Pokemon Golden Crown is my first attempt to make my own Pokemon Game. Based on Pokemon Essentials v.18.1 first, now working with 19.1 version, with some map graphics of Pokemon Essentials B/W v3.1.1 and more. The story is set 100 years after a Pokemon-Human war that ended in destroying the whole world. After 100 years, there is a peace again between Pokemon and people, who try to rebuild the world. The story starts in new Kanto region, with different towns, hologramlike rebuild gym leaders and some known artists, like Ariana Grande, Axl Rose, Britney Spears, Harry Styles and more. The story also mixes some nods to the popculture, like Money Heist, The Vampire Diaries or American Horror Story.
The work is in progress and as for now with these regions being playable: Kanto, Johto, Orange Islands, Hoenn, Sevii Islands, Sinnoh, Unova, Decolore Islands, Kalos and Alola, Galar and Hisui.
Story
Travel through rebuilt regions that has never been seen like that before. Choose your starter (Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle), who will start following you, and traverse the region with some visible encounters and face different trainers, including recurring rivals: Ash, Gary, May, Team Rocket and more. Collect 52 badges, 4 kahunas, clear 8 island trials and try to beat all the trainers in Indigo Plateau (Kanto) to become the master (if a loss happens, you won't get another chance to face others), Silver Plateau (Johto), Emerald Plateau (Hoenn), Platinum Plateau (Sinnoh), Unovan Plateau (Unova), Kalosian Pokemon League in Cerise City (Kalos), Alolan Pokemon League on Hakka Island (Alola) and Galarian Pokemon League in Centar City (Galar). You can also challange Battle Frontiers on Sevii Islands region and Sinnoh. Prof. Sycamore on Declare Islands gives you Mega Ring. After that, you can travel across all first six main regions to obtain mega stones & red/blue orb. In Alola, you can collect all of the Z-Crystals and also catch some Totem Pokemon! Galar implements dynamaxing, gigantamaxing and eternmmaxing features and max raid dens! In Hisui, you can challange some noble Pokemon. Also, by starting your journey in Hisui, you will be able to meet Alpha Pokemon in the wild, which have their own alpha mark (just like shinies have). They are stronger and have perfect ivs. When you defeat Galar League, prof. Cerise in Ginnic City (Kanto) will have some tasks for you... visiting extra parts of Galar, journeying to Hisui and eventually he will help you enter Pokemon World Coronation Series. More info below.
Some great things for each region
Kanto
8 Gym Leaders, E4, Pokemon League
Known rivals: Misty, Ash, Gary, Team Rocket
Pokemon Dojo, where you can get Hitmonlee / Hitmonchan / Hitmontop
Nostalgic connections to anime series
Nods to pop culture, like American Horror Story: Murder House, known singers etc.
Jotho
8 Gym Leaders, Pokemon League, E4, Champion Violet, Whirl Cup
Known rivals: Ash, Gary, Team Rocket, Violet
New encounter types: dark grass
Nostalgic connections to anime series
Battle Daenerys Targaryen
Nods to pop culture, like American Horror Story: Asylum, known singers etc.
Mini (4 maps) wild area
Orange Archipelago
4 Gym Leaders, Pokemon League against Drake
Known rivals: Ash, Team Rocket, Gold, Tracey
New Pokemon forms: etc. Archipelegian Butterfree, Vileplume, Bellossom, Victreebel, Politoed and more
Hoenn
8 Gym Leaders, Pokemon League, E4, Champion Steven, Pokemon Contest
Known rivals: Ash, Gary, Team Rocket, May, Brendan
New encounter types: tall grass, desert
Nostalgic connections to anime series
Nods to pop culture, like American Horror Story: Coven, known singers etc.
