square with the location ;) )
with a simple change in the script I change only the name of the city and look how it appears in the screen:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/pic13.png

Cool ain't it?
TheAbsol (so far the only person who's been helping me with the project *cough*) made me a function to turn the npc's towards the player every time we talk to them :F

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/pic11.png
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/pic12.png

and that's all for today! :D

tomorrow I will hopefully add the Clock feature to the pokegear and maybe some more surprises ;)

[kittiwitti]

hurry up i'm getting so impatient arrgh it is driving me off the wall

[Sinmora]

Wow...Im so speachless...you are really making me want to learn sphere...to bad Im so lazy I dont even want to do...well learn crap...

GOOD JOB! Cant wait for more *does the hurry up and post more awsome screenies dance* Keep up the good work! And dont let this post make you rush the game...just rush the screnies! ^^;

[[_DarkDragon_]]

:P Now I have to go to school (last 3 days was Friday + Weekend) that's why I brought so many screens. Anyways I'll do the clock today and maybe work on the phone and some other stuff :D

[Sceptile_Master]

I've started learning sphere now and will help you if you wish when I get good enough. Looks great so far though. Can't wait for more info. You really are doing great.

PS. What driver are you using with sphere?

[[_DarkDragon_]]

driver? you mean the rendering thing?
if that's what you mean I use: sphere_dx8.dll

As for getting good enough, 2 days ago I didn't know sh** about JavaScript and Sphere, now I'm doing better every minute that passes by, if you read the tutorials that I gave you and some others you will get really good in no time, as for helping, feel free to add me to msn: rpg_man@hotmail.com and we'll talk about it :)

[NOTE TO EVERYONE] Due to some unexpected problems with the real time clock thingy I will not post the clock screenshots tonight (here it's GMT+1 :P ), so tomorrow I'll do that if TheAbsol shows up on msn and explains to me or if I manage to find out what's wrong, sorry guys ;_;

[Sceptile_Master]

OK. I'll try my best. I'm getting through at a fairly OK pace. It's easier than I thought. For some reason my sphere complains about the screen not being able to resize so I have to use sphereGL. Anyhoo i added you to my MSN K.

[BleachXP.com]

i might start to learn a little sphere. i don't know how to do the mapping with it though! :D

[Sponge_Bartjuh]

This game looks really, really nice. It really is motivating me from switching from RM2k3/XP to Sphere.

Good job man, keep it up.

[TheAbsol]

I like how people switch to sphere after seeing its awesomeness.

[[_DarkDragon_]]

Sorry guys, I have been busy with school, etc but this weekend is a 3 day and a half weekend for me so I'll manage to do smth big :D

TheAbsol, talk with me asap on msn so I can give you the current version of it, I need to figure out how to make a real time clock in the game :)

[spike6958]

this look realy good your progressing realy quickly ive also started learing to use sphere and javascript also could you tell me where you got your tile set from because ive looked all over for one

[[_DarkDragon_]]

my tileset is a compilation of a bunch of tilesets I found (johto advance + kanto + hoenn), it is still missing some tiles, I will put them on it and I'll put here the link to download it later :)

[Smarties-chan]

This looks good =), but the maps look a little empty... if you want I could help you with spriting, I'm pretty good at making trainer sprites, I'm also pretty good at making maps, if you're interest in my offer just pm me and I'll show you samples of my work.

[DarkDoom3000]

cool pokegear it looks cool
good luck

[[_DarkDragon_]]

Thanks, the clock is giving me headaches and none of the other scripters I know has been on msn recently :\

[[_DarkDragon_]]

*bump* just want to tell everyone I didn't give up on this game, just been busy with some other stuff.

Progress:
Pokegear now shows the clock but for some reason I can't make it refresh every one second (still working on it)
I'm trying to find out a way to alternate maps without using warp, u know like in the pokemon games u go from one map to another without loading, only walking from one to the other u don't actually see any warp taking place.

