[Developing] Pokemon: Everlasting Orchard (Dating/Farming sim Pokemon game)

[Callmefreak]

This game has a blog detailing how to do a lot of events since it's that type of game. (The "Wiki stalking" type, but I couldn't figure out how to make a Wiki, didn't want to waste my time learning and I can have regular updates with this blog.)
Here's a Google Docs version. (Don't expect me to remember to update this very often though.)
I should've just learned how to use Wiki.
My stomach hurts, so I'll be worrying about combing through every link on this post later.

I made this game based on something I read years ago. They said something like "what if we had a Pokemon game that's also Stardew Valley?" And I thought about it and that lead to me making this game... And then taking a hiatus to make money off of making Delta Pokemon and Fakemon sprites, but after I was done with that I went right back to making this game!

You kind of make your story after the intro. The story up to that point is: You and your mom raised Tauros and owned a berry farm for most of your life, but one day your mom decides to sell the farm all of a sudden. Angry, you choose to buy a farm yourself in a new region- the Tilius region. (The region has a Roman Gods name theme.) When you first step foot in the region you're taken to a lab to get your... Second Pokemon. You take your Tauros with you plus a horn that you use to call it to ride it. (Alternative to a bike.)
When you first step onto your farm you're greeted by the person who sold it to you. She explains that the economy of the town mostly depends on wine made from berries- your berries. One person makes the wine and she sells it. Because of that berries can actually be sold for a lot more than they're usually worth. She sold the farm after the previous owner died alone with nobody to inherit it so she does push you to get married and start a family. (Which you cannot do yet.) After you meet every potential candidate the story is pretty much yours to make.

Note: I cannot fix any glitches if I don't understand what the problem is, so I need to be told in detail what's going on.

If you're getting an error message that says something like "Script 'Scene_Intro' line 78:", OR "PScreen_load Line 395" download this and follow the instructions.

Fair warning: I suggest you invest in my game and report glitches now and not four years later when I move on. Do you understand how annoying it is to get glitch reports for a game you finished years ago and not when I'm actually working on that game? It's very annoying.

There are now two versions of this game, since the game is unusually big for a fan game, I decided to split the game

Download updated 5/15/25

Before you download this version: I have no idea if this will replace your character or not. I'd go to:
Graphics > Characters

And copy either TrChar000, Boy_Run, Boy_Surf, and Boy_Bike, or TrChar001, Girl_Run, Girl_Surf and Girl_Bike and paste them somewhere outside the game's files. If your character changed after downloading this version, close your game, then paste the copied files into the "characters" folder and say "yes" to replace them.
Any original graphics that you may want to change back can be downloaded here


Graphics:
-Something happened that I wanted to pay attention to, so I made Julian's, Zolton's, Ine's, Kenichi's, and another character's winter portrait and overworld sprites.
+Made one new character's battle sprite.
+Made the spouse's time-skip sleeping sprites.
+Also made the sleeping sprites for your children.
+Made the battle portrait for one of the potential champions.

Schedules:
+Made your spouses morning schedule in the post-time-skip.
+Also mostly made your daughter's morning schedule. Which is a bit tedious because I made so many combinations of your kids for some reason. (It's because it makes me happy to see it done in Story of Seasons games.)

Oversight fixes. (AKA "I forgot to do this before."):
-Added the condition that you actually have to have the Ceres building built before you can get the letter telling you about the Podi sprinkler.
-Added the mail you'll get telling you about the Podi sprinkler to the first/smaller bed.
-Moved where you walk to in the forest up by one tile based on a vague description of a glitch.
-I uh... I forgot to add in the Oran berry to one of the plots somehow. (Plot 12, or the second one to the right of the bottom-left row.)
-I completely forgot to make the EV training cave exit actually spit you out at the right place before! I'm sorry about that!
-Apparently the "keys" in the Larenta gym doesn't reset when you leave like they should, but they don't. So I just erased the thing where the hint guy takes away your keys.


Misc:
-You'll finally have a birthday! It will always be on the 10th, but you'll get to choose which season your birthday is in. The option is in the intro of course, but going to bed will also trigger the option so you won't have to start over.
-Switched one of the Pokemon that Gustafa will trade you from a Keromero with an egg move to an Utakigo with a hidden ability.
-I added a new set of three people who will trade with you in Cenae. (Because for some reason doing so makes me sleepy, and I was struggling to sleep. It actually helped! Until I got the hiccups.) I didn't add them to the "Trading" list yet.
+Started doing something with the berries. It's just something unimportant with graphics so I stopped when I got tired.

Blog:
-The "progress report" page was getting kinda cluttered and hard to read, so I deleted the "sub categories" of finished projects to clean it up a bit. I also bolded the titles of the ones that aren't finished yet. (I might have added the same thing more than once on there because of this.)



About the game:

Story:
-You own a berry farm where the cheapest berries you can sell is worth $1,000 (unless I adjust them.)
-There are eight badges, but no Elite 4 yet
-You can start dating, get married and have children.
-You can date, marry and have a child with up to two people.
--You can date anybody regardless of gender.
--There are portraits so you can see who you're dating.

