[Released] Pokémon: Dregs Demo version 1.0 is released!

[grit3694]

I've seen a bunch of people wanting to do Trashlockes of various games, so I figured I would make a game that can ONLY be played as one! And now, after almost a year of development time, we have our first official demo!

That's right: all the terrible, useless Pokémon that we've come to hate and disregard, all in one place. In this game, the only Pokémon available to you will have a base stat total of 475 or less (some exceptions may apply). Only a few have had their stats changed, mainly to incorporate some Dragon-type Pokémon and a couple fan-favorite worst of the worst. Taking place in a brand new area called the Detritus region, you set off on a novel adventure that is full of "fun" and "excitement" the likes of which you've never experienced! And hopefully never will again!

But be careful...Some people aren't too happy with their terrible native Pokémon; they might want to import some from different regions in order to take control of the Detritus region and exterminate all the crap, including your team!

Can you assemble a party to be the best of the worst in the Detritus region? Are you able to utilize all those that have been cast aside and neglected? And will you be able to harness the power of friendship to overcome the sheer statistical power of Team Supreme? Good luck!

Download link

Some screenshots are included below!

Features include:

Spoiler:

- Everyone's favorite trio, the Elemental Monkeys, as the starters!
- Movesets and stats from Gen 7!
- No HMs other than Surf are required to progress through the game, so no HM slaves (I figured that your party will be handicapped enough without having one be even more useless). However, hidden goodies can be found using HMs in some places!
- Tough Gym Leaders that use a team of 6 Pokémon, having their main type mixed with a variety of secondary types!
- Brand new map of the Detritus region, made from scratch!
- Team Supreme, a group of tryhards that want to exterminate all the terrible local Pokémon and replace them with meta ones! They almost all have teams of 3 with competitive movesets, stats, items, and abilities, along with a heightened AI to make for an incredibly challenging adventure!
- Two of the worst Legendary Pokémon can be found in the Detritus region, can you guess what they might be?
- A (hopefully) compelling story that makes you question whether or not some Pokémon are born bad, or if you've only been conditioned to believe so...
- An expansive postgame with two types of Battle Towers!
- Jokes galore!

This game is a work in progress, so please take note of any bugs, glitches, or balancing issues that you may find and let us know by PM or by joining our Discord server: https://discord.gg/vSSrCeF6mz

IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED TO TRY A NUZLOCKE FOR THIS GAME. TRY IT AT YOUR OWN RISK.

The Team includes:
- Myself (Grit3694) - Director, writer
- Ardeghno - Spriter, artist
- Hystrucgon - Spriter, artist
- Karthi - Developer
- Retekcorp - Developer

Credits:

Spoiler:

Pokémon Essentials was created by:
Flameguru
Poccil (Peter O.)
Maruno

With contributions from:
AvatarMonkeyKirby
Marin
Boushy
MiDas Mike
Brother1440
Near Fantastica
FL.
PinkMan
Genzai Kawakami
Popper
help-14
Rataime
IceGod64
SoundSpawn
Jacob O. Wobbrock
the__end
KitsuneKouta
Venom12
Lisa Anthony
Wachunga
Luka S.J.
and everyone else who helped out

Music:
Kirby Air Ride:
HAL Laboratory
Nintendo
Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire:
Game Freak

Resources:
Direction Boards:
Marin

Gender Selection:
Nickalooose

Nuzlocke Permadeath:
NettoHikari

Seagallop (boat "cutscene"):
Mr. Gela

Improved Pokécenters:
mej71

FRLG UI/Menu Pack:
Marin
SilentGamer64
parkedhampster

Gen 6,7 Sprites:
The Smogon XY Sprite Project
The Smogon Sun/Moon Sprite Project

Gen 6,7 Advanced Icons:
PSI Master

Pokémon Emerald Outside Tileset:
Leilou
Heartless Dragoon

Pokémon SM/USUM Characters and Trainers OW Sprites in Gen 3 Style:
Droid779

Gen 4 and Gen 5 Trainers in Gen 3 OW style:
Young-Dante
Mashirosakura

Character Customization Resources (Gen 4):
Coffee Cup

Trainer Battle Sprites:
Kyle-Dove(Deviantart)

Various 3rd Gen Style Overworld Sprites:
Young-Dante(Deviantart)

Pokémon Cries & FRLG Music:
Random Talking Bush

BW Shout Message Effect:
Boonzeet

Deo's Custom Day & Night Tones:
Deo

Efficient Water Puddle Animations:
Boonzeet

FRLG Party Screen:
Seyuna
Golisopod User

FRLG Summary Screen:
Seyuna

Nuzlocke Permadeath:
NettoHikari

Carmaniac's Speech Bubbles:
Carmaniac
Avery
Boonzeet

Scripting Utilities:
Luka S.J.

