Pokémon Acanthite – The GSC Prequel

Sounds really good =] cant want to try it out!!!!

Edit: Awesome made pokemon =]

nice game, btw i cant play the demo, it says RGSS-RTP standard not found

Because you don't have RPG Maker XP installed. You need it to play.

Yea, I figured that out after reading page 7. Thnx tho. Great game Fang.

Yeah, we're coming on leaps and bounds now.

Goooo Fangking lol. Good Luck on Ancanthite!

The Pokemon are awsome, and for once scratch Pokemon relate to their real size! lol

News from Plateface!

work is under way for the official stylised art for the Acanthite Pokémon. They will be released in a fashion similarly seen in Coro coro magazines so keep your pants on fellas! ALSO!
jacob and I are working on a manga series that will certainly be unique and tell the story of Acanthite in a magnificent style. A preview of this is expected in the next few months!

Toodles

That's nice and all, but we can we please just keep updates in the game thread strictly concerning the game?

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everything looks tight i like the cobra fire pokemon the sprites are cool too

Im gonna try and help Fang if i can, or if he wants to. i might not be a big help, but im good at quite a few things. so Fang, keep it up man, i really want ya to do well! :)

SSV1 : It'd be a massive help if you could learn how to script. In fact, if anyone could.

Anyway, I'll keep you guys posted on things as Fang is really busy at the moment.

well i will tell ya, i will never learn how to script cos i feel it is too hard for me. it only shows 1 example script and it aint enough. i could probably do all the music stuff, and all that.

To get me back in the mapping spirit which has been a little bit stifled lately, I've been working on the Johto remake which will be making an appearance during the Acanthite game series. It's good to explore my mapping skills, and I've been finding that I've adopted a looser style that more closely resembles the technique used in FRLG. I've kept the structures more or less the same, but there is a looser, more naturalistic application of space and it isn't quite as rigid as in the original GBC games.

I had some old reference pictures to work with from a previous remake attempt, but for the mostpart I've improved since then.

New Bark Town (Lovely houses by Mateo!)


Route 29


Cherrygrove City


Route 30 (Thank you to Mateo for Mr Pokémon's house)


Route 31


Violet City (NEW SCHOOLHOUSE IN WORKS. Credit to Gridiron for regular houses. Mateo to thank for base of roof design on Sprout Tower)


Ruins of Alph


Route 34


Goldenrod City (Credit to Gridiron for regular houses and game corner recolour)


Route 35


Route 36


Route 37


Ecruteak City (big props to Mateo for about 90% of that fantastic dance hall made from scratch! Gridiron to thank for the standard brown houses, very minor edits by myself)


More of this, and Merto, to come :)


One of our main issues at the moment is the lack of a skilled and experienced coder to help us develop the systems. We're doing very well with everything else, but without the crucial systems it's becoming very difficult to actually make progress with creating the game itself. It's alright making maps and having all these ideas and graphics waiting to be implemented, but we seriously need help in the coding department. We've got a brilliant team working dilligently away - some of the ideas that are surfacing are fantastic! We promise to deliver a perfect Pokémon experience for players - now we just need someone's help in the scripting realms. That is all.

Till next time, thanks :)
The Fangking

the maps look flawless. i just never liked how gsc was so chalk full of trees in its whole region. it looks somewhat tacky in fr/lg, if you know what i mean.

I found Johto to be a fresh, natural and mountainous region. The volume of trees probably corresponds to that, so I don't see it as an issue. It leaves me having to be very careful with use of space however, so that it doesn't look too clumped together, but that's not such a problem as it heightens my own awareness when mapping :)

well i get that, it's just that the trees in FR/LG have so much detail to them that when so many of them are thrown together, it gets overwhelming and heavy on the eyes.

It probably isn't that much different looking at full map shots of Kanto from FRLG to be honest. But I suppose it's fair comment, I can't help that though, it's a remake :P

I think actually playing and walking around the area is the best cure, as you don't have to look at huge clumps of trees as you're limited to a small screen :)

Good to see some update from one of the best games around ^^

I like the remade maps, although I always hated Ecruteak City design... so square, house, square, house...

And if you don't mind me saying, the roof of the building right above the PokeCenter looks weird. I guess it's because I'm used to roofs on pokémon having more visible stripes or something similar, which is not the case (I can see small lines, or am I blind?). Anyway, everything is perfect, and my opinions are just stuff that pop into my head, and I write.

~Azura.

Ecruteak is somewhat square and formulaic, I agree, but not really my fault XD. It works better to walk around these places anyway, I find myself enjoying it :P

The building you refer to does actually have a very intricately patterned roof, the lines are just a bit curved to blend with the contours of the building itself. The centre of the roof has a much more noticeable pattern to it. It's the Dance Hall where the Kimono Girls are.

Cheers for your viewpoints anyway ^_^

Hmm, there good, but your missing some grass patches in Route 36. Either than that, their pretty good.

I cant wait to see more Merto designs. I've yet to see any route screenshots from Merto =P