Recruiting [Essentials] Stygian Snakewood, a Pokémon Snakewood remake, is now recruiting!

[A¹¹]

'sup [main thread > here ]
(disclaimer: game may contain scenes of gore, alcohol, guns and more)
Stygian Snakewood is a remake of the infamous classic ROM hack Pokémon Snakewood. Follow the saga of the younger sibling of Brendan in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, facing interesting foes, meeting zombified Pokémon and trainers and trying to solve the mystery of your brother's disappearance and the origin of the zombie plague. This wacky mixture of horror and comedy packed with needless edginess and surreal humor, now with a new look and feel!

Features:

- Overhaul of the zombie Pokémon: Most zombies are from the new Plague-type (previously named Disease, renamed due to UI issues) with its own type chart, and they are finally catchable! To do so you're inclined to use a Necro Ball. Furthermore, they're unable to switch out but to compensate they deal 30% extra damage compared to regular Pokémon! [subject to change]
- New designs and Pokémon: Some previously unavailable Pokémon such as Toxeon or Healmadio are available, furthermore many Pokémon have been added, from new zombies to evolutions or pre-evolutions of vanilla Snakewood Fakemon and even some regional/mutated forms!
- Focus on rebalance: Many Pokemon have had their movesets, evolution requirements, stats or abilities changed. The dex was frequently adjusted and morphed in order to make sure every Pokemon can do at least one thing of unique.
- Relatively high difficulty: Besides having a much improved Battle AI, Stygian Snakewood has two difficulty modes, Vanilla and Lunatic. Vanilla intends to have a similar power level to the original game, which already is considerably harder than the vast majority of fangames while Lunatic puts it to the extreme. Despite it, there's a good care to make sure the battles feel beatable and that your options are viable.
- QoL abundance: Stygian Snakewood features many additions in order to make the gameplay experience feel smoother and faster. Ranging from increasing the Shiny chance to ~1% and 5 Stages of Speed Up to a completely custom EXP system in which there is a drastic increase or reduction of Exp gain based off the level difference, making for a self-adjusting level curve.
- Revamps galore: As a remake, Stygian Snakewood plans to build of many aspects of the original as such will feature a new redesign/higher quality for almost every single Fakémon and character, Physical/Special split, Gen 4 Style, minor rewrites, extra side-content and more!


POSITIONS WANTED by order of priority:

• Spriter/Concept Artist (lot of redesigns)
• Mapper (almost every single map needs some sort of tweak they're so bad...). Tileset edits/customs welcome.
• Scripter
• Composer (mostly for little remixes of Hoenn soundtracks to make them more eerie.

Those interested please send me a DM here on PokéCommunity or on Discord @aaleven .

Final note: It's recommended that you're a fan of the original Snakewood, it ain't for everyone. Also I'm very awkward and I struggle to talk to people, so be patient if you decide to join.

Spoiler: Credits

CREDITS

Stygian Snakewood was created by A¹¹

Lead Developer: A¹¹

Spriters: lichen, Badman, thewaffles, Raffs07

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GRAPHICS
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Dozens of Trainer and Pokémon redesigns by Burgoton!
-

RetroNC for a bunch of redesigns (Such as Yuck)

GenDraconis for allowing me to use their Snakewood fakemon designs

KleinStudio and Kymotonian on Deviantart for the various gen 3 sprites in HGSS style (Such as Birch)

Mashirosakura for giving me assets from his discontinued Snakewood remake including: protagonists, Dragoone, Gigawolf, Boilbasaur and the intro.

The Pokemon Rejuvenation Shiny Project I think

Xiapher

DMBY

Sombrero_Tanooki

myRattata for some of the Snakewood DX sprites

aerunfe

Gen 4 OW Sprites by:
Neo-Spriteman
VanillaSunshine
PurpleZaffre & Maicerochico
AtomicReacto

Mr. Gela/theo#7722 (trainer sprites gen 4)

DiegoWT for the gen 5 overworld sprites in gen 4 style

Hoenn Gym Leader mugshots by Dasupect

FEAR font by somepx

ORAS trainer sprites by Kyledove

FloofyPanthar on Relic Castle for

Gen 5+ Back Sprites by:
@ Dreadwing93
@ Prodigal96
@ MM980
@ 44tim44
@ Gnomowladny
@ MetalFlygon (republished by Zygoat)
@ WolfPP
@ lichenprincess
@ BiggusWeeabus
@ ChromusSama
@ briochee
@ Mak
@ Loafus022
@ Sopita_Yorita
@ lennybitao
@ Limitdistortion
@ PorousMist326
@ leParagon
@ DS-style Gen VII and Beyong Pokemon Sprite Repository
@ Smogon Art Projects

