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Premise:
This project is a mod that is meant to enhance every aspect of the original (Pokemon) Xenoverse. On a mechanical level, which is where help is needed the most, we want to update the game from Essentials v17 to Essentials v21, improve the UI navigation, the framerate, the pace of the game at large and its level curve by sticking to a single exp system and balancing it around that. Another mechanic that we want to add is a Let's go style partner mechanic, so you don't have to use the Starter in the party while still having them with you at all times, as one of the most unique features of this game's narrative is the Starter being story relevant, though being forced to have it in the party at all times was something a lot of people took issue with.
This leads to a paragraph on the story, which is getting tweaked as well. Aside from its translation getting improved, a lot more has been added to it. Some characters show up earlier, their characterization is highlighted more, and while the broad events of the story stay faithful to the original, a lot of context and content has been added in light of the postgame's storyline, and the Starter's relationship with the main character is highlighted through added sections of teamwork between them, facilitated by the Let's Go Partner mechanic. The only considerable rewrites that have been done so far (by the time of writing this, the whole main game from intro to credits after the "Champion") is the Starter selection getting an overhaul to better build the bond between them and their trainer, and the main villain of the game getting changed completely. While the latter is not a small change, I felt that to make sure everything else stayed as intact as possible, this aspect of the game had to change.
Our wish is to make this game shine as much as it can through updated mechanics and a smoother gameplay experience, doing all we can to enrich the story that the original team wanted to tell, while also adding our own original ideas through new regional forms for Pokemon and new scenarios in the postgame, but in order to achieve it, we need more passionate people and more capable programmers at our side.
Devkit:
Pokemon Essentials (v21.1)
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Current Dev Team (Discord Usernames)
Creative Director: konodiegoda (me)
Programmers: phye
Artists: ghasty_001
Spriters: ghasty_001, mintaka_ok
Gameplay Balance Assessment: doot_revenant666, nhshadow9, rex_aura, vizir_kg, .happyplayer.
Writer: konodiegoda (me)
Composers: (Vacant)
Server Link: https://discord.gg/Bxh7HU6M6M
Looking For:
- Programmers to port the game over to the newest version of Pokemon Essentials (or recreate the game in it should porting be an impossibility), and make all the planned additions should those be possible.
- An Artist that can replicate the official Pokemon Artstyle to have our original designs be rendered in an artstyle eligible for the portraits that the Party UI in Xenoverse uses.
- Test readers to review the rewritten story.
- Sprite artists to create animated sprites for the new Pokemon, reanimate some sprites for already existing Pokemon, re-sprite NPCs to conform with the new style and create more unified and cohesive tilesets for the world.
- A music composer for some custom OSTs.
Unique Features:
Of the original Xenoverse:
- Pokemon Dens, minigame dungeons that have you explore a Pokemon's Den as your Starter to discover items or draw out some Pokemon.
- Fakemons and X Pokemon, which are functionally regional forms but abide by no evolutionary logic, as they are from another dimension.
- New Sound Type. Super Effective against Water, Fairy and Flying. Weak to Dragon and Electric. Resists Water, Fairy, Flying and Sound. Resisted by Dragon, Electric and Psychic.
- Mega Evolutions (that can now change max HP as well).
- Boss Pokemon with multiple HP Bars and boosted stats.
- Animated B&W style sprites
- Porygon Centers. Pay a small fee to heal up or use the Box system in the middle of a treacherous dungeon
Planned for this Project:
- EV Allocation system. Each Pokemon starts with a pool of EVs that they can assign to any stat from the Team menu. These EVs can be redistributed across any stat whenever and however the player wants to. The pool of EVs increases with the Pokemon's Level. This is to encourage using the EV system to tailor the stats of your Pokemon to whatever challenge lays ahead.
- Let's Go Partner-style mechanic for the Starter, so you can have it with you at all times without needing it to occupy a slot in the party to progress the story.
- The Boss Pokemon are double battles, widening the possibilities with strategy and more interesting battle dynamics.
- Scrapped Pokemon that never got the light of day are reinvented and reintroduced into the Eldiw Region.
- More original Regional forms than just Eldiwian Meowth and Persage.
Plot Outline:
Two years have gone by after the player character's father, esteemed researcher and family man Versil, was kidnapped by a mysterious figure from his past.
Now his child, Kay or Alice, has set off on a journey across the Eldiw Region to grow strong and find out who has taken their father and why.
In their travels, they fight off invasive X Pokemon from another dimension, the Xenoverse, and thanks to the help of aspiring Pokemon Professor and big brother figure, Aster Laurel.
These encounters, however, are often less than spontaneous, as their appearances are tied to the criminal organization called "Team Dimension", the ones responsible for their dad's kidnapping, whose ranks are filled by robots instead of people.
Among the many mysteries of the Eldiw Region, the Starter that has chosen Kay/Alice seems to have a connection with the very forces that make up the fabric of reality, which becomes the point of interest for a young and brash cyborg, with a Pokemon who seems to share this connection alongside the Starters.
For those who are familiar with Xenoverse's plot, this doesn't sound too unfamiliar, but the details and the context have been completely overhauled, while keeping the broad strokes of the story and the various set pieces mostly intact. I like to think that all the changes made were for the better, but I require feedback to be certain.
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