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Released Pokémon Aragonite - DEMO 1.3.2 RELEASED

This project has a release available. The full version is still a work in progress.
Project Status
Work in Progress
Project Version
1.3.2
Pokémon Aragonite- Sylia Region
[Made with Pokémon Essentials V21]

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-Introduction-

Pokémon Aragonite is a fanmade project based on the real life island of Sicily, in the South of Italy.
This project aim to reimagine Sicily into the Pokémon world by creating the Sylia region, where you will be able to explore many areas and cities based off actual places!
Initially this started as a fakemon dex where we had fun interpreting our culture, flora and fauna into Fakemon, but then we decided to use Pokémon Essentials to turn it into a playable game!

-The Sylia Region & Premise-
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The colorful Sylia region offers a rich climate where many Pokémon have inhabited its ancient ruins and coastlines.
The people live with the respect of its prominent volcano: Mount Ethenelle.
But it's not just sights that make Sylia unique, but also its rich and ancient history, myths of creatures inhabiting the Messen Strait, strange ruins on the island of Pharot and the fascinating mosaics of Forter Town...
Recently Mt.Ethenelle seems to be acting more active than usual, and the law is getting involved in keeping an eye on suspicious activities, what could this mean?
But there's a charismatic team of researches that aims to study and uncover everything that is hidden on the island!
And it is your chance to join them and get to the bottom of these events!


-The Aragonite Research Team (A.R.T.)-

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The Aragonite Research Team (aka ART) is a group of researchers that wishes to study and protect the ecosystem of the Sylia region.
The team has some important members:

-Carob: the main leader, a jolly fellow that never says no to a challenge and adores the sea!
-Silena: the passionate main assistant of Carob, overlooking Mt.Ethenelle's volcanic activity.
-Asfodelo: the tech guy, it's thanks to him that the region can use the Box System!
-Palma: who researches the cold areas and caves that lie hidden around Mt.Ethenelle.
-Baldassarre: A new recruit in the team, researching the marine life and ecosystems of the region.

-The trainers and Pokémon of the region!-

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Embark on your journey as either Biagio or Cecilia alongside one of the three starters, it is gonna be quite a long trek!
You aren't just going around to collect badges, but to become a fully fledged researcher!
As you collect Gym badges, ART will recognise you more and more as a proper member of their team, and you will be allowed to partake in their various expeditions.
You might help some people, or collect ancient relics, or perhaps find rare Pokémon!

Here are the starters, Buncti, Geckoal and Tunibble!

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-Features-

+ New Region, New Pokémon!
150 new Pokémon for you to catch and battle with around the Sylia region, all based off Sicily's culture, flora and fauna!

+Become a fully fledged researcher!
In order to join ART, you will have to prove your stenghts, collecting badges will be enough to do so.
As you rank up, you'll be able to access more and more hidden and dangerous areas of the region, with quests and special content!

+A story with multiple layers
Not everything is what it seems, why is the police getting involved in checking the current Ethenelle events?
ART is a very passionate team, but could there be more to them?
What dwells deep within Mt.Ethenelle?
This is all up to you to dig deeper...

+Speedup button with Q!
Just don't use it in a nuzlocke accidentally...

+A healthy postgame
No hand holding, gloves are off, will you be able to properly show your detective skills and investigate what's left to search?

+A detailed Pokédex
Moves, abilities, stats, you name it, all neatly shown in your trusty Pokédex!


-THE ACTUAL GAME-

Of course, this is all gonna be playable!

Have a look!

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What's gonna be finished?
when it's done lol


Want to try the game right now???

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE DEMO!!! (Version 1.3.2)

CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR OFFICIAL DISCORD SERVER!

CREDITS:

Project by: Darkonius Mavakar, FrankieChatot
Fakemon Sprites by: iTzNikkitty. Tama1313, HiddenSoundTest, Gaem, Mia, Rixithechao, Turcoffee, Benial, Scouter Egg, King Peggy, Sable
Pokémon Essentials V21 by:
"Pokémon Essentials" was created by:
Flameguru
Poccil (Peter O.)
Maruno

With contributions from:
AvatarMonkeyKirby
Marin
Boushy
MiDas Mike
Brother1440
Near Fantastica
FL.
PinkMan
Genzai Kawakami
Popper
Golisopod User
Rataime
help-14
Savordez
IceGod64
SoundSpawn
Jacob O. Wobbrock
the__end
KitsuneKouta
Venom12
Lisa Anthony
Wachunga
Luka S.J.
and everyone else who helped out

"mkxp-z" by:
Roza
Based on "mkxp" by Ancurio et al.

"RPG Maker XP" by:
Enterbrain

Pokémon is owned by:
The Pokémon Company
Nintendo
Affiliated with Game Freak

This is a non-profit fan-made game.
No copyright infringements intended.
Please support the official games!

