Overview Eevee Expo Game Jam 2025: Recruitment

Recruitment​

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Welcome to the Game Jam recruitment thread! In this thread, you can seek assistance with your entry or volunteer your talents for another entry. If you're looking to do anything but discuss recruitment, please use the Discussion Thread.

If you're recruiting or volunteering, please use the following templates. Keep in mind that you aren't required to have any progress on your jam entry before recruiting.

[Recruiting]

• Looking to recruit:
• Jam Entry Title:
• Team Name/Team Members:
• Progress/Screenshots:
• Method of Contact:
• Timezone:
• Additional Information:

[Volunteering]

• Expertise:
• Examples of Work:
• Method of Contact:
• Timezone:
• Additional Information:

[Volunteering]

Offering my services as an artist to anyone in need of one!

• Expertise:
  • Basic UI design
  • Title screen design
  • Custom sprites - trainers and Pokemon (mainly by splicing, if you give me a reference picture I can try to sprite it)
  • Basic overworlds, gen 4 style
  • Proofreading for grammar, spelling errors, etc.
• Examples of Work under the spoiler cuts below
  • Spoiler: Trainers

    
  • Spoiler: Pokemon front sprites

    
  • Spoiler: Samples of UI I'm working on for my current game

    

    
  • My Pokedex UI is uploaded here.
• Method of Contact:
  • I'm delusionsofgrandr on Discord!
• Timezone:
  • UTC+8
• Additional Information:
  • I work full time, so I may not be able to commit to a heavy dev schedule.
  • I'm currently also working on developing my fangame as a solo dev.

I've joined a team! All the best to everyone participating in the jam :)

[Volunteering]

• Expertise: Balancing/Playtesting
• Examples of Work: Pokemon Outbounds, Nightmare, Taiseiyo and a few more
• Method of Contact: hauntedditto on Discord
• Timezone: CET
• Additional Information: Especially games that will use the optional theme, might benefit from my help. Balancing battles around weather can be tough.

Taken. Thanks for your interest.

[Recruiting]
Looking to recruit:
2. Tileset Artist(s) - Needed to create the ruined environment of the game.
3. Playtester - Please be sure you can record footage of the project!
4th slot may go to another tileset artist or another role that may be needed that isn't specified. Contact me with unlisted roles that may be needed! (Pokemon spriters will not be needed for this project, as far as I know right now.)

Jam Entry Title: Pokemon Legends: Apocalypse (working title, may be final)
Gen 3 Style game created using Pokemon Essentials v21.1!

Pokemon Legends: Apocalypse takes place several years after Team Aqua achieves their goal of flooding the planet. All over the region, the sea level is rising, civilizations are being overtaken by Pokemon and plant life. The player, the child of Johto's Ethan and Lyra, survives the apocalyptic events while hidden away in a bunker, secluded from the outside world.
The player chooses to leave their bunker, in order to explore the world their parents journeyed through before it is all lost.

Team Name/Team Members:
-- LeGoldenWolf

Progress/Screenshots: N/A
Method of Contact: DM me on Discord, le.goldenwolf
Time Zone: CST (UTC-06:00)

Additional Information: I'm using a combination of both "Weather" definitions hehe

[Recruiting]
Looking to recruit:
A Sprite Artist who can make all sprites for a Pokémon including the overworld and a title screen.

Jam Entry Title:
Pokémon: Forest of Fragmented Memories
In Forest of Fragmented Memories, you play as a Pokémon who's trying to help another one regain its lost memories and remember what kind of species it is after it was found one morning.

Team Name/Team Members:
Currently just me

Method of Contact:
Here or Discord, same username for both.

Timezone: CDT

Additional Information:
I've never played any Mystery Dungeon games which is why this probably won't be one despite the similarities.

[Volunteering]

Expertise: Writing

Examples of Work: Pokémon: Abstract Version and Pokémon: Berserk

Method of Contact: wolftaiko on Discord.

Timezone: CDT (GMT-5)

Additional Information: I don't know how much I'll be able to help with the jam, but if there's a project that you pitch that sounds reeeeeally interesting to me I'll 100% jump on board and will most likely help you out a lot more!

[Recruiting]

• Looking to recruit:

Sprite artist mainly for generation 3 style tiles and possibly some pokemon sprites for in battle.

• Jam Entry Concept:

A game about finding your lost Castform in a world with ever-changing seasons and weather conditions, where different Pokemon are more adept at battling in their preferred season. Complete achievements to earn powerful special effects for Pokemon battling in their preferred weather and complete puzzles that require intereacting with multiple seasons and in game years to solve. Every map will have 4 versions for each season so we are looking for spriters able to edit existing tiles for different seasons, as well as create some specific special tiles needed for the story.

