Patrick.
If you want, I have other Aliases.
Sparky,
Shadoan,
Shade,
and Outcast are a few of them.
Also, I'm still kind of indecisive about which engine to use. If I use the engine from the pokemon games from a GBA rom or DS rom, I'm looking at weeks, if not, years of programming a mod. Even if it finishes, if it gets THAT popular, nintendo will shut me down.
If I went along with RPGMAKER, there is the pokemon essential kit which includes all the pokemon's moves, the battle system, party system, menu, the whole nine yards. It will be easier to create the game with this, including maps among other items, though it will be difficult to implement a survival system along with it.
Also, it can't just include us as a story, like any pokemon game, the character has to represent the player whether he male or female, and even then I have had some ideas of letting the players pick their characters appearance. Plus using RPGmaker, there will be a few drawbacks, example, noone will be able to train pokemon.