Activities:
-You can make your own clothes and dye your hair. (Details here.) (See credits)
-You can buy buildings to be built.
--You can gather lumber to make these buildings cheaper
--A building that'll upgrade your house, add things to your farm, sell you furniture and ingredients for cooking.
--An EV Training building
--A library, where you can unlock a new character
--You can get a kitchen where you can cook new items
--You can get a Miltank Stable and sell the milk for $2,000
--You can get a Mareep stable, some dye buckets and a "sewing machine" and make your own clothes. (You can sell the cloth, too.)
--You can get your own personal Daycare Center. If you get this you can hire somebody to run it for you and you'll get some money and an opportunity of getting an egg every Friday.
--You can own your own Combeehive, where you can battle Combees every day besides night time, and you can have the opportunity to get Honey that you can sell for $1,500
-You can dig for fossils after a certain point.
-You can grow mushrooms if you buy a sprinkler from one of the buildings you can buy.
-There's a cave where you can go through a lot of floors. I won't reveal what's at the bottom, but there are certain "safe" points where you can get some amazing things.
--There are rocks that you can "mine" in said cave if you have a pickaxe. (The mining mini-game won't show up, but you can get some cool things from the rock.)
-There's a board where some people will post requests.

Items:
-HM Items (See credits)
-There's an "egg hatcher" item in your personal Day Care Center. (See credits.)

Pokemon:
-There are Delta Pokemon, but more importantly there are BETA Pokemon that I revamped. In fact, that's what the starters of this region is- the cut starts of the 1997 Spaceworld Demo
-There's a Link Stone for Pokemon who evolves from trading, but also the Pokemon who evolves from trading while holding an item can now be evolved with that item being used like an evolutionary stone.

Misc:
-The time is more like Harvest Moon or Stardew Valley (See credits)
-Your house acts like a Secret Base (See credits)
-Murkrows can eat your berries, but you can either buy a "Cacturne doll" or place a certain Pokemon by the berries to scare them away.
-Other things that you can farm are also worth more. (Like honey)
-Instead of growing berries like you would in an official game, this crazy lady took months to create a system where it's event based. This means that instead of real time the berries will "grow" every time you go to bed.
-There's a HUD, kind of. It's all based on pictures instead of anything I'd need a new script for.
-Winter time. (There's no map differences between the other seasons.)
-Weather that can effect your berries. (Mostly just watering them right now.)
-Not really much of a feature but it's important- berries will only show the first and last stage. This is due to event limitations. I had a way to show you the progress but I think that makes the map kind of implode, so I'll just delete them.

Screenshots to make you wanna play the game:

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Bonus screenshot:

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I found out what the problem was and I was able to fix it. I just found it amusing.

Pokemon:
...I'm not going to show off all of the Pokemon that I added here. I'll just link to where you can read about the Pokemon. I had to post them in parts though so I should probably describe them at least.
-Most of them are revamped BETA Pokemon that were cut. (Not all of them. I did revamp all of them but I don't plan on having all of them in the game.)
-Some of them are Delta Pokemon that I was commissioned to make.
-And some are just extra things. (Like Luvdisc of every "relationship" color. A male Combee evolution, etc.)
Also I changed the shinies of some of the Pokemon so they're more obvious. Some of them are based on something. (Like Pokemon Stadium nickname colors, and white Pichu.)
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Characters:

Candidates:
Boys:

Spoiler:

Alan Davis, age 19. From Unova

An anxious man who's almost afraid of making new friends after a certain event happened. Is working under Kenichi to become a doctor. Can talk to people just fine in a professional setting.

Jayce Baltimore, Age 20. From Unova

This man is in a two-person band that plays exclusively in the bar of Pomona. He's a very friendly person who's easy to approach. Has some fans that may or may not easy to approach.

A kind young man who likes playing video games on his free time. He always seems to be very happy, but not for a very happy reason. He carries a secret with him.

Souma Usui, age 21. Hoennian (Not from Hoenn but parents are.)

His parents left him alone the second he got his first Pokemon but didn't leave, so he had to work to pay the bills and doesn't get a whole lot of sleep. He barely has time to do anything and when he does he uses it to hang out with Cerise.

Pierce Hunter, age 22. From Unova. Bonus character *Not date-able yet*

A man who's easy to anger. He does first, thinks later. He has a questionable past that lead him to the Tilius region. Is poor and completely homeless. Usually can only get one meal a day. His path is different from the others.

Alderic Danos, Age 19. Kalosian

Alderic mostly keeps to himself. He's not exactly a big fan of people, unless he's a big fan. He moved to Pomona Town when he heard some of Umeko's and Jayce's music online and found out exactly where they live. Wooing him will be tough at first, but then it will be very easy after a while. Trying to get him to date you and another person at the same time may be impossible, depending on the person.

Girls:

Spoiler:

Cerise Beaufort, age 21. Kalosian

Her family is rich from trading from the Tilius region to other regions. Her ancestors were the first ones who discovered the region. She's not interested in being a business woman and she doesn't believe in arrange marriages. She may not be the only one.

Esmaralda Anderson, age 20. From Unova

A bubbly girl who's dad wanted to take her and her sister to a small region. She's interested in being a mother but not exactly for the right reasons. She and her Musharna will stay the night with Alan sometimes. She has an interesting secret that she's especially afraid of Alan knowing about.

Kalani Akiona, age 22. From Alola

An athletic girl who left home to get away from the growing number of tourists cluttering Alola. She specifically chose Pomona for how quiet it usually is, and for the fact that it's close to the beach. She had a fear of a certain Pokemon.

Ollie Hayes, age 19. From Unova

A lively girl who moved to Pomona for the small but friendly community. She made her own clothes for a while, but not as a hobby. She's trying to save money for something so she continues to make clothes as a side job.

Rebecca Bracia, age 21. From Unova

She had to have surgery on her throat which made her mute. She learned sign language so she can communicate with others, but other than her family, nobody wanted to bother doing the same. Her family moved to Pomona town in hopes that she could make friends in a smaller community.

