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Released pre;COGNITION [Jam Version]

This project has a release available. The full version is still a work in progress.
Project Status
Released
Project Version
1.1.3
ETA Next Version
Jun 21, 2025
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Welcome to Wretchenfell
An old mining village, a crumbling city, a mysterious Pokémon. Step into the shoes of Kira, a Pokémon behaviour researcher and expert, tasked with assisting an enigmatic corporation's remote research laboratory with taming an experimental Pokémon. When the Pokémon unleashes a catastrophe upon the lands surrounding the lab, it's up to you to fight through a treacherous landscape for your freedom.. and the truth..


A Roguelite-like Adventure
Embark on a journey of adventure and discovery... again, and again. With each loop you will begin the same, aside for the ever increasing knowledge of your surroundings and how to traverse them effectively.

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A Shady Corporation...
Uncover long buried secrets, shady backroom dealings, illicit schemes. Will you uncover the truth, or will you simply set out to finish the job you were sent to do?

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Time = Difficulty
Inspired by a certain rainy action platformer, the Pokémon you encounter on each run of your journey will become more erratic over time.

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• Roguelite-like gameplay + A lot of lore to find and absorb
• Approximately 3-5 hours of gameplay. Progression is (mostly) knowledge based, so your mileage will vary!
• "Immersive" (widescreen) experience
• Redesigned UI again because Riley hates herself
• Technically only one new Pokémon but it's very special (:


Team:
• Riley/rainefall/me (everything)
@Jenetics (art, writing)
• Holo (writing)

Graphics::

Magiscarf public tiles

Gen 1-5 Pokémon Sprites:
veekun
Gen 6 Pokémon Sprites:
Smogon X/Y Sprite Project
Gen 7 Pokémon Sprites:
Smogon Sun/Moon Sprite Project
Gen 8 Pokémon Sprites:
Smogon Sword/Shield Sprite Project
All Generation 8 Pack resources compiled by:
Golisopod User, UberDunsparce


Audio::

Soundtrack featuring:

"End Times" from Outer Wilds (Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive, 2019)
by Andrew Prahlow

"Furnace" from INFRA (Loiste Interactive, 2016-2017)
by Finnian Langham

"Nectarium" from Half-Life 2: Episode 2 (Valve Software, 2007)
by Kelly Bailey

"Vats of Goo" from Fallout (Interplay Entertainment, 1997)
by Mark Morgan

"Ravenholm Reprise" from Half-Life 2 (Valve Software, 2004)
by Kelly Bailey

"Android Hell" from Portal (Valve Software, 2007)
by Kelly Bailey, Mike Morasky

"a cold room" from HOPE LEFT ME (2022)
by Astrophysics


Gen 1-6 Pokemon Cries:
Rhyden
Gen 7 Pokemon Cries:
Marin<s>Rhyden
Gen 8 Pokemon Cries:
Zeak6464


Scripting::

"Bag Screen w/ Interactible Party" by:
DiegoWT

"Marin's Enhanced Staircases" by:
Marin

"Overworld Shadows EX" by:
Golisopod User, Wolf PP, Marin

"Pokémon Essentials" was created by:
Flameguru
Poccil (Peter O.)
Maruno

"mkxp-zr" based on:
"mkxp-z" by Roza
and "mkxp" by Ancurio et al.

"RPG Maker XP" by:
Enterbrain
Pokémon is owned by:
The Pokémon Company
Nintendo
Affiliated with Game Freak

Special thanks to:
local-logs (mystery 4th team member/emotional support)

You cannot walk back out of the Wretchenfell meteorite.
The lightmap textures for Loesdale Hollow are too large to run the game on GPUs with a cache max of 2048.
Several events do not hide the overworld UI upon interacting with them.
Pressing the back button while selecting a question to ask Tess does not select the option to stop talking to her as intended.

As none of these bugs are gamebreaking, it is not a priority of mine to release an update to fix them, instead they will be rectified in the upcoming 2.0 update.

Almost all of the settings are made from combinations of the theme words.
The game begins in an ominous forest, leading into an alien cave, exiting into a ruined city. Then there's just a regular ol' lab. Then, what we consider to be the most creative use of the themes, an "imaginary space", its an imaginary place created by the final boss, that happens to look like space. Not sure if it counts that much since it isnt used a lot compared to the other settings.

A Relic Castle Winter Jam 4 Game
 
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rainefall

riley
Expo Team
The game has been updated to version 1.1.3.
This update fixes a number of crashes. It is highly recommended you update immediately.
If you have version 1.1.2 you may install this update via this patch, otherwise you will have to redownload the game.

Fixes:
  • Errors will now display correctly in the rare case that an error is triggered while the game is preparing for a transition
  • Fixed a crash when the game attempts to work out the length of a cry
  • Fixed an improper save file conversion crash

Also, a huge thank you from us to all of you who voted for pre;COGNITION in the community spotlight!
 
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