Sevii Islands
Known rivals: Ash, Team Rocket, May
Battle against Kantonian Battle Frontiers, including Brandon
New Pokemon forms: etc. Sevian Butterfree, Onix, Snorlax, Absol, Sudowoodo and more
Sinnoh
8 Gym Leaders, Pokemon League, E4, Champion Cynthia, Sinnohnian Battle Frontiers
Known rivals: Ash, Gary, Team Rocket, Dawn, Paul
New encounter types: nectar tree, honey tree, phenomena
Nostalgic connections to anime series
Nods to pop culture, like American Horror Story: Freak Show, known singers etc.
wild area (12 connected maps)
The Underground
Unova
10 Gym Leaders (plus one additional battle against Cheren), Pokemon League, E4, Champion Alder, Junior Cup (for winning feathers)
Known rivals: Ash, Gary, Team Rocket, Iris, Trip, N, Bianca, Team Plasma
New encounter types: pools
Nostalgic connections to anime series
Nods to pop culture, like American Horror Story: Hotel, known singers etc.
Continental and non-continental part (in the second one, you can meet only Gen V Pkmns)
Decolore Islands
Quest for finding prof. Sycamore, who gives you Mega Rings and triggers some events, where you can travel across all regions to defeat some trainers, who will give you Mega Stones in reward, like there is a Hiker in Ancient Town (Jotho) who gives an Aerodactylite, Gary in Theore Town (Kanto) gives you Blastoisite, Sabrina in Saria City (Kanto) gives you Alakazite. All locations are given in Theore Town Lab (Kanto)
New Pokemon forms: etc. Decolorien Butterfree, Reuniclus, Venomoth, Skarmory, Torkoal and more
This region acts like open-world, you can travel it without doing some stuff
Kalos
8 Gym Leaders, Pokemon League, E4, Champion Diantha, Battle Chateau
Known rivals: Ash, Gary, Team Rocket, Serena, Tierno, Trevor, Alain, Shauna, Lysandre
New encounter types: scripted horde encounters (3 vs 1), flower encounters (in variants: red, blue, white, purple, pink, orange and yellow)
Nostalgic connections to anime series
Nods to pop culture, like American Horror Story: Roanoke, known singers etc.
Here you can find the rest of Mega Stones, Blue/Red Orb, there is also a trader that gives you Greninja with Bond Phenomenon
Alola
7 Captain battles, 8 Trials, 4 Island Kahunas, Pokemon League, E4 (Kahili, Molayne, Accerola & Olivia), Champion Ash
Special portal to Ultra Deep Sea, where you can find Ultra Beasts
Z-Moves and Ultra Burst
Alolan regional forms
Known rivals: Ash, Gary, Team Rocket, Lillie, Gladion, Lusamine, prof. Kukui
Totem species for the ones that appear in USUM, they are part of collecting z-crystals, but when you defeat an island kahuna on a specific island, you can catch the ones that appeared during the trials
Nostalgic connections to anime series
Nods to pop culture, like American Horror Story: Cult, known singers etc.
This region acts like an open-world, you start on one island and then you can continue your journey by going to 1 (out of 4) in order to take down island kahunas. When you defeat one, there is an occurrence of level-scaling of the Pkmns of other trainers, kahunas etc. The final island is available after defeating all 4 kahunas and travelling to Ultra Deep Sea. There is a Pkmn League.
Galar
8 gym matches (including Klara and Avery acting like gym leaders), Champion Leon, Elite Four (Allister & Gordie. Bea is available on the Island Armor, while Melony is available in the Crown Tundra)
18 connected maps that act like a wild area
Dynamaxing, Gigantamaxing & Eternamaxing
Den raids with Gigantamaxed forms avaialble
Galarian regional forms
Known rivals: Ash, Gary, Lysandre
New encounter type: bogs
New encounter method: weather on land. When you use overworld moves that cause the weather to change, different encounters will be forced in the wild area. Stow-On-Side Town and Celtic Town will have forced weather effects to help you remove the effects caused by using overworld weather moves.
Nostalgic connections to anime series
Nods to pop culture, like American Horror Story: Apocalypse, known singers etc.
After the Galarian Pkmn League, you can travel to prof. Cerise who will have some tasks for you. You will be able to travel to the Island Armor (where you can find Galarian Slowpoke, Kubfu, Bea, Mustard) and the Crown Tundra (where you can find Galarian Darumaka, Glastrier, Spectrier, Calyrex, Melony, Peony). In the crown Tundra there will also be Dynamax adventures!