Umeko Kataoka, age 21. From Kanto

Her father owns a bar in Pomona, which doubles as their house. She loves to sing for the people she knows in town, but she's otherwise incredibly shy. It would be hard to approach her at first without her running away from you unless she's with people who she trusts.

There's no specific reason for her shyness. She just is.

Other villagers (sprites are outdated):

Spoiler:

Some of these have little to know character right now, and sometimes that's just because I'm using them as a place holder. I'll edit them when I come up with their character. Also I'll add characters when the exist.

The Player, age 21, from ???

It's you! The Player grew up learning about how to own and maintain a berry orchard with their family until their father decided to go on a Pokemon journey and their mom sold the farm. So obviously the best choice of action was to take their Tauros and move to a region that needs somebody who knows how to maintain a berry orchard. (How lucky!)

Professor Kiana Dracaena Maliah, age 41. From Alola

Birthday: 3/26

The professor of the region. She studies Pokemon breeding on a biological level. She bred too many of the starter Pokemon, so she insists that anybody who wants to live in Pomona has to get a Pokemon from her even if they're not the first Pokemon.

5AM-9:59 AM: At home

10AM-1:59PM: In her lab

2PM-4:59PM: In her lab

5PM-7:59PM: In her lab

8PM-4:59AM: At the bar

Juro Kataoka, age 45. From Kanto

Birthday: 3/14

Father of Umeko and Hiroshi. He can ferment any berry into a tasty wine, but he doesn't know how to properly grow them. Because of that he was hired to run the bar in Pomona town and make wine for shipping. He was just about to run out of berries and wine when you moved into the farmhouse.

5AM-9:59 AM: Bar

10AM-1:59PM: Pokemon Center

2PM-4:59PM: Bar

5PM-7:59PM: Bar

8PM-4:59AM: Bar

Bad weather: In his room. (That doesn't exist.)

Hiroshi Kataoka, age 7. From Kanto

Birthday: 3/23

Little brother of Umeko. He likes helping around the bar sometimes. Looks up to Jayce.

5AM-9:59 AM: In front of Esmaralda's house/The Anderson household

10AM-1:59PM: Before library is built: Bottom right corner of Pomona. (By where the EV training building and the library will be built)

After library is built: Inside of the library

2PM-4:59PM: Running around outside

5PM-7:59PM: Bar

8PM-4:59AM: Room

Raylene Anderson, age 9. From Unova

Birthday: 1/18

The little sister of Esmaralda. She doesn't know who her mother is, so she wants to be a strong trainer to help her journey in finding her.

5AM-9:59 AM: In front of her house with Hiroshi.

10AM-1:59PM: Before library is built: Bottom right corner of Pomona. (By where the EV training building and the library will be built)

After library is built: Inside of the library

2PM-4:59PM: Running around outside

5PM-7:59PM: Before the library is built: in her house

After it's built: Inside of the library

8PM-4:59AM: In her house

Clyde Anderson, age 44. From Unova (reused sprite from Accourt Academy. May just be a place holder)

Birthday: 1/23

The single father of Esmaralda and Raylene. He separated from his wife when Raylene was just a baby. He works at Ine's restaurant to make a living.

5AM-9:59 AM: In his house

10AM-1:59PM: At Ine's restaurant

2PM-4:59PM: At Ine's restaurant

5PM-7:59PM: Before the library is built: In his house

After it's built: In the bar

8PM-4:59AM: In his house

Ine Fukumi, age 26. From Kanto

Birthday: 2/12

The owner of the Pomona restaurant, because she loves cooking. She's single but she's not looking to date anybody right now.

5AM-9:59 AM: In her house

10AM-1:59PM: In her restaurant

2PM-4:59PM: In her restaurant

5PM-7:59PM: In her restaurant

8PM-4:59AM: In the bar

Kenichi Ejiri, age 39. From Kanto

Birthday: 4/9

The human doctor for Pomona town. He's a very kind man who will be very concerned if he finds out that somebody's not taking care of themselves.

5AM-7:59PM: In the doctor's office

8PM-4:59AM: In his house

Ludavine Beaufort, age 45. Kalosian

Birthday: 4/22

Cerise's mother. Was groomed into accepting an arranged marriage, though she had to wait for her chosen suitor to become of age before marriage. She tries to push the arrange marriage idea onto her own daughter, just like her ancestors did before her.

Her family are part of the crew who found the Tilius region and was the ones who started a wine making business that is slowly getting popular worldwide, but especially in Kalos.

The people who marries into the family takes their name, regardless of what gender the Beaufort family member is.

5AM-9:59 AM: In the kitchen (unless the weather's bad)

10AM-1:59PM: In her living room

2PM-4:59PM: At the Pokemon Center

5PM-7:59PM: In her living room

8PM-4:59AM: At the bar

Bad weather: She'll stay in her living room all day. (It's easier to keep her at one place at a time this way.)

Flavien Aubert-Beaufort, age 40. From Kalos

Birthday: 3/20

Cerise's father. Groomed to become a businessman, accept an arranged marriage with somebody who was practically a stranger, and have a child while young. He was married off not long after his eighteenth birthday. Because of this he's not at all thrilled by the idea of pushing an arranged marriage for his daughter.

He had to take his wife's surname, but he still uses adds bachelor name when he introduces himself.

Riley Bracia, age 5. Unovan.

Birthday: 1/8

The little brother of Rebecca.

