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Indigo November 14th, 2014 6:10 PM

Pokemon:Hourglass Version (Character Bios Added!)
 
Pokemon: Hourglass Version

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5w4GIqBG0LM/UA_xE-rch4I/AAAAAAAABoI/TaBHIcpsrYE/s640/hourglass-t18856.jpg

Hack Info
Hack Name: Pokemon: Hourglass Version
Rom Base: Pokemon FireRed (USA)
Date started: July 4th, 2014

Story
The story of this game is hard to describe without giving too much information away. You and your older sister have just moved to the Panju Region because you were both invited to a prestigious academy focused on both Intelligence and Pokemon battles.
Prof. Pine, this region's professor, gives you a starter and gives you an extra pokeball, telling you to deliver it to his son at the academy. When you arrive at school, you are met by Team Epoch, an evil team terrorizing the professor's son. Your sister tries to stop them, but she is unfairly beaten by 4 members. You try to stop them from taking the kid, but by the time you get there he has been attacked by a pokemon & passes out. You manage to stop Team Epoch, but they tell you to watch your back because you are now on their priority list.
When back in your home town you and your sister go and visit Prof. Pine who tells you that though his son will be able to go on his adventure he will never be allowed to do it alone. He tells you that both of you will be tasked with a special mission that has to do with unstable Time portals opening up around the region. You two are tasked with finding out what is causing it and how to close them. This mission has more to do with you than you know. You will travel through time to the Ice Age, Prehistoric Era, The Age of Expansion, and more. Maybe you'll even witness the creation of the earth!
But what does Team Epoch have to do with the concept of Time Travel?
Team Epoch's goal is to become gods. With the power of Time Travel, they can change the course of time and effect the future. They are willing to do anything for Time Travel, Even going as far as murder. As our hero it is your job to stop them before it's too late! Stabilize the Time Portals so Team Epoch's evil goals won't be accomplished!

New Features!
Time Travel to different eras
New Music
New Characters
Return of Old Characters (Red,Gold,Ruby,Etc.)
Intelligent Storyline.
New Tiles (Eventually)
New Rivals
Day/Night System
Ancient Pokemon (Pokemon you know and love with diffrent stats, movesets, sprites, and typing)
Expansive Post game
New Region
Well written story (I can't reveal too much!)


Characters!
Spoiler:
Tyrian
http://i.imgur.com/dpTZtDa.png
Tyrian is from the Sinnoh Region. She moved to the huge region of Panju after she was invited to a very prestigious school for aspiring Pokemon Trainers and Researchers. She and her sister Violet, are chosen by Professor Pine to research the mysterious rifts in time that when traveled through lead to different Eras. She is very friendly, but serious and strategic when it comes to battling. Her male counterpart is named Cerise.

Cerise
http://i.imgur.com/6l1LHk4.png
Male Counterpart to Tyrian

Violet
http://i.imgur.com/pjExAHP.png
Violet is, personally, my favorite character. She is the most developed character throughout the hack. (Plus there are details I want to be a surprise). She is the player's older sister who was also chosen to go to the academy in Panju. This was all put to a halt when team Epoch attacked Professor Pine's younger son name Charles. She tried to save him but was inevitably defeated by 4 Grunts. Th grunts were able to land one attack on Charles until the player got there and stopped them. Feeling guilty Violet decides to travel Panju on her own and become stronger so she can defeat team epoch on her own. Along the way she helps the player research the time portals, but this leads to revealing even more about herself.

Walter
http://i.imgur.com/lxnIKRX.png
Walter is the Professor of this region's older son. Walter is the leader of the time travel operation. He likes the main character but dislikes Violet, due to her being unable to stop Team Epoch from injuring his little brother, Charles. The reason for Violet still being in the time travel mission is because Professor Pine still likes Violet, thinking she has "potential" as both a researcher and trainer. During Time Travel missions Walter often stays at the base camp, overseeing all current missions.

Charles
http://i.imgur.com/FO0Texg.png
Charles is Professor Pine's younger son. He is extremely intelligent but sadly due to the ambush by Team Epoch, his father is too scared to let him explore the Panju Region alone. Due to his fear Professor Pine enlists the help of two bodyguards to watch over Charles as he explores the region. Little does Proffesor Pines know, these bodygaurds are extremley strict and let Charles do nothing that they don't approve. So, Often times you run into Charles he's trying to get away from the two and have his own adventure.

Screenshots
http://i.imgur.com/iJQ6uOt.png
The New and Improved Yuki Town!

http://i.imgur.com/U4DfRF1.png
The Lab for this region's Professor, Proffesor Pine.

http://i.imgur.com/bBGhBrB.png
Route 1

http://i.imgur.com/c8PsL1Y.png
Jikan Town!

http://i.imgur.com/1Pc9xOh.png
The Academy in Jikan Town that you and your sister attend!

Videos

The Wild battle music

Yuki Town

Route 1
Progress
Spoiler:
Story-55% it's all planned, but it needs to be finalized.
Scripting-2% We are desperatley in need of a scripter, if you are willing to help please let me know.
Mapping-17% Everything for demo 1 has been mapped.
Music-35% I will soon make a youtube channel, with all of the music!
Sprites-40%


Downloads
We are planning to have Beta 1 out by Febuary 2015. Hopefully earlier if we can find a scripter soon!

THANKS TO THESE AMAZING PEOPLE FOR MAKING THIS POSSIBLE
Spoiler:
SaviorofSinnoh: Creator, Story Writing.
Viscacha: Co-Creator, Mapper, Spriter.
PhazonRuler: Music

Though I wrote and created this hack, these people deserve just as much, if not more credit than I do. Without them, This hack would be nothing more than an idea.