Fancy Badges:
Luka S.J.

Modular Title Screen:
Luka S.J.

Marin's Scripting Utilities:
Marin

Overworld Shadows:
Marin

Footprints:
Marin

Fly Animation by KleinStudio:
KleinStudio
bo4p5687

Pokémon Zero 0.10.2 (Alpha) (Graphics & Animations):
Zerokid
JohtoBlaziken
Raku
Gegerlan
Ancurio
Amethyst
Jan
Zumi
Bazaro
Koyo
Smeargletail
Alex
Noscium
Leparagon
N-kin
fishbowlsoul90
princess-phoenix
DatLopunnyTho
Conyjams
kaji atsu
The cynical poet
LuigiPlayer
Falgaia
Pikafan2000
Lord-Myre
MillaLya
Neo-Spriteman
keegan
Amethyst and the Pokémon Reborn team
Marin
Zeak6464
Tapu Fini
SpartaLazor
leparagon
BlackOutG5
Rune
M3rein
Rigbycwts
Rot8er_ConeX
James Davy
Luka S.J.
WolfPP

Special Thanks:
Thundaga

RPG Maker XP by:
Enterbrain

Pokémon is owned by:
The Pokémon Company
Nintendo
Affiliated with Game Freak

This is a non-profit fan-made game.
No copyright infringements intended.
Please support the official games!

 

[16Gabs]

I laughed at the premise and thought "gonna check it out" xD

But after downloading all I got was the message "RGSS-RTP Standard not found" and couldn't play the game.

Should I have done something other than downloading and clicking on "game"? Any help? =)

 

[Karthick__]

I laughed at the premise and thought "gonna check it out" xD

But after downloading all I got was the message "RGSS-RTP Standard not found" and couldn't play the game.

Should I have done something other than downloading and clicking on "game"? Any help? =)

Yeah there are two ways to fix this:
1.Install Rgss-Rtp for RPG maker Xp on your computer
Here:
https://www.rpgmakerweb.com/run-time-package

2.Extract the game and Change game.ini
Open in note pad and make change like this and save:

 

[16Gabs]

Thanks!
I was able to start playing after doing the second way.
Sugestion: Write that in the first post =)

About the game: So far it's been fun!
I defeated the 1st gym so far - haven't done much.
But there's a overpowered fellow that has been helping me a lot:

Spoiler:

If you catch a Chatot below level 05 it will have "Chatter" (65 damage). That's really game breaking at the beggining, I think.

So yeah, been having fun ^^
Take care!

 

[Karthick__]

Thanks!
I was able to start playing after doing the second way.
Sugestion: Write that in the first post =)

About the game: So far it's been fun!
I defeated the 1st gym so far - haven't done much.
But there's a overpowered fellow that has been helping me a lot:

Spoiler:

If you catch a Chatot below level 05 it will have "Chatter" (65 damage). That's really game breaking at the beggining, I think.

So yeah, been having fun ^^
Take care!

Thanks for playing and give feedback, yeah Chatod is really strong.

 

[drshocktapus]

Finished the demo and I enjoy the idea of the game. My team was:

Sudowoodo - Lv 30
Arbok - Lv 28
Zangoose - Lv28
Pelipper - Lv29
Numel - Lv30
Simisage- Lv31

I have a question regarding base stats because my pokemons stats don't match up with what they should be, for instance Simisages Atk and SpAtk base stat is the same but it seems like his SpAtk and SpDef have been swapped which is a good change was just confused. There were a few others I noticed changed but I assume they were done intentionally to make the pokemon more viable/usable which in a game where you only use less appreciated pokemon it makes sense. The only other critique I have is that the early routes between cities are a bit sparse of trainers and the level curve is a little wacky meaning I had to grind a bit or abuse the xp system from later gens switching everyone in to all gain the full xp.

But overall I think it's a decent start and look forward to seeing it completed as I enjoyed having to find other ways to push through the gyms than brute force. My most common strategy involved Pansage's leech seed along with Ekans glare/intimidate and then if needed combine that with rocky helmet Sudowoodo dealt with any physical threat. So yeah as I said I enjoyed it so please continue with it and good luck.

 

[Karthick__]

Finished the demo and I enjoy the idea of the game. My team was:

Sudowoodo - Lv 30
Arbok - Lv 28
Zangoose - Lv28
Pelipper - Lv29
Numel - Lv30
Simisage- Lv31

I have a question regarding base stats because my pokemons stats don't match up with what they should be, for instance Simisages Atk and SpAtk base stat is the same but it seems like his SpAtk and SpDef have been swapped which is a good change was just confused. There were a few others I noticed changed but I assume they were done intentionally to make the pokemon more viable/usable which in a game where you only use less appreciated pokemon it makes sense. The only other critique I have is that the early routes between cities are a bit sparse of trainers and the level curve is a little wacky meaning I had to grind a bit or abuse the xp system from later gens switching everyone in to all gain the full xp.

