Pokémon: Chaos Origins (Open World) [Recruiting Spriters and Composer for Pokémon cries]

[UnOvA7]

Introduction
Hey guys, I had a lot of fun creating my last game Chaos in Vesita and even before finishing I already had many ideas for this project.
Inspired by Pokémon Scarlet and Violet I had the desire to create an open world Pokémon game myself. A game where the players themselves decide how to take on their adventures. Gyms, story events, rival battles can be challenged in any order you want.

Plot Summary
Dangerous, alien-like creatures emerged from a mysterious portal deep within Redstone Canyon located in the historic Tamterra Region,
infecting innocent Pokémon with a virus, turning them incredibly vile and hostile.
Many scientists and powerful trainers joined forces to combat the new found virus Pokémon and beasts.
But only one person dared to enter the portal trying to find the origin of the chaos.
It was your father.

15 years later, he still hasn't returned, but your mother continues to believe he will.
She founded an organization called the Canyon Operation
which focuses on researching the virus Pokémon and protecting the citizens of the region,
in hopes it will help him come back again someday.

Now that the Redstone Academy has trained you enough to face the virus beasts,
you are finally allowed to travel through the Tamterra region with your very own Pokémon, alongside your closest friends.

Explore a region more or less struggling to adapt to the uncontrollable dangers threatening it - and uncover the origin behind the chaos!

Gameplay
With 13 different biomes the Tamterra Region has something for everyone.
With the addition of HM Items, traveling through the region will be a breeze.
They are rarely required to progress and mostly serve as an obstacle for countless useful items.

There will be eight gyms and six Canyon Operation Bases (C.O.B.) to defeat before entering the league and Redstone Canyon.
You can decide for yourself in which order you want to challenge them,
since you are allowed to go everywhere since the beginning of the game.
Every place is worth exploring, because every place is story relevant.

Zones are divided into different colors defining their difficulty level,
so you can decide what kind of challenge you want to do next.
However important battles are always scaled to your level to offer the best battle experience.

Screenshots

Planned Features

Floranny / Blazel / Serchor

+New starter Fakemon
+New huge open world like region to explore
+Exciting main and post game
+Pokémon from Gen 1-9
+New Virus-type Pokémon and forms
+New legendary Fakemon
+Updated UI
+Speed Up
+HM Items
+EXP All since beginning
+Check Encounters
+Level Scaling at times
+Quest System
+Advanced Town Map
+Berry Pots
+Healing stops and shops on most routes

How can you help?
This game sounds very ambitious at first but with the help of an amazing team I'm sure we will get there faster.
I have concepts done already but need people to finalize them and bring them to life/some fitting touches.

Therefore we need:
+A spriter for Trainer Sprites/OW Sprites
+Sound artist for Pokémon cries

Of course were going to help each other out so no one has to do things alone :)
Our team right now
-Kyatra (spriting/artworks)
-arandomperson (artworks)
-Chappie (organizer)
-Melahi (artworks)
-Jbsundown (scripting)
-Kay (playtesting)
-pizzatacoburger (playtesting)
-reintendo (playtesting)
-UnOvA (mapping/eventing/spriting/writing)

Essentials
+Working with Essentials V.21.1
+RPG Maker XP


Interested?
Please send me a DM with maybe something to show what amazing things youre capable of or contact me on this Discord Channel
This is a passion project only! You will not be payed being a part of this project.

Have a look at the main thread right here: Pokémon: Chaos Origins

 

[Nanulak]

Introduction

Hey guys, I had a lot of fun creating my last game Chaos in Vesita and even before finishing I already had many ideas for this project.
Inspired by Pokémon Scarlet and Violet I had the desire to create an open world Pokémon game myself. A game where the players themselves decide how to take on their adventures. Gyms, story events, rival battles can be challenged in any order you want.

