[Released] Rocket Rising

Play as team rocket will be awesome! I really hope this game will be completed!

Are you guys adding multiple regions and pokemon to this game?

what is code in bill House?

Progress: Summer is here! I have free time again! I'm going to be trying to finish up the Good route quickly, so that the players who chose that path get a satisfying end. And after that hit some of the bugs and half-finished sidequests I've been putting off.
Vermilion is high on the list, since it seems to be just...not working for a lot of people.

Hopefully will have some concrete progress soon.

kiakill said:

Are you guys adding multiple regions and pokemon to this game?

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Ah I wish, but no. This game only has the Kanto region, and the first gen Pokemon that come with it.

calvinsyrus said:

what is code in bill House?

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Man I totally forgot about Bill's House. There's eventually going to be a sidequest there, where he will give you the code.
...I need to come up with the actual sidequest first though.

The Good End is a good ending to you as a Rocket (Like you win, you get promotions,Team Rocket rules the world and all that) or is kinda an alignment ending (like Good as in you're a good person and decided to turn away from Team Rocket,with the Bad ending being the Evil path where you keep being a Rocket through and through?

And will the amount of good and evil deeds you do affect the ending?

I downloaded this game not expecting very much, but I've been so impressed by the experience of playing Rocket Rising that I just had to log into my old PokeCommunity account to say so. The writing here is excellent. The characters are effective and interesting. The quests always keep me on my toes - they might be silly and funny one moment or very serious and somber the next. Furthermore, Rocket Rising ticks one of the most important boxes (for me), which is that I feel rewarded for being curious and exploring the game. I'm even more impressed knowing that you've been working hard since all the way back in 2015!

TLDR: Rocket Rising must easily rank in the top five of all the Pokemon fangames I've played thus far. A+

Progress: I figured out the Vulpix problem! It learns Firespin at 30 uses, not 10 like the skill checker says. It will be fixed to 10 for the update.
Levelled up Magikarp through battles, it definitely learns Bite when evolving now.
Edit: Apparently I forgot to do the stats properly for the regained Pokemon in Goodroute. Fixing it.

megasonidow said:

The Good End is a good ending to you as a Rocket (Like you win, you get promotions,Team Rocket rules the world and all that) or is kinda an alignment ending (like Good as in you're a good person and decided to turn away from Team Rocket,with the Bad ending being the Evil path where you keep being a Rocket through and through?

And will the amount of good and evil deeds you do affect the ending?

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Good End is being a good person. There aren't any sidequests in it, so players who chose that path last update are stuck in a limbo with nothing to do.
Unlike BadGuy end which still has the whole world to do things in.

Edit: Didn't notice that last part!
I guess it would depend what you mean by 'affect the ending'.
No matter how good or evil you've been throughout the game, both options are still available to you. There's no rewards for picking All Evil or All Good. (Besides Giovanni's approval, maybe).

interstellarSpider said:

I downloaded this game not expecting very much, but I've been so impressed by the experience of playing Rocket Rising that I just had to log into my old PokeCommunity account to say so. The writing here is excellent. The characters are effective and interesting. The quests always keep me on my toes - they might be silly and funny one moment or very serious and disquieting the next. Furthermore, Rocket Rising ticks one of the most important boxes (for me), which is that I feel rewarded for being curious and exploring the game. I'm even more impressed knowing that you've been working hard since all the way back in 2015!

TLDR: Rocket Rising must easily rank in the top five of all the Pokemon fangames I've played thus far. A+

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This is such a nice comment, thank you! I know not everyone enjoys poking around in the corners of a game, but I love that kind of thing so I'm glad you liked exploring!

I think I found a bug of sorts. For some reason, I think auto text or something of the sort has been turned onto minimum. The reason I say that is because the wait timers in battles are near automatic and happen in a flash so when I want to run away, I can't without taking damage.

At least it doesn't effect the troublesome two-sum...

Also never bring Hitmonlee to the Gym... He really wants to become a boxer. 100 push ups, 100 sit ups, 100 squats and 10 KM of running every single day.

Progress: Testing out the final fight with Giovanni, and finishing the End credits.
What level was your guy's teams when you finished the League Championships? Balancing is hard.

Also I may have figured out a new game plus. The idea will be that you can go to the casino at the beginning and pick out your team from the start. Get yourself a Dratini right away if you want! All enemies will be a bit tougher as well.
Plus, y'know, make new choices this time around.

Scribesake said:

I think I found a bug of sorts. For some reason, I think auto text or something of the sort has been turned onto minimum. The reason I say that is because the wait timers in battles are near automatic and happen in a flash so when I want to run away, I can't without taking damage.

At least it doesn't effect the troublesome two-sum...

Also never bring Hitmonlee to the Gym... He really wants to become a boxer. 100 push ups, 100 sit ups, 100 squats and 10 KM of running every single day.

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Yeah, wait timers are very quick. Running away will have you take some damage.
I'm not sure if it's different if you use the other battle systems (from Rocket computer).

The troublesome twosome?