But overall I think it's a decent start and look forward to seeing it completed as I enjoyed having to find other ways to push through the gyms than brute force. My most common strategy involved Pansage's leech seed along with Ekans glare/intimidate and then if needed combine that with rocky helmet Sudowoodo dealt with any physical threat. So yeah as I said I enjoyed it so please continue with it and good luck.

Thanks for your feed back, and congrats for finish the game, yeah sure we will release another update very soon.

 

[16Gabs]

Yo

I second drshocktapus's opinion:

The only other critique I have is that the early routes between cities are a bit sparse of trainers and the level curve is a little wacky meaning I had to grind a bit

I think this is specially true between the firts and second gyms. The 2nd gym leader uses pokemon at about level

Spoiler:

20~21

but the wild pokes nearby are only levels

Spoiler:

10~12

(plus there aren't many trainers).
So it was a pain to win and right after you fight the

Spoiler:

grunt who has a magby... with thunder punch! xD

Another thing: I wish I could've gotten a sun stone earlier because in the first beach (West of desert town) you can catch Sunfloras - and I chose to maintain my Sunkern because I thought I was gonna get a sun stone at some point (unfortunately at the end of the demo hahaha).

Another suggestion: a speed up button. All games benefit from having one =)

But despite that, it was a really fun experience! It's weird to not see magikarp anywhere you fish hahaha
My final team was:

Lvl 29 - Chatot
Lvl 29 - Numel
Lvl 29 - Panpour (decided not to evolve until learns Acrobatics)
Lvl 30 - Arbok
Lvl 30 - Sunflora
Lvl 30 - Manectric

So yeah, keep up the good work ^^
Take care!

 

[Karthick__]

Yo

I second drshocktapus's opinion:

I think this is specially true between the firts and second gyms. The 2nd gym leader uses pokemon at about level

Spoiler:

20~21

but the wild pokes nearby are only levels

Spoiler:

10~12

(plus there aren't many trainers).
So it was a pain to win and right after you fight the

Spoiler:

grunt who has a magby... with thunder punch! xD

Another thing: I wish I could've gotten a sun stone earlier because in the first beach (West of desert town) you can catch Sunfloras - and I chose to maintain my Sunkern because I thought I was gonna get a sun stone at some point (unfortunately at the end of the demo hahaha).

Another suggestion: a speed up button. All games benefit from having one =)

But despite that, it was a really fun experience! It's weird to not see magikarp anywhere you fish hahaha
My final team was:

Lvl 29 - Chatot
Lvl 29 - Numel
Lvl 29 - Panpour (decided not to evolve until learns Acrobatics)
Lvl 30 - Arbok
Lvl 30 - Sunflora
Lvl 30 - Manectric

So yeah, keep up the good work ^^
Take care!

Thank you for your feed back, yeah your correct there is not enough trainers , we surely add some of them, Panpour after evolve after acrobatics?, I will change that thank you..

 

[16Gabs]

Panpour learns Acrobatics at level 31 (according to Bulbapedia) so I was waiting for him to learn to then evolve it (since, from what I understood, he stops learning moves when he evolves).

But I finished the demo before that (level 29), so ended up not evolving it =)

Also, think about a speed up button ^^
Take care!

 

[Karthick__]

Panpour learns Acrobatics at level 31 (according to Bulbapedia) so I was waiting for him to learn to then evolve it (since, from what I understood, he stops learning moves when he evolves).

But I finished the demo before that (level 29), so ended up not evolving it =)

Also, think about a speed up button ^^
Take care!

Yeah sure, I missed the speed up

 

[grit3694]

Thanks for the feedback so far, going to try to address a few points here!

The early game balancing has been tricky for us to get right, because we tried to not do the thing where every Pokemon game has a town right after the starting town that is basically useless. We are trying to speed up the early game, but that's given us less space for levelling up in between. There's an area on the second route behind Cut trees with a couple stacked trainers for easy EXP, but maybe we can add some more and adjust the levels of wild Pokemon a bit more.

We went with that bird Pokemon early because it was unique compared to all of the other early-game bird Pokemon, but yeah if you don't get one with that move then it isn't nearly as useful!

As for the base stats, I had some oddities as well when I played; my Hitmonchan's Special Attack was as high as its regular Attack for some reason! Maybe the order of the stats got changed in the files when we upgraded versions, but we'll check it out. We only changed a few base stats, and even those changes were small just so they would be under the BST of 475 for a couple fan-unfavorites.

Thanks for playing, everyone! We'll keep working on it, it's been a blast so far!

 

[Chaaldnox]

Is there an increased shiny rate because I stumbled upon this on route 403.