Pokemon:Treachery

[Shaded]

First of all the name is subject to change.
Secondly, this will be/is a ruby hack.

Storyline:
You start off in the starting town of Hollow Haven, where you notice there is only two buildings, your's and the mysterious Demon Labs company building, you venture around town, even visit the building, but you are pushed out by a mean secretary. You have nowhere else to go, after you have seen everything in the town, you go on out when you suddenly see a man, yelling at the top of his lungs,"Help!I am being attacked by the haunting remnants of my experiments,go to the lab and tell the secretary I sent you, HURRY!" Then you go back and enter the building, you go past the lady, then you go down the stairs into what seems like a underground laboratory, on the table you notice six pokeballs,(Starters) The pokemon inside of them include, abra, ghastly, bellsprout, grimer, shellder, and houndour. You pick one and go back to the man, you fight a dark/ghost kind of pokemon. He tells you that he is not safe outside, and you find yourself in his lab once again. He explains something about his company, Demon Labs, while still being vague about alot of things, like what the "experiment" was. He tells you that he needs you, to collect some data for him, and that you will be a great asset to the company. He also mentions that if you don't, terrible things will happen to you and your family, seeing as you live on the company's land. So after going home, and talking it over with your mom, who tells you the only way for her to keep living there is for you to do what the man said. You go back to the Demon Labs CEO, Devin. He gives you a pokedex, and a map, and tells you not to return unless you complete the pokedex(but over the course of the game, you return to him regardless,for items).He has developed agoraphobia, from being haunted, and cannot go outside. So you leave for your journey, battle some trainers, get some items, find clues about the company. You find different outposts of Demon Labs, across the region, these outposts focus on studying one type of pokemon, each.(Gyms,basically)You can challenge the head developer at each outpost, who will present you with a new TM that they developed and a badge that certifies, your worth to the company. After, visiting the seventh outpost, a series of events occur, and you find out more terrifying truth about the company and what their real agenda is, and you decide to bring them down.

That's all I have so far...
I wasn't sure if I should post this in progressing hacks, or here, because I have already started, but I read the criteria for posting in the progressing hacks section, and found that I wasn't yet ready to produce some screenshots etc..

This hack will unclude:
-New Items
-New Trainers
-New Pokemon(maybe)
-New Areas
-New Elite Four
-New Types of Gyms
-and much more...

If you want to help me out, as in be in a part of a team, then don't hesitate to ask, but provide some proof of your experience on the subject, be it scripting,spriting,map-making etc...

Also, If you have any ideas, feel free to put them up, and I may implement them into Pokemon:Treachery, and maybe if you have a better name post it up.
I'm relatively new to the pokemon hacking scene, although I have been looking for quite some time, because this interests me, I just created an account today,but I started on this hack a week ago. I'm currently learning how to script, and beggining to be relattively good at it!
Thanks for reading all that!

 

[Druyii]

OK, an interesting start to your hack. I think that the stroy is rather interesting. Your post can't go into Progressive Hacks, because it needs some screenies, so your good there. I only specialise in MIDI composing, and am currently running one hack, Reign of Fire, and am the MIDI composer for another. If you need a hand, let me know. Good luck with this one,

Druyii

 

[Shaded]

Thanks, I'll let you know then. What does a midi composer do though? Do you like create new music for the game?

 

[Druyii]

Yeah, we compose new music to be put into the game

 

[ghettowizard223344]

This Is a Nice Idea Im Currently Working On A Hack Pokemon Infected Im Only Good At Recolors And Revamps Im An Okay Mapper But If You Need Help Just Ask And Ill Help

 

[Shaded]

Does anyone have any ideas on how to make it better?

 

[machomuu]

Does anyone have any ideas on how to make it better?

Death and Scandal, that definitely goes with treachery and is not often seen in hacks.

 

[epicBallgo]

I'm new to the hacking scene myself, but this hack caught my attention mostly cause the company adds a darker element to the game and thats sort of what I plan to aim for when i get work on my hack up and running.

Just a couple of ideas or thoughts that may or may not help, just spit balling here.

- Why do you live on company land?
- What is the significance behind challenging the researchers?
- How exactly would the Elite Four fit into the story?
- A goal should be given for the company, even if its not their main goal, or if its just a front. Maybe they are trying to best another company or something along those lines?
- Are TMs the only thing you gain from working with the company?
- Do you have a rival and if so do they work for the company as well, or maybe a rival company?

I could come up with a dozen more questions, but I'm sure this is a decently annoying amount to deal with at the moment, that and i got to get back to working on mapping and that sort of stuff.

But seriously, try to come up with different ways the story could branch out and then cut out what you don't really life, mix and match what doesn't really fit, and alter whatever seems a little off.

 

[Shaded]

Will do, Thanks Alot! Now, I have some screens for the first town, Im still trying to learn how to script my own events for the starting, I've kind of got it working but its glitchy.

I'm new to the hacking scene myself, but this hack caught my attention mostly cause the company adds a darker element to the game and thats sort of what I plan to aim for when i get work on my hack up and running.

Just a couple of ideas or thoughts that may or may not help, just spit balling here.

- Why do you live on company land?
- What is the significance behind challenging the researchers?
- How exactly would the Elite Four fit into the story?
- A goal should be given for the company, even if its not their main goal, or if its just a front. Maybe they are trying to best another company or something along those lines?
- Are TMs the only thing you gain from working with the company?
- Do you have a rival and if so do they work for the company as well, or maybe a rival company?

I could come up with a dozen more questions, but I'm sure this is a decently annoying amount to deal with at the moment, that and i got to get back to working on mapping and that sort of stuff.

But seriously, try to come up with different ways the story could branch out and then cut out what you don't really life, mix and match what doesn't really fit, and alter whatever seems a little off.

1)Well, you find out that many years ago, the company just started as an idea and grew, as it grew, it enveloped many villages, and set up outposts there. You just basically have the luck of ending up in one of those villages, your house is the only house left because the other families didn't comply with the company's order, and got exterminated.
2)The company makes you go into the outposts to keep an eye on you, but they don't tell you about that, you must go into the outpost where the researchers want to see how strong you've gotten, and if you have the potential of becoming a threat.
3)The Elite Four would be the last remnant of that which was before the company started reigning, you are told throughout the whole story that the last challenge to the Elite Four was 20 years ago, but the Elite Four became eliminated once the company grew and took control over the region.Actually, this isn't true because the Elite Four still operates, but underground, once you get there, the place looks like a mess. Old everything, lots of broken stuff, but you still get to fight the elite four, but like I said, if you complete the series of events after the 7th outpost, this destroys the companies power, letting the Elite Four come out of hiding slowly, but after you defeat the last outpost the Elite Four is out of hiding and has a temporary building to fight them in,this building has the traditional pokemon center in it. (By saying the Elite Four still operates underground, I mean that they operate deep underground Victory Road, but you can't reach them because it's like a maze down there, which they have for protection from the company).
4)The company's goal is to make the pokemon world a better place, by using pokemon to power homes, change the weather, effectively making the company have a monopoly over all aspects of life in the long-term.
5)You get various other rewards for your compliance, like new gadgets(Goggles,Shoes, and Bikes are just some examples)
6)You have two rivals, which you meet towards the middle of the game, he is brainwashed to think the company's goals are his ultimate goals, he does not realize what the company really wants to do. He will do anything in his power to stop you from messing with the company's agenda. The second one gives you clues to what the company is really after, they think you are a grunt for the company, and that they need to eliminate you. They do not know about the deal you made with Devin.