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Completed Pokémon Containment

This project is complete. Any future revisions will be bug fixes or small updates.
Project Status
Completed
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Here at the Scientific Center for Anomalous Lifeform Defense (or SCALD, for short), we strive to presrve normalcy by containing and studying anomalous Pokémon.
In Pokémon Containment, you can play as one of these three aspiring SCALD researchers (Aoichi, Anji, & Miaya) who've just been hired and wish to make a name for themselves. See if they succeed!

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Strong foes await you - Build your own team!
Pokémon Containment's battles are heavily inspired by "boss rush" games and Raid battles in the Pokémon franchise. Each anomalous Pokémon you face will be very, very tough, being level 100 with boosted HP stats, but your safety will come from strength in numbers -- for every mission, you're allowed to bring any 2 Pokémon from a large rental selection just for researchers like yourself! Not only that, but SCALD has a dedicated free supply of TMs and a Move Relearner on-duty at all times. Use this to your advantage! You can build unique strategies, challenge yourself by picking less viable Pokémon, or just play with some of your favorites! Essentially no two people will have the same team.


Other Details
This game was made with Pokémon Essentials v18, with a lovely plugin called Pokémon Essentials GBC by Xaveriux.
Special thanks to Zygoat and Nue for assistance with dialogue.

Screenshots
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Credits
Lead Developer
Marcie M. (Lichenprincess)

Scripts
TechSkylander1518

Latin Dialogue Translation
Nue

Special Thanks
Zygoat
Graphics:
Spirit Phone Font by Noodlesonbread on tumblr
Ekat99 (with help from Vurtax and Heartlessdragoon)
Sword/Shield Sprite Project - Smogon
SirWhibbles on Deviantart
SharkGuy on spriter's resource

Scripts:
Mid-Battle Dialogue by Golisopod User

Music:
Bulby on YouTube
WhyWaved on Musescore
Dubiousdoggo on Musescore

POKéMON ESSENTIALS GSC was created by:
Xaveriux
With the indispensable help of: Caruban, Boonzeet, Vendily, AwfullyWaffley, TechSkylander1518, James Davy.

Pokémon Essentials GS base resources made by:
COMBOY
"Pokémon Essentials" was created by:
Flameguru
Poccil (Peter O.)
Maruno
With contributions from:
AvatarMonkeyKirby
Marin
Boushy
MiDas Mike
Brother1440
Near Fantastica
FL
PinkMan
Genzai Kawakami
Popper
help-14
Rataime
IceGod64
SoundSpawn
Jacob O. Wobbrock
the__end
KitsuneKouta
Venom12
Lisa Anthony
Wachunga
Luka S.J.
and everyone else who helped out