• Team Name/Team Members:

Myself (Geoswag) and Altarax

• Examples of work:

Peppermint , Forgotten Saint , Petra Mandala

• Progress/Screenshots:

Proof of concept map:

• Method of Contact:

Direct message on here or on discord: geoswag1016

• Timezone:

GMT+1

[Volunteering]

• Expertise:
  • Programming (Ruby, GLSL Shaders, NodeJS, C/C++)
  • Preferably for a Pokémon SDK entry
• Examples of Work:
  • Pokémon SDK
  • Ruby-Fmod ( https://github.com/NuriYuri/Ruby-Fmod )
  • LiteRGSS2 ( https://gitlab.com/pokemonsdk/litergss2 )
  • ts-marshal ( https://github.com/NuriYuri/ts-marshal )
  • ts-tiled-converter ( https://github.com/NuriYuri/ts-tiled-converter )
  • Pokémon Studio ( https://github.com/PokemonWorkshop/PokemonStudio )
• Method of Contact:
  • DM on Discord: nuri_yuri
  • Ping to nuri_yuri on the official discord channel: #game-jam-2025
• Timezone:
  • GMT+2
• Additional Information:
  • I'm expecting a project with an artist and someone who has a ideas. I'd like to go a bit out of bounds with the weather theme (ie. implementing weather effect, battle mechanics, map effects etc...)

Edit: Got recruited by King_Waluigi

[Recruiting]
{Looking to recruit}
-PSDK knowledgeable individual who can help out with story, writing, and/or mapping
-Spriter who is comfortable working with limitations (8ish bit, primarily black and white colors with some extra colors for effects and details)

{Jam Entry Title}
SHELTER
(Likely will change throughout development)

Idea is a post-modern and surrealist style around a dystopian kinda film noir inspired city where everything is under control by a dictator/super power. The leaders of the city can control the weather and climate to meet their needs and ultimately can use it to control the masses. (let's be real, totally feasible)

Everything in this game will be COMPLETELY ORIGINAL!

{Team Members}
- epshirey (this is myself, King_Waluigi is also one of my notable names)
I'll be working on story and the soundtrack (and some spriting here and there)
- Nuri Yuri
Working on PSDK stuff (coding goat)
- And we're hoping YOU TOO!

{Method of Contact}
Discord: king_waluigi

Timezone: CST

Additional Information:
This is an indie game, no connection to Pokemon in ANY way. Get ready for something really special, I think you'll like it...

[Recruiting]

1. GBA/DS front and back battle artists
2. GBA/DS Overworld artists
3. GBA Tileset artists
4. RPGXP Event Coder

Jam Entry Title:

Pokémon: The Land Unknown
A GBA-styled game (with some Legends features) where you are a student of a prestigious institute that was invited to a science expedition to the mysterious ghost region of "Petragia". A lost world where fossil pokémon are still alive. Original forms of fossils, primitive regional variants, and even never-seen pokémon roam the Petragia region, seemingly undisturbed by the changes through the history. You and your rival are the best students of Professor Cycad, and your task is register the new species of extinct pokémon that live on the region. But... The ever treacherous Team Apex is also interested on the Petragia region, and want to traffic the pokémon of the land, and send them to the black market or selling them as living war weapons. You must face Team Apex to preserve the fauna of the region.



(Those aren't the final sprites, they're just representations on my style. I need a Gen 3/4 style of them.)

Methods of Contact: Send me request on Discord (radfighter1995)

Time Zone: CLT (UTC-04:00)

Additional Information: I have an Excell of the Dex.

[Recruiting]

Looking to recruit:
Anyone who wants to work on a fun and low-key game

Jam Entry Title:
A Rift of Rain (working title)
After a terrible storm, parent and baby Pokémon fight to reunite with each other before it's too late.
Mystery Dungeon-styled Roguelike with a plot.

Team Name/Team Members:
Adell's Brother - writing, mapping, eventing, spriting, etc.
You!

Progress/Screenshots:
None, yet!

Method of Contact:
DM on Discord @adelsbrother is preferred. DM on here is cool too

Timezone:
US Central (GMT -6)

Past Projects:
The Plan's Simple: https://eeveeexpo.com/threads/5422/

[Recruiting]
Hey, Eevee Enjoyers! I have been quite nervous about presenting myself like this but I think this is my one shot to create a game i have been dreaming of for 3 years now. I gotta play my cards close to my chest until I have more to share but this is very personal to me <3.

This game is Pokemon Essentials V21.1, Gen 4 style.