Plot Summary

The gigantic Tamterra region offers you a diverse selection of biomes that can be explored the way you want. 10 in total.
Starting in the capital Genesis City you proudly receive your first Pokémon as a student at the Redstone Academy. A place where you spent a lot of time preparing for the wild vastness of Tamterra meeting your friends Mona, Aiden, Runa and Fred. Each a personality of its own...
You are tasked to travel the region and get as strong and knowing as possible to eventually beat the elite four so you can make your way into the
Redstone Canyon.

A place where danger awaits around every corner. Only the most experienced trainers and scientist are allowed to go in there to find a reason for the strange behavior many Pokémon show in the area. Pokémon infected act very violent and uncontrolable. The smart heads formed an organization that has its bases all around the region where infected Pokémon are being studied... Sooner or later your mother will greet you as the head of the so called Canyon Operation.
The virus has been spreading quickly and the Canyon Operation wants to stop it with any means. They're methods are somewhat questionable but nothing to worry about... yet.

I planned to give every more or less important character a little role in the environment for world building. So we have a rich snobby gym leader who lives by the beach and off moms and dads pocket money, a farmer whos Pokémon help him everyday on the field, or an astronaut who will take you to space in the post game. Gym leaders are busy, you might never meet them in the gym the first time you enter a town.
Visiting every C.O.B. (Canyon Operation Base) is very important. You will learn a lot about the virus and how it reacts with certain Pokémon-types. In each C.O.B. are only virus-Pokémon found to battle. After defeating the head of the base you will receive extra badges! Five in total, required to enter the league.

Together with your friends you find your way around the region to challenge gyms and C.O.Bs to qualify for the Tamterran League. Find your way into the Canyon and stop the virus-Pokémon and find its origin!

Gameplay

The Tamterra region (map not final)

Some screenshots from the game so far. some tiles seem to be missing but they are just in 4th (event) layer

Genesis Suburbs (Home to the player and friends)

Genesis City - Harmonia Gardens (view of the Redstone Academy and trainer school)

Ingame shots of Harmonia Gardens (one of seven districts)


Challenge every gym leader, COB or trainer in every order you like! The levels will be scaled and the teams of important characters will be adjusted/getting stronger every two badges.

Pokémon can be encountered in the OW as well as in tall grass (if possible). Like in Paldea there will be Ace trainers on each route that will only challenge you once youve defeated every other trainer.

There is a subway in the capital because it has seven districts which are very huge. I plan on adding a train system throughout the whole region too so you can get to other places faster in early game (Genesis City-Rockshore City-Goldvein City-Glimmerice City)

HM items will be obtainable in the main game but can only be used to reach certain items or areas. They are not required for progressing the story. You can walk through the whole region and get everyhwere you want. However once youve reached post league content you will need all inside the canyon so dont pass it up!

The new Virus-type has next to no weaknesses and is hard to beat!

The game will feature Fakemon as starters and legendary. Regional forms from a handpicked Pokedex (from gen 1-9) including new custom megas.





Planned Features

+Completely new open world region explorable in any order you like
+Updated UI
+Pokémon from gen 1-9
+New regional forms
+Custom Megas
+New type (Virus-type)
+New Fakemon starter
+New Fakemon Legendary
+OW encounters
+EXP All
+Quest system
+Different dimensions
+A darker turn a typical Pokémon story
+Story-heavy post game
+Possibly Crafting System
+Multiple Healing stops and stores on each route

How can you help?

This game sounds very ambitious at first but with the help of an amazing team Im sure we will get there faster.
I have concepts done already but need people to finalize them and bring them to life/some fitting touches.
Therefore I need:

+A spriter for Fakemon and Battle Sprites/OW Sprites
+An artist for character and Fakemon artworks, UI and title screen would be cool too
+A writer to help me finalize and adjust the story
+A Balancer would be very much needed
+Beta Tester

Of course were going to help each other out so no one has to do things alone :)

Essentials

+Working with Essentials V.20 and BW tilesets mainly by UltimoSpriter and many other artists (which I have credit for)
+RPG Maker XP

As I said the concepts are mostly all done and I need your help to finalize and make it better than ever! :D

Interested?

