Merry Christmas ... and other stuff

Well first off, Merry Christmas! Or if you ain't Christian, then Seasons Greetings! None the less I hope everyone had a good one.

And so I didn't do much over the past few days ....

But I did finish the route I was working on the other day, and I believe it looks pretty good. I also decided on what pokemon are to appear in the wild there, but after thinking about it for a fair bit, I've decided that I should go back and review all their locations, cause I think I've stuffed too many species into too small a space =P

I've now started on the second City, dubbed Litor City, which, like all my other names, came from running a random word through Babelfish. I've forgotten what it means though XP.

Moreover, I'm gonna be inserting another route in going north from this city, which hopefully ain't gonna mess up the naming order I have for my routes.

Hmm .... I need to go back a couple of maps and do an underground pathway actually. Maybe later =P

Just a lil bit ...

Well, I took a bunch of screenies of Nerpa Cave for my thread over at PC. Check 'em out here.

As for more recent progression ....

Well I've just started on the forth route (Route 54). Well it's actually the third route since the other one I made won't be accessible to much, much later.

But yeah, it's looking good.

Anywho, I've been thinking about it and I've realised that I should work a redesign of the hero's. Not just in terms of outfit, but maybe a pose as well. The girl is definitely in need of this, since she looks kinda short

The hero's come to save the day!

Well I finally got around to completing them main trainers.

Yeah, I know I took my time, but I finally started putting pixels on the screen and wallah! Here they are. Well now I have to insert them and all, as well as do the OW's.

I wonder if I should give them official names or not. Hmm ....

I'm just not looking forward to doing them oversized ones that they show just before you shrink into that teeny weeny overworld sprite, cause they have a different style and more colours.

Moreover, I hafta to make the sprites for the rivals (named Holly, Drege and Gale), as well as Prof. Yew and assorted other trainers that show up throughout the game.

And then I actually have to do some hacking XD

Too many distractions...

Well, I've been meaning to create custom trainers for a while now, since I am a spriter at heart. However, I find it possible to conjure up a pose for the trainers.

I have their designs in my head, but the pose ... ARGH!

So for the past day I've been sitting at my monitor hoping I can actually start something, and instead winded up spriting a cute lil nurse and a Dragonite as a Christmas gift.

Oh! And I made a camera for rijonAdventures!

And since I am a spriter, there may be a possibility that I will rework the poses of the Pokemon in battle. Chances are I will not do all of them, that some will be done, just so this hack may feel more like a new game altogether ... if you catch my drift =P

But anyways, I've just finished off the mapping for the other two rooms of Nerpa Cave, and they look pretty smexy too me. On shall only be accessible after HM06 ROCK SMASH is obtained, and the other after HM04 STRENGTH is obtained - however, you'll need HM03 SURF to access most of this floor since it contains an underwater lake.

Anywho, hopefully I'll have some new screenies soon just so I can have proof that I am working on it.

Some minor progress made

Well I've finished one of the of levels of Nerpa Cave (which is located on the second route of which you travel on). I've got two more levels to go until I've finished it ^^

I wish I could show some screenies though, but in order to get into the cave you'll need the first gym badge and HM01 CUT - something I haven't scripted yet.

And the other levels require other HM's anyway.

I also did another route, but it's also inaccessible - you have to actually go all the way around to get to it ^^;

In addition, I have been messing around with tiles, and so I've decided that I'm gonna put some custom tiles in. Not to completely revamp the games graphics, but to give some areas a more unique feel.

Oh, and I edited the starter's.

What, I haven't told ya who they are? Well it's these badasses (their first stages actually^^;).

I haven't said much about the rivals have I. Well your main rival is actually a childhood friend of yours named Holly. She's also very energetic around you - and it doesn't matter if you're a boy or girl. Oh! and her starter is this lil cutie.

Bout bloody time!

Well I just now got around to submitting my thread on PC. I'll provide a link to it once it goes through the moderation process.

Now to play the waiting game ... hopefully it doesn't last for too long.

Anywho, for the thread I provided some more screenshots.

Yeah, your lil bro is a big jerk.






Anywho, I've done a bit more than that, but since you actually can't go to where I have done for a while now (across the non-existent bridge), then there's no real point showing y'all.

In addition, I am going to change all the sprites of the main and secondary characters, just to add a bit more personal touch.

EDIT: Well the hack got approved, so here's the linkage.

Thanks for your support.