5AM-9:59 AM: In the living room

10AM-1:59PM:

Before library is built: Bottom right corner of Pomona. (By where the EV training building and the library will be built)

After library is built: Inside of the library

2PM-4:59PM: Running around outside

5PM-7:59PM: In the living room

8PM-4:59AM:

If you don't have children with Rebecca: In his room

If you do: In the living room

Bad weather: Throughout the house, but mostly his own room.

Reina Bracia, age 43, from Unova (Sprite may be replaced in the final)

Birthday: 2/28

Rebeccca's mother. Her and her husband moved to Pomona Town in hopes that their daughter would be able to make friends despite being born mute.

5AM-9:59 AM: In her living room

10AM-1:59PM: Pokemon Center

2PM-4:59PM: Pokemon Center

5PM-7:59PM: In her kitchen

8PM-4:59AM: In her living room

Ryan Bracia, age 45. From Unova

Birthday: 1/20

Father of Rebecca and Riley.

5AM-9:59 AM: In his living room (dining room?)

10AM-1:59PM: In Ine's restaurant

2PM-4:59PM: Bar

5PM-7:59PM: In his kitchen

8PM-4:59AM: In his living room

Tadao Yasuda, Age 34, from Kanto (Reused from Accourt Academy)

Birthday: 3/8

Formerly a guard for a prestigious Pokemon trainer high school, he decided to move to Pomona Town for a new scenery. Will still do some late night guarding in a few places when he can't pay the bills with battling alone.

5AM-9:59 AM: In his house

10AM-1:59PM: In town around the kids

2PM-4:59PM: In town around the kids

5PM-7:59PM: In Ine's restaurant

8PM-4:59AM: Strolling around town

Mayumi Nizuma, Age 37, from Kanto (Reused from Accourt Academy)

Birthday: 3/17

Mayumi was previously a teacher for a prestigious Pokemon trainer high school before wanting to move to a random town to teach young aspiring trainers before they go out there and train Pokemon.

5AM-9:59 AM: Duellona Clearing

10AM-1:59PM: If the library hasn't be built: In town around the kids

If it has: In the library

2PM-4:59PM: In town around the kids

5PM-7:59PM: …I don't remember right now.

8PM-4:59AM: In her house

Unlockable

Zoltan Inui, age 25. From Kanto

Birthday: 1/16

This man works in the library. (If there is one.) He's usually quiet, but not for any special reason.

5AM-9:59 AM: Behind the front desk of the library

10AM-1:59PM: On the second floor of the library

2PM-4:59PM: I don't remember this one, either…

5PM-7:59PM: At home

8PM-4:59AM: In the bar

Julian, (I have to check if I already gave him a last name or not) age 44. From Kalos

Birthday: 2/9

Unlockable if you start dating Cerise. Otherwise you could meet him when doing your duties as a champion. He will be automatically unlocked after meeting a different requirement.

The weather

If the weather is bad, everybody will stay indoors for the day. During this time you can still enter most shops and even people's houses if you're good enough friends with them.

Important characters who work at these places will be replaced by random NPCs for the day.

Instead of getting kicked out whenever the house will be empty, you'll be kicked out at 1 AM.

Things like dates, cutscenes and confessions aren't effected by this because I know for a fact that there would be a ton of things I'd have to go back to change and I don't remember all of those things. The only exception to this are in the building that those things take place in. You'll have to go there the next day. (I swear I had a penalty for missing dates, but I can't find it, so… Sorry if there's a penalty still.)

I might make a separate thing where they'll avoid standing outside, but they'll still go from building to building if the weather isn't dangerous, if that's even possible. (Though this might be in the expanded version only.)

I highly suggest going to Duellona Clearing if you have eight badges while the weather is especially bad.

Gym Leaders and Elite 4:

I can't remember if I gave them last names or not, but that doesn't matter in this game. These are characters from my Pokemon Distrust trilogy since they were originally in school to become Gym Leaders in the first place.

Spoiler:

Ayame, Dark type Pokemon

Vangelis, Flying types

Yuuka, Ground Types

Setsuko, Rock Types

Kane, Electric Types

*The trainers below may not be in order in the final game

Yori, Ghost Types

Naomi, Water Types

The Elite 4 will be added later. (I think I know who I want to add to it. I'm not positive yet though.)

I don't really know who I want as the champion yet. I have an idea, but I'm not sure.

Known Glitches and Oversights:
Disclaimer: I'm not making this game to work on the cellphone, so any glitches you encounter while on the cellphone will probably not occur if you play on a desktop. (Specifically things like lag or sprite flickering.)
Also: I can't fix a glitch if I don't know how to replicate the glitch, so you'll have to tell me in as much detail as possible if you want me to even attempt to fix it.