[Cursed]

Why don't you make an invisible warp and some fake background showing the route you're warping to? Or would that work? No idea how to use Sphere. Try to make a "pod system" like call of latios. that always amazes me.

[slayerseitaro]

looks cool keep up the work.

[Booda Sack]

Wow,this game looks very promising,keep up the great work.
I love games in sphere.

@Cursed I'd appreciate if you didn't tell people to steal my ideas.

[[_DarkDragon_]]

lol, I don't like to copy other people ideas :\
Appart from that, I don't even know what the pod is so I have to go check :P

[Cursed]

Sorry. I just thought it was a great idea :(.

[Booda Sack]

No I wasn't accusing you DarkDragon of stealing my idea,I was just telling Cursed not to tell people to use my ideas.

[[_DarkDragon_]]

I know, and I was telling him I don't like to use other people ideas :P

[Datriot]

V.nice game you've got going here, you don't see many games in sphere, mainly because people think it's too hard.
Anyway, your menu system looks great, trainer card and pokégear menus look superb!

PS:I like your region map.:)

[[_DarkDragon_]]

Thanks ^_^
I actually don't like the pokegear design much so I might change it later.
I'm now working on the game and I made some improvements:
- A Trainer ID Number is created based on the time the game was first started, the possibilities of someone starting the game in the same year, month, day, hour, minute, second and millisecond are ultra small and now it displays the Trainer ID Number on the Trainer Card.
- I might add an option to the message function where you choose which game font you use and if it's male (blue), female (red) or null (black) that will change the color of the text

--EDIT1--
it's a kind of update, I remade the pokegear, now looking much better and I changed the screen resolution to 240x160 like the GBA games

I'll show some screens tomorrow

--EDIT2--
Today I have a free evening and I'll code some more. screenies tonight ^_^

[Swizzler121]

keep up the good work! i am also trying to learn sphere/javascript so I can make several games with that, well, how can I not approve this thread:
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/7509/swizzlerseal7lc.png
this thread has been approved due to the hard work and quality put into this game & thread! the seal can be put in the first post or ignored, i don't care you were just approved! :D

[[_DarkDragon_]]

woah XD
a seal of approval *puts on first post* :P
I'm working on the new pokegear (coordinates)
If you need some tutorials to help you learning JavaScript ask me :)

[[_DarkDragon_]]

BIG *falls from a cliff and keeps falling* UPDAAATTTEEEEEEEE *hits the ground and dies*

Here they are, the ultimate screenies XD

- New screen resolution (GBA) 240x160
- New PokeGear with Phone Menu
- Due to screen sizes Oregon was divided into two regions: Demitri and Oregon
- FRLG font added (no shadows yet)
- Now trainer card shows the Trainer ID Number that is created at the beginning of each new game the player starts.
- Maybe there's more but I forgot ^_^

please comment:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/menu.png
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/Map_1.pnghttp://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/Map_2.png
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/Clock.png
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/Phone_1.pnghttp://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/Phone_2.pnghttp://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/Phone_3.png
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/TC.png
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/welcome.png
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/hello_1.pnghttp://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/hello_2.pnghttp://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/hello_3.png

[QFred]

Looks awesome! Very cool! I love the gear, even if it is very plain!

[Booda Sack]

Cool great progress.
Glad to see it.

[Swizzler121]

this thread makes legal dude go gaga:
http://img450.imageshack.us/img450/4099/legalman8ul.gif

I LOOOOOVVVEEE the pokegear!! *Trys to learn Sphere again*

[BleachXP.com]

dude this is looking sooooo cool. i wanna learn sphere but school is in the way. i no a few commands. FlipScreen() WOOT! I'm on my way to greatness.

Keep up the good work!

