Pokemon Pacific Blue

THE INT'L ASSOCIATION OF POKEMON LEAGUES PRESENTS



Introduction
Pokemon Pacific Blue is the first in an upcoming series of open source Pokemon fan games based on locations around the world, created by the International Association of Pokemon Leagues (the IAPL for short). While the game will use Iron Python for most of its code, the engine itself is programmed in C# and uses XNA for the graphics subsystem, as well as several custom written libraries for moves, pokemon, etc, so in reality, this is really two projects- an open source game engine in C#, XNA and Iron Python (as well as a mapeditor for the engine, which will be released as a seperate open source project) that anybody can contribute to and benefit from, and an open source game to show it off.

Edit 2/4/2011- Linux/Mac support will be coming at a later date, via the FourStarMon engine! This engine is programmed in C/C++ and uses OpenGL for graphics. Stay tuned for more info~!

Also, we have too much art/sprites to put in this thread! Please refer to the website (listed down below) for updated sprites/artwork.

Storyline

So, what will make this game fun/interesting?
*online trading/battling system via p2p- no servers required!*
*Capture Lugia and Deoxys, the regional legendaries!*
*an area the size of Kanto and Johto to look around and exlpore*
*Time, date and weather based events*
*Little Bro/Sis will help you in times of trouble, battle you in your free time, and give you items from mom!*
*Chadwick, your rival, will make you rage- possibly even more than Gary*
*Hard mode Elite Four- these aren't your grandpas Elite Four! In Pacific, they are true masters, with pokemon up to lvl.92, holding items such as Leftovers, and Amulet Coin*

Screenshots
Unfortunately, as of right now, we don't have any, and we may not have any for a while. That is because screenshots this early in the process will skew peoples expectations of what the game will look like- and trust me, it looks very, very ugly right now :p

Seriously!? Do you at least have some art?


Wait, you have sprites too right?


Okay, so you have art. Any maps?


So, when can we expect this to come out?
We are working on releasing a private alpha version in spring 2011, to coincide with Pokemon Black and White. Currently, there is no timeframe for a final version.

Is there any way I can help?
Yes! We badly need people who can-


Sprite and do concept art
Create Music
Program in C#, and know how to use XNA
Program in C or C++, and know how to implement OpenGL


Don't worry though, if you can't do any of those things well, you can help out with script writing (for Pacific or other regions if you wish), you can help out with the wiki... there are many, many ways you can help out!

Cool, where do I sign up?

http://pokeleagues.org - Main Site
http://wiki.pokeleagues.org - Wiki
https://iaplengine.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/iaplengine iaplengine - Engine source code (released under GPLv2)
irc.irzon.net #iapl - IRC channel

Credits
Storyline/Script
Fremont
bigplrbear
Muge
Para
Lyras_marill
deoxys454
swampert
Cool Trainer Bro
Charmilio

Programming (C# engine)
Shiny_Jirachi
Darkkal
Ency
Minute (has since dropped out)
bigplrbear (now contributes code to the C/C++ engine)

[FONT = "Arial"[SIZE = "4"]Programming (C/C++ engine)[/SIZE][/FONT]
bigplrbear
Dragonaire
Darkzard


Fan/Official Art
Muge
Leader Bolton (dropped out)
Cire
Addy (dropped out)
Mara
Myraddin
Doggie

[font = "arial"]Spriting[/font]
Soaring
Aus_Pokeguy

(if I missed you, please let me know!)

Music/Sound
Averdak
Tortiss
Darkkal

Support
Anonymousse
Zeta_Kaguya (Zeta_Dimentio here on PC)
ChingLing
Wis
XpCynic
Freepisto

[FONT="Arial][size="4"]PROGRESS AS OF 2/4/2011[/size][/font]
Spriting - 10%
Code (C#) - 5%
Code (C/C++) - 2%
Script (Pacific) - 60%

I will update the credits/information as move along in the project. Stay tuned :]
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