Hisui
5 Noble Pokemon battles - Kleavor, Hisuian Lilligant, Hisuian Braviary, Hisuian Arcanine & Hisuian Avalugg. After defeating them, you will be able to battle them again and this time you can catch them
Battles with all 10 Wardens
Known rivals: Irida, Adaman, Yumiko (Akari, past Dawn), Kamado and Cyllene
Alpha Pokemon
Items to help you get Origin Form Palkia and Dialga
NOTE: Some of the graphics are to be improved.
World Coronation Series
After Hisui, prof. Cerise in Ginnic City helps you enter the competition. Some researchers will appear in his lab and will inform you about the next battle and its localization.
You will battle many other trainers, in Normal Rank there will be more no-names, in higher tiers you will meet the knows ones, like gym leaders, members of E4, rivals and champions.
Battles take place on all 8 main regions.
Rules: you starts a battle with a TRAINER 1 in a given rank. By defeating him, you advance. If you lose, you challange TRAINER 2 in a given rank. If you win, you can challange TRAINER 1 once again. If you lose to TRAINER 2, you can challange TRAINER 3. If you defeat TRAINER 3, you can challange TRAINER 2, but if you lose, you drop out of the competition (as simple as that lol)
Nostalgic connections to anime series
NOTE: Battle against Geeta will be changed later so that you can actually battle Gen 9 Pokemon xd
What's next?
Paldea, of course. Yet, there are some things that I need to reconsider. I've reached the limit of 999 maps in this project, so when Paldea comes out, it will be the same game with the same save file, yet you will run it via a different file.
There comes another problem. There is no resource for SV gimmick (terastallization) for Essentials v 19.1. I am not good at scripting so there is no chance I could implement the gimmick here, unless I will update it all to v20.1. But, the tricky thing is:
1. It will break your current save files.
2. All maps from Kanto to Hisui will have to be checked again, some battles changed - a lot of work. It will take time and I can't tell how much time I will be able to give this project this year.
3. EBDX, which I use, is not available for Essentials v 20.1 so graphics will also change (Pokemon, trainers..).
Eventually Paldea will come out. I can't just tell yet what it will look like.
Download the game*
v1.0.10.
MediaFire link
Google link - unavailable for now
*In order to see what every new version brings, slide down to the end of a post.
Features (as for now)
Following Pokemon
Elite Battle DX
Visible encounters
62 gym leaders (+ 1 non-badge gym in Unova), 4 kahunas, 8 island trials - Totem Pokemon, 7 trial captains, 5 Noble Pokemon, 10 Wardens
Frontier Brains from both Gen III and Gen IV
Elite Four members' battles and rematches after the league
Kahunas
Anime-like league tournament (if you lose, you won't be able to face the rest of the trainers)
Pokemon World Coronation Series
Famous in-game people (e.g. Ariana Grande, Britney Spear, Avril Lavigne, Lorde, Harry Styles & Axl Rose)
Nods to popculture (e.g. American Horror Story, The Vampire Diaries & Money Heist)
Sassy trainers and not-so-boring NPCs
Traders to help you get Pokemon like Gengar, Steelix or Electrivire
HMs: Surf, Cut, Strength & Fly
Change your speed using Q-key
All Pokemons up to Gen VII
Safari Zones (5x, one for every larger region up to Unova)
Recurring rival battles: Ash, Gary, May, Paul, Team Rocket, Layla and more.