[[_DarkDragon_]]

New update XD
This time is a small one, thank God I have next weekend free and I'll add a bunch of cool things... who knows, maybe I start working on battle system?
I updated the font to the emerald one, that's how it looks now:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/NewFont1.pnghttp://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/NewFont2.pnghttp://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/NewFont3.png

If anyone is making a game in sphere and needs the font here it is: (with one pixel border):
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/Font_1.png

with no pixel border:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/Font.png

[[_DarkDragon_]]

sorry for the double posting but I have a question for anyone who wants to see this game come to life XD

Would you prefer the battles with the GBA graphics or would you prefer to see the trainers and the pokemon (overworld) having a battle?

[shadowmastermarcus]

The Overworld battle with Pokemon was my idea first, and im putting it to work using rm2k3!
I made it!
And it works better than the GBA graphics one!
Anyway its really ur choice
btw, i need some help learning javascript, thanx in advance if u can help

[Booda Sack]

I'd prefer GBA style.
The battles would be more detailed then small sprites on a map.

[BleachXP.com]

yeah go with the gba styled graphics.

[shadowmastermarcus]

Yeh, thats true, theres better graphics, and you can understand it more, too

[[_DarkDragon_]]

ok, I have lots of school work to do but I'm gonna try to finish everything today so I can work on the game during the weekend :)

the battle system will be GBA-like then :P

--EDIT--

After two hours of work I managed to put the message system exactly like Emerald (w00t it's prefect ^_^):

Compare them:
-- Pokemon Oregon (Sphere):
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/compare1.png

-- Pokemon Emerald (GBA):
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/compare2.png

omg, I feel so proud of myself ^_^

[rm2kdev]

Dude the game looks awsom
Especially the way you now have teh message system Exact
oh btw your pokegear, amazing
Such a simple image yet a truly great result

[Swizzler121]

O_o wow...awsome... Is that text the no pixel border text? If not could you post it here plezzzeee!!! *insert picture of cute puppy here*

[[_DarkDragon_]]

That's none of the ASCII BMP Tables I posted above, I totally changed it and I'll post it tomorrow, now it's 3 AM and I wanna go to sleep XD

--EDIT1--

Swizzler121, you can find the font on Game Dev Rsources now, I've been planing the battle system, pokedex, etc

This is what I've gathered so far, if you find anything that is missing or would like to suggest anything new please tell me :)

Pokémon in General:

Name
All Sprite forms (including shiny and shadow and back sprites)[6]
Icons[2]
Footprint picture
Johto Number
Kanto Number
Hoenn Number
Info/Description
Height
Weight
Locations[x]
Breeding Group(s)[x]
Type(s)[2]
Gender Ratio[2]
Ability(s)[2]
Evolution Level
Evolution
Color Category
Level Up Attacks[x]
TM & HM Attacks[x]
Tutor Attacks[x]
Egg Moves[x]
Special Attacks[x]
Base Stats[x]
Max Stats (Hindering Nature)[6]
Max Stats (Neutral Nature)[6]
Max Stats (Beneficial Nature)[6]

Attacks:

Number
Name
Animation
Battle Type
Contest Type
PP
Base Power
Accuracy
Battle Effect
Secundary Effect
TM
Appeal Points
Jam Points
Contest Effect
Bright Powder
King's Rock
Physical Contact
Battle Palace Style
Battle Arena

Team:

Pokemon[6]

Pokemon in team:

Name (the one player chooses)
Level
HP
Sp. Defense
Sp. Attack
Attack
Defense
Speed
Attacks[4]
Nature
Kind(Normal/Shiny/Shadow)[3]
Sprite(depending on Kind)
Current Virus/Viruses[x]
Hungriness level
Life Time Level (Age)
Happiness Level
Everything else it inherits from the General Pokemon info

I'll have the bag system and trainer system soon

[BleachXP.com]

hey man the message boxs are idenctical. you must've had a magnifine glass looking at every detail!

[[_DarkDragon_]]

I did XD
They are exactly the same, lol

[Booda Sack]

Thats some good work,the only thing I can see missing are the pokemon catch rates and tameness values.
Oh and IVs and EVs for the team pokemon.

