STORY
This game takes place sometime in the 1990s, in the fictional country of Eagleland, a parody of the United States. The player starts as a young boy named Ness as he investigates a nearby meteorite crash with his neighbor, Pokey, to find his neighbor's brother Picky. They find that an alien force, Giygas, has enveloped and consumed the world in hatred and consequently turned Pokémon, humans, and objects into malicious creatures. A small, bee-like creature from the future named Buzz-Buzz instructs Ness to collect melodies in a Sound Stone from 8 **Sanctuaries** to preemptively stop the force, but is killed shortly thereafter when Pokey & Picky's mother mistakes him for a pest. On his journey to visit the "sanctuaries", Ness will eventually team up with 3 other pre-teens to help stop Giygas's evil plans. These 3 include a girl named Paula from the city of Twoson, Jeff from the cold, northern country, Winters., and Poo, the prince of the far off kingdom in the clouds, Dalaam. With their Pokémon at their sides, as well as several other helpful people around the world, will Ness and his friends be able to stop the, diabolical & all-powerful Giygas? Only time will tell.
FEATURES
This game takes place sometime in the 1990s, in the fictional country of Eagleland, a parody of the United States. The player starts as a young boy named Ness as he investigates a nearby meteorite crash with his neighbor, Pokey, to find his neighbor's brother Picky. They find that an alien force, Giygas, has enveloped and consumed the world in hatred and consequently turned Pokémon, humans, and objects into malicious creatures. A small, bee-like creature from the future named Buzz-Buzz instructs Ness to collect melodies in a Sound Stone from 8 **Sanctuaries** to preemptively stop the force, but is killed shortly thereafter when Pokey & Picky's mother mistakes him for a pest. On his journey to visit the "sanctuaries", Ness will eventually team up with 3 other pre-teens to help stop Giygas's evil plans. These 3 include a girl named Paula from the city of Twoson, Jeff from the cold, northern country, Winters., and Poo, the prince of the far off kingdom in the clouds, Dalaam. With their Pokémon at their sides, as well as several other helpful people around the world, will Ness and his friends be able to stop the, diabolical & all-powerful Giygas? Only time will tell.
FEATURES
Spoiler:
- A brand new region to explore
- A new type of starter trilogy: Machop, Klink, and Flabébé - Fight > Steel, Steel > Fairy, Fairy > Fight (Fighting changed to resist Steel)
- Three brand new starter abilities for the new starter types that boost their type in a pinch. The abilities are, Brawn for the Machop line, Torque for the Klink line, and Mystique for the Flabébé line
- The Pokémon available will mostly be ones that represent Earthbound enemies (some Pokémon names are changed to reflect this)
- New Key Items, including Eartbound's ATM Card and Sound Stone items
- Partner characters who will join you on your Journey
- The first two Sanctuary locations and all the areas leading up to that
- A good amount of custom artwork and tileset alterations
- Several highly interactive NPCs with really fun dialogue
- PCs only recover your HP with a separate, limited method of PP recovery for an extra level of strategy
- An NPC in the Pokémon Center that you can pay for quick grinding
- A bag system very similar to Pokémon Crystal to mimic the item management in Earthbound
- Homesickness, a new condition that can happen randomly after trainer battles. It makes your Pokémon disobey and can be cured by calling your Mom with the Pokégear
CURRENT PROGRESS
This is my first ever project using RPG Maker XP and Pokémon Essentials or even making/working on a game so progress has been slow but it's getting there. In just over a year I've gotten to the second "gym", or to those familiar with Earthbound, to Lilliput Steps. I've learned a lot during this time and should be able to make much quicker progress to the next "gym". I plan to update this article after completing each major area/"gym". I hope to complete the next major area within 3 months. I know I said that last time and it took like 8 months, I mean it this time lol. All the custom artwork is slowing me down, but I'm getting better at it. I hope you enjoy what I have so far!
Google Sheet showing progress toward my next update:
Pokemon TWAG To Do Sheet
SCREENSHOTS
This is my first ever project using RPG Maker XP and Pokémon Essentials or even making/working on a game so progress has been slow but it's getting there. In just over a year I've gotten to the second "gym", or to those familiar with Earthbound, to Lilliput Steps. I've learned a lot during this time and should be able to make much quicker progress to the next "gym". I plan to update this article after completing each major area/"gym". I hope to complete the next major area within 3 months. I know I said that last time and it took like 8 months, I mean it this time lol. All the custom artwork is slowing me down, but I'm getting better at it. I hope you enjoy what I have so far!
Google Sheet showing progress toward my next update:
Pokemon TWAG To Do Sheet
SCREENSHOTS
CREDITS
Spoiler:
Unreal Time System
FL
Gen 6 Cries
Random Talking Bush
Gen 6 Sprites
MrDollSteak
Chaos Rush
Layell
princessofmusic
Pokemon Emerald NPC Overworld Sprites
Furs The Fox
Lunar994
Earthbound Sprites
Earthbound Wiki
Nintendo
Mr. Saturn Battle Sprite
PastalBird
Senor Saturno Font
codeman38
Earthbound Battle Backgrounds
gjtorikian
Mr. Accident
kdex
Nintendo
Earthbound Story & Text
Nintendo
Earthbound Music
Keiichi Suzuki
Hirokazu Tanaka
Nintendo
Additional Pokémon Music
ENLS's Pre-Looped Music Library
Helpful Development Tutorials
Thundaga
"Pokémon Essentials"
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
MKXP
Roza
"RPG Maker XP"
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!
This game is made using RPG Maker XP and Pokémon Essentials!
FL
Gen 6 Cries
Random Talking Bush
Gen 6 Sprites
MrDollSteak
Chaos Rush
Layell
princessofmusic
Pokemon Emerald NPC Overworld Sprites
Furs The Fox
Lunar994
Earthbound Sprites
Earthbound Wiki
Nintendo
Mr. Saturn Battle Sprite
PastalBird
Senor Saturno Font
codeman38
Earthbound Battle Backgrounds
gjtorikian
Mr. Accident
kdex
Nintendo
Earthbound Story & Text
Nintendo
Earthbound Music
Keiichi Suzuki
Hirokazu Tanaka
Nintendo
Additional Pokémon Music
ENLS's Pre-Looped Music Library
Helpful Development Tutorials
Thundaga
"Pokémon Essentials"
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
MKXP
Roza
"RPG Maker XP"
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!
This game is made using RPG Maker XP and Pokémon Essentials!
CHANGELOG
Spoiler:
Version 0.3
- Added several new maps
- Completely filled these maps with trainers, shops, NPCs, and detailed scenery
- Completed the second Sanctuary location
- Added Homesickness, requiring you to speak to your Mom to cure it
- Several new trainers including, the Insane Cultist, New Age Retro Hippie, Annoying Party Man, and a few boss trainers
- New character sprite for the Bicycle and for fishing
- More "Fuzzy Pickles"
- The Town Map now shows your current location on every map
- Balanced pokemon levels, mostly lowering them
- Various fixes to events that did not function correctly
Version 0.2
- Lowered trainer levels in Giant Step and the Onett Police Dept.
- Fixed the cop battle gauntlet so it restarts properly if you lose to a cop and doesn't get stuck
- increased the level of Mr. Saturn Periwinkle's Audino to provide adequate experience for the next part of the game
- Added a couple more items to better reward exploration
- The first version of the Demo
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