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[Released] Stygian Snakewood, a Pokémon Snakewood remake

How much longer? I am excited as shit for this!
 
lige123 said:
Excuse me, when is the demo expected to be released?
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Lucifer said:
How much longer? I am excited as shit for this!
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Alright. I better explain some things since I haven't said anything in a while.

There is 100% a private beta testing demo coming in a few days after I post this. But I think I need to explain the situation of the game, the current Essentials Stygian Snakewood project had a very messy demo way back in 2022 that went up to Alicia in the desert, but after that a lot of it changed: maps, the Essentials version itself (twice), a whole new difficulty mode, a lot of code and mostly the art overhaul, the team went from just me to a few spriters as well and a guy that helped me with sketches that honestly carried Stygian Snakewood from being just an improved Snakewood to a full blown remake and re-imagination.

And that's where I kinda screwed up a bit with my goals. First the demo would be up to the second S.S Cangrejo encounter, then the final Alicia battle, then to just before it and now it will end when you beat Sage Longwei in the Shakyamuni Tower. I had to take back a lot of things because of the delay brought by improving the old private demo and everything else, I kinda bit more than I could chew.

Also even though I have other members now they're mostly spriters and they have a personal life and their own challenges, so the new sprites will probably have to hold back and be incomplete for a while unless we get more people. And as a final nail to the coffin my university classes start again tomorrow so I'll have a lot less time.

Anyway to talk about the progress, currently I'm finishing then beating the Sage Longwei battle on Lunatic mode and this week I plan to finish Vanilla mode altogether, playtest and finish all the side content. I expect the next demo to come out somewhere between late July and mid-August because I'm planning to release it in tandem with a certain thing. Obligatory screenshots of progress below:

Spoiler: Screenshots!


And at last I managed to work with the wonderful PokeRover application by sexyrexy that will make documentation much easier to access!
Spoiler: man this image is big
 
A¹¹ said:
Alright. I better explain some things since I haven't said anything in a while.

There is 100% a private beta testing demo coming in a few days after I post this. But I think I need to explain the situation of the game, the current Essentials Stygian Snakewood project had a very messy demo way back in 2022 that went up to Alicia in the desert, but after that a lot of it changed: maps, the Essentials version itself (twice), a whole new difficulty mode, a lot of code and mostly the art overhaul, the team went from just me to a few spriters as well and a guy that helped me with sketches that honestly carried Stygian Snakewood from being just an improved Snakewood to a full blown remake and re-imagination.

And that's where I kinda screwed up a bit with my goals. First the demo would be up to the second S.S Cangrejo encounter, then the final Alicia battle, then to just before it and now it will end when you beat Sage Longwei in the Shakyamuni Tower. I had to take back a lot of things because of the delay brought by improving the old private demo and everything else, I kinda bit more than I could chew.

Also even though I have other members now they're mostly spriters and they have a personal life and their own challenges, so the new sprites will probably have to hold back and be incomplete for a while unless we get more people. And as a final nail to the coffin my university classes start again tomorrow so I'll have a lot less time.
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No problem at all! Thank you for keeping us in the loop! Please take all the time you need with the demo release.
 
Can I ask that the main character not be a recolored silver? I feel like that kinda drags down the entire project because of how cool the rest of the remade zombie pokemon look!
 
PokemonMaster_j said:
Can I ask that the main character not be a recolored silver? I feel like that kinda drags down the entire project because of how cool the rest of the remade zombie pokemon look!
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Well, it's not like we have had another option so far, there was a Snakewood character redesign that I lost permission to use and then was used in another project. Simply asking won't give us new protagonists.
 
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I'm just commenting to remind me this is here. I found this when a dev commented on a Youtube video, where to poster update the originals sprites.
 
zth5211314 said:
Are you sure you can release demo this month?
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We're in the playtesting phase and most playtesters are finished or near finished but this does make me want talk about something. Sprites and designs. The demo could easily release this month but there is a considerable problem with consistency, for example, the male trainer has a placeholder backsprite in battle and the female doesn't, while Toxeon has a newer front sprite and a much older backsprite while like a thing or two doesn't have a sprite at all. So with this I should probably ask. Would you play Stygian Snakewood like this and not mind?
 
A¹¹ said:
We're in the playtesting phase and most playtesters are finished or near finished but this does make me want talk about something. Sprites and designs. The demo could easily release this month but there is a considerable problem with consistency, for example, the male trainer has a placeholder backsprite in battle and the female doesn't, while Toxeon has a newer front sprite and a much older backsprite while like a thing or two doesn't have a sprite at all. So with this I should probably ask. Would you play Stygian Snakewood like this and not mind?
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No worries! As chrispy97 said it would allow us to help you with feedback for the eventual final release.
 
A¹¹ said:
我们正处于游戏测试阶段，大多数游戏测试员都已完成或接近完成，但这确实让我想谈谈一些事情。精灵和设计。演示版本月可以轻松发布，但一致性存在相当大的问题，例如，男性训练员在战斗中有一个占位符后精灵，而女性训练员没有，而 Toxeon 有一个较新的前精灵和一个更旧的后精灵，而有些东西根本没有精灵。因此，我应该问一下。你会像这样玩 Stygian Snakewood 而不介意吗？
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我不介意这个问题，因为它只是处于测试阶段，这是可以理解的。
 
Sun Moon said:
Take your time, my guy, I'm not expecting a whole lot for at least another year. I'm a huuuuuuuuuuge Snakewood fan, probably my most replayed fangame, so I'm willing to wait for something that's bound to be amazing.
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For now I would expect 1-2 weeks, it was supposed to be today (it's my birthday) but I got a nasty cold + university stuff..
 
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