[[_DarkDragon_]]

ye, I remembered that while I was studying, I also remembered that I forgot the Gender for the team pokemon :P

[tdata]

I'm messing with Sphere, but, i'm a real noob... read the tuts, and it Javascript is much more direct than ruby... Now, I want you to write a "Getting started on your pokemon game Tut" for us... lol I don't even know where to start... That is why most ppl go for RMXP and stuff, there is a base to build on. But, it seems that sphere is better in that there are no hidden superclasses that you need to watch for... :P

[[_DarkDragon_]]

lol, sphere is better and easy once you get used to it u look at RMXP and feel sick XD
I won't be writing a tutorial because I feel like I could do better things with my time and besides people can learn from sphere and javascript tutorials :\

google is your friend ;)

[tdata]

:P I guess so... But, i think you would be better at explaining it..

[Booda Sack]

I posted some mini tuts in the tutorial forum if they help.

[[_DarkDragon_]]

I might do some when I have time, I was planning the bag, battle, etc systems and I came up with an idea, considering there will be shadow, normal and shiny pokemon and there will be tameness/happiness and pokemon have age and die at a certain point, depending on the way your pokemon are treated and how many shadow vs shiny you have there will be a Goodness Vs. Evilness bar to see if your a good or bad guy, if you have enough evilness you can go to a place where team smth (I still have to think about a name for it) gives you pokeballs that you can steal pokemon with, then after you win a battle you can pick 1 or 2 pokemon from the oponent and steal them, then you can either keep them or give them back to the base and get money for them. Being a bad guy you will also be able to convert any shiny/normal pokemon into a shadow/normal one.
If you are a good guy you can convert shadow/normal pokemon into shiny/normal and if you battle a bad guy (like a member of the team whatever) and win you can get 1 or 2 of their pokemon and take them with you, then you can keep them or give them for adoption at a pokecenter or sell them to the day care center :\

I might come up with some more ideas later, you can also give your opinion :P

[QFred]

That is very complete! Are you sure you can finish it?

If so, and you really can, dude you'll be famous!

[[_DarkDragon_]]

The hard part is the battle system, but I have it all planned as I said and holidays are near, so if I don't go away for the 2 holiday weeks then I can stay at home and make it. The part with stealing pokemon, etc is not that hard at all :\

--EDIT1--

I had another idea that will be quite simple to make after the battlesystem is ready.
There will be a bunch of cities where there'S a place reserved to build a Gym, when you finish your game and become a pokemon master and your bored you have two options, either go to the Elite 4 for free, sit there and wait for random trainers to battle you (remember your a master :P) or you can go to one of these towns and buy a Gym, then you can go inside the gym, choose your pokemon type (you know, fire, water, etc or maybe even "only shiny" or "only dark" or even random types (you just use your normal team)) and then random trainers will come in, they normally will have one or two pokemon that are effecient against your type and their pokemon levels will be around the average of all of yours so that they can have a chance against you :P

Now, I know you're thinking "this guy has a lot of ideas but it is gonna be hard as hell to make that" you're wrong, the battle system is the main part, then creating random battles, etc is pretty easy :P

just so that you know CBS and CMS are the hardest things u ever get to make for a pokemon game, then you have mapping and events/triggers, etc that are not hard but take time ;)

so just give your opinion on both ideas (the one of being good/bad and the one of having your own gym/working at elite 4.

considering you can be those things I could later add more jobs like working part time at a pokemon center :D, be a cop :S, a thief, work at the daycare center, pokemon training (people lend you their pokemons so you can train them and then they pay you for it), etc

if you would like to see a job give ideas cause jobs and the decisions you take are gonna play a big role on this game. :)

[King Kitsune]

All ur ideas are really great! I just can't wait till it's finished!!!

[Hive Mind]

Awsome!
I live in Oregon US of A. Actually, Roseburg Oregon.
The game your making sounds awesome, I would love to play it.

