Love the fakemon and the main char looks cool....
Why thank you! I think he looks very cool, too.
Update time, boys and girls! Life has been hell for me this past month or so, and everyone has been busy with end-of-the-semester nonsense... but we persevere!
After what seems like a dozen drafts, I think we finally settled on our region map. For reals, this time! Here it is without labels, as it will appear in-game...
And here it is with labels, to show you guys what is what. Madripoor City is likely going to get a name change, I just needed something that vaguely sounded humid and didn't feel like being clever. Props to anyone who guesses where I got the name from, though.
Three cheers for NikNaks!
You start in Nozori, go down and visit Bistre, then you go up into Cedar Forest, Naetle City and then to Cobalt. You pass through the Treno Mountains and spelunk into the Nibel Ruins on the long trek to Fortuna City. You get to visit the island city of Mardesol, and then return to Fortuna for a brief stay. From there you go south and visit Curia City, the capital of the Kutoh region. Heading further south you'll reach Madripoor City, which is the last city you'll visit. After that, everything comes full circle and you wind up where it all began: Nozori City... after passing through an all new, all different Cedar Forest, of course...
The smaller, nameless towns may or may not stay; I'm trying to think of some more clever landmarks to replace them. I was actually going to avoid the Pokemon cliche of "small useless towns without a gym" and just stick to eight big cities, but certain routes ended up being too long (particularly the one between Treno Mountain and Fortuna City) and needed some filler to break it up. And for those worried that it's just going to be a straight loop the whole way through, never fear; there will be little side areas that can be explored if you wander off the intended path, such as a deep cave within the mountain on the other side of the lake near Fortuna City.
And from the brilliant mind of artist extroadinaire defno, here are two amazing Psychic type Fakemon. The left is the baby form, and to the right is it's evolution.
Going from pencils to pixels, here's some more progress made on the Fakemon front. Some of them may be designs you recognize from previous updates, others maybe not.
Last, but certainly not least, I am pleased to unviel the female protagonist trainer. Well, her front sprite anyways!
We chose to give her bright colors, such as the bright orange shirt and the blonde hair, in order to emphasize heroism. The retail Pokemon games tend to have dark haired female trainers, too, and that kind of bugs me for some reason. I really like how she turned out. If you squint hard enough, too, you'll note that she's wearing a whistle on a necklace. If you play as the female trainer, that may just come into play somehow!
Anyways, I hope you guys haven't forgotten us. We're working on what will hopefully be the final draft of Nozori City and maybe sometime soon we might get a short little video as a proof of progress. We'd certainly have that now if we weren't sticklers for quality; we've tossed out all of our half-assed work. Sometime soon I'm gonna get a blog organized, too, in case anyone digs those... it'll mostly be for organizational purposes (ie; keep me from losing track of stuff), but whatev'.