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[Completed] Pokèmon Minimal

drunkownage

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    [PokeCommunity.com] Pokèmon Minimal
    Description:
    Pokèmon Minimal is a rogue-lite Pokèmon game. This game is designed to be fast paced and all about battling. Your goal is to rebuild a town by battling through hordes of trainers and gym leaders on your adventures to fight the Elite Four. Each adventure is akin to Mt. Battle but it's not 100 trainers.

    There of course is a catch. Lose one battle and it's back to the start with you and if a Pokèmon faints it's fainted for good! There is no grinding on your adventure, it is a simple flow of encountering a wild Pokèmon and getting into a battle. Rinse and Repeat that till you find yourself in front of the Elite Four!

    The Pokèmon in this game were all completely rebalanced. Now that's a monumental task that would have taken an extraordinary amount of time. So instead I spend twice that time writing an AI to rebalance all of the Pokèmon. This of course has led to some completely silly things which you will get to explore on your adventures.

    Pokèmon Minimal has 4 different game modes for you to discover, all of which can be completed in single or double battles. 85 unique passive items to help you on your various runs. 13 upgradeable buildings that will help you on your future adventures. Around 12,000 different trainers for you to battle which ensures that every run will be different from the last. About 300 different gym battles to partake in with you getting the choice in what gyms you fight and what order you fight them in!

    If you wish to read more about any of this here is the Guide Book. This Guide Book contains the most important details about the game's inner-workings. Warning of course there are spoilers in it if you wish to explore on your own.

    Core Mechanical Changes:
    • No Exp is ever awarded.
    • Instead the player is only able to level up by use of rare candies.
    • Hard level caps are enforced and as the player progresses that level cap increases.
    • ALL Pokèmon Evolve at a set rate.
    • 3 Stage Pokèmon evolve at 30 and 55
    • 2 Stage Pokèmon evolve at 41
    • 1 Stage Pokèmon are very powerful and will be uncatchable till late game.
    • There are no EV's
    • Some moves have been changed to help the AI. Ex: Leaf storm type moves have been changed to recoil (but still work with contrary)
    • Pokemon are fully healed after every battle but if a Pokèmon n faints it faints for good.
    • All battles take place in set mode.
    • Pokèmon can learn any TM.
    • Shiny Pokèmon are more common and get a 10% buff to all stats.

    Core Game-play Loop:
    Starting your adventure you will be given rare candies and Pokèmon.
    You are offered 3 of 18 (one for each type) starting Pokèmon.
    Behind those Pokèmon are 3 randomly selected gyms.
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    After choosing your starter you will head into that gym where you will encounter your first route.

    There are 58 routes you must Conquer on your way to the Elite 4!

    Each route has a wild encounter. That encounter is more likely to be a Pokèmon that is useful against the gym you are going towards..

    In addition the route has a trainer battle against Professor Oak. There are 100 different possible trainers that you can face on any given route.

    After beating that trainer you move on to the next route till you make it to a gym.

    The gyms occur after specific routes a list of them is provided below.

    Gym 1 after route 10
    Gym 2 after route 20
    Gym 3 after route 28
    Gym 4 after route 36
    Gym 5 after route 42
    Gym 6 after route 48
    Gym 7 after route 52
    Gym 8 after route 56
    Elite 4 after route 58

    What is on a Route?
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    Required Trainer: This trainer you must battle to make it to the next route
    Encounter: This is the wild Pokèmon you will encounter on each route.
    Save Tile: These are the only spots you can save your game by walking on it. (Saving is only for when you want to quit and come back. You cannot use it to cheese fights).
    Item Shop: This takes you to the item shop when you step on it.
    Move Relearner: Pokemon can relearn any moves they learned. He is free by the way!
    PC: It's a PC!
    Secret Rocks: Gotta play to find out I guess.

    Download Link:
    Pokèmon Minimal Final v1

    Speed Up:
    The speed up function is by default it bound to "Q" but if you hit F1 you will bring up the key bindings here you can find the key binding for speed up and change it to whatever you would like.
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    This project has come so far from where it once was and I am so very happy with where it has ended. I will not be updating it further unless there is some game breaking bug that I missed in my play testing which is quite possible.

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