Please send me a DM with maybe something to show what amazing things youre capable of or contact me on this Discord Channel

This is a passion project only! You will not be payed being a part of this project.

I don't have Discord, so I can only help here, but sounds very interesting! I have a nack for thinking up ideas and other things, except for Pokémon, most of the time. I can say that you're doing better than me with the game, and I'm happy for you! How can I help? I'd love to!

 

[UnOvA7]

I don't have Discord, so I can only help here, but sounds very interesting! I have a nack for thinking up ideas and other things, except for Pokémon, most of the time. I can say that you're doing better than me with the game, and I'm happy for you! How can I help? I'd love to!

Hey thanks for your interest! I could use someone whos good with coming up with ideas for side quests or puzzles. Since its open world you can be quite creative as the world also offers diverse areas

 

[Nanulak]

Hey thanks for your interest! I could use someone whos good with coming up with ideas for side quests or puzzles. Since its open world you can be quite creative as the world also offers diverse areas

I'd be willing to help with that! Maybe some that open businesses or whatever, like the ones in Legends Arceus that open up new camps

 

[Nanulak]

Oh, yeah, I should probably have told you this first, but I don't have any expertise in technical stuff. Sorry! Is that still fine?

 

[UnOvA7]

Heres a little something Ive been working on. Just basic drawings of the starter Pokémon. I have the pleasure of @PokefanKIV working by my side willing to turn them into pixelart. (I hope it works for you now buddy)

Spoiler: Starters

 

[Nanulak]

Heres a little something Ive been working on. Just basic drawings of the starter Pokémon. I have the pleasure of @PokefanKIV working by my side willing to turn them into pixelart. (I hope it works for you now buddy)

Spoiler: Starters

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It'll be a bit hard, as this is on paper and has no colors, but I'll try my best!

 

[Nanulak]

How's this? I made the Grass rabbit Pokémon

Spoiler: Grass rabbit Pokémon

Is there anything with the color palette you'd like me to change?

 

[UnOvA7]

Hey guys little update. Team has grown a lot <3

-Delta (Writing, Balancing, Testing)
-ChaoticEnergy (Writing)
-Jbsundown (Scripting)
-LuckyMaster (Trainer Sprites, Character OW Sprites)
-pizzataco890 (Testing)
-PokefanKIV (Spriting, concept arts)
-Kyatra (Spriting, concept arts)
-Alberto (Character concept artist)

Some more artworks and sprites we (Kyatra) have done already!

The grass starter Floranny

The fire starter Blazel

The water starter Serchor

The players mom is one of many professors living in Tamterra but she's the only one greeting us in the intro

 

[Patricipa]

Oho~, wieso erfahre ich davon erst jetzt? >_<

Also echt! Ich gebe dir gerne weitere Inspiration oder helfe bei der Geschichte mit bzw. erläutere die sozial-psychologische Seite.^^

 

[UnOvA7]

Bumpin' that!

Screenshots won't load for me right now. I will update them later again.

We're still looking for someone who would do overworld sprites for Pokémon and NPC's, as well as Battle sprites for NPC's.

Someone who could do artworks for the game such as backdrops, logos and ingame character artworks is also welcomed! :D

 

[UnOvA7]

Hello guys, time for another bump! Updated the OP with new screenshots and graphics. We are still looking for:

+A spriter for Trainer Sprites/OW Sprites
+An artist for custom UI, title screen and background/landscape scenes
+A Balancer would be very much needed
+Sound artist for Pokémon cries

 

[UnOvA7]

Hey, guys! Thanks so much for Chappie joining us, being a driving force in management! For now we could desperately need a few spriters to keep our project going

 

[UnOvA7]

Hello community! Back with another update! Our amazing project is finalizing the last few steps before our first demo release this summer. For a more entertaining gaming experience our team is still looking for new talented people!

+We would still need someone who is able to do Overworld Sprites for humans and Pokémon in Gen5 style.
+Someone who is able to create Pokémon cries for Fakemon that are easily implementable.

When you're interested please join our Discord or send me a direct message so we can discuss things further :))