Released Pokemon Storage System

Gunther930 · Aug 12, 2023

There were a few minor bugs in the original version that are now fixed in version 1.1.0. This should be the final update unless someone discovers new bugs.

Edit I now plan on expanding the game a bit once the judging period is over.

Change Log

Fixed a bug where the victory music was missing
Fixed some Gen6+ Pokemon front sprites were either too small or too far up
Fixed a bug where losing in certain battles would respawn the player in the wrong place

Tomix9tomix · Sep 9, 2023

just finished playing the game! Some thoughts:

I really liked your game, the setting was cool and not really something I'd seen before. Playing as a porygon 2 and rotom duo performing maintenance of PCs was really interesting, and I like the way you tiled the digital world and turned it into something explorable. I honestly wish I had more time with the characters, but I guess at its heart this was a more battle focused game.

I should note I am very bad at pokemon battles, but I thought that you did a good job with making the battles difficult but not infuriating. I had fun figuring out strategies to come out victorious even if I did die like 4 times in some fights :P

But yeah, nice fun game, and defs good for a first jam game. I honestly wouldn't mind seeing porygon2 and rotom appear again, keep up the good work!

TechSkylander1518 · Sep 19, 2023

I really love that title screen - as simple as it is, the flashing lasers synced with "press enter" looks really cool!

I was super impressed by the following event depending on your party order! Seems like a tricky thing to pull off, and it's such a fun little detail to have! And the portrait system came out great! (Maybe a bit small? But that might just be personal preference?)

Translating the PC wallpapers to maps was really clever!

The battles do a really great job at making the player think about specific strategies with the Pokemon's moves! It almost felt like a puzzle sometimes, making observations like "This team's strategy is AoE moves where the partner is immune, so I'm supposed to use Mienshao's Wide Guard to counter it" or "Limber here means Rotom can't make use of Thunder Wave to power up its attacks, so I need to use another mon to take them out". I think there was maybe one or two matches where I felt like my loss was bad luck, but most of the time I always had the sense that I had learned something about the fight and could adapt my strategy further, which I think is really hard to pull off in a game with as many choices as Pokemon! (I mean, I know the restricted team definitely helps, but still!)

I could very easily see this becoming a larger challenge - the premise is perfectly suited to add more boxes, bosses, and recruits as you like - but it's still perfectly fun as what it is now!

Also, it's minor, but I'm obligated to say it every time - I always appreciate having access to running at the start of a game!

The logo feels a little too simple, especially contrasted with the background being so neat. (I feel like the green is also a bit hard to read over the blue of the lasers behind it.) I feel like just doing the standard Pokemon logo + "Storage System" written in some Pokemon font would look fine?

I was also surprised that the load screen was just the default UI, after all the work with the title!

Lose text still says you "Scurry back to a Pokemon Center", when that's not really what you're doing.

As much as I'm in favor of QoL stuff like multisave, it doesn't seem like there's really any need for it in this game? The only permanent changes are like, consumable held items or moves forgotten while levelling up, and you could get around that by having a move reminder/place to replenish items, so there's not really any need for the player to keep multiple save files. It's ultimately just an extra button to click through when saving.

The level numbers are really hard to see here.

A lot of the default Essentials UI is pretty useless here! You could definitely remove the trainer card from the pause menu - the player doesn't even need to check money - and the badge count from the save/load UI. And since there's only some held berries in the game, you could probably remove most of the bag's pockets, too.

Is it intentional that the boxes are labelled outdoor maps? I personally found the night shading a bit odd for a digital environment, but that may just be personal preference. (Pokemon in the PC need to sleep too, after all)

Weirdly, followers don't actually turn to face you when you interact with them? Kind of a niche situation, though, you have to interact with a follower after changing direction.

Spiritomb is floating

Oranguru is floating

Vaporeon is floating, but that's as a trainer sprite, so that's kind of a different situation

Noivern didn't have a cry, and I think that might be true for all Gen 6+ mons?

I got this error a couple times - don't remember much of the context, unfortunately. I think it's a base Essentials bug, looks like something to do with the AI deciding to switch? I can't really parse it myself.

This map is still named "public tiles", and you can see it if you save on it.

What direction is the Pokemon Center then? - comma after Center, Pokemon is missing the accent
You’re so cute Rotom! - comma after cute
Thanks Lady - Comma after Thanks
This is the wrong way isn’t it. - comma after way
Yes! the Center’s finally in my sights! - “The” should be capitalized
Those technically difficult won’t trouble you long with us around! - “technical difficulties”, unless the joke is that Rotom’s saying it wrong?
Pokemon Center Technical Support called us in - missing accent over e
Thank goodness your here. - you’re
My pokemon are going crazy in there - missing accent over e and should be capitalized
We’ll get in there and put’em back to normal. - should be space between “put” and “‘em”.
You can still send a heal our way right? - comma after way
Please, help my pokemon! - should be capitalized and have accented e
Please succeed, for the sake of those poor pokemon! - should be capitalized and have accented e
This better not be some cruel prank Porygon-Z. - comma after prank
Spot on Bastiodon, we’ll back you up. - comma after on
Great idea Pory! - comma after idea
ahead of us then - comma after us

Released Pokemon Storage System

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TechSkylander1518

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