[RMXP]Pokemon Essence

[TopHat]

The Progress:

Spoiler:

Working on maps:

Towns:
Lorenburgh: 21%​

The Information Desk:

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Name of Game: Pokemon Essence
Developed by: TopHat Productions
Starting date: May 4th 2010
Lead Developers: Tophat & Sehgway
Fakemon: Yes
Region: Renneka[/B][/COLOR][/LEFT]

Introduction:​

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Welcome to the development thread of "Pokemon Essence".
The game is going to be developed by I and a friend.
Pokemon Essence has been planned too be the most original and fun fanbased game.
(So we will be open too suggestions.)
I have experience in programming different languages.
(So i'm hoping that scripting won't be that hard to learn)
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Storyline: (Under Development)​

Spoiler:

In the region of Renneka, A mischievous teenager named "Lanson" (Main character) lives in the city of Lorenburgh with his single mother. With the workforce getting overcrowded Lanson's mother works double she use to,
Finally turning fourteen Lanson strives to have freedom.
With his mother not around much anymore he starts following dreams, Before leaving school Lanson was always the leader of recess teams and the most excelled student Renneka has seen in a long time. Lanson spends his time on the streets of Renneka stealing things, and causing a lot of trouble for the elders of thee town. One night while running with a pack of kids from 34th street (The crew later forms Blackout) He is arrested by police committing a major crime.
The only decision the police have is to send Lanson to a reform school for troubled kids in "Marvella" Witch brings pokemon into the kid's life in hope of keeping him out of trouble. Loyally and behold While serving two years Lanson studies pokemon and learns everything about them. He also studies a lot about hacking and security systems.
A couple months before Lanson's Release his mother passes away due too an accident. Lanson starts communicating with Trevon, one of his good pals from 34th street; Lanson shares his information and his plans of creating "Blackout"
Using pokemon he wants too create a New World and reign over everything that steps in their way. Trevon agrees to be the second leader of Blackout and also welcomes some other friends into the plan. With nothing to lose why not?
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Media:​

Images:​

Spoiler:

Lorenburgh. (First Town)

Videos:​

Spoiler:

Comingsoon

Super Important!​

Well, I'm not an amazing artist outside of paper.
I'm going too need a dedicated pixel artist too make the games fakemon,
Also I will need a graphics artist. Also I will need some beta testers.​

 

[TopHat]

Updating. Working on mapping tonight.
I hope people will find interest in this.

 

[Raikt]

Well, I will give you this... That story is completely different from anything I've read on this board before. I'm still not sure if that is a good or bad thing, at the moment, however. I'll start off with a little critiquing, though.

First Town: It's way too small and uniform for your purposes. The way you describe the city makes it sound like a subsection of New York; a.k.a The Bronx. Honestly, I would say to increase the map size by 10-15x10-15 pixels to get a relatively good side. The other issue is that it is too uniform, at least for my tastes. You have the exact same buildings in a row with no deviation. It could work, but it is just something that innately bugs me. There are also quite a few errors in your first map. The Tall Grass tiles are either under the Ledge tiles or are cut off by the borders for the town. You definitely need to work on that. The tops of the houses also cut out the border for the town as well. That's easy to remedy; just put the border on Layer 2, then put those two houses specifically on Layer 3. You might want to also put borders on your City tiles; the borders that go around the gray tiles to round them off? That would make it look cleaner as well, in my opinion.

Other than that, I question the usage of Tall Grass in your starter town. I've put it in one town of mine, but specifically because I had a plot related reason to do so. It just seems weird having Tall Grass in your starter town without a reason.


Keep in mind that all these are just suggestions, and you don't even have to try them out if you don't want to. good luck on your project.~

 

[TopHat]

Thanks completely on everybit of feedback.
I know my mapping isnt good it really was the first complete map.
Its still rough messing around. In the neighborhood i use to live in the city. the houses were stuck together
and were the same, so I liked thee idea. I will try and keep trying till its liked,
I'm glad too get that from you. keep on watch.

Oh yeah. the storyline. well i've always use too think. what if we could choose and play along the side of team rocket. So I decided make a game from the "Evil" side not the hero.

 

[dudleyspud]

This appears to be a hack. Shouldn't this be in this ROM hacking section?

 

[Raikt]

Uh, considering the Event Grid and the event bubbles, I'm going to say no, bob? How does this resemble a hack?

 

[darkpokeball]

Yeah, I'd like to sign up for Storyline and Beta Testing.