News: Pokemon Uranium Ceases Develpment

The fan game Pokémon Uranium has ceased its development.

Read about it here.

It's unfortunate, but I think people saw it coming. I had a sinking suspicion that it wasn't going to get much farther after the downloads were taken down.

Just going to leave a bit of an uninhibited response on the fact that Uranium has picked up development under a new team via https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemonuranium/

The team has already pushed out "unofficial" patches that fixed a ton of bugs with the latest official (and final) patch from the Uranium Team -- and following the Uranium Team's latest announcement have pushed out patch 1.0.2 (The official latest having been 1.0.1) -- They have also returned services like battling and wonder-trade/GTS.

I figured it was common knowledge that Pokemon Uranium wasn't dead yet :p

It's unfortunate but it was bound to go away eventually by all the attention it was getting. oh well.

Darkness said:

Just going to leave a bit of an uninhibited response on the fact that Uranium has picked up development under a new team via https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemonuranium/

The team has already pushed out "unofficial" patches that fixed a ton of bugs with the latest official (and final) patch from the Uranium Team -- and following the Uranium Team's latest announcement have pushed out patch 1.0.2 (The official latest having been 1.0.1) -- They have also returned services like battling and wonder-trade/GTS.

I figured it was common knowledge that Pokemon Uranium wasn't dead yet :p

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I knew about this, and it's nice to see the community is that involved. Didn't mention it, so that ways to directly get the game wouldn't be endorsed.

Still this furthers shows how successful Uranium was. Good to see the community being that active.

What gave it away was the publicity big gaming magazines did, they often referred to it as the game to play while waiting for Pokemon sun and moon I think the publicity was infact the downfall but also a great 1 up for them in terms of their 9 years of hard work!

Sad that it ended up like this. I hope it's not too disheartening for similar teams working on a Fan Game but... I guess it's the risk every developer takes >< the more successful and polished your game, the greater the risk too. :(

This is a cautionary tale about what not to do with a game of this magnitude. In time when other projects get released, they should stick to a low key approach unlike Uranium which had a lot of hype behind it.

Like Icarus, they have flown too close to the sun. It's inevitable with a big fangame project, but nonetheless sad.

Ziko577 said:

This is a cautionary tale about what not to do with a game of this magnitude. In time when other projects get released, they should stick to a low key approach unlike Uranium which had a lot of hype behind it.

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Yes, they did pretty much the same mistake what Mane6 did with MLP Fighting is Magic. I hope the new development team can keep it under the radar.

Slight necropost, but I haven't been on in over a month. Internet at home died, and was using the library time for other things.

Ziko577 said:

This is a cautionary tale about what not to do with a game of this magnitude. In time when other projects get released, they should stick to a low key approach unlike Uranium which had a lot of hype behind it.

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To be fair, I'm not entirely sure it was the Uranium Team's fault that they got all this publicity or even that the gaming journals noticed them. Yes, they released a really well-polished fan game, and they deserve all the attention they got.


But they also released during the launch window for Pokémon GO. They released when Game Freak was dropping the first bombshells about what makes Sun and Moon different from any other Pokémon game. They released when Pokémon hype was the highest it's been since the late '90s.


Gaming journals tried to cash in on the Pokémon hype train any way they could - and lo and behold, Uranium comes out and appears to be one of the best fangames out there in terms of polish. Suddenly we had gaming journals reporting on how you could play a new Pokémon game on your computer.




TL;DR - If you think your game is going to be noticed at all, do not release between now and about February. You'll be unintentionally riding Sun and Moon's waves the way Uranium rode GO's.

Rot8er_ConeX said:

To be fair, I'm not entirely sure it was the Uranium Team's fault that they got all this publicity or even that the gaming journals noticed them. Yes, they released a really well-polished fan game, and they deserve all the attention they got.GO's.

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I'm gonna guess you either haven't played Uranium, or just have an insanely low bar for a "high level of polish".