Haha nah I'm only joking, as if I would ever abandon this after all these years.
Why the long wait between annoucements? Well, as you know, MoT used to be based on FireRed back in the day. After restarting the project, rewriting storylines, improving tiles & sprites and porting everything to a fresh ROM, I then released something new in 2017. Later I decided to switch to Emerald, and porting everything all over again took a long time. During these periods I was always trying to further improve my tileset and sprite work, so was forever retouching things. After I was finished with all that I decided to switch
yet again to decompiled Emerald, which took even more time to learn how to use and get comfortable with. Between all that, real life was constantly getting in the way, but I was still hard at work behind the scenes all the time, and now we're here! I can promise now that there will be no more big changes like this, and no more multiple year breaks where you don't hear anything from me on here (I hope)!
I initially closed the thread because I didn't really have any updates to show, and then I... actually kind of forgot it was closed. Oops. Also, earlier this year
mgriffin joined the party, so it is no longer a solo effort for me. You will have him to thank for programming some of the crazier, more elaborate features!
The release we are working towards will contain the following playable trainer classes:
- Trainer (no chosen Career/class, or "the default")
- Rogue
- Researcher
- Ranger
Any other Career choices that were included in previous versions of the hack haven't been scrapped, I'm simply going to focus on the four included choices for now in order to make steady progress. Other Careers will be included as "expansions" later.
I'd like to thank everyone who kept in touch while the thread was closed for their support over the years. You've been awesome!