[Released] Pokemon: The Deckbuilding Game [v1.2.00] (3/18/23)

[mEnderlady]

Introduction
Inspired by Slay the Spire and Pokemon VGC doubles.
Made using GameMaker Studio 2.
Draft 4 Pokemon to join your party, each with their own stats, starting deck, and card choices as they level up and evolve.
Battle with 2 Pokemon out at a time to overcome wild battles, trainer encounters, and Gym Leaders to join the Hall of Fame.

Pictures

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Features
170+ Usable Pokemon
500+ Cards
115+ Abilities
8 Gym Leaders
5 Champions
Adjustable game length and difficulty

Planned
More Pokemon, Cards, Gyms, Champions, Abilities, Trainers, Held Items, and Map tiles.
Consumable Items, Sound, Revamped UI, Event encounters, Playable trainers with new rules.

👉DOWNLOAD👈

Starting Guide

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Settings
Gyms - The number of Gym Leaders / Champions to beat to win the game. Game length is about 30-45 mins per Gym.
Difficulty - Each additional point increases the attack, defense, and status effectiveness of Enemy Pokemon by about 10%.
Points - The amount of Points to draft a Pokemon Team with.

Pokemon Draft
- Select 4 different Pokemon to make a team.
- Abilities increase the point cost of a Pokemon and add an effect to them.
- The evolution you pick will be the final evolution the Pokemon will evolve into but they will always start as their fist evolution.
- Any left over Points will be converted into 500 pokedollars each.

Map
- Click on an adjacent green tile to move.
- There are 4 different types of wild encounters, which are Plains, Forest, Water, and Cave, each with their own Pokemon to encounter.
- The "!" encounters are Trainer battles that are more difficult but reward more pokedollars and an item.
- The Poke Ball icons reward an item.
- Right before the Gym is a town where all of your Pokemon will be fully healed and you have access to some services.

Town Options
Poke Mart - Buy held items for your Pokemon.
Super Training - Pay to increase the base stats of your Pokemon. The Cost goes up 50% for that stat and caps at 3 boosts.
Move Tutor - Buy cards to add to a Pokemon's Deck. Cost has a randomly generated variance modified by the value of the card.
Move Deleter - Pay to permanently remove cards from a Pokemon's Deck. The cost increases for each card you remove on that Pokemon. The cost is cheaper for each card in the Pokemon's deck has up to a limit of 20 Cards.

Stats
HP - Changes the HP gained per level.
Attack - Increases the damage of

Physical attacks.
Defense - Increases the amount of

Armor gained from cards to block

Physical attacks.
Special Attack - Increases the damage of

Special attacks.
Special Defense - Increases the amount of

Barrier gained from cards to block

Special attacks.
Speed - Adds 'Slow' or 'Fast' cards to the Pokemon's deck at the start of battle.
'Slow' is a dead card that takes up slots in your deck.
'Fast' is a free card that will draw 2 more cards when played.
The lower the Speed is than 70 more 'Slow' cards will be added as a ratio of the total deck size.
The higher the Speed is than 70 more 'Fast' cards will be added as a ratio of the total deck size.

Battle
- Each Pokemon has their own Hand, Deck (bottom right), Discard (bottom left), and Energy (right of Pokemon).
- After you end each turn, each Pokemon will discard the remaining cards in their Hand, Draw 5 cards from their Deck, and reset their Energy to 3. If there is not enough Cards in a Deck to Draw, the Discard will be added back into the Deck and shuffled.
- Click on the Pokemon or their respective Hand to change the currently selected Pokemon.
- Drag a card into play or over another Pokemon to play it.
- Attack cards will show the damage the attack will do to a specific Pokemon by dragging the card over the target.
- Above each Health bar will show the Pokemon's current Armor and Barrier.
- Above each Enemy will show the move they will use and it's target at the end of the turn.
- You can mouse over the Enemy move to see specific details.

- You can use the Party button to see your Pokemon's decks or to swap out the currently selected Pokemon for 3 Energy.
- In Wild Battles you will encounter 2 Pokemon initially with 2 more joining the battle after turn 1 and 2.
- In Trainer and Gym Battles they will send out 2 Pokemon and swap in additional Pokemon as they are defeated. The number of Pokeballs in the top right will show the total Pokemon they have left.

Changes from Pokemon
- Same type attack bonus (STAB) is 125% instead of 150%.
- Super-effective is 150% instead of 200% and Not very effective is 66% instead of 50%.
- Some Pokemon have adjusted base stats.

Hot Keys
Close game - Backspace
Type Chart - T
Card Info - Tab
Graphics Options - ESC
Back - M2 or ESC
Game Speed - Left and Right Arrow
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Discord Server
Patch Notes


Credits
Developer - EnderLady
Tileset - The-Red-eX
Type Chart - pokemondb.net
Play Testers - BigMomma, ItsOtter

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

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Introduction
Inspired by Slay the Spire and Pokemon VGC doubles.
Made using GameMaker Studio 2.
Draft 4 Pokemon to join your party, each with their own stats, starting deck, and card choices as they level up and evolve.
Battle with 2 Pokemon out at a time to overcome wild battles, trainer encounters, and Gym Leaders to join the Hall of Fame.

