Pokémon Amethyst

Wichu said:

Teaser screenshot:

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Wow, Wichu! Beautiful new screenshot! I like how you use new, floral, elegant tiles, and manage to crowd them in there.
Good luck with Pokémon Amethyst, Wichu! It's progressing well. :]

Oh, one thing that could be fixed are the two plants in front of the Pokémon Center.
They look somewhat 2-dimensional, and they are quite bright for the type of style you are using.

Looks great Wichu. Thanks for teasing. It worked lol.
Show off more man!

Wichu Great screen, I like the tiles you used.
Is it you who sprited those, or is it somebody else ?

Edit: I think the 2 plants infront of the pokecenter look great.
It makes it look abit normal instead of the same colour over and over again.
Maybe shade it abit better, but I like it this way.

Everything looks great, the only thing that sort of bothers me is how far apart the Heroine's eyes are apart. I don't know what you could do to change that though, I know how moving 1 pixel ruins the whole thing XD;;

Aside from that minor detail, I love everything :3 I see you finally got around to 'redoing the houses' of that town lool.

Hey i can't wait till your done on this game i can't wait to try it out=) looks so amazing i wish i had the spirts and tile to make something like this

Awsome screen! can't wait to play!

Infernal Contraption said:

Oh, one thing that could be fixed are the two plants in front of the Pokémon Center.
They look somewhat 2-dimensional, and they are quite bright for the type of style you are using.

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Thanks for noticing, I'll work on it.

Vampire://Krimm said:

Everything looks great, the only thing that sort of bothers me is how far apart the Heroine's eyes are apart. I don't know what you could do to change that though, I know how moving 1 pixel ruins the whole thing XD;;

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That's true. I don't suppose you'd want it like this?

Of course, I'm joking :P
But it's hard trying to get it to look good without copying D/P exactly. If you take a look at some Sugimori art of a trainer, then the eyes are pretty far apart. I think I got it pretty close.

Anyway, I've created a development forum for Amethyst; if anyone wants to help out, have a look! Anyone already on the team (i.e. in the first post), PM me here once you register, and I'll give you access to the staff forum.

If only i had the Scripting/Spriting abilities that you have.(aawwwwwwwa)

This looks great so far mate, voted 5 star ;) only thing I can really fault you on is the fakemon, there is only one I like. But I'm fussy like that :P

i want have a demo from this hack!!!!

stop playing around!
You know that this is a fangame made with RMXP!!

Hahahaha.
I was about to reply with my thoughts on the characterset eyes "issue", but then noticed one of the tags for this thread is "awesomeness" lol.
Got distracted lol.

Neo-Dragon said:

Hahahaha.
I was about to reply with my thoughts on the characterset eyes "issue", but then noticed one of the tags for this thread is "awesomeness" lol.
Got distracted lol.

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That wasn't me... really. What were you going to say about it?

Oh, and I've been playing Ranger recently. If you think the eyes look too far apart in Amethyst, don't play Ranger :P

Yeah but, They are pretty far apart. and in pokemon ranger since they are so
tall it looks almost normal.
but for some one that small, It looks wierd

Wichu said:

That wasn't me... really. What were you going to say about it?

Oh, and I've been playing Ranger recently. If you think the eyes look too far apart in Amethyst, don't play Ranger :P

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Yeah, Ranger's cool.

I was going to say something like:

I don't really mind how far the eyes are apart. You have a different look for your game, which I love. It makes it stand out. So I would actually be FOR using the wider eye gap (hey, its the little things that matter). The only thing that would be worrying would be you would have to re-do every NPC sprite too so that it fits.

That's why I'm trying to recruit some OW spriters to help out. One thing I noticed is that nearly all Pokémon fangames, even if the rest of the graphics are custom, use OWs from an existing game. Even Kyledove's MMORPG, despite otherwise being completely custom, uses D/P style OWs. I thought I should change that.

Wichu said:

That's why I'm trying to recruit some OW spriters to help out. One thing I noticed is that nearly all Pokémon fangames, even if the rest of the graphics are custom, use OWs from an existing game. Even Kyledove's MMORPG, despite otherwise being completely custom, uses D/P style OWs. I thought I should change that.

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Actually, Kyledove's are custom, if you look at the sprites in comparison to the D/P ones there are clear difference between the two.

I think there's always got to be a style of graphics for a fangame, but they are definitely custom.

Same with the new sprites for Odyssey.

Wichu said:

That's why I'm trying to recruit some OW spriters to help out. One thing I noticed is that nearly all Pokémon fangames, even if the rest of the graphics are custom, use OWs from an existing game. Even Kyledove's MMORPG, despite otherwise being completely custom, uses D/P style OWs. I thought I should change that.

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It's just the hassle of it all ya know. Edits are common, but scratch overworld (in terms of style I mean) has never really been done (I remember seeing a game about a year ago that has a new style, but noone ever got past making a hero sprite)

Phew...(After hours of reading from the beginning)

Wow, It's excelent! And I've a question:
1. Could I change the screen size bigger? Because it's too small for me (I played Scarlet). The size is same, right?

Amethyst uses DS resolution, while Scarlet uses GBA resolution, so it will be slightly bigger.
But there will be an option to increase the screen size; it was in Scarlet as well, but I'll make it clearer in Amethyst.