Various Tilesets by: Magiscarf, Ekat, Kaliser, Jesus Carrasco, Kyle-Dove, UltimoSpriter, SailorVicious, LotusKing, WilsonScarloxy, Akizakura16, Shiney570, Pablus94.
Plugins:
Arcky's Region Map - Arcky
Bag screen with interactible party - DiegoWT
BW Gender Selector - KleinStudio, DeepBlue PacificWaves, TechSkylander1518, LinKazamine
BW Key items - KleinStudio, DeepBlue PacificWaves, Izanagi
BW Speech Bubble - NonoNever, Carmaniac
BW Location signposts - Shashu-Greninja,DeepBlue PacificWaves,Shiney570
Delta Speed Up - Marin (og speed up script), Phantombass (19.1 version), Mashirosakura, Golisopod User, D0vid (v21.1 version)
Enhanced Pokémon UI - Lucidious89
FlyAnimation by Kleinstudio - KleinStudio (original), A.I.R (update)
Marin's scripting utilities - Marin
Modular UI scenes - Lucidious89
More Pokedex Page : Size Comparison - Caruban
Overworld Shadows EX - Golisopod User, Wolf PP, Marin
Pokédex Data Page - Lucidious89
Rename from Party - TechSkylander1518
Storage system utilities - Swdfm
Voltseon's Pause Menu - Voltseon, Golisopod User, ENLS


BiggusWeeabus - Type icons
Aki- gen 6 and GO UI for summary and party
 
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Kelvin

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I Test my Android phone To play but cannot playing I perhaps can play
Thanks
 

Darkonius Mavakar

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I would like to mention that we are also allowing people to contribute to the project, specifically about spriting the various fakemon of the region while we take care of the actual game and artwork;
Here's a quick example graph!

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And our application form:
 

GubGar

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Having played the demo via the discord, I'll give a quick review for anyone wondering if it's worth giving a try.

Short answer: Yeah! It's fun, and I enjoyed my experience.

Longer answer: It's still definitely in early development, so it's rough around the edges, some of the Pokemon are represented by concept art instead of spritework, and the demo is fairly short. None of that is a dig against it, though, cause what's there is very fun. Good pacing, some challenge but not very much (which is fine given this is the early game part), and fun Fakemon designs (especially the cookie bug). I'd definitely suggest checking it out! Plus, the devs in the discord are very active and good about responding to feedback.
 

Darkonius Mavakar

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Having played the demo via the discord, I'll give a quick review for anyone wondering if it's worth giving a try.

Short answer: Yeah! It's fun, and I enjoyed my experience.

Longer answer: It's still definitely in early development, so it's rough around the edges, some of the Pokemon are represented by concept art instead of spritework, and the demo is fairly short. None of that is a dig against it, though, cause what's there is very fun. Good pacing, some challenge but not very much (which is fine given this is the early game part), and fun Fakemon designs (especially the cookie bug). I'd definitely suggest checking it out! Plus, the devs in the discord are very active and good about responding to feedback.
thank you very much for the comment, and yee we're trying to take feedback to heart and make sure we can polish it up as we go--

Once the proper demo gets to a good point, we'll post it as a release in the main thread instead of leaving the builds on Discord

We've been taking our time to rework some of the maps atm, making for instance Messen a little smaller and compact!
 

SwampyK

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I finished playing the demo a few days ago and I thought I'd put here on this threads all my thoughts about it.
It was very fun to play and pretty quick too, like an hour-ish minimum. UIs are fantastic, especially those in battle, summary and overall the Pokédex. I like the Grass-type starter the most.
As an Italian it is both funny and interesting to see a Pokémon region based on Sicily, and I'm sure it's got plenty of potential.
I kind of like the locations and cities, although it appears that some of them look quite empty, or too big, or both (take Messen City for example).
Overall it's a very good start, for sure a very interesting project which I'm interested in. The only thing is, as I mentioned, the cities being too empty, and also the movepool of the Pokémon, but that's the least of your worries because it can be adjusted anytime.
Here's a screenshot of my final team (yeah I chose the female protagonist because the overworld looked cuter tbh)
 

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Darkonius Mavakar

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The main build has been updated to 0.5!

This marks a plethora of changes-- mostly visual, a few balancing and some map edits, for instance, Messen has been entirely redesigned!
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It is now much more compact and easy to traverse than it used to, other routes have gotten some edits as well in the visual departement, like Route 3 and the Camposanto (Graveyard) getting a different palette to suit the mood...

More fakemon sprites, we're approaching the full demo's roster very soon, just about 10 fakemon left to sprite!

Tidarid now has a dynamic panorama that changes depending on the time of day, fancy!
As always you can check out our builds in our official discord server, linked up in the main thread.
And please do remember that not everything here is final and may be subject to change as we develop the project.
 

Darkonius Mavakar

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Build 0.6 uploaded to the main Discord Server, why a new build so soon?
Mostly making sure some extremely specific crashing cases do not occour, more npcs added for flavor and more items added about in various routes;

Also some graphical changes, like beaches looking like proper beaches, and the intro getting started on having some visual tweaks!
 

Inner Rhymes

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Oh my gosh! This looks wonderful! I am really looking forward to a proper demo release!
 

Darkonius Mavakar

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Speaking of Alphas, version 0.8 is available!
This is getting closer to the final release, as we have very few sprites missing;

this update fixes a bunch of stuff, but mostly updates visuals and rebalances a few moves and encounters, as well as map layouts!

As always, ALPHAs are available on our Discord Server, and the FULL demo will instead be posted here in the main thread when it's done!
 

Darkonius Mavakar

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Progress has been going pretty alright!
Hopefully we will have a proper demo so that everyone can try the game rather than downloading the Alphas--
just a few sprites left, thanks to our contributors! (which you can also join)

Here's Cecilia's trainer sprite by HiddenSoundTest!
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safr

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Progress has been going pretty alright!
Hopefully we will have a proper demo so that everyone can try the game rather than downloading the Alphas--
just a few sprites left, thanks to our contributors! (which you can also join)

Here's Cecilia's trainer sprite by HiddenSoundTest!
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I honestly nearly forget about this game, looks like people right this day it's better for me to join discord to keep track on any fangame game development. Thank you for keep working on this, happy new year and i hope best year for the dev team
 
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