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GDW Issue 2
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The Game Dev Weekly Newsletter is managed by Avatar at PokeCommunity it is geared toward bringing more popularity to the games in the Game Development section.
Alternate format can be found here.
This issue, Issue #02 was posted Friday, January 13th, 2006
News
NoLeAfCloVeR0987]'s Pokemon Glitter Black has been discontinued.
It's always sad to see a Game Developer discontinue his project. But so shall it be.
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Pokemon: World Adventures demo release.
It has been reviewed in this issue. Refer to the [B]Reviews[/B] section to read it.
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Games
Pokemon: World Adventures
Creator: Budgie_boy
Reviewer: Avatar
Platform: RPG Maker XP
My Rating: 2/10
Member Rating: 3/5
Story:
The demo was too short to get much actual story development.
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Summary:
You instantly start in town upon starting the game, there were no introduction whatsoever.
The professor in the town asks you whether or not you want to go on a journey, upon accepting he tells you to go meet a person called 'Budgie' on the island of Mukaia, not much else happens in the game afterwards.
There were several event errors in the game. You had to press the confirmation key everytime you were standing on a warp (as it was not set to be executed upon the hero touching it) While the idea of executing voices when you are engaging in chatter with the NPCs would add a little more spark to the game, the Diablo sounds did not really fit into the game. When I fought against the gym leader, I did not have any Pokemon, instead I ended up defeating him because my character somehow used a lightning attack on his Pokemon.
The hero charset had a gray outline, which is commonly present when the translucent color has not been set to gray, which it should of.
Hopefully a more elaborated version will be released next time.
Interviews
If you wish to be interviewed refer to the Contact Information section.
Pokemon Treasures interview:
Platform: N/A
My Rating: N/A
Thread Rating: N/A
Information:
Pokemon Treasures brings you two new regions, Taion and Hohpo to explore, as well as the old region Johto of G/S/C. Over 100 new Pokemon to catch, breed, train, compete against your friends and new Berries, and new Trainers. It is a game you should not miss when it is released.
Interview by: Avatar
Interviewed: Mattgcn, Dodo
Avatar: How long have Pokemon Treasures been under development?
Mattgcn: Since October of 2003..long time ago
Mattgcn: It started out when PO was first announced in what I believe was the fan-sprites board at Serebii. There was a sudden boom of games.
Avatar: What is the main reason behind the creation of Pokemon Treasures?
Mattgcn: Shadolf, the creator, thought it would be a good idea and rounded up a bunch of members to create the game.
Mattgcn: I believe it is the only one to have lived over the ban of fan-games in the forum, since when I joined I had suggested to Shadolf we create forums.
Avatar: What program or language is it being developed in?
Dodo: We were hoping to use the PO engine once it finishes, but now, it seems unlikely that the engine is going to be completed anytime soon
Dodo: We have several ideas
Mattgcn: Yeah, since the recent bail of the Pokemon Online engine, FMY, our webmaster and head scripter decided to try for hard programming using the Python language and the pygame library.
Mattgcn: This of course brought up a bit of critisism among a few people, who noted the general lack of progress around PT in the programming sector
Avatar: What made you choose to program it in Python?
Mattgcn: Python is a very flexible language in the gaming sector, since it can run on many platforms, and allowing us to implement many of our ideas.
Avatar: What are the planned features for full release of Pokemon Treasures?
Mattgcn: Features...We have got a bunch of little ideas, not very many fully planned features yet. Though we are willing to work hard to get the MMO section of it working..Since that is our key point of interest
Mattgcn: One idea for a feature I've toyed around with is basically to meld old game gadgets into one for simplicity. Simple if we could get all those to work of course
Avatar: Did the team have trouble thinking up all the custom content in the game? Such as the Pokemon?
Mattgcn: Well, early on, Dodo had her little series of fake Pokemon images that were created into concepts for new ones
Mattgcn: Pokemon were things developed early on in the game's life, and reworked many times over since then. Even now ideas are being scrapped, retooled and new ones are being added
Avatar: What platforms are you going to release Pokemon Treasures on?
Mattgcn: Well, since our userbase at the forums run on all three platforms, we will be attempting to port to both Mac and Linux as well as have it run on Windows XP
Mattgcn: This is mainly due to our only two programmers, FMY and BonzaiRob running on non-Windows platforms
Avatar: Can you give an estimate on your progress of development on Pokemon Treasures?
Mattgcn: Well, our development so far has been in spriting and stats.
Mattgcn: Pokemon and trainers have nearly complete sprite sets.
Mattgcn: And stats, we've been working very hard to get move stats done. Pokemon are pretty much done.