"RPG Maker XP" by:
Enterbrain
3rd, 4th and 5th generation Pokémon
devamped sprites made by:
COMBOY
DarkDoom3000
Koolboyman
Akailsamu
Neslug
NICKtendo DS
Wes
pokekicks
Alpha Six
Jeremy
Lockerz102
josthR69
Koopaul
Parasect047
Ike
ClawdNyasu
Layle
SengirDev
Devicho
Special thanks to:
The Spriters Resource
Maruno
FL
Umbreon
Pia Carrot
Kcgaranzy
mej71
out written
kiedisticelixer
Crystal GFX Files:
Nuuk
GBC Party Sprites
EeVeeEe1999
QuilChess
JF278 & Dani (from Pokémon Fierce Melody)
Sun/Moon Community Dex v2.0:
Pia Carrot
Pioxys
Xeogran
Lightning
Enderific
SirWhibbles
SupahSanti
JaegerLucciano
patrickackerman
Seyeba
ubasuteyama
Rangi
bloodless
lakeofdance
datlopunnytho
Leperagon
Soloo93
Bronzeswagger
Sword/Shield Community Dex GSC style:
Meltan - , BloodlessNS
Melmetal - JuicyChickenThighs, PiaCarrot
Grookey, Jozzer26, PiaCarrot, JaceDeane
Scorbunny - PiaCarrot, JaceDeane, BloodlessNS
Sobble - EeVeeEe1999
Gossifleur - QuilChess, PiaCarrot, Copetin, JaceDeane
Eldegoss - PiaCarrot, JaceDeane
Corviknight - LucasSevero
Dreadnaw - EeVeeEe1999, JaceDeane
Wooloo - Nuuk
Zacian - PiaCarrot, Copetin
Zamazenta - PiaCarrot
Impidimp - PiaCarrot
Yamper - EeVeeEe1999, JaceDeane
Rolycoly - EeVeeEe1999, JaceDeane
Duraldon - Enderific, JaceDeane
Alcremie - JaceDeane
Weezing - PiaCarrot
Menu - Toxel Dragapult Chewtle Cursola Coalossal Eiscue Dracozolt Arctozolt.
Hatterene Barraskewda, Mr Rime
Rookiedie - Pia Carrot
Morpeko - JaceDeane
Polteageist - EeVeeEe1999
Cramorant - EeVeeEe1999
Applin - Pia Carrot
Obstagoon - Copetin
Sirfetchd - Enderific, JaceDeane
Ponyta - JuicyChickenThighs
Zigzagoon & Linoone - EeVeeEe1999
Dracovish - Nuuk
Drizzile Inteleon - Pia Carrot
Runerigus - EeVeeEe1999
Blipbug line - Enderific (and resized by Pia Carrot)
Dreepy and evo - Enderific
Galarian Meowth - Enderific
Hattena - Cinnaboopa
Attack Animations:
The Spriters Resource
COMBOY
RZC
Xaveriux.
MarcStudio08 (Mega Evolution animation concept)
Scripts:
Caruban
Xaveriux
Vendily
Pia Carrot
Nyaruko
Pablus94
Marin
Gen 8 Project for Essentials 18 and 18.1:
Cry Credits:
Gen 1-6 Pokemon Cries- Rhyden
Gen 7 Pokemon Cries- Marin, Rhyden
Gen 8 Pokemon Cries- Zeak6464
PBS Credits:
Zerokid, TheToxic, Golisopod User, HM100, KyureJL, ErwanBeurier
Script Credits:
Gen 8 Scripts: Vendily, TheToxic, HM100, Golisopod User, Aioross, WolfPP, MFilice, lolface, KyureJL, DarrylBD99, Turn20Negate, TheKandinavian, ErwanBeurier
UberDunsparce - Compilation of Resources

Resource Pack
(Link)

Download
(Link)​
 
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Made an account just for the sole purpose of mentionning that I beat the game with the level 5 magikarp. It's also the only one I bother nicknaming.
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Of course it's already a solid game and it's fine as it is. But since I learn that I completly forgot the sidequest, I'm a bit dissapointed to have missed it lol. I mostly just wish it was possible to go back to old zones.
 
lichen

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what are the shiny odds
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Nightmon said:
Made an account just for the sole purpose of mentionning that I beat the game with the level 5 magikarp. It's also the only one I bother nicknaming.
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Of course it's already a solid game and it's fine as it is. But since I learn that I completly forgot the sidequest, I'm a bit dissapointed to have missed it lol. I mostly just wish it was possible to go back to old zones.
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impressive! glad to see people r playing this game in creative ways!
yeah, the areas/lack of any postgame thing is mostly just because of the time constraints I had working on this lol, sorry. I do plan to eventually update this game and give it a little bit more content, there were quite a few things I scrapped in development because I just didn't have time to make them happen
 
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Mmmh... I'm a little bit conflicted about this game.

On one hand, the idea is very good. The atmosphere looks good, music, background, the idea similar to SCP (I'm a huge fan btw). Characters are somewhat ok, not very developped but still having unique traits
but the final boss is lacking in personnality, it doesn"t fit the character at all

GSC ressources are a choice. I'm not fond of this style, but you did a good job with level design. Anomalies sprites are also fine work of art !

But there are weak points :

  • Ability patch and ability capsule not working : already mentionned one year ago. At least you should remove them from the shop to prevent the player wasting money on them (and resetting --")
  • I had a lot of visual issues, gender is display as a { red or blue, move anmations are all messed up
  • no damage from hail
  • volcarona anomaly ability did...nothing to my pokemon
  • Divination for Hatterene work only one time
  • in the last part, where you have the different containment cell, three are sealed with a keypad...but you can't enter any numeric values. I looked at them and saw that they were just easter egg about SCP but still frustrating