[BleachXP.com]

hey man i like the buy a gym idea. but just sitting there in a gym waiting for chalanges sounds crap. make it more interesting then waiting for ppl. but it sounds awesome. keep it up!

[[_DarkDragon_]]

You don't wait, you have a menu where u select when u want the next trainer to come in and battle.

[King Kitsune]

Awsome............If I didn't say it before, Awsome

[BleachXP.com]

hey that sounds sweet. where did u get ur sprites and maps and everythign? cause i might start learning.

[[_DarkDragon_]]

erm, sprites you can find them at serebii.net, pokemonelite2000.com, resources thread, etc
maps? I didn'T get any maps, I'm making my own :S
the program you canget it at www.spheredev.com I think :\

[TheAbsol]

its spheredev.net but the real site is sphere.sf.net

[[_DarkDragon_]]

lil update o_O

I added the 20 frame option thingy that is available on emerald, so now if you go to options you can select the kind of frame you want for the menus, etc

[BleachXP.com]

sounds awesome. thanks and yes i have sphere. just need some resources to get me started. thanks. keep it up!

[dulemaster12]

even though the stupid computer won't let me see the maps (bashes computer) from what i heared form other people this MUST rock!!!!

[[_DarkDragon_]]

Anyone interested in getting some good tutorials in JavaScripting and Ruby Scripting add me to msn: rpg_man@hotmail.com :)

[tdata]

What i keep running into, is that 90% of the tuts i find are just about using it on a webpage...

[[_DarkDragon_]]

well, the ones I read talk about using it on a page, but I can clearly see what only works on a webpage and what works everywhere else. Anyways, due to copyright laws I won't put the link here but if anyone interested in tutorials (big ones, one of the ruby ones gets to around 2710 pages o_o) just add me to msn: rpg_man@hotmail.com

[[_DarkDragon_]]

****, if anyone knows where I can allocate about 250MB of tutorials and stuff, with no bandwidth limit and for free then tell me XD

now, back on topic. All 20 frames configured and a bunch of new font colors and fonts added, here go the 20 frame pics and an example with colors :P

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/NewScreens.png

[gibslpsg]

Hey ur game looks absolutley great. Cant wait for a demo.

Also I've been trying to learn sphere but I cant seem to find any pokemon tilesets. Have any idea where I can get some?

[TheAbsol]

Just convert the RM2k ones...you need to get the latest sphere dlls and binaries somewhere at: sphere.sf.net/flik

[misty-slave09]

its looking great keep it up

[Pokemon563]

this game looks awsome.....i wish i could script in sphere liek that i tried but it didnt go to well....neway cant wait for a demo, good luck with this it looks promising..

[[_DarkDragon_]]

thanks for all the support ^_^
now I have 2 weeks of vacations I'll do some serious programming (I hope), having in account I also have school work XD
I'll add the menu descriptions now and I'll post the screens soon.

[MasaXGPMat]

nice screenies, cant w8 to play this game

[Ati]

Wow wow wow looks great,
and the trainercard looks funny with the word sex and not GENDER XD

[[_DarkDragon_]]

ye, I already changed that... but sex is correct as well you know.. just looks bad x_x

I've been recoding the game so that's why I haven't posted in a while.

[[_DarkDragon_]]

sorry for double posting, here is a pokemon that will be featured in the mutant/fake generation of my game:

MEWTHREE
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/rpg_man/mewthree.gif

[Shugo]

WOW...Mewthree is...creepy...-shudders-...lol its really good though:D

[pepsi.max]

hey mewthree looks sweet. keep it up.

[spike6958]

mewthree looks kwl keep it up

[DarkFeline]

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, such good looking game :D when you finish it, I wanna try it :D yes, because I have every right to, or else, when you go to school next year, I won't visit you u.u or maybe I will, to beat you up :|
Peace ^^ o/

[[_DarkDragon_]]

this game is dead, it's called pokemon chromatite now :) [Avatar close this please]