[Developing] Pokémon Meta Mercury

[Dimbus Maximus]

• All 721+ Pokémon will be available in game, with over 100 new Pokémon to discover!
• New moves given to some pokémon, including some rare moves such as Chansey with Wish.
• Pokémon have battling potential like never seen before!
• Mega Evolution and Z-Moves
• In-depth Story for All Ages
• 3 Regions to Explore!
• 3D Overworld!(+)
• Gen 5 Style!

(+) Plus Feature

Pokémon caught in this game can be exported as a .pkm file and imported into actual cartridge games via in-game means
(requires Action Replay, Flashcarts, Ram2Sav, and/or Pokegen PkHex)
Pokémon can also be exported as text to be used in Pokémon Showdown

The Pokétab​

Spoiler:

Silph Co.'s latest, greatest invention!
Combining all technological utilities into one handy device, no trainer can call themselves an Ace without it.
It has even managed to replace the conventional Pokédex, being used to identify Pokémon by trainers and non-trainers alike!

Features in this handy device include:
-Dynamic Pokédex Application
-Hi-Definition Map
-Dex Nav Application
-Type Match-up Calculator
-Many more applications and games!

Field Moves and Abilities
To be covered at trailer release

PokéBodies
To be covered at trailer release


Introducing

The Starter Pokémon

Spoiler:

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Cubush
The Stalk Pokémon

Spoiler:

Type: Grass
Height: 2' 04" / 0.7m
Weight: 15.2 lbs / 0.7 kg
Ability: Overgrow

Males and Females at very different from one another.
The males are very prideful and like to show off, making it tough to train at first.
The females are very playful and kind, but their highly developed fangs lead to mixed results on their trainers.
Due to their differences, the genders almost never intermingle.
Males tend to stay to themselves, while females form packs of four to five, which are as inseparable as siblings.
Regardless of gender, both love to ambush and pounce on friends and foes alike.
When hiding among thick brush, the only way to spot a Cubush is by its thick tail.

Conoro
The Shellfish Pokémon

Spoiler:

Type: Water/Poison
Height: 2' 02" / 0.7m
Weight: 33.2 lbs / 15.0 kg
Ability: Torrent

Conoro are very shy and have no natural defense to protect their soft bodies from the elements, so they create shells by cementing together sand with it bodily mucus.
Due to the high acidity of this mucus, the sand becomes one solid piece, but Conoro can be disintegrate and rebuild it to better suit its growing body.
Most creatures that try to prey on Conoro find it has an awful taste and can leave a horrible stomach ache.
What Conoro lacks in deliciousness is made up for in self-defense strategies.
It produces poisonous darts from its diet of toxic seaweed, which it can fire in a deadly spray.
When out of its shell, It is also an extremely adept swimmer.

Stegruff
The Dynamite Pokémon

Spoiler:

Type: Fire
Height: 1' 06" / 0.4m
Weight: 55.6 lbs / 25.2 kg
Ability: Blaze

Quiet but stern, Stegruff prefer to live far away from others in thick forests in order to graze on thick vegetation.
In order to defend itself, it can create an explosive burst from the openings in its carapace by igniting the leaves it has digested.
Doing this will make it become hungry again, so it must consume as many leaves as possible.
Stegruff's body is surprisingly sturdy and can be occasionally used to pull carts and freight much bigger than itself.
Many trainers end up picking Stegruff due to its power, utility, and loyalty.

There's a new gang in town, and they have one fierce bite!

Trailer and More Pokémon Coming Soon​

Meta Mercury will provide an example of working at the outer boundaries of what RMXP and Essentials can do.
It will also seek to improve the current system to be a more viable developing platform.


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Developed using:
Maruno's Pokémon Essentials

Including parts of scripts/resources from:
Klein Studio's Essentials BW
Luka SJ's Elite Battle System
Heretic's Miscellaneous RMXP Scripts
Neo Mode 7



The Entire Original Soundtrack (Work in Progress):

Screenshots:

Spoiler:

 

[SpaceShipEarth]

This looks very promising, can't wait to play a demo of this

 

[Jcaraballo]

Why not use Unity to make this game? I'm tired of various Pokemon games created with RPGMaker.

 

[Alababal]

I'll definitely be watching this one. Good luck developing it. I'm looking forward to the trailer.

 

[Jefries]

Why not use Unity to make this game? I'm tired of various Pokemon games created with RPGMaker.

If he uses Unity he will have to start from zero so it would take too much time. So rmxp is going to be used most of the time. Anyone that takes a different path other than rmxp will have to code a lot of stuff.

 

[Planetes.]

Looking good, I've been lurking /heg/ and have been really impressed with the game's progress. Regardless, it might be a good idea to provide some additional information about the game, such as its main premise/storyline, as well as art of the starters that you've referenced in the poll. If you have any screenshots of events from the game itself, it might be worth adding that.

One critique I'd like to make is on your PokeTab's dexnav interface, despite the information being clearly conveyed there, everything looks fairly jumbled at the moment. I made a mockup of some potential edits that you could make in order to have it feel more clean and ergonomic: https://i.imgur.com/mHTiIzY.png

I'm not sure if its feasible to get every asset and sprite perfectly positioned via progamming alone, but perhaps the edit can give you some ideas on how to clean up the Poketab's dexnav look.