Oh right the Gym. I'll check that out. Hitmonlee is turning into HItmonchan now?

SaltRoad said:

Oh right the Gym. I'll check that out. Hitmonlee is turning into HItmonchan now?

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I meant the Daycare, if you put him in, your day care manager steals him and replaces him with Hitmonchan. I'd say that he would be working for the Dojo in my opinion.

Also about the instant timer. It was quite literally instant. It was like if you left it running while you were choosing whether to fight/run you'd have three attacks on you in a few second instead of where you could be quick about and do it without any. I don't know what caused that but I restarted and don't have the save files for that anymore, so don't worry.

Also for a new game+, I am not sure since I haven't played it fully, but I would consider it nice if we can steal the gym badges and then go to the elite four. it is still an option at least in the conversation's if we want to become a pokemon master.

It's looking like the final gameplay will run about... 12 hours. Not sure if the other End will be longer or not, but we'll see.
Edit: Koffing and other Poison type Pkmn can now equip the Black Sludge item.
EDIT2: Looks like NewGamePlus is definitely possible. Running through it to make sure nothing game breaking occurs and you can get all your Pokemon quickly.

Scribesake said:

I meant the Daycare, if you put him in, your day care manager steals him and replaces him with Hitmonchan. I'd say that he would be working for the Dojo in my opinion.

Also about the instant timer. It was quite literally instant. It was like if you left it running while you were choosing whether to fight/run you'd have three attacks on you in a few second instead of where you could be quick about and do it without any. I don't know what caused that but I restarted and don't have the save files for that anymore, so don't worry.

Also for a new game+, I am not sure since I haven't played it fully, but I would consider it nice if we can steal the gym badges and then go to the elite four. it is still an option at least in the conversation's if we want to become a pokemon master.

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Ohh I see. Okay, I'll can just give both Hitmonlee/Hitmonchan a variable, like with any of the other pokemon picked, and that should fix that. Shoulda done that from the beginning really.

Hm, I can probably put the Elite Four in, like ultimate secret optional boss style. I need to tone up the gym leaders a bit as well, they're pushovers right now.

i dont get it how i could finish this lavender town puzzle

Progress: Fixing up stuff as I go along. Skill Checker didn't have all the sprites for mutated forms, or even evolved forms, and was also missing the Cries.
Bike Route is next on my list. Simulating a hill is tricky, so I'm guessing the bugs are because of that.
Apparently Teleport was being targeting enemies, not the user. Whoops.
I'm gonna increase exp a bit for enemies. I had a system, but levelling gets SLOW towards endgame I feel.
Cleaning up Skill Checker to show progress at a glance. Aiming for simple, yet informative, UI's are hard.

Luguno said:

i dont get it how i could finish this lavender town puzzle

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The Haiku/Gravestone puzzle?

what if team rocket crashed a wedding hahaha, but really glad your still on it, I look forward to the two new realities and the polished game.

Progress: Trying to code in an Options menu so that things like Battle Style can be changed more easily.
I am not a programmer.
It's going about as well as you'd expect.

supereffective said:

what if team rocket crashed a wedding hahaha, but really glad your still on it, I look forward to the two new realities and the polished game.

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Actually, that might work out somewhere. Recruit a runaway bride, or run around the wedding and steal all the guest's Pokemon.
No idea where I'd put it, there aren't really... wedding areas in Kanto. But still! I like it!

SaltRoad said:

Actually, that might work out somewhere. Recruit a runaway bride, or run around the wedding and steal all the guest's Pokemon.
No idea where I'd put it, there aren't really... wedding areas in Kanto. But still! I like it!

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Honestly, the only possible place I can think for a wedding would be in Celadon's gym. I was already thinking about something with Erika because she does appear at the Cafe. That being said, I'd think Erika would be the only Gym leader willing to join Team Rocket being that if you were kind and you don't actually set fire to her gym...

do you mind if i record a playthrough of playing this game because team rocket is my favorite evil organization and i would really be happy if i could.

Progress: Mostly just testing stuff, fixing little things here and there. I either broke Achievements, or New Game Plus just doesn't have the ability to do them. Looking into it.

princessprt said:

do you mind if i record a playthrough of playing this game because team rocket is my favorite evil organization and i would really be happy if i could.

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GO FOR IT! If you upload it somewhere, I'll link to it on the first page.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/668mbe1kvpzdddn/RocketRising8.exe/file

Rocket Rising Version 0.8 (We're getting close to a full version!)

Happy first( or second) day of summer.

Includes the ending for the Good Route, as well as a New Game Plus where you transfer all Pokemon you've stolen, letting you repick a whole team at the VERY beginning of the game.
I've tested up to about checkpoint 12-15 with New Game Plus, and I don't predict any problems with it.
(Except for that Redra-Onyx fight maybe?)

No new side content this version, but I'll get to it next time.

As always, let me know of any bugs, and enjoy fighting your Lieutenants.

Wheres a good place to grind, Magikarp needs alot of levels. Also the skill tracker cursor wont move at all now.