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Nex November 15th, 2014 5:12 AM

http://i.imgur.com/ICDDuIz.png
the door at the left lol is this a test?

esperance November 15th, 2014 6:21 AM

You get to be a bodyguard for the professor's son?
That's certainly an interesting idea...

I can't really tell too much from the screenshots otherwise.

Also, what are "Ancient Pokemon"?

Indigo November 15th, 2014 7:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nex (Post 8498478)
http://i.imgur.com/ICDDuIz.png
the door at the left lol is this a test?

Lol, it's a way for us to test things out in a diffrent city more easily :P. It's basically a portal.

Quote:

Originally Posted by itari (Post 8498514)
You get to be a bodyguard for the professor's son?
That's certainly an interesting idea...

I can't really tell too much from the screenshots otherwise.

Also, what are "Ancient Pokemon"?

Ancient Pokemon are Pokemon you catch when ever you go back in time. These include different stats, move sets,typing,and sprites of Pokemon you know and love.

quiggles November 15th, 2014 7:09 AM

The door on the left is obviously the biggest mystery of the mysterious cave

esperance November 15th, 2014 7:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SaviorOfSinnoh (Post 8498534)
Ancient Pokemon are Pokemon you catch when ever you go back in time. These include different stats, move sets,typing,and sprites of Pokemon you know and love.

Okay, wow. That's actually a really cool idea!
Good luck with the implementation~!

Indigo November 15th, 2014 7:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by itari (Post 8498542)
Okay, wow. That's actually a really cool idea!
Good luck with the implementation~!

Thanks! I'm glad you like it :)

bagelboss14 November 15th, 2014 8:53 AM

What's the starter pokemon?

Indigo November 15th, 2014 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bagelboss14 (Post 8498666)
What's the starter pokemon?

At the moment the usual Squirtle, Charmander, and Bulbasaur are the starters. But, later on we will have a poll for which Ancient Pokemon should be the starter.

Jukai November 15th, 2014 1:17 PM

Hmm.. I'll keep my eye on this.

I cant say much at the moment, (exept TIME TRAVEL. YES.) but I can tell just by looking at the story that this'll be interesting.

Chimchar November 15th, 2014 1:26 PM

Sounds good. I'm very interested in the story but I was wondering if you were planning on using new tiles? That seems to be something everybody likes right now. Well, good luck!

Indigo November 15th, 2014 2:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Infernal Desires (Post 8498920)
Sounds good. I'm very interested in the story but I was wondering if you were planning on using new tiles? That seems to be something everybody likes right now. Well, good luck!

Thanks! I'd love to add new tiles! But, we haven't been able to find anyone willing to make tiles for the game. It'd much appreciated. For the time being we don't have new tiles, but in the future we plan on adding new tiles eventually.

Percy November 15th, 2014 3:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SaviorOfSinnoh (Post 8498978)
Thanks! I'd love to add new tiles! But, we haven't been able to find anyone willing to make tiles for the game. It'd much appreciated. For the time being we don't have new tiles, but in the future we plan on adding new tiles eventually.

Why don't you use a ROM Base?

Indigo November 15th, 2014 3:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlazikenXY (Post 8499021)
Why don't you use a ROM Base?

To be honest, I don't know where to find one that I don't have to ask for permission. And I'd like custom made tiles specifically for the hack :P

Percy November 15th, 2014 3:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SaviorOfSinnoh (Post 8499030)
To be honest, I don't know where to find one that I don't have to ask for permission. And I'd like custom made tiles specifically for the hack :P

Yeah, I like custom tiles, too...

Good luck with the hack! :)

Indigo November 15th, 2014 3:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlazikenXY (Post 8499031)
Yeah, I like custom tiles, too...

Good luck with the hack! :)

Thank you! I hope you guys will enjoy the hack when it's released!

Viscacha November 16th, 2014 9:53 AM

Looking forward to completing this hack and I agree that we need custom tiles because they always look great

Indigo November 16th, 2014 3:01 PM

Videos have been posted :3

PokemonXY November 16th, 2014 4:34 PM

Nice work! I'll bet this is a good hack.

Indigo November 17th, 2014 4:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PokemonXY (Post 8500153)
Nice work! I'll bet this is a good hack.

Thank you! I'll try!!! :D

Indigo November 18th, 2014 6:35 PM

All mapping for alpha 1 is complete! (1st-3rd city)

Percy November 19th, 2014 5:26 AM

So...xD
Will ya release it?

Indigo November 19th, 2014 12:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlazikenXY (Post 8502508)
So...xD
Will ya release it?

It will be released once we have all the scripting done until the first gym. It would go a lot more quickly if we had a scripter who was accessible to help. But until then it could take a while.

Teh Blazer November 19th, 2014 3:40 PM

This is actually a really neat idea, I'm guessing things that you do in the past will have an impact later on in the future when you time travel there?

Also, wouldn't it be beneficial if you learned scripting yourself? Not to put a burden on you or anything, but once you learn scripting then progress can go a lot faster and after awhile it's pretty easy to get a hang of.

Indigo November 19th, 2014 4:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Teh Blazer (Post 8503068)
This is actually a really neat idea, I'm guessing things that you do in the past will have an impact later on in the future when you time travel there?

Also, wouldn't it be beneficial if you learned scripting yourself? Not to put a burden on you or anything, but once you learn scripting then progress can go a lot faster and after awhile it's pretty easy to get a hang of.

I agree with you 100%. But my one issue is that i'm the type of person who learns better from people instead of tutorials. I like learning from people because if I make a mistake that a tutorial has no answer to, I can ask the teacher for help. It sucks :/


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