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[cbd98]

Hey everybody. Well, I've been helping with other peoples hacks as a spriter, and I thought I'd try my own hack idea. It will be called Pokemon Reality, a hack of Ruby. Here's the story for our first hack.

Story:

Spoiler:

I was in my bed, sleeping like a rock, dreaming about the day I would finally get my first Pokemon. All of a sudden, there was an earthquake. The room shook, and I screamed. Just as soon as it had started, it stopped. I figured it was just a lucid dream, and fell back into a deep sleep...

The next day, I turned on the TV as soon as I woke up. The news came on, and it talked about the earthquake. Apparently it wasn't a dream. It was a strange device with evil purposes. It was making Pokemon come to life. I laughed, and thought it was a joke. But my GameCube was missing, and so was my Pokemon Colosseum game. When I went downstairs, I couldn't believe my eyes. My Umbreon and Espeon were waiting at the bottom of the stairs.

"Umbreon? Espeon?" I was so confused. Maybe it wasn't a joke. But my mom was in the corner. "[PLAYER](default is Will), you know these... these things? "Yeah Mom, they're Pokemon." I thought I should probably go next door to the Professor. He'd know what to do.

"Ahh, [PLAYER], so you're Pokemon came to life too? Well, that's good and bad. Good is they weren't messed up like my daughter's poor Pokemon. Bad is now I know it wasn't a practical joke. So, let me guess, you want to know what happened last night. Well, you're too young to know. This is for grown-ups. But I know a way you COULD know. Travel the U.S.! Learn from congressmen and representatives! Learn the truth. But you could use a Pokemon to your advantage. Now I'd like to keep one of your Pokemon for research, but you can keep the other. So choose. Do you want the defensive DARK-TYPE UMBREON, or the SPECIAL PSYCHIC-TYPE ESPEON?"

Next you go west to Interstate 90 and soon you come across 2 uniformed men with the letter TR (Team Reality) on them. They are stealing 2 eggs. You instantly know they were taken from he nearby town's park care-takers so you battle the 2 uniformed men. In the end you win, get the 2 eggs, show them to the vetrinarian to study then return the eggs to the care-takers who reward you with 1 of the eggs of your choosing.

This is a hack of Ruby. This is also set in the real world. I'm hoping to get some really good tilers so I could put stuff in like the Statue of Liberty and other important sites across the U.S.

Here's some features of the game...

• Explore the United States and parts of Canada!!!
• New starters, Umbreon or Espeon.
• Some Pokemon got glitched from the laser. These will be Fakemon in the game. Maybe some glitch legendaries like MissingNo...
• There will be Gym Leaders, but they aren't gym leaders. They're talented trainers from the area that you meet somehow.
• The E4 is the National Pokemon Championships.
• Meet the evil Team Reality!!
• It'll probably be Deoxys for the legendary. It's backround fits, because the laser it was hit by could be from Team Reality.

Here's the team so far:
Me - Spriter, OW Spriter, Story, Leader :)
PoisoNinja - Mapper
Zekrom The Hedgehog - Mapper, fakemon ideas, story. He dropped out of... uuhh... some positions. i dont remember what, just he dropped out of something.
Hi-Techneon - Mapping, scripting
hackerofdarkness - mapper, tile inserter
kyoto - fakemon ideas
PokemasterX - ideas and beta testing
Olli97 - scripting
Punnagg - spriter

Here's the application to join:
Name:
Skills:
Skill Level:
Proof of Work:
Past Experience:
Preference of communication:

We need this many people:
Mappers: 1 more needed, PoisoNinja, Zekrom The Hedgehog (not sure), Hi-Techneon, hackerofdarkness
Spriters: 2-4 , cbd98
OW Spriters: 1-2 , cbd98
Banner Maker: 1 If you think yours is better then pm me with the banner. credit for banner goes to Anng2000 from GameSpot.com and to PoisoNinja for putting it all together.
Scripters: 1- 3 more, Hi-Techneon and Olli97
Ideas for the Glitch Fakemon: kyoto
We also need someone to make custom tiles. we have hackerofdarkness to insert them, but we need someone to make some, like the statue of liberty.

Our banner:

OK, I'm done. Please join!!!

 

[PoisoNinja]

This sounds a bit weird, but at the same time if it was made correctly, with custom tilesets and whatever, it could be something quite different than we're used to; that would be a cool twist. It could be interesting... If I was a better mapper, I would join ;P Good luck with it.