Alternative story of the regions reconstructed
ExpAll so that all of your Pokemons can gain experience
B/W tiles (mostly) and new starting from Kalos region
New Pokegear functions (Encounter Lists and PC)
Mini wild area (4 tiles) for Johto and larger wild area for Sinnoh (12 connected tiles)
Alola acting kind of like open-world
Orange Islands’ gym leaders don’t need to be challenged in a particular order
New encounter types:
-dark grass - for Johto
-tall grass (with a chance for a double encounter), desert - for Hoenn
-honey tree, nectar tree and phenomena (water, grass, bird & cave) - for Sinnoh
-pools - for Unova
- flower encounters and snow encounter, horde encounters (3 wild Pkmn vs 1 yours) - for Kalos
- bogs encounters, weather based encounters - for Galar
Pokemon Day Centre
New regional forms for Orange Islands – including Archipelegian Butterfree (Bug/Electric type), Archipelegian Politoed, Archipelegian Parasect and more
New regional forms for Sevii Islands - including Sevian Butterfree (Bug/Fairy), Sevian Dustox (Bug/Ghost), Sevian Snorlax (Normal/Ice), Sevian Onix (Rock/Ice), Sevian Absol and more
New regional forms for Decolore Islands - including Decolorien Butterfree (Bug/Dark), Decolorien Shellos/Gastrodon, Decolorien Torkoal (Fire/Dark), Decolorien Solosis/Duosion/Reuniclus (Psychic/Fire), Decolorien Venomoth/Venonat (Bug/Ice) and more
Alolan, Galarian and Hisuian regional forms
Totem species
Alpha & Noble Species
Aura-fueled Pokemon encounters (Snorlax on Orange Islands and Gen III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII legendaries)
Overworld encounters on every route (acting like kind of sw/sh wanderers) plus Visible Overworld Encounters
The Underground for the eastern part of Sinnoh
Mega Evolution, Primal Reversion, Bond Phenomenon, Ultra Burst, Z-Crystals, Dynamaxing, Gigantamaxing, Eternamaxing
Raid dens & Dynamax Adventures
Now some moves act like overworld moves. Rain Dance causes Rain, Sandstorm causes Sandstorm, Hail causes Snow, Blizzard causes Blizzard, Sunny Day causes Sun, Thunder causes Storm, (Grassy/Misty/Electric/Psychic) Terrain causes fog. However, to get rid of the overworld weather move effect, you need to travel to the map where some weather types are forced (like Route 4 in Kanto).
Changes in the way some Pokemon evolve:
- Golbat, Chansey evolve via Johto Stone
- Feebas now evolves via Hoenn Stone found in Pheonix City (upper part) and on Emerald Plateau
- Methods of evolving Eevee: Flareon, Vaporeon, Jolteon unchanged, Umbreon – Johto Stone, Espeon – Sun Stone, Leafeon – Sinnoh Stone, Glaceon – Ice Stone, Sylveon – Kalos Stone
- Nosepass, Magneton, Lickitung, Tangela, Aipom, Yanma, Gligar, Sneasel and Piloswine evolve via Sinnoh Stone
- Sevian Onix evolves via Ice Stone
- Sevian Munchlax evolves via Ice Stone
- Poliwhirl evolves into Archipelegian Politoed via Sun Stone
- Archipelegian Bellsprout evolves into Archipelegian Weepinbel upon reaching level 21 at night
- Sevian Bonsly evolves into Sevian Sudowoodo by reaching level 20
- Decolorien Minccino evolves via Dusk Stone
- Charjabug evolves into Vikavolt via Thunder Stone
- Meltan evolves into Melmetal by reaching level 40
- Cosmoem evolves by reaching level 53 into either Solgaleo (during day) or Lunala (during night)
- Galarian Yamask evolves via Damage Done (49)
- Stantler and Hisuian Qwilfish evolve via Hisui Stone
Credits
Further inspirations:
Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk for AHS arc
Ariana Grande
Lorde
Britney Spears
Harry Styles
George R.R. Martin, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss for Game of thrones arc
Alex Pina for Money Heist arc
Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses
Avril Lavigne
Katy Perry
Lana Del Rey
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Changelog:
v1.0.0. (02.10.2021)
all regions up to Hoenn: Kanto, Jotho, Orange Islands & Hoenn
rivals: Ash, Gary, Violet, May, Brendan, Misty & more
all gym leaders, E4 and champions
encounters types: grass, dark grass, tall grass, desert, caves, fishing, water, headbutts
some new evolution methods
following Pokemon, EBDX, double wild battles
Pokemon Leagues during which you can drop out if you lose
v1.0.1. (03.10.2021)
new regional maps
new location access: Granite Island (first island of Sevii Islands), where you cna get Sevian Butterfree (Bug/Fairy), Sevian Dustox (Bug/Ghost) and Sevian Beautifly