One final thing, screenshots look a lot better and resemble the cartridge games more closely when you resize them by 50% [smaller], rather than taking them at half size. Anyways, the game looks great so far and good luck with its development.

 

[Jefries]

Now the game doesn't a story or plot? I think you should have added that if there is one because that's what most of the time makes a game interesting. Now 721+100 that's too much also with the 3 regions unless you make them small. I sugguest you get about 150 original and then the other 100 fakemon. I discussed that in this thread https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/374609 you should check out other threads also which could help you in your game. Now 3d overworld I wonder how you are going to manage that in an engine that is made for rpg making which is considered 2d maybe you got confused a little. Also this is just to help you it's like a friendly criticize other than that I wish you luck in your game.

 

[Jcaraballo]

If he uses Unity he will have to start from zero so it would take too much time. So rmxp is going to be used most of the time. Anyone that takes a different path other than rmxp will have to code a lot of stuff.

But Unity has support for 3D graphics, RPG Maker not only supports 2D graphics, and Mode 7 is nothing more than a false 3D.

 

[Dimbus Maximus]

Why not use Unity to make this game? I'm tired of various Pokemon games created with RPGMaker.

I might look into it in the future, but for the first release I'm sticking to RMXP.
There are a lot of things Unity can do that RMXP can't.

 

[Jefries]

But Unity has support for 3D graphics, RPG Maker not only supports 2D graphics, and Mode 7 is nothing more than a false 3D.

that's why I said that he should forget about the 3d stuff and just make the game normally with rmxp and I told you even though Unity can make games in 3d you will have to put a lot of effort hence my second post where I give advice to him.

 

[Jcaraballo]

that's why I said that he should forget about the 3d stuff and just make the game normally with rmxp and I told you even though Unity can make games in 3d you will have to put a lot of effort hence my second post where I give advice to him.

I care if it's too much effort or not. I want a Pokemon game made in Unity and make it more like Nintendo DS games. I have seen many Pokemon games that were made in RPGMaker but not perfectly mimic DS games because RPGMaker only supports 2D graphics.

In addition, I want to take your time, eventually you become accustomed and better handle such tools.

Take for example this Reddit user also has a YouTube channel where is making a Pokemon game in Unity, and I want to do the same this man and I leave a link for progress:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonUnity/

 

[mej71]

I care if it's too much effort or not. I want a Pokemon game made in Unity and make it more like Nintendo DS games. I have seen many Pokemon games that were made in RPGMaker but not perfectly mimic DS games because RPGMaker only supports 2D graphics.

In addition, I want to take your time, eventually you become accustomed and better handle such tools.

Take for example this Reddit user also has a YouTube channel where is making a Pokemon game in Unity, and I want to do the same this man and I leave a link for progress:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonUnity/

You can aspire to do what you want, stop trying to force your opinions on him. The project you linked isn't complete, nor is the source code released. Making a game is already a huge undertaking even with the already well made tools like Essentials, making your own framework from scratch in a brand new engine is a monumental achievement, and will take even longer. You can't really fault people for not wanting to do that.

 

[Dimbus Maximus]

Looking good, I've been lurking /heg/ and have been really impressed with the game's progress. Regardless, it might be a good idea to provide some additional information about the game, such as its main premise/storyline, as well as art of the starters that you've referenced in the poll. If you have any screenshots of events from the game itself, it might be worth adding that.

One critique I'd like to make is on your PokeTab's dexnav interface, despite the information being clearly conveyed there, everything looks fairly jumbled at the moment. I made a mockup of some potential edits that you could make in order to have it feel more clean and ergonomic: https://i.imgur.com/mHTiIzY.png

I'm not sure if its feasible to get every asset and sprite perfectly positioned via progamming alone, but perhaps the edit can give you some ideas on how to clean up the Poketab's dexnav look.

One final thing, screenshots look a lot better and resemble the cartridge games more closely when you resize them by 50% [smaller], rather than taking them at half size. Anyways, the game looks great so far and good luck with its development.

Thanks for the tip I'm still deciding on what exactly to include on this screen, but I'll make these edits you suggested.
You can center the sprites pretty well using just programming, too.

 

[Dimbus Maximus]

Now the game doesn't a story or plot? I think you should have added that if there is one because that's what most of the time makes a game interesting. Now 721+100 that's too much also with the 3 regions unless you make them small. I sugguest you get about 150 original and then the other 100 fakemon. I discussed that in this thread https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/374609 you should check out other threads also which could help you in your game. Now 3d overworld I wonder how you are going to manage that in an engine that is made for rpg making which is considered 2d maybe you got confused a little. Also this is just to help you it's like a friendly criticize other than that I wish you luck in your game.

I'll provide the first bit of plot information at the release of the trailer.

 

[phazonruler]

Nice job with the music!

 

[CanadianMaple]

Oooh, being able to export to smogon will be REALLY cool! Especially in Nuzlockes, if you win you can (kind of) keep the Pokemon you trained up all that time! Good idea.

 

[Dimbus Maximus]

Just added a Suggestions Form.
If you have ideas, feel free to send them.
Also, check out the Team Application if you want to contribute in some way.

 

[Dimbus Maximus]

Updated first post with starter information.
Next update will include story and gameplay info.

 

[Wayne18]

I love the starter pokemon especially Cubush, Cant wait for some sceenshots.

 

[MasterBallz]

Love all the starters but that grass lion is def the coolest one.