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Aesthetic:

-When naming your baby the sprite will cycle through three different sprites. I don't know how to stop that. (Not really. I have some ideas but those are low priority right now.)
-If you look at the map, you may be in the middle of the ocean. I don't know why this happens and I don't know how to fix it.
-This hasn't been reported yet but I'm guessing that it will at some point. When you customize your character not everything will be 100% accurate to your character. So some things, like you kissing or hugging somebody will change your hair and clothes to the default before changing back. (This isn't a glitch. This is just me being lazy.)
-For some reason plot 6-10 sometimes won't sparkle when you water them.
-Because there's a 99 page limit on events I can only show the first and last stages of berries in the berry events themselves.
-The game might crash when you look at your dresser. It might not. It doesn't crash for me but it does for some others and I don't know why.
-Some furniture items won't appear when you try to place it down until you place it down. The fix is… Kind of complicated to figure out. The furniture should still work though.
-The "evolution" music doesn't work. I'd replace it but it crashed again when I converted the file into an .ogg file and now I can't get into the debug version of the game without it crashing either. (It's called "Evolution.ogg" but it's also used for trading and other things.)
-If the HUD is telling you the wrong date, just look at the calendar and it should fix itself.
-Tauros will be cut in half if you ride it in the grass. I think that's supposed to happen normally with a bike but just don't freak out if it happens.
-Ludavine may be stupid and instead of walking to you, she might talk to the mailbox when she's introducing herself.
-Sometimes the candidate you're talking to will disappear when you're talking to them. This only happens during very specific circumstances. If just talking to them gives them enough points to unlock an event, and you happen to be in he map where that event will happen, they'll disappear while you're talking to them. Once you're done talking to them the event will start.
-The numbers telling you what day of the month it is may be wrong. I don't know why that happens.
-The little weather picture on this thing I'm calling a HUD is supposed to update every time you go to bed, but it doesn't so it updates after taking a step away from the bed instead.
-Whatever this is. If I knew what it was I'd fix it. (It's probably not a glitch, but it did bother me.)

Spoiler:

-Everybody (until you leave the woods into the whole region, starting with Nox town) has a schedule. I tried using the Pathfinder script but it crashed so hard I had to reset my laptop before I could continue making the game so they instead just kind of teleport around.

Audio:
There's no Pokemon cries in battle. The files work fine. I have no idea what's up with that.

Text:
-When you're proposing to somebody they'll go through their dialogue right after before the proposal actually starts. I know why this is. I'm just too lazy to fix it right now.
-Misgendering: There may be some misgendering going on if you choose to have non-binary pronouns since I added that option late in development. Please lemme know if you encounter this.
-My keyboard is dying so there's probably going to be some dumb typos.
Also I might've forgotten to change some copy&pasted messages. So it's possible that the game will ask you if you "want to give her a present" when you're talking to a guy and vice-versa.
-I may have some story inconsistencies. Please let me know if you find any and when.
-If you fund your Miltank Stable the guy will say that it'll take three days but it might not. I accidentally deleted the option so I copied&pasted the Daycare option and replaced "daycare" with "Miltank" but I didn't bother to see just how many days it would take because I wasn't feeling very good that day. I'm hoping that by saying something I'll actually remember to check later.
-In Nemorensis one of the prize guys in the casino doesn't say anything when showing you the prizes. This is because "RAGECANDYBAR" was too long and I had to erase that message.
-You might get the "You got # berries!" message twice. This isn't a glitch. I just wasn't thinking so I added my own message on top of the message. I started fixing this and then I realized that maybe I could just do that in between builds.
-Also I might've forgotten to change some copy&pasted messages. So it's possible that the game will ask you if you "want to give her a present" when you're talking to a guy and vice-versa.
-You might have some items who's name and description doesn't match what they're supposed to be. (Like the "special potion" being called a "donation ticket.") These things were supposed to change, but obviously they didn't.

Code:
-For some reason whenever there's a new map it seems to like to automatically make that map a "cave" and will generate wild Pokemon from it. Also for some reason that apparently doesn't make any sense I can no longer go into "debug" mode to fix it. So you'll just have to deal with wild Pokemon in some areas where there shouldn't be until I can debug again.
-Your babies might be a little late. Or a little early. Either way, your babies birthdays will be considered as being on the 2nd of whatever month they were born in.
If you're dating Alderic and Jayce, you might not actually be for reasons I'm too embarrassed to explain. Just go to bed and that should fix it.
-This was 100% intentional but I'm (probably) going to fix it eventually anyway. With the plots I added, I added them with the assumption that they'll be next to each other and added to the ends of the two lines. Because of that when you use a "Shiny Sprayduck" on them they might water one of the plots on the opposite side to them while avoiding others right next to them. I'll "fix" this if I make up to 20 plots.
-If there's a glitch with the berries, tough. I don't care anymore. You fix it. If the "glitch" is just a graphic thing, I already know. I can't do anything about that without breaking the game somehow. (And by "breaking" I mean it'll constantly crash.)
-I forgot how Cerise's first event ends. I don't even know if I ever ended it :|. So there might be two endings to that event now.
-Some moves will give you an error message but will then just let you use it anyway. That's not on me. Just be glad that you have a free move.
-Every day when you go outside and step away from the house, the game will pause. It's processing how the berries would look at that point of growth. (Until it inevitably goes back to the first stage.) It will only do this once a day.
-The first Friday after Ollie takes care of your Daycare Center (if you have one, and if you choose to let her do so) the box may not give you anything. I dunno why that is but it should work every other Friday.
-For some people I forgot to have measures to prevent you from just giving them gifts over and over again so I did... But it was a quick fix so it's possible that if you cancel out of the bag you won't be able to give them anything for the day. I'll be working on it so that doesn't happen while waiting on glitch reports. (Though I doubt that it would be a big deal.)
-There might be an error message if you use a new item in battle. Ignore it and the thing should work as intended despite the message.
-When you finish a request the "item get" sound effect might play twice at the same time. I dunno why this happens.
-In the Tellus gym the gems might not disappear or appear as they're supposed to be. I think I know how to fix this but I'd have to start over again and I'd rather just do it in between builds. (It works if you get it right the first time. Even if you don't it'll probably still work and will just be a graphical screw-up.)
-You may get a syntax error when you go to bed. I don't know why this happens since all the event is is a bunch of addition and skipping to a certain time.
-Every Daycare Center seems to be connected for some reason as far as the Pokemon in the Daycare goes. The Wiki doesn't say anything about this and I don't know how to fix this. I don't know if I even want to fix this.
-In a lot of events you'll get teleported back to your farm. This will make the game pause for a while. So don't assume that the game froze if it didn't teleport you back after 10 seconds.

