In Development Pokemon Amethyst

Jona1 · Friday at 5:58 PM

This fangame is so much fun too!! i have a great time when playing the game new fangame i am so happy!! c:

Mirage · Friday at 6:00 PM

Jona1 said:
This fangame is so much fun too!! i have a great time when playing the game new fangame i am so happy!! c:

Thank you very much! I'm glad you're enjoying the game, andthank you very much for reporting a bug to me!

FWCrash · Saturday at 7:16 PM

Hey! Just finished this and figured i'd post my list of bugs, general issues and suggestions in here. Great base for sure tho, quite like a bunch of things done!

1) The Pokemon Center healing machine only shows up to 4 balls regardless of whether you have 5 or 6 party members
2) Inside specific rooms/buildings, you can just about see other rooms in the corners if you are in fullscreen mode
3) The Professor is non interactable during the beginning of the game until you deliver dad's parcel. Feels odd that not even dialogue can be triggered
4) Some typing errors (e.G. Upper and Lowecase during sentences etc.) across the board
5) I get the idea, but why is the Professor's Nephew as a Gym leader so damn Edgy? It even feels forceful and not natural too
6) The Jasper Gym fight has no sprite for him? It transitioned into an odd 3 second staredown of a Pokeball on the ground into first mon spawn
7) Even after catching the yellow driftloon, the quest doesnt update/complete which feels wrong?
8) The mining minigame is awesome, tho i'd like an indicator which button actually swaps to the other tool on the UI
9) Overworld mons being a pain by blocking your path, ESPECIALLY in caves is annoying
10) Why are the encounter rates so high despite overworld mons existing? I could not go more than 2 steps 99% of the time without encountering something
11) When using the Super Rod, the players sprite swaps to Gold
12) The Status Effect display sprite in the Party menu is glitched, it shows the lower half of the current status effect and the upper half of another status effect
13) While I do like the idea that Shinies are more relevant and present in the game's progression, having so many shown or thrown at you feels underwhelming
14) Why are we back to HMs :( Key Items that act as enviroment-interact things you unlock are just way less restricting
15) The Purple square things that point you towards you next main story location might be a tad too "hand-holdy", not to mention they look out of place
16) Pikachu has his Anime cry when it faints, but not as a battle cry etc. Seems odd
17) When catching the regional variant (I assume) of HootHoot, the Dex entry that spawned during battle showed the regular variant
18) It seems pointless to have both your Dad and your Bed upstairs heal you, especially since the former just relocates you anyway
19) The AI could use some improvements. It constantly tried to use Normal type moves against my Ghost types in a row or Water moves against my Water types
20) The SFX that play during Grass movement are a bit annoying due to Overworld mons triggering them too
21) Is there a time where the shop guy doesnt spawn anymore? I entered the second tows mart (where 2 cashiers are), left and the re-entered. The bottom one was just permanently gone
22) The Test Double Battle guy in the Forest Area at the end of the Demo stays permanently, and if you run into wild battles with him the game crashes with an error. So i can't even properly explore some areas i've missed anymore
23) I get that trying to shove the sound type to many mons is something you feel you need to do cuz it's a main focus of this fangame, but some defo could be reverted to their original typing I feel like

Overall, great job. Enjoyed my playthrough regardless of some issues mentioned above. Can't wait for what the next versions will bring. Cheers

Mirage · Sunday at 7:36 PM

FWCrash said:
Hey! Just finished this and figured i'd post my list of bugs, general issues and suggestions in here. Great base for sure tho, quite like a bunch of things done!

1) The Pokemon Center healing machine only shows up to 4 balls regardless of whether you have 5 or 6 party members
2) Inside specific rooms/buildings, you can just about see other rooms in the corners if you are in fullscreen mode
3) The Professor is non interactable during the beginning of the game until you deliver dad's parcel. Feels odd that not even dialogue can be triggered
4) Some typing errors (e.G. Upper and Lowecase during sentences etc.) across the board
5) I get the idea, but why is the Professor's Nephew as a Gym leader so damn Edgy? It even feels forceful and not natural too
6) The Jasper Gym fight has no sprite for him? It transitioned into an odd 3 second staredown of a Pokeball on the ground into first mon spawn
7) Even after catching the yellow driftloon, the quest doesnt update/complete which feels wrong?
8) The mining minigame is awesome, tho i'd like an indicator which button actually swaps to the other tool on the UI
9) Overworld mons being a pain by blocking your path, ESPECIALLY in caves is annoying
10) Why are the encounter rates so high despite overworld mons existing? I could not go more than 2 steps 99% of the time without encountering something
11) When using the Super Rod, the players sprite swaps to Gold
12) The Status Effect display sprite in the Party menu is glitched, it shows the lower half of the current status effect and the upper half of another status effect
13) While I do like the idea that Shinies are more relevant and present in the game's progression, having so many shown or thrown at you feels underwhelming
14) Why are we back to HMs :( Key Items that act as enviroment-interact things you unlock are just way less restricting
15) The Purple square things that point you towards you next main story location might be a tad too "hand-holdy", not to mention they look out of place
16) Pikachu has his Anime cry when it faints, but not as a battle cry etc. Seems odd
17) When catching the regional variant (I assume) of HootHoot, the Dex entry that spawned during battle showed the regular variant
18) It seems pointless to have both your Dad and your Bed upstairs heal you, especially since the former just relocates you anyway
19) The AI could use some improvements. It constantly tried to use Normal type moves against my Ghost types in a row or Water moves against my Water types
20) The SFX that play during Grass movement are a bit annoying due to Overworld mons triggering them too
21) Is there a time where the shop guy doesnt spawn anymore? I entered the second tows mart (where 2 cashiers are), left and the re-entered. The bottom one was just permanently gone
22) The Test Double Battle guy in the Forest Area at the end of the Demo stays permanently, and if you run into wild battles with him the game crashes with an error. So i can't even properly explore some areas i've missed anymore
23) I get that trying to shove the sound type to many mons is something you feel you need to do cuz it's a main focus of this fangame, but some defo could be reverted to their original typing I feel like