• Looking to recruit: Anyone who is very passionate about pokemon and can bounce off me well :D
  (In order of importance)
  • Mapper
  • Dialogue Writer
  • Character Designer
  • Eventer
  • Playtester
  • Game Balancer
  • Music Designer
  • Pokemon Designer (We don't plan on large amounts of new pokemon but come on, they're always so cool!!)
• Jam Entry Title: DA UBER NEAT SUPER GAME (By Heliumpai and hopefully you too!!) (Name Not Withstanding(
• Team Name: We don't have one yet but if you join then you can suggest!!
• Team Members: Heliumpai, Rebel, Spaghetti, and counting!
  Heliumpai0001
• Progress/Screenshots: Not yet! Will do updates ofc :3
• Method of Contact: A Discord DM would be the best, I'll be working on a server for organization.
  
  
• Timezone: GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
  
  
• Additional Information: If you accept, you will be:
  • My best friend
  • I will brag about you way too much
  • receiving kisses, hugs if you're not cool with that
  • an epic gamer, certified down the generations.

LOOKING TO RECRUIT ANYONE WHO'S DOWN TO HAVE A GOOD TIME
In order of importance:

• Mapper and Eventer
• Spriter (Animation experience would be SUPER cool but definitely NOT NECESSARY)
• Writer
• Music Composer (or at least someone that can find fitting existing tracks)
• Game Balancer

(All members will be playtesting at some point LOL)

Game Title: Weather Wizard and The Lab Assistant (TITLE VERY MUCH NOT FINAL)
Synposis: You just landed a position as a new lab assistant for Pokemon University's Professor of Meteorology, and they're having you lead the way in discovering the effects of weather on a newly discovered Pokemon! You'll be sent on small, objective based missions where you'll uncover the secret behind the Weather Wizard Pokemon. However, not everyone is rooting for you...
Team Name: None currently but feel free to suggest one
Team Members: GalamiSalami
Screenshots:

Method of Contact: Discord DM would be preferable @GalamiSalami
Time Zone: GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time - EST)

[Recruiting]

• Looking to recruit: Mapper
• Jam Entry Title: Pokémon Decibel
• Team Name/Team Members: Just me
• Progress/Screenshots:

• Method of Contact: Discord DM (adventureraldo)
• Timezone: GMT +0200
• Additional Information: The goal is to make a shortened Pokémon League, with only 4 Gyms, in Gen4 style

[Recruiting]

• Looking to recruit:
  • Mapper or Programmer with Essentials experience!
• Team Name/Team Members:
  • Jampire/Ena - Mapping & Design
  • Oshawott64 - Lead Artist
  • eefferz - Composer
• Kit used: Essentials GSC V1.3.2

My other mapper who started the project with me has had to drop out! So we're seeking to fill the empty slot with someone who knows their way around Essentials, and who can set up trainers and wild encounters and such.

We have the protagonists and professor all designed, sprited, and implimented! There is a throughline from the beginning of the game out to the collection of the starter, but not much after that. But things have been slow mapping wise, which is why we'd like to recruit someone eager to add some meat to the game!


Project Title: Pokemon: Canine Islands

• Project description: Our game jam is the currently titled Pokemon: Canine Islands, a Gen 2 fangame located in an isolated archipelago where pokemon trainers exclusively train bred pokemon, and shun all wild pokemon or the use of pokeballs.
  
  
• Plot outline: You are a teen beginning their pokemon journey within the Canine Islands. Forbidden by your isolated island society from catching wild pokemon using pokeballs, instead you are gifted them along your way on your quest to becoming Champion. Most prominent of your supporters is your father, a dog breeding champion, who regularly gives you his prized dog pokemon from all over the world.
  
  
• Unique features:
  • Draft-Style team building: Instead of catching pokemon, you are frequently given the chance to add new gift pokemon to your team, often given out of a 3-way choice just like the starter choices of most pokemon games. The daycare is also available early, giving players the chance to breed pokemon eggs. And in the late game your rival, a globetrotting ace-trainer, will be able to smuggle you Pokeballs to catch wild pokemon.
  • Battle Base: The biggest island of the chain holds a battle facility focused on draft-choice pokemon battles, ala the Battle Factory. The player's team is replaced, then returned upon completion. The currency won from this island is necessary to purchase certain HMs, requiring longer and longer victory streaks to obtain.
  • Island Masters: Well, essentially just Gym Leaders without gyms. There's one for each island that you need to travel to and defeat. Their badges increase the level cap, and unlock challenging Elite Streaks within the battle facility.
  • For Elite Streaks, you will face difficult chains of fights that end with a battle against an Elite 4 member, but you will get to use your own team instead of the draft team usually provided in facility battles. Once you have all 4 island masters' badges, and have completed all 4 of the Elite Streaks, you may battle the champion, and complete the game.
    
• Progress/Screenshots:
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• Method of Contact: Please add enasona on discord.
  
  
• Additional Information: Even though I'm new to XP & Essentials, I have a catalogue of other game jam games done in RPGMaker. If you'd like to check them out: https://trotim.itch.io/malledtodeath & https://tska-ampersand.itch.io/title-waive-island