Misc:
-Some Pokemon in the regional dex might have it's dex number far away from their evolutions or pre-evolutions. This is because I forgot that they existed in the first place somehow and had to add them at the bottom. I might fix this in the future.

Glitches or oversights that I'm not going to fix:
-The characters will be teleporting around instead of actually walking place-to-place. This isn't a glitch or an oversight. I just can't get a pathfinding code to work. The one time I tried I had to restart my laptop.
-You can get a watering can that will water three plots at once if you water the middle of the three. If you water something with this can but one of the plots next to it are empty it will still be considered as "watered" if you plant a berry there. I'm not gonna change that because it's just a small, unimportant benefit.
-This is actually not a glitch and it's technically not an oversight because it was done on purpose. During the "Pomona Battle Tournament" thing people will be at Duellona... And will still be teleporting around. I thought about it and decided that it'd be nice to give people the ability to interact with people without having to participate in the thing first.

How this game differs from other farming/dating games:

-Berries are already canon in Pokemon so instead of veggies you grow berries.
-You can't "pass out" if you stay up past a certain time. That would suck if you passed out at night in the middle of the map and had to go back. (I suppose if Winds of Anthos could do it, I could too. But WOA is a very different game.)
-You don't just give people gifts every day. It's more like a flash dating sim game that doesn't exist anymore- you have to talk to them and say what they want you to say. (I'll work on more dialogue options while waiting for the inevitable glitches that people will find even if I don't. If I can think of any.)
-You can only give people gifts on their birthday (with the candidates they won't accept any gifts from you until you're so friendly with them. I might change this so it'll be purple heart instead of pink where you can give gifts) and Valentines day. (You do have to be at a red heart for that. I might make it pink heart, but like... 80 points or more pink heart.) If you're dating or married to them you can give a gift to them once a day.
-There's an entire region to explore plus Gyms and other Pokemon things.

Things to come in the next big build:

-The ability to beat the Elite 4
-More legendary Pokemon will be unlocked
-"Spouse events," if I can think of any.
-A finished map

Credits *Due to unfortunate circumstances I can't directly link you to every one of them anymore. I'm lucky to have recovered what I was able to recover*:

Music:
Junichi Masuda
Minako Adachi Go Ichinose
Toby Fox (At least one of the songs he made for Pokemon Sword and Shield)
"The Promised Neverland" (There's one song that's in the game from the anime briefly and when I looked up the singer that's what I got.)
Shoji Meguro (I briefly use part of a Persona 5 song.)
Hikaru Utada (I think. For the TWEWY song that Elesa's Gym theme has samples of.)

Graphics:
I have a hard time with making bodies for some reason. (I think I know the reason considering the timing that it started happening.) So I edited a portrait from Tales Of Symphonia to make the base for everybody.
I also basically just traced the date faces from Persona 5. (I'm not making money off of this game so I don't really care that much.)
I did edit all of the sprites, including revamping all of the cut BETA Pokemon. (I'm not going to be using all of them in the game though.) Of course I don't own any of these things.
A Gen 6 pack... That I can't link since it'd automatically download it. You can find it in my blog. (Which you can find the link to in the "Credits.txt file.)
I got the battle backgrounds from here
Gen 5-styled sprites for Gen 7+ Pokemon
Actual gen-4 styled back sprites for Gen 5-8+ (By PorousMist from Relic Castle)
Gen 4-styled overworlds for Gen 6 Pokemon (By Sparta from Relic Castle)

Code:
Pokemon Essentials, of course. (V. 17.2. I don't want to upgrade if it'll mean having to start over with some of the scripts I added.)

FL's Unreal Time script for Pokemon Essentials
FL's Roulette Minigame script
FL's Wall Clock script
FL's change control through pause menu script
Klein's Secret Base script
Marin's HM Items script
Kyu and Clara's egg hatcher script... Is unfortunately lost.
Wild Pokemon can have hidden abilities code is also unfortunately lost.
Shiney570's character customization script. The download is a reupload from me.
Caruban's Gen 9 Pack
Hunger script. (Though I slightly modified it.)

Lemme know if I forgot anything please. I probably did since I added so much.

 

[Ray2064]

This seems really interesting so i'm downloading rn and wow that file is heavy

 

[Ray2064]

During the kalani introduction cutscene in the beach , she may be also on the beach at the same time , you can also meet ollie before the intro cutscene , same thing with kai

There also seems to be a problem with the growing trees since they won't show their growth

The " stat boost in a pinch" berry section sells SE lowering damages berrys

 

[Callmefreak]

During the kalani introduction cutscene in the beach , she may be also on the beach at the same time , you can also meet ollie before the intro cutscene , same thing with kai

There also seems to be a problem with the growing trees since they won't show their growth

The " stat boost in a pinch" berry section sells SE lowering damages berrys

1. Whoops. I fixed that. (They'll probably flicker out of existence once the event starts.)
2. I thought that I said something about that but I guess I didn't. Events has a 99 page limit, so I can only have the first and last stages in them. I did do something so you should see the progress every time you step away from your house when you're in a new day but it reverts back every time you leave. (Also I think it messes up anyway. It's a literal mess.)
Every time I try to mess with the code at this point it just crashes the game so I'm just not gonna bother tweaking it anymore. Maybe I'll try (and fail) to make whatever I wanted to accomplish into a script at some point but for now the berries are what they are and that's due to RPG Maker limitations.
3. Also whoops. That's also fixed.