Pictures

Spoiler:

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Features
170+ Usable Pokemon
500+ Cards
115+ Abilities
8 Gym Leaders
5 Champions
Adjustable game length and difficulty

Planned
More Pokemon, Cards, Gyms, Champions, Abilities, Trainers, and Map tiles.
Held Items, Consumable Items, Animations, Sound, Revamped UI, Event encounters, Playable trainers with new rules.

👉DOWNLOAD👈

Hot Keys
Close game - Backspace
Type Chart - T
Card Info - Tab
Back - M2 or ESC

Credits
Developer - EnderLady
Tileset - The-Red-eX
Type Chart - pokemondb.net
Play Testers - BigMomma, ItsOtter

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

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Approved!

 

[mgriffin]

Wow, this looks really cool!

 

[dylancd]

this looks amazing!

 

[pika1025]

How i dealing damage to the oposing pokemon? i dont manageing to attacking the oposing team

 

[mEnderlady]

How i dealing damage to the oposing pokemon? i dont manageing to attacking the oposing team

Damage is dealt first to Armor for physical attacks (red icons) and Barrier for special attacks (blue icons) before damage is dealt to the target's health.
Some types are also immune to others so you can drag and hover the card over your target to see if the number changes before you attack.
Hope this helps and thank you for trying the game!

 

[pika1025]

how to attacking i tried to drawing cards but i cant to drawing cards

 

[16Gabs]

Hey, mEnderlady, welcome to the PokeCommunity foruns =)
I myself am new here, but I'm having a good time and hope you do too.

About the game:
I've been trying to play but I really think you should have a "step by step" somewhere.
Be it here or in the beggining of the game to let us know the basic stuff -> how to attack, health points, how many cards in the deck, the armor system, ending my turn, etc, etc.

I've been trying to understand these thing on my own and more often than not it results in the game crashing xD
And I'm not complaining about crashes - it's a fan game, its's gonna happen - but about having to "discover" these principles of the game.

So, can you help? ^^

 

[digass]

What is the point of choosing 3rd evolutions if we have to start with pre-evolutions anyway. And what is Might supposed to be in the new game selection?

 

[mEnderlady]

Thank you for the feedback!
I added a Starting Guide section to the post and updated the download link to a new version with some minor bug fixes and a Read Me file with some additional information.
I know the game is a bit confusing starting out, especially if you are not familiar with deck builders. I will be working on adding a tutorial in the game sometime in the future.
If anyone has any additional questions let me know!

 

[16Gabs]

Hey, mEnderlady!

Thanks for the mini tutorial, it really helped a lot =)

Do you plan on having a discord? Or do we post bugs / crashes here?

This one happened to me when my Gyarados tried to use Aqua Jet.

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ERROR in
action number 1
of Draw Event
for object obj_card:

Unable to find instance for object index 100750
at gml_Script_damage_calc_gml_Object_obj_card_Create_0
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gml_Script_damage_calc_gml_Object_obj_card_Create_0 (line -1)
gml_Object_obj_card_Draw_0

 

[mEnderlady]

Hey, mEnderlady!

Thanks for the mini tutorial, it really helped a lot =)

Do you plan on having a discord? Or do we post bugs / crashes here?

This one happened to me when my Gyarados tried to use Aqua Jet.

Spoiler:

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ERROR in
action number 1
of Draw Event
for object obj_card:

Unable to find instance for object index 100750
at gml_Script_damage_calc_gml_Object_obj_card_Create_0
############################################################################################
gml_Script_damage_calc_gml_Object_obj_card_Create_0 (line -1)
gml_Object_obj_card_Draw_0

That's a great idea! I added a Discord link to the post.
Thank you for the crash report! I'll try and investigate what might have happened.

 

[JubJam]

Sadly I got so far and it glitched, and have been enjoying the game a lot! I wish there was a better UI, it took me a minute to figure out esc is to back.

 

[Rezko12]

Awesome, been waiting for news on this game and I can't wait to try out the update. Keep up the great work!

 

[JubJam]

Finally won my first 8 gyms, and it is so fun! I'd be happy to help with any design ideas for later gens. This is such a winner! :) thanks for the game!!

 

[mEnderlady]

I apologize for the slow updates lately, I have been having carpal tunnel problems so I have been taking it really easy. I appreciate everyone trying out the game! I am excited to get back into it!

 

[the flying pikachu]

hello there developer of pokemon deck buldin game. M name is ilyas, and i'm from algeria. I already joined on the discord server. I came here for the reason of making the game playable by us. Please let's colaborate and help make the game be playable by everyone

 

[Cosmic105]

Hey I downloaded this a few days ago and I wanna say that I really love the game so far!

But I've been encountering a kind of crash on all my runs that after a bit of testing I'm pretty sure is being caused by the enemy pokemon fainting to rocky helmet. Just thought I'd report that :]

Otherwise, great game!

 

[CheezBallzFTW]

Is this not getting any updates?

 

[mEnderlady]

I just updated the game to 1.2 which adds new pokemon, abilities, and changes to some status effects.

I probably wont update it too much in the future unless there is a lot of interest, but I appreciate everyone who gave it a shot.