the story is nice, but I suggest you to change the tilesets^^ (if you need some help to do that, I can help you ^^)
Yes, please! I'm renovating the first map of Wichita currently, and that would be amazing to have. Coult you send me some instructions, or help perchance? It would be awesome.
And to the post above...I hate giving out spoilers. Any whatsoever. I'd like to give out a bit more, especially to do with Professor Oak, and how this ties back to the actual series. I'd like to say that there will be a lot of trust being betrayed, and twists that range from slightly easy to see beforehand to completely mindblowing. But I don't like giving stuff away.
I will say that you'll need to pay very, very close attention to little things people in the game will say. The casual stuff. Because it might help you get the jump on the rest of the game.