As far as the file size goes, I've noticed that it was taking forever to load at some point because I added so much into the game. I deleted a bunch of default Essentials maps that I didn't need anymore but now I think I should shove the events that I will need in an empty or in the debug map.
I'm working on cleaning up some things now so the game shouldn't be as big... It's going to be bigger later but at least those maps will be necessary. I'll be uploading an updated version when I think I'm as done as I can on the cleanup part. This will also include the berries and clones fixes.

 

[ARCEUS493ZELDA]

cant wait to try this out later tonight, i enjoyed your pokemon distrust when i played that so i alrdy know im likely to enjoy this

 

[EternalLight95]

Hello! Is there any way to change the game controls?

 

[WildShiro]

Just started playing but like what I'm seeing so far. A bug I noticed so far is that I can't catch deerling without crashing the game. I've only encountered deerling twice and both time after catching and naming the game encounters an error that crashes it( I'll try and get a screenshot if I run into deerling again-got it so far only happens with deerling). And sometimes selling the berries wont match up with dialogue boxed (ie you sold sitrus berries but it still appears in your item menu despite not actually being there anymore. Selling would just sell the next item in list but wont show any changes in the menu) its small and doesn't happen all the time either.) Having noticed much else since i've only just got the 1st badge so far. Really excited to continue playing though.

https://imgur.com/OgSyAdE

 

[Callmefreak]

cant wait to try this out later tonight, i enjoyed your pokemon distrust when i played that so i alrdy know im likely to enjoy this

Thank you!

Do you have the download links of your other games.They all seems broken

I'll try uploading them again. I dunno if that'll help though.

Hello! Is there any way to change the game controls?

I don't think so, which is frustrating because the controls are kind of dumb.

Just started playing but like what I'm seeing so far. A bug I noticed so far is that I can't catch deerling without crashing the game. I've only encountered deerling twice and both time after catching and naming the game encounters an error that crashes it( I'll try and get a screenshot if I run into deerling again-got it so far only happens with deerling). And sometimes selling the berries wont match up with dialogue boxed (ie you sold sitrus berries but it still appears in your item menu despite not actually being there anymore. Selling would just sell the next item in list but wont show any changes in the menu) its small and doesn't happen all the time either.) Having noticed much else since i've only just got the 1st badge so far. Really excited to continue playing though.

https://imgur.com/OgSyAdE

That's weird. I looked up a solution and it should be fixed now. If it's not I do have a different solution.

 

[WildShiro]

Np I will try again once I find another deerling. It's not that bad even if it can't be fixed....I just like deerling but since, so far, it's the only pokemon effected I'm fine with it. Will tell you if you managed to fix it though. Thanks!


Yep managed to catch a deerling without any trouble. Thank you for the quick fix!

 

[WildShiro]

New glitch found. A character( Kai I think?) gave me their number in the bar and it forced quite the game. Now I'm soft locked and unable to do anything when re-entering game. ( Can't move, open menus etc). Probably going to just start a new game though.

 

[Callmefreak]

New glitch found. A character( Kai I think?) gave me their number in the bar and it forced quite the game. Now I'm soft locked and unable to do anything when re-entering game. ( Can't move, open menus etc). Probably going to just start a new game though.

That's weird. I wasn't able to recreate this. Still, I did some changes with Kai in the bar and also after getting his number you teleport back outside as a possible failsafe.

Edit: No wait don't download it yet I just realized I forgot to delete something that could freeze the game in Kai's new position.
Edit again: okay it should be fine now.

 

[EternalLight95]

I noticed two things so far, I haven't gotten past the third badge yet but I think those two are a bit trivial to this game. First, when you try to fertilize the berries, the game crashes and shows something like a loop. Second, some berry patches bug and the berries never sprout. I hope I helped! I love this concept of the game and I really want to see it becoming even better!

 

[WildShiro]

In the cave by the 2nd badge town there's a purple haired trainer by one of the ladders. When I try to go in front/interact I face away from the trainer and the game freezes. I haven't found a way to progress around them.

sometimes when exiting from the bug contest( top area into the park) you will be randomly teleported into the wall of a cave( floor 35) and be unable to do anything.

https://imgur.com/PnHdvSI

https://imgur.com/G6bGVCB

Sorry if I'm annoying you but figured reporting these before you finish with next part would help minimize future glitches.

 

[WildShiro]

Just built the library but a character's event at the farm is badly glitched. Most of the screen turns black, can only see the characters portrait, and when the event is over all that's left is the character sprite with a refection. Unable to leave the glitch area. try to get to my farm in different ways and the event is always glitched. Its the same character as with the bar that glitched me out.(trying to avoid any spoilers. This is a huge problem as the farm is a huge part of the game.

https://imgur.com/X1MEYZv
https://imgur.com/CRVsgtw

okay after alot of different attempts I activated another character's event that involved teleporting from the event ending (was an in town event with a certain wary character) to the farm. It went to the scary reflection void but going up managed to go into my house. Leaving the house activated the problem event but luckily if you go straight up in the darkness you can get into the house. Once you exit things seem normal. ( I did try going straight up before but nothing worked before I was teleported back to farm after activating another character's event. Still was buggy but managed to go through the event.( Don't know if this will work for everyone/again)