Avatar: Do you have any final comments regarding this interview and Pokemon Treasures?
Mattgcn: Well, it was very nice to get out in the open the story behind our game. Since I'm doing this interview on behalf of the entire staff, they're really the ones to thank. I'm just the gopher.
Mattgcn: For PT in general, we have got to thank our inspirations. DeathChill and PO for helping get it started, as well as Fluo and Project Pokemon Creation and the Pokemon Factory for the wealth of ideas they both gave us.
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Pokemon Illusions interview:
Platform: RPG Maker 2003
My Rating: 5/10
Thread Rating: 4/5
Information:
Pokemon Illusions was reviewed last week, if you would like to read the review click here.
Interview by: Avatar
Interviewed: Darkdoom3000
Avatar: How long have Pokemon Illusions been under development?
DarkDoom3000: Well it started in june 05, but was discontinued because I got bored.., then continued again!
Avatar: What inspired you to create a fangame?
DarkDoom3000: Well it when I thought about making a hack of Pokemon Gold. I tried haking but failed...
maps were hard to do and I didnt even know how to make events....
Then I came to this site and saw the Pokemon Fangames, that's what inspired me, I had always wanted a pokemon game where there could be all pokemon. My First pokemon game was Pokemon Destiny... which I got bored and quit..
My second was Illusion which is going great!
Avatar: Why did you choose to make the game in RPG Maker 2003?
DarkDoom3000: Well I used to have RPGmaker 2003, I got used to it and masted it!, When RPGmaker XP came out, I downloaded it but my monitor was too small for 1000x800 resolution, so I used Rm2k3 instead.
I couldn't script so Sphere was a no-go and game-maker..well I didnt know how to use it and now I dont want to switch, because illusion is nearly done! and Im very good with rm2k3!
Avatar: What do you have of planned features for the full release of Pokemon Illusion?
DarkDoom3000: Well there will be,
1 region- Raska
and there will be the Sevii Islands(rainbow islands)
-all pokemon catchable!
-Trade center( loads of NPC's wanting to trade/battle)
-Wireless battle Center(random trainer battles!)
-pokedex,bills PC, pokegear!
-day/night-weather
-Clothes Changing system!
and Lots more!
Avatar: Can you give an estimate of the progress on Pokemon Illusions?
DarkDoom3000: Well its probally about 70-90% complete, because ive mapped out all of Raska, All gyms have been done and the pokemon leauge is done as well!
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DragonBall Z: Tanner Last Stand intervew:
Platform: RPG Maker 2003
My Rating: N/A
Thread Rating: N/A
Information:
Among one of the only Dragon Ball Z fangames.
With the exception of some grammatical errors here and there, the game seems interesting thus far.
The game does not use a turn based battle system, instead it boasts an ABS.
If you're a fan of Dragon Ball Z, this is probaly the game for you.
Interview by: Avatar
Interviewed: ~Hyper Tanner~
Avatar: How long have you been developing games?
~Hyper Tanner~: 1 year now
Avatar: What made you choose to make a fangame?
~Hyper Tanner~: When I watch dbz I always want to be a character in the show
~Hyper Tanner~: then when Dragonball Z Legacy of Goku first came out it really inspired me
~Hyper Tanner~: I started to write a story about Tanner and his life, How he been decieve, betraded, in love, pain, sorrow, etc.
~Hyper Tanner~: Then I heard they can make rpg game on the computer called rm2k3 *That was the first word I've heard". So I search it on google, download, and try it out.
~Hyper Tanner~: The first sucks like a vaccum cleaner *lol* so I quited cause I had a bad report on it. Then I heard of Abs, Coding, and etc. you can do to make a real dbz game.
~Hyper Tanner~: I tried asking ppl on Pokemon Community about 2 years ago how do I make an ABS. They didn't know, so I went to a site called Picceta Forum and 1 year later..Pow! they game was a hit..
~Hyper Tanner~: That what made me choose to make a fangame.
Avatar: What features do you have planned for the game besides the ABS?
~Hyper Tanner~: New Character: like the ppl on PC requested their character on the game.
CMS
Partial Ally (An ally coding)
Hidden Character Brolly, Babidi, etc.
Hidden place: Reserve Saiyan planet, etc.
Avatar: Do you have an estimated release date?
~Hyper Tanner~: Demo released in Feb. 18 2006
Game released July 23, 2006
Avatar: Do you have any final comments before I end the interview?
~Hyper Tanner~: I want to say Thank you for the interview and I'll make sure the game a hit
~Hyper Tanner~: and also after Tanner Last Stand I am making a mortal kombat rpg game that all
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