Released Stygian Snakewood, a Pokémon Snakewood Remake.

lige · Feb 1, 2024

Excuse me, has it been released now Or is it still in internal testing? ?

A¹¹ · Feb 1, 2024

lige said:
Excuse me, has it been released now Or is it still in internal testing? ?

Still internal testing, I got really sick so it has been slower than expected

lige · Feb 2, 2024

A¹¹ said:
仍在内部测试，我病得很厉害，所以比预期慢

I wish you a speedy recovery.

A¹¹ · Sep 22, 2024

It's here. After a lot of procrastination and real life issues, The first Stygian Snakewood demo has been officially released!

This demo goes up to Sage Longwei in the Shakya Monastery (around level 38) and about half of the evolution lines are available to the player. (I was going to list the total hours but I suck at that so no). Reminder to read the FAQ on this thread and the DOCUMENTATION folder in the game folder (also Q is for Speed Up, it stacks up to 5 times)

Link: https://mega.nz/file/XOxg1RbJ#UzBkA1t4lROv9B5ASqpPjdaVO1pSUM6iqMbzrQGqw-s

A lot of sprites are inconsistent or have placeholders, one major story trainer has no battle sprite whatsoever.
You can landsurf in quite a lot of areas
The female character has a few missing sprites.
Cutscene characters may behave weirdly.
Some maps have exposed void. It's not my fault, I grabbed a sketchy map pack and it was all over the place.

Also some things that I want to add to the game in the future (that are NOT in the game yet)

Third, androgynous protagonist (might age them up to 18)
Every single thing with a redesign (except most trainer classes, they will just be updated)
More devs
Fix every single map that is a bit bad.
Maybe some custom or remixed soundtracks.

And as I mentioned in the main thread: Credits might not reflect the final version and are subject to change. If any of the current features or screenshots shown contain any stuff that you believe it's yours and has no credit, please contact ASAP me on Discord #aaleven.

Although there is a thing I wanted to say: Stygian Snakewood might not be for everyone.
It's kinda gotten a complicated history, first it started as kinda like a "Kaizo" or "Hardcore" enhanced version the original Snakewood, as a minor edit of the binary ROM hack, then I tried to expand further on it but a Ruby edit from 2010 isn't exactly the most stable or easy to use so I had migrated to a decomp hack, after a while I was making little progress because I honestly had no idea how to use decomp so I migrated to Essentials, I had changed its version like 5 times and remade it once or twice. It was never intended to be a remake of the original Snakewood, only a little thing I would've shared with my friends, but as I got more and more annoyed by the limitations of it and the more I tried to change stuff it kinda became a remake, specially after I got a redesign for almost every single Fakémon and character. The problem was, it was still only supposed to be a mod of Snakewood originally, a lot of the gameplay was built around that, hell, the Vanilla mode was only added very late into development. It went way too fast from something to that was supposed to only be a few balance and battle changes to a full blown revamp of the game and it wasn't a smooth transition.

TLDR: Due to its origins as a "kaizo-like", Stygian Snakewood has some unique gameplay experiences that may or may not be someone's cup of tea.

Also some projects worth keeping in mind in the future in case you're interested in more Snakewood content and you turn out to not be a fan of Stygian Snakewood:

Snakewood DX that was used for TwitchPlaysPokémon;

Snakewood: Rebirth or something that was on Twitter;

Pokémon Snakewood Remade or something I think it was on Reddit

TheMentalOrder · Sep 22, 2024

Peak fiction has arrived.

A¹¹ · Sep 22, 2024

# NEW PATCH 0.5.3

- Vanilla has been renamed to Normal. It's probably too far away from the original game to be considered Vanilla.

- Normal mode has been somewhat nerfed up to Laura (Normal-type trainer). Minor changes here and there could be done as well.

- A certain Pokémon line has been adjusted, this could be seen as a nerf to an infamous fight.