 

[Callmefreak]

Just built the library but a character's event at the farm is badly glitched. Most of the screen turns black, can only see the characters portrait, and when the event is over all that's left is the character sprite with a refection. Unable to leave the glitch area. try to get to my farm in different ways and the event is always glitched. Its the same character as with the bar that glitched me out.(trying to avoid any spoilers. This is a huge problem as the farm is a huge part of the game.

https://imgur.com/X1MEYZv
https://imgur.com/CRVsgtw

okay after alot of different attempts I activated another character's event that involved teleporting from the event ending (was an in town event with a certain wary character) to the farm. It went to the scary reflection void but going up managed to go into my house. Leaving the house activated the problem event but luckily if you go straight up in the darkness you can get into the house. Once you exit things seem normal. ( I did try going straight up before but nothing worked before I was teleported back to farm after activating another character's event. Still was buggy but managed to go through the event.( Don't know if this will work for everyone/again)

Oh crap! I thought I had a failsafe for that! I'm sorry! I'll be fixing that and uploading it now!
So basically what happened is that the farm maps kept on corrupting the game so I had to copy and paste them and then destroy the originals. This happened twice and I forgot to change the teleportation map to the new farm. I also forgot to have it automatically teleport you to the new farm in case you're teleported to the void that used to be a farm. I'll do that as a failsafe and then I'll work on looking at every event in case I missed any more.

I'm so sorry for missing that!

 

[WildShiro]

No problem, I just like to report any bugs especially ones that make it hard to proceed in the game. Still love it so far and the more I interact with the characters the more I like them ( mostly the Pomona town residents but even the non-romanceable ones are great.) Have you figured a way to fix the trainer in the cave yet? Nevermind I think its addressed in the new download.

Whelp don't know about the purple haired trainer but the new one causes the game to crash. Gonna try just avoiding her for now.
https://imgur.com/hH1qaPW
https://imgur.com/HvB8aoh

Purple head is improved can actually see the pre-battle dialogue but crashes game. If you could have this trainer move( walk or change direction) as well we could avoid her(?) for now-which is how I got past the previous error trainer.
https://imgur.com/yEEFH80

Can no longer exit Pomona town pokecenter. Sadly I saved in the center so I'll probably have to restart again but this glitch occurs every time I try to exit. Might hold off for a bit though. The error message seem weird though since it says something about the item bag and wedding dress( I'm guessing I know nothing of programming or scripting) which is something I don't have. But hey at least this Pomona town glitch isn't caused by any of the character...I think.
https://imgur.com/yh4QnH4

 

[TravisUmbra]

I seem to have the same issue as WildShiro, Whenever i try to exit the Pomona pokecenter the game crashes after showing an error screen. but im not that far in yet but im enjoying the charaters so far.

 

[Callmefreak]

No problem, I just like to report any bugs especially ones that make it hard to proceed in the game. Still love it so far and the more I interact with the characters the more I like them ( mostly the Pomona town residents but even the non-romanceable ones are great.) Have you figured a way to fix the trainer in the cave yet? Nevermind I think its addressed in the new download.

Whelp don't know about the purple haired trainer but the new one causes the game to crash. Gonna try just avoiding her for now.
https://imgur.com/hH1qaPW
https://imgur.com/HvB8aoh

Purple head is improved can actually see the pre-battle dialogue but crashes game. If you could have this trainer move( walk or change direction) as well we could avoid her(?) for now-which is how I got past the previous error trainer.
https://imgur.com/yEEFH80

Can no longer exit Pomona town pokecenter. Sadly I saved in the center so I'll probably have to restart again but this glitch occurs every time I try to exit. Might hold off for a bit though. The error message seem weird though since it says something about the item bag and wedding dress( I'm guessing I know nothing of programming or scripting) which is something I don't have. But hey at least this Pomona town glitch isn't caused by any of the character...I think.
https://imgur.com/yh4QnH4

I'll just delete the two trainers. I kind of hate trying to add trainers in Essentials. As far as the Pokemon Center thing goes, you wanna know what the problem is?

Some keys on my keyboard are messed up. "E" being one of those. (Though it's making me out to be a liar right now.)
I'd replace it if I didn't have a laptop.
I fixed the stupid typo and it's being compressed right now. When I update the date and fixes on the main post is when it should be safe to leave the Pokemon Center.

 

[TravisUmbra]

Thank you your adressing the issue so quickly, im really liking the game so far but i think i found another problem, not sure if anyone else brought it up but after leaving the bug catching contest i was teleported into the i think caves walls? i saved before i did the contest so i wasint stuck but i just wanted to put this here in case it wasint just my computer being wierd again. not sure if it was already fixed with the newest update if so sorry for bringing up a already fixed issue. have a nice day. (Edit) and apparently after downloading it says my map is corrupt? i guess that means i just start a new game i guess. (edit 2) Never mind thats a my B apparently the game stalled when i was opening my Save and it auto saved before it closed. (Edit 3) no apparently its doing it to my new game to apparently. does this happen when it auto saves when the script hangs when entering or leaving somthing?

 

[WildShiro]

Is fly available and working in game? I know the gym leader said something about there not being an item that warps but I think they said we could use fly. Where would we be able to get it? Or are the flying type pokemon you catch able to learn it by level up in this game? If it's not yet ready that fine but travelling can take quite a bit of time once you get past the second gym. Also I want to wrap up all the datable characters in warmed blankets they all need some hugs it seems( still love them all I just want them all to be warm, happy and safe).