Ethmya
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Ludonarrative dissonance: "...the conflict between a video game's narrative told through the story and the narrative told through the gameplay."
I planned to wait a while before I posted anything about challenges I want to do but everyone in the past gens subforum is making logs and lets plays, so I'll just jump right in.
The Ludolocke
Currently active players:
Ethmya, as Honest
Zemanahrad, as Jonathan
Disturb Not the Harmony, as Artin
Lrachelr, as Lucy
James and Eevee, as James.
Brewmaster, as Crystal
Rivals:
Honest and Crystal
Jonathan and Artin
Lucy and James
The Ludolocke is an attempt to resolve narrative discrepancies I, and others, experience when playing through the PKMN games. For example, we hear of all these terrible things Team Rocket does in Kanto. Beating a Marowak to death, stealing Pokemon from trainers, desecrating the graves of Pokemon, but we never see it. Whenever we encounter Team Rocket, they're a bunch of goofy, bumbling idiots that just barely function enough to be called a team.
This challenge intends to build a narrative out of the player's experiences, and real, fleshed out characters out of the player's trainers.
General Nuzlocke Rules
These rules are just par for the course. Now we get into the rules specific for this challenge.
Ludolocke Rules
The Actual Narrative.
That's all the rules for the game, but there are a few more narrative requirements I would like you to complete if you'd like to join! I'm going to be writing (and probably drawing some key scenes!) a narrative detailing the experiences of the players, so your trainer will become a character in the story, and you filling this out will help me write them well, realistically, and most importantly, compellingly.
If you decide to enroll, I will randomly choose a starter PKMN (with only PKMN that do not know attacking moves on start, such as Abra, Magikarp, and Ditto being excluded) and write you a character sheet that includes an analysis of your team core, suggested moves, suggested teammates, and a list of important match ups. Of course, these are all only suggestions and you may follow or discard them as you wish.
I've attached an attachment which is a word doc showing what your character sheet would look like, but if you, understandably, don't want to download a file from a random stranger on the Internet, the next post will show you what your sheet would look like, although it will lose some of its formatting.
I'm currently no longer accepting characters for RB, but you may send me a PM if you wish to start at a later game.
I can't wait to see how this goes!
~Ethmya
I planned to wait a while before I posted anything about challenges I want to do but everyone in the past gens subforum is making logs and lets plays, so I'll just jump right in.
The Ludolocke
Currently active players:
Ethmya, as Honest
Lrachelr, as Lucy
James and Eevee, as James.
Brewmaster, as Crystal
Rivals:
Honest and Crystal
Lucy and James
The Ludolocke is an attempt to resolve narrative discrepancies I, and others, experience when playing through the PKMN games. For example, we hear of all these terrible things Team Rocket does in Kanto. Beating a Marowak to death, stealing Pokemon from trainers, desecrating the graves of Pokemon, but we never see it. Whenever we encounter Team Rocket, they're a bunch of goofy, bumbling idiots that just barely function enough to be called a team.
This challenge intends to build a narrative out of the player's experiences, and real, fleshed out characters out of the player's trainers.
General Nuzlocke Rules
- Only may catch the first PKMN in a route, unless the first PKMN is one already caught.
- All faints are dead.
- Challenge is complete once the main story is complete
- The optional post-challenge is complete after the post-game is complete.
- All participants are within the same "canon". We all exist at the same time in the same universe. Ramifications of this include:
"Only One" PKMN may only be owned by one trainer. If multiple trainers want the same only one PKMN, a friendly battle will decide who gets it.
No "Out of Canon" trades. This means players within the challenge may trade with each other and NPCs in game, but not out of the challenge universe.
- 0 Intentional use of 'hard' glitches.
o This can be subjective, but in general I will classify glitches in two different categories.
o ?Soft? glitches, glitches that may be encountered easily during normal play, such as switching a psychic type into another psychic type in gen 1 to stop it from using psychic moves, using hbeam to KO so it doesn?t have to recharge, using Poke Doll on Marowak, etc.
o ?Hard? glitches, glitches that will not be encountered unless you purposefully seek it out, such as the void glitch in DPP, Old Man glitch, Mew glitch, etc
- Before the earliest opportunity to attain Poke balls, you may reset without penalty (for that sweet, sweet exp+early pokedollars) or continue without a game over. If you wipe after pokeballs, you have failed, and may not restart for this current game.
These rules are just par for the course. Now we get into the rules specific for this challenge.
Ludolocke Rules
- Set not shift.
- Until the post-challenge, you cannot box living PKMN. During the post-challenge, you may have up to 6 pkmn in boxes.
- Cannot use items in battle.
- Cannot leave a gym until it is completed or you wipe.
- Your starter is randomly determined.
- Master Ball is banned.
- Every core game (and perhaps some fangames) will be played. You are not required to play every game in every gen, however...
- In each subsequent game you play the son/daughter of your previous character. You may inherit Pokemon from your previous character after you reach the point in the game where all trade pokemon obey. You may inherit 3 PKMN for clearing the main story, and 3 PKMN for clearing the post game. Any PKMN from one game may be inherited to any other in that game's gen or the gen afterwards.
For example, if you catch Mewtwo in RB, you may transfer it to Y, GS, or C, but not to RSE if you sit all of those games out.
- In each subsequent game you play the son/daughter of your previous character. You may inherit Pokemon from your previous character after you reach the point in the game where all trade pokemon obey. You may inherit 3 PKMN for clearing the main story, and 3 PKMN for clearing the post game. Any PKMN from one game may be inherited to any other in that game's gen or the gen afterwards.
- Encounters are reset if you decide to brave the post-game, but if you start it you must finish or fail.
- Shiny clause is not real.
- Hax clause defo isn't real.
The Actual Narrative.
That's all the rules for the game, but there are a few more narrative requirements I would like you to complete if you'd like to join! I'm going to be writing (and probably drawing some key scenes!) a narrative detailing the experiences of the players, so your trainer will become a character in the story, and you filling this out will help me write them well, realistically, and most importantly, compellingly.
- Trainer name
- Trainer age
- Trainer nature
- Backstory (Short, 2 sentences-1 paragraph. Where has your character been, where are they going, and why are they going there?)
- Personality (Short, 2 sentences-1 paragraph. A concise, crash course detailing your character's personality. A list of adjectives is acceptable.
If you decide to enroll, I will randomly choose a starter PKMN (with only PKMN that do not know attacking moves on start, such as Abra, Magikarp, and Ditto being excluded) and write you a character sheet that includes an analysis of your team core, suggested moves, suggested teammates, and a list of important match ups. Of course, these are all only suggestions and you may follow or discard them as you wish.
I've attached an attachment which is a word doc showing what your character sheet would look like, but if you, understandably, don't want to download a file from a random stranger on the Internet, the next post will show you what your sheet would look like, although it will lose some of its formatting.
I'm currently no longer accepting characters for RB, but you may send me a PM if you wish to start at a later game.
I can't wait to see how this goes!
~Ethmya
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