v1.0.2. (05.10.2021)
updated 3rd battle with Sabrina so that it does not cause a bug
updated chances for a shiny encounter to be slightly higher
v1.0.3. (29.12.2021)
new maps for regions
new region: Sevii Islands
all Frontier Brains are available to be battled
location that makes Deoxys available to change its form
new regional forms for some Pokemon - including Normal/Ice Sevian Snorlax, Ice/Rock Sevian Onix, Sevian Absol, Sevian Sudowoodo and more
some new tiles and character icons
v1.0.4. (10.01.2022)
new region: Sinnoh
the Underground feature for the eastern part of Sinnoh
the 12-tiled connected wild area in Sinnoh
8 new gym matches, sinnohnian E4, Cynthia and Gen IV Frontier Brains
new encounter types: honey tree, nectar tree & phenomena (grass, water, bird & cave)
first battle against Mega-Evolved Pokemon
changed the way traders did work - now you can trade with them limitlessly
v1.0.5. (29.05.2022)
WARNING: this update may break your save files (I can't change that)
game was updated up to Essentials v19.1
two new regions: Unova (divided to continental and non-continental part) and Decolore Islands (24 maps divided to 3 segments)
the non-continental part contains Pokemon form only Gen V
10 new gym matches for Unova and one additional with no badge given
unovan E4 and Alder, Iris, N, Bianca and Trip, Team Plasma
new encounter type: pools
new regional forms for Decolore Islands, including Bug/Ice Decolorien Venomoth, Bug/Dark Decolorien Butterfree, Decolories Skarmory and more
quest for searching for prof. Sycamore on Declare Islands who given you mega ring - after meeting him, you can travel across all regions to look for mega stones
new title card
improved map for the starter town and several others
new tilesets
v1.0.6. (23.09.2022)
All mega stones plus red/blue orb are now collectible
New region added: Kalos, featuring 8 new gym matches, kalosian E4, Diantha, Pokemon League and Battle Chateau
New rivals: Serena, Tierno, Shauna, Trevor, Alain
new tilesets
new encounter types: flower encounters, snow encounters, scripted horde encounters (3v1)
from now on in the place of normal encounters you will experience visible overworked encounters. However, there are still some scripted Pokemon encounters (on all maps up to Alola, which will be implemented later this year), kinda in shape of sw/sh wanderers
minor changes
v1.0.7. (12.10.2022)
All z-crystals are now available
Totem species and alolan regional forms are available
Ultra Deep Space with Ultra Beast is available
New region added: Alola, featuring 7 trial captain matches, 8 trials, 4 battles with kahunas, E4 (Kahili, Molayne, Olivia and Accerola), Ash becoming a champion, Pokemon League
Trainer-scaling. Alola has 4 islands, where you can challange island kahunas etc. You can challange them in any order. As you defeat one of them, all other kahunas, trial captains and ordinary trainers has their Pokemon levels scaled.
New rivals: Gladion, Lillie, Lusamine
Now some moves act like overworld moves. Rain Dance causes Rain, Sandstorm causes Sandstorm, Hail causes Snow, Blizzard causes Blizzard, Sunny Day causes Sun, Thunder causes Storm, (Grassy/Misty/Electric/Psychic) Terrain causes fog. However, to get rid of the overworld weather move effect, you need to travel to the map where some weather types are forced (like Route 4 in Kanto).
v1.0.8. (10.01.2023)
New regions added: Galar & Hisui
Dynamaxing, Gigantamaxing, Eternamaxing, Raid Dens & Dynamax Adventures are all available
Alpha Pokemon found in the wild after journeying to Hisui
Noble Pokemon
Pokemon World Coronation Series-like tournament
New rivals: Leon, Bede, Marnie, Irida, Adaman, Yumiko (Akari, past Dawn), Kamado and Cyllene
Galar features 8 gym battles (with Klara and Avery), E4 (Bea, Allister, Gordie & Melony), Leon, Pokemon League
Prof. Cerise tasks that let you visit Crown Tunder & Isle of Arbor (Galar), Hisui and enter Pokemon World Coronation Series
Totem Pokemon, Noble Pokemon and Alpha Pokemon have marks like shinies do. Note: Alpha Pokemon are not bigger, just stronger.
New encounter types: bogs & weather based encounters on "Galarian wild area"
v1.0.9. (5.02.2023)
Minor bug fixes
Some events has been changed
v1.0.10. (16.03.2023)
Minor bug fixes
Fixed map connectivity
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