 

[cbd98]

thx. the only problem is nobody's joining... :(

 

[PoisoNinja]

Well, I'm still quite the novice mapper, but I could join and be a back-up mapper...
Name: PoisoNinja
Skills: Mapper in training.
Skill Level: Novice
Proof of Work: See attachments.
Past Experience: Currently mapping on first hack.
Preference of communication: Skype, PM, email, whatever is fine..

Like I said, I'm still learning, so I wouldn't be able to do a lot of the custom things needed for a hack like this, but I can handle the basics somewhat..

 

[cbd98]

I think you're good enough to start out. Welcome to the team. I'll be PMing you soon with some details on what cities and routes to start mapping.

 

[PoisoNinja]

Alright man, sounds good.

 

[ShockHERO]

Name: u know
Skills: mapping, story, fakemon ideas
Skill Level: intermediete
Proof of Work:working on hack now
Past Experience:above
Preference of communication: PM

i have ideas for fake mon just look at my pics and nice story btw

can i do some of the desert places or snow places just send me the file

 

[cbd98]

ok, you're in. i'll send you some details. you can probably do arizona and some snowy place up north. maybe chicago that's kinda north.

EDIT: you'll be doing minnesota and new mexico. and if we get could put it in, maybe alaska.

 

[Hi-Techneon]

This looks very interesting to me. I'd love helping and travelling America :D
Name: Hi-Techneon
Skills: Mapping and Scripting (and storyline if you need it)
Skill Level: I have no idea to be honest, so here's my thought: mapping 4/5 scripting 3/5 (no ASM)
Proof of Work: I'll dig in my folders and try to show something interesting.
Past Experience: None, I've been helping in the script help thread and the simple questions thread but that's all
Preference of communication: VM or PM

I'll edit this post once I find some proofs of work :)

 

[cbd98]

I don't car if a scripter has proof of work, since we don't have one yet. Welcome to the team!! I'll send you some detail. which reminds me, i need to start working :P

 

[PoisoNinja]

Alrighty, I know it's not much, but at least we can have a banner now ;P
(None of the artwork is mine, I just did a lot of copying, pasting, and cropping) Anyway, enjoy..

Spoiler:

 

[cbd98]

its pretty kewl. just remember to find the credits so i don't get anybody mad at me.

EDIT: guys i'm gunna make a world map so i can show you guys what routes and stuff. i'll have it done by tonight prolly.

 

[ShockHERO]

hey i have some ideas now but i forgot to draw them......

Comstar- Psy-Rock

Merma -Water => Mermia -water-psy => Mermquatic
Piggl -elec => Zopiggle -elec => Zigglpig- Elec

 

[PoisoNinja]

Nice creativity! An electric pig, found my new favorite lol

 

[cbd98]

those are good ideas, we'll probably use them. also, i got the world map attached. it's a rough copy, so stuff might change. also, zekrom change the arizona directions i gave you to new mexico.

 

[PoisoNinja]

Alright, I've got Rhode Island here, which I think is the first city... tell me what you guys think.

 

[cbd98]

I. LOVE. IT. it's really good. definite yes. i'm gunna post what everyone has so far so we can see how we're doing.

Hi-Techneon sent me this:

Spoiler:

I started yesterday already, and the truck is completely blacks and serves as a dream. Then you wake up in your room and there are some serious earthquakes, then you go back to sleep, thinking it was just a dream, the next morning you wake up and go to the clock, it's broken and you have to fix it (in order for the RTC to work), then you check the TV, notice your GameCube's gone

PoisoNinja's map is right above this...

Zekrom's got some nice ideas for the story and fakemon...

And I have done... nothing... :P but i will be right about... now.

Keep up the good work!

 

[PoisoNinja]

I'm glad you like it! If there's anything you want different just let me know.. Well, it seems like progress is going along just fine :D What other maps need to be worked on?

 

[cbd98]

If we had cutsom tiles we could do new york... :( i know!! do the big island on hawaii. and just so you know, i think some lava and rocks and stuff are in tileset 17. if i remember correctly. the island should be bigger than rhode island, have the volcano in the middle with a cave door sticking out the front, mostly beach around the island (for that hawaii feel :) ) and for some houses use the kind that are at the bottom of rhode island, cause those just seem more hawaii to me. sry if it's a lot.

 

[PoisoNinja]

Yeah, Hawaii sounds fun!! :D
And yeah, there would really be no point in doing New York, if we don't have any custom tilesets.. Same with any other large city that will be strongly recognizable.