  • WILD ENCOUNTERS god that was soul crushing during the 2nd and 5th anomalies especially, it's of no use other than wasting time and PP if you d'ont have enough speed to flee
  • no heals during mission feels punishing and story wise not very logical
  • 4th level has a lot of books but you can't read any of them, it feels empty and the access to Hatterene is hidden by the pot surging through the first floor
  • 5th is the worst in my opinion : wild encounters, cultist you HAVE to find and fight (firstly I avoided fights and went to the cultist circle not knowing how to have the story progress... didn't know that I have to fight every one of them)
  • on the 7th, the milotic fight..Arceus I laughed so hard. I used toxapex and ended up pp stalling it..but it had more PP than me. Then I discovered than struggle doesn't hit through Indestructible and because it couldn't really damage me ( had leftovers and pex being the pex) it struggled itself to death xD That was stupid and not interesting, but the point is that to change your team you have to lose and sometimes..it's not that easy.
  • 8th and 9th missions (snorlax + volcaran) feel rushed, no background, minimal dialogues, that was uninteresting to be honest
  • so does the end of the game. No real explications, its motivations are..strange ? And the fact that at the end you're trapped in a angelic beach looks like death to me xD

- I think I missed something with a mushroom outbreak looking at the people answer to this thread but still did end the game..is it a side quest ?
 
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Hey! I just finished your game. I was amazed to see so many generations and their spirte work with such detail! Even The Containments themselves are unique. I very much enjoyed playing this, and I look forward to other projects you work on :D
 
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I really wanna get into this game, but every time I enter the smeargle fight it gives me a script error message and the game crashes. Any idea why this happens and how to fix it? I've deleted it completely and redownloaded it several times, but it still persists.
 
lichen

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Jerf said:
I really wanna get into this game, but every time I enter the smeargle fight it gives me a script error message and the game crashes. Any idea why this happens and how to fix it? I've deleted it completely and redownloaded it several times, but it still persists.
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Hi, can you send a screenshot of the error message it's giving you? I can't recreate this so it might have to do with the mons in your party.
 
WanderingTrainer

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Fun game though the random battles felt like pointless fodder and most of the game is really easy, while the cutlist part felt jarringly hard. But I am glad to have played this and would recommend. and im not even someone who cares about SCP, i just downloaded it cause i loved the idea of a game built around quirky Pokemon boss fights, and this game delivered
 
lichen

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Hey there! I'm still working on putting more content in this game. I have nearly all of my mapping done, so my new goal will be rebalancing the game's difficulty (One of the big changes coming is three different difficulty modes!)
 
EyeOhMoth

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Just wanna say, awesome stuff. SCPs and Pokémon are big interests of mine, so obviously I'm gonna go crazy for this. The random encounters are a bit much, as someone else mentioned. Also I had to restart cuz I lost to the Shedinja Fight (apparently I suck a bit more than the average player, eh?) and it blocked me off. Otherwise tho, love the vibes. However...something more important...

HOW DO I UNLOCK THE CHAMBERS IN THE FINAL AREA? I NEED TO KNOW WHATS IN THERE SO BAD ITS DRIVIN ME NUTS.

...maybe just a hint at least? plz?

Ahem, anyways thanks again for the game. Good time. Also hearing Oh Klahoma was wack and I loved it. Love that song.
 
lichen

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EyeOhMoth said:
HOW DO I UNLOCK THE CHAMBERS IN THE FINAL AREA? I NEED TO KNOW WHATS IN THERE SO BAD ITS DRIVIN ME NUTS.

...maybe just a hint at least? plz?

Ahem, anyways thanks again for the game. Good time. Also hearing Oh Klahoma was wack and I loved it. Love that song.
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Sooooo... funny story. Technically, there isn't anything behind those yet. Fun jamgame limitations, amirite? I have always had plans for them, though, so look out for the next version!

Speaking of, I figure now's as good a time as any to actually announce what I'm doing properly! Containment 2.0 is going to be a total overhaul of a lot of the game's content, because...well, how do I put this? It's...
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The main thing I'm doing here is changing a lot of sprites, a lot of enemy balancing, and a lot of dialogue to make it flow better. And just adding a bunch of random side content because I feel like it. The above screenshot is from the new hub world, the player's hometown of Marimo City.
That's not all I'm adding... but I'll announce that another day ;)
 
Christinewho

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lichen said:
Sooooo... funny story. Technically, there isn't anything behind those yet. Fun jamgame limitations, amirite? I have always had plans for them, though, so look out for the next version!

Speaking of, I figure now's as good a time as any to actually announce what I'm doing properly! Containment 2.0 is going to be a total overhaul of a lot of the game's content, because...well, how do I put this? It's...
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The main thing I'm doing here is changing a lot of sprites, a lot of enemy balancing, and a lot of dialogue to make it flow better. And just adding a bunch of random side content because I feel like it. The above screenshot is from the new hub world, the player's hometown of Marimo City.
That's not all I'm adding... but I'll announce that another day ;)
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Cool!
 
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