Overall, great job. Enjoyed my playthrough regardless of some issues mentioned above. Can't wait for what the next versions will bring. Cheers

thank you very much for your feedback, a good handful of these issues i am aware of and have already fixed for 0.2.0, (1,6,7,22 etc)

the second shop keep is supposed to disappear after the parcel quest but its not working as intended,

ill try my best to give Jasper/Nephew a better attitude, i'm just not a great writer.

things like the fishing rod and point 2 are simply oversights, that's my bad,

typing errors is just a me thing, ill fix those at some point

Pikachu having its anime cry when fainting surprised me too, i didn't add that myself.

were back to HMs as i wanna go for a more traditional experience, but the original plan was HM Items, im just still working on it.

Hoothoot is a known issue and i'm too stupid to figure out whats going on with that rn lol.

i agree that sound is a little over represented, but my decisions on sound types i believe make sense for the most part, though i am open to reverting some sound types back,

encounter rates are something i'm tinkering with, trust me, it annoys me too.

im glad you enjoyed your playthrough and i will 100% keep this comment in mind as i tinker and mess with things, thank you for playing!

FWCrash · Monday at 12:47 AM

Mirage said:
thank you very much for your feedback, a good handful of these issues i am aware of and have already fixed for 0.2.0, (1,6,7,22 etc)

the second shop keep is supposed to disappear after the parcel quest but its not working as intended,

ill try my best to give Jasper/Nephew a better attitude, i'm just not a great writer.

things like the fishing rod and point 2 are simply oversights, that's my bad,

typing errors is just a me thing, ill fix those at some point

Pikachu having its anime cry when fainting surprised me too, i didn't add that myself.

were back to HMs as i wanna go for a more traditional experience, but the original plan was HM Items, im just still working on it.

Hoothoot is a known issue and i'm too stupid to figure out whats going on with that rn lol.

i agree that sound is a little over represented, but my decisions on sound types i believe make sense for the most part, though i am open to reverting some sound types back,

encounter rates are something i'm tinkering with, trust me, it annoys me too.

im glad you enjoyed your playthrough and i will 100% keep this comment in mind as i tinker and mess with things, thank you for playing!

Thanks for the in-depth response! One thing I wanna quickly go into, as it may be the one thing from my first comment that sounds unreasonable, is the sound types and their distribution. Lemme give one specific example to try and explain what I'm worrying about:
- Zubat, Woobat and Noibat all 3 could fit into the Sound category due to being Bats that use Echolocation. But wouldn't it be pretty boring an uncreative to take that approach for all 3? I suggest leaving the Zubat line alone while swapping Woobat -> Swoobat to Sound/Flying and Noibat -> Noivern to Sound/Flying -> Sound/Dragon respectively

I'd have to see the entire list of mons you swapped and plan to swap to properly judge it from my side tho, so don't take it at face value. Just something I wanted to mention because many people overextend with plans to introduce a new type and tend to "force" it on some mons

Cheers

Mirage · Monday at 5:39 PM

FWCrash said:
Thanks for the in-depth response! One thing I wanna quickly go into, as it may be the one thing from my first comment that sounds unreasonable, is the sound types and their distribution. Lemme give one specific example to try and explain what I'm worrying about:
- Zubat, Woobat and Noibat all 3 could fit into the Sound category due to being Bats that use Echolocation. But wouldn't it be pretty boring an uncreative to take that approach for all 3? I suggest leaving the Zubat line alone while swapping Woobat -> Swoobat to Sound/Flying and Noibat -> Noivern to Sound/Flying -> Sound/Dragon respectively

I'd have to see the entire list of mons you swapped and plan to swap to properly judge it from my side tho, so don't take it at face value. Just something I wanted to mention because many people overextend with plans to introduce a new type and tend to "force" it on some mons

Cheers

Thank you, when you put it that way i 100% agree, and i will likely take your advice.

in the Pokedex doc linked at the bottom of the post you can see all the Pokemon that have had types swapped to Sound, this is likely the complete list as i currently have no plans to add more sound type Pokemon (since i already agreed that there were too many!) Ive already taken your advice and changed some of the typings there! (Other than Maracus which has sound type in my files but has gone under my radar until now)

i will create a document listing specifically, Sound Type Pokemon and Moves pretty soon!

I'll also note that the Woobat line isn't (or shouldn't) be in Pokemon Amethyst, so i've just followed your suggestion for the Zubat and Noibat lines!

In Development Pokemon Amethyst

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Jona1

Trainer

Mirage

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FWCrash

Rookie

Mirage

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FWCrash

Rookie

Mirage

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