After over three months' development, my upcoming Pokémon fangame (currently untitled) is finally complete enough to release a preview video. This fangame will be based on the D/P statistics (and will be fully-featured and as accurate as possible) but also innovate in terms of the plot and overworld.

This video showcases most of the current features, including an overworld and an almost-complete battle screen including attacks, items, switching and stat changes.

YOUTUBE VIDEO:

HIGH-QUALITY DOWNLOAD (10MB): http://www.mediafire.com/?zzttgytzndz

SCREENSHOT:

Now that most of the core is done, it is mainly a case of level design and adding innumerable Pokémon, moves, animations and items. I will build a few routes and towns and will release them as a playable demo in a few months (hopefully less).

This demo will be feature-complete with no omissions, but will only cover a small area of the game. The purpose of the demo is to show people what to expect, to appeal for graphics help (I need your custom Pokémon!) and to test and fix bugs. A few months after that I will release the full game.

IMPORTANT: NEED THE HELP OF A SPRITE ARTIST (OR SEVERAL)

This game WILL have custom Pokémon, but I can't draw very well. I need the help of a sprite artist (or several) to do some Pokemon sprites. I don't need hundreds or anything like that (I will mainly use the existing D/P ones I like best) so PM me if you can do a few. You can come up with Pokemon ideas yourself, have me suggest some or take ideas from community members - it's up to you. i just want to give the game a slightly unique feel since I'm using FR/LG tiles and D/P battle screen graphics. I will of course give credit and if there's anything else I can do...

I WANT YOUR SUGGESTIONS!

I need the help of the community to suggest ideas for the game too> i want this to be fun again, so i need fresh concepts to make it a little different. For example, I plan to have the character start in a big city and get immediately into the plot, instead of the clichéd "You are in a small village with your Mom and now you must fill this Pokédex for no reason whatsoever". I'm not going to make the core mechanics much different from D/P unless it's a really awesome idea though.

For accuracy freaks, I plan to include 99% of the game mechanics that are in D/P. It will be an almost perfect battle simulator, among other advantages. This doesn't mean you'll find all of the D/P Pokemon or moves. I am commited to actually finishing this and having it NOT SUCK.

What platform is this for ?.

Windows, with future porting to Mac OS X and Linux as soon as ENIGMA is completed. It will be open-source.

Cool, man. I saw one of your threads about this project a while back, and it looks to be moving along nicely. I can't draw at all, so sadly I can't help out on that front. But as for suggestions, have you considered having cameos of characters from the series? Maybe even battles against them, like the battle against Red in G/S?

Yes; of course I'll reference previous games like that. Do you have any more radical suggestions - what irritates you about previous Pokémon games that Nintendo hasn't changed?

Looking good atm.
Good luck.

Looks fantastic, you're doing a great job

As for suggestions:
I had always two wishes for pokemon games
-To be able to catch all pokemons from all generations
-To hear when a pokemon is called the real scream (like PI-KA-CHU), not some bits that don't make any sense.
The first one looks to be on the way. If you can do the second you'll be a god, but I don't want to force you

You creating your own storyline or is this just going to be a battlefest?

sigh, I know your not Nintendo and that it's a fangame, but I would have loved if you actually fix one of the biggest gripes I have with Pokemon, and that's the lame battle animations.

The reason I'd like you to fix the lame battle animation is because Nintendo ain't gonna fix it, so who better to fix it then a fangame maker.

man u rock