April Fools New Exclusive Resource: Custom Black out Animations

[catwithnojob]

You blacked out! You dropped $25 and returned to the Pokémon Center! It's a classic of each Pokémon title and it's a part of Pokémon Essentials. But what if you could spruce it up with a fancy graphic or textbox?

Introducing Relic Castle's next community created resource, Custom Black out Animations!

There are numerous other templates being added to the resource. Here are some examples, compiled by Otter and me:

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Want something more? How about custom animations for when you win a battle? Despite the unfortunate name we'll also be including victory animations in the pack:

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The possibilities are endless with this resource we are putting together. However...

This is an exclusive resource, and as such, will only be available today, the first of April! Quickly reply below with a couple sentences describing how you'd use this resource to make the perfect fan game and you'll receive this exclusive offer!​

 

[Foxowl]

Finally... this is exactly what I've been waiting for my entire life. When I exited the womb all those years ago, there was one thought and one thought only in my mind: how will my players know they have lost?

With this resource, the pinnacle of human creation throughout centuries of innovation, I finally have an answer to that question.

I will be making Pokémon Desperation, a game designed to punish the player in as many ways as possible. Without suffering, there is no joy in life, so clearly, in order to give my players the best experiences of their lives, I will have to break them. I will have to push them to their limits. I'm talking 1v12 battles, OHKO moves, i-frame dodge rolls, forced losses, those fucking birds from Elden Ring. Everyone is here to make you suffer. And when the player eventually gives in, crushed by their defeat, they will know they have lost, because "You are Dead" will appear. "You Died" will appear. The player has mailed their fission.

And that's just where the game starts...

Please look forward to it :)

 

[luxdiablo]

Among Us death animations after you lose a battle. That's all I have to say.

Genius. I know.

 

[TechSkylander1518]

How quickly we forget the classics...​

 

[Jelo]

There are few constants in life.

When we're happy, we smile. When we're sad, we cry. When we're hungry, we want to eat. When we strive, we need to strive hard.
We gotta push the drive. We gotta push the power. We need to stay hungry and devour. We need to put in the work and all of the hours so that we can take what's ours. We gotta stretch for our dreams. We gotta work it harder, make it better, do it faster so that it makes us stronger. But for all of this to happen, we need a spark. A light that will inspire us to continue pushing forward and never looking back. And with this I say, these custom black-out animations will be my spark. Now I present to you, my own custom black-out screen.

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god i spent way too much time on this

 

[KennyCatches]

Finally, the perfect victory screen! What a great resource!

 

[Sipondo]

Great initiative! What about having game jam games as "defeat" screens? Every time you lose you'll have to play a jam game, so it's win-win!

 

[PurpleZaffre]

This resource will only be available for a day?
What is this, Mario 3D All-Stars?

Better hurry up and reply then, wouldn't wanna miss the chance to have a masterpiece of a blackout animation in my fan game!

 

[CelestialFearow]

If the player loses the battle something like this will appear:

And now the player has won the battle instead of losing it!

 

[King_Waluigi]

What about "Peace and Tranquility" Mode, where when you die, you pay pons... I'm sorry, I mean PokeDollers to start the fight over and make it easier...
Similar to A Hat in Time's "Death Wish"!

 

[doof]

As someone who blacks out constantly, it was always a little bit disappointing and even sometimes just embarrassing to have the exact same blackout scenes as everyone else. But now with these new and improved and very original animations, I can now fail in style!

I think these animations will be a perfect fit for Perfect Jam 2, which releases later today.

 

[WolfTaiko]

For the many games I've played and made, I had always found the black-out screens boring, unimaginative, and not interesting. So, I think having an impostor kill you at the end of a match is an amazing way to spruce up the game over screen, and will definitely make the player want to keep losing over and over, which I would love since they would then play the game longer! I also love the Minecraft You Died one, so it will definitely be hard to choose between the two. I would use this resource to make the perfect UNENDING Pokemon fan game by making the players not want to end, but keep playing over and over offering their souls to me as I gain the power to one day escape the digital world and finally take my revenge against the-- oh I probably shouldn't spoil all the hidden lore in the game, whoopsies. Though I do hope that I can get this resource to make the perfect unending Pokemon fan game.

 

[Tomix9tomix]

Some people say that video games are a form of art... I argue otherwise...

Until today videos games have been a mere attempt at art, but none have actually achieved it. But with this exclusive resource I can now see it, the perfect fan game.

It took me all this time to realise, but it always had to do with the black out animations. When we open our eyes, we see something. And in that moment, that something is our whole world, it is all we perceive. When we close our eyes, to sleep, or in this case, to pass out, we see nothing. In that moment the world is empty. It is an empty void waiting to be filled. Which is exactly what this resource does, it lets us fill the void and CREATE a world, OUR world.

It can be ANYTHING we want, that is what this resource let's us do, now when we close our eyes, the world doesn't end, but instead OUR NEW BEAUTIFUL WORLD, ONLY LIMITED BY OUR IMAGINATION BEGINS. AND THUS BEGINS ART. BECAUSE WHAT IS ART OTHER THAN THE PURE EXPRESSION OF OUR MINDS. LET US SHOW THE WORLD WHAT WE CAN PERCIEVE. FANGAMES HAVE CHANGED FOREVER. FANGAMES ARE THE WORLD

Umm... But yes... This seems like a very valuable resource. I would like a blackout screen that shows a picture of a cute Mudkip please.

 

[Aki]

Rating:
Thank you so much for this resource, I can't believe I've been missing this all my life. Finally the players will actually stick around to see all the sudden death bad endings I've been including; with awesome looking blackout screens like these no one would ever want to miss them with a soft reset!

 

[Kamkam10302005]

How exactly would you use these animations? I literally have no idea which folder to put them in.

 

[Ott]

But of course, how could I ever pass down such a marvellous resource?! The true pinnacle of customisation, of self-expression, a message to the world about how death fainting is represented to you! To some, an Italian man falling off-screen. To others, a young kid lost and abandoned to their demise in a basement. To a select few, perhaps after a battle in a galaxy far far away. To me, however, I mail my fissions. That is the true weapon to surpass fan games.

 

[ImZero]

Honestly this is just fantastic, and shocked that it hasn't been done before!

I imagine using the resource with utmost brain power, creating a fine work of art, yet, complex and sophisticated at the same time. Crafting what's only ever been told in legends and stories before...…..The Perfect Fangame.

Me: the perfect fangame doesn't exist...
The Perfect Fangame:

 

[n1ck0411]

Finally! I have toiled for years, attempting to find a death screen for my fangame, Pokemongus. I was about to give up on this dream, when I see this resource! Thank you, for making my dreams of Pokemongus a reality.

 

[systeromen_]

Are we sure this is community made? I think I saw someone post this a few months ago. This feels pretty....

S U S.

 

[Monika~♡]

Finally something to inspire me to create a fangame! I'd use this exclusive one of a kind community resource to create a game supporting all pokemon, every canon region, all with the style of dark souls, fully rendered in dark souls style, except for battles, it would be truly the peak of pokemon game design and creation... it would be like the dark souls of battling