- Zombie trainers now have more a diverse roster of undead Pokémon.

- Fixed a bug that allowed you to skip Zabulon.

- Minor dialogue changes and flavour text (also foreshadowing).

- Growlithe's sprite has been fixed.

- Slightly updated Roteen sprite.

FULL: https://mega.nz/file/GaBxhJJB#e6M9gi9EYq-rZiXFvY3ETMzzSTJny7YPKrs9oIKWuFo

PATCH: https://mega.nz/file/SH5GmRiS#EL7OVLmLe-_-651GXT0Q--4aldaNUFJJXzS4yfMTHSI

sjr56x · Oct 13, 2024

thank you excited to play.

A¹¹ · Nov 13, 2024

The dev blog I promised but that I never actually delivered is here yay!

First of all, thanks for all the support on the first demo even with all the struggles. I'm honestly quite surprised so many people saw this thread and how many people played it in their channels, I know it wasn't very polished (trust me when I say this, during beta testing it was a lot worse, it wasn't the lack of beta testing but instead the sheer amount of problems)

But what does the future bring to Stygian Snakewood? Well, for one the next update (0.6) intends to improve a lot of what was lacking in the original demo such as designs, inconsistencies and specially the maps. One thing that deserves mention is the "Zombie Redesign Project", basically a way to rework many of the old designs both from the original Snakewood and from other sources such as XtraSnakewood and Snakewood DX in order to give them a more interesting look, specially since a thing that I slowly started to realize: Do all of the "zombies" need to be zombies? Such way would be quite limiting so we've decided to expand upon and beyond the concept of zombie, exploring stuff such as other pieces of modern culture and myths, creating more of a Halloween experience than anything really. And someone that was essential to it was our new spriter, Raffs (also a sprite of his that I couldn't fit with anything else so it is there)!

Zombie Electabuzz I had the idea to be based on Frankenstein's monster and other chimeric monsters due to a previous old sprite of mine for a zombie Electivire based on such thing. And "zombie" Clefable based on Gargoyles, the idea wasn't mine, coming from another Snakewood project but which had a rather... underwhelming sprite that didn't make it justice. Then at least some protag redesigns. The ponytail on the male protagonist may have come from nowhere but he wanted it and I didn't mind the idea. But the female sprite had quite a heavier change with a blue and longer hair, intending to resemble more the original female protagonist from Snakewood (reminder just in case I aged up the protagonists from 16 to 18 as it was getting a bit weird to me).

Of course, it's not going to be some .5 update or whatnot, it's intended to add content as well, not as much as the release demo but enough to feel like meaningful project. Currently the plan is for it to go up to Route 119 and the Security Vault (previously Weather Institute), going on with content such as the final Alicia battle, Fallabor and the second S.S Cangrejo visit along the way but anyway here are the images.

1. Yes, the infamous Wattson battle is somewhat back. You can even get a reward for beating him (and before you ask I disabled both Exp gain and Money gain on victory)!
2. Final place in the demo, the visibility is a bit bad though so I might change it. it also features more of the female protagonist.
3. Funny puzzle to get either Lileep or Anorith. I suck at these so I hope it looks good.
4. Just a battle image, showing stuff such as a custom Claydol shiny (you might recognize where it is from) as well as my takes on Zombie Venusaur and Zombie Blastoise
5. Obtaining the Maw Fakemon owned by Asimov. Fun fact the origin of it is that when I was looking at the Snakewood data and I saw that for some reason Sneasel replaced Mawile, even though Sneasel wasn't a new Pokémon, when I looked at Sneasel's slot there was a second Sneasel with the name of "Maw". So I had the idea to make it so that it was a fusion of both in a unholy mess.
6. ???

Anyway, reminder that any screenshots here are subject to change but be free to give feedback on the game overall and these changes for it is of utmost importance! Also, we are recruiting! Look for the Recruitment Section on this respective forum for more info.

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