-Battle Backgrounds-
Carchi/Carchagui
AveonTrainer

The DS-style Gen VII and Beyond Pokémon Sprite Repository in 64x64

The Smogon Sprite Project for a few gen 8 Sprites

Swimming Overworld Pokemon Sprites by Swdfm

Tileset credits go to:
Kymotonian
Speedialga
Spacemotion
Alucus
Pokemon-diamond
Kizemaru-kurunosuke
Epicday
Thurpok
Ultimospriter
Dewitty
Minorthreat0987
Tyranitardark
Princelegendario
Kaitodesign
Wesleyfg
Boomxbig
Takaiofthefire
Sailorvicious
Aveontrainer
Magiscarf
Phyromatical
Cuddlesthefatcat
Peekychew
Hek
Carchagui
KingTapir
07harris/Paranoid
19dante91
27alexmad27
874521
Alistair
Atomika
Bakura155
Blue Beedrill
Boomxbig
Bulbapedia and Bulbaforums
chimcharsfireworkd
Chio
CNickC/CNC
Flood
Fused
G-olden
help14
Jesse TBPro
lordindy
Kizemaru_Kurunosuke
klnothincomin
Kuroda-Taiki
Newtiteuf
Novus
PrinceLegendario
Reck
Red-Gyrados
REMY35
RHN
Saurav
Scarexshivaking
Seiyouh
SL249
spaceemotion
spypoke megafc
ThePokemonChronicles

And partially:
-ThatsSoWitty-
-Nocturn-

Autotiles:
Rayquaza-Dot
DormDude
BoOmxBiG
Epicday

Modular Title Screen by Luka S.J
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SCRIPTS (INCLUDING PLUGINS)

Advanced Items - Field Moves by Bergium, TechSkylander1518, Moyo, Marin

All Abilities Mutation by DemIce and Azery

Always inside Bushes by Kotaro,Titania318,KleinStudio and derFischae

Auto Multi Save by http404error

Better Speed Up by Marin and Phantombass

Consistent AI by DemIce

Easy Text Skip by Amethyst, Kurotsune and ENLS

Encounter List UI by ThatWelshOne_,raZ,Marin,Maruno,Nuri Yuri,PurpleZaffre,Savordez and Vendily

Enchanced UI by Lucidious89
Ball Sprites: Poq and BlueEye007

Essentials Deluxe by Lucidious89

Generation 9 Pack by Caruban

HM Catalogue by Phantombass

Improved AI by KRLW890

Independent Hidden Power Type by DemIce

Infinite Save Backups by DemICE and http404error

ItemFind by Boonzeet

LA Party Evolver by IndianAnimator, eriedaberrie#1569

Marin's Map Expoter and Marin's Scripting Utilities by well, Marin

Set Initial Pokémon Values by DemIce

Tileset Rearranger by Maruno

Tutor.net by Demice

Updated Quicksave by Marin and CrystalStar

20.1 Hotfixes by Maruno

Miscellaneous Script Edits by DemIce
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FRIENDS :)

PLAYTESTERS

mizziepoo
S_G
rump
mizziepoo
Moto
Badman
Commander
Martenaizor
ThePikacloneGod
Icyalex
DemICE

SCRIPTING HELP

DemICE
Moto
BigFRIV
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MUSIC

GlitchxCity
Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire
Pokémon Masters EX
PokeRemixStudio
ENLS's Pre-Looped Music Library
Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga
Sly 2
VanilluxePavilion
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GAME JAM RESOURCES

Pokemon Shattered Dimensions by: Celestial Fearow, Mahian23, JPA93

==Epic Adventures Tileset + More: Outdoor + Indoor== (Littleroot Researchers Resource Pack)
Alistair
Alucus
Bakura155
Bati'
Blue Beedrill
BoOmxBiG
Chimcharsfireworkd
CNickC/CNC
CrimsonTakai
Cuddlesthefatcat
Dewitty
EpicDay
Fused
Gigatom
Heavy-Metal-Lover
Hek-el-grande
Kage-No-Sensei
Kizemaru_Kurunosuke
Kyledove
LaPampa
LotusKing
New-titeuf
Novus
Pokemon_Diamond
PrinceLegendario
Reck
Red-Gyrados
REMY35
Saurav
SL249
Spaceemotion
SirMalo
Stefpoke
sylver1984
ThatsSoWitty
TheEnglishKiwi
Thegreatblaid
ThePokemonChronicles
TwentyOne
UltimoSpriter
Warpras
WesleyFG
Yoh
Nuri Yuri
07harris/Paranoid
19dante91
27alexmad27
Flurimons
Alucus
Kyle Dove
Dewitty
CNC
KennyCatches

==Gen 4 Style Interior==
Akizakura16
KennyCatches

==Museum==
princess-phoenix
Diegotoon20
Kyogre statue by Kyledove, recolored by KennyCatches

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GEN 9 PACK
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Script Gen 9 and Adapting PLA for v20:
-Caruban

PBS for Gen 9:
-Caruban
-PorousMist (Updated the abilities, items, and moves description)
-DJChaos (TM Items)

Pokemon Gen 9 Battler Sprites:
The-King-Of-Roads-X, Mak, leParagon, Caruban, Azria, Mashirosakura, Katten, jinxed

Battler Sprites QC:
leParagon

Pokemon Gen 9 icons:
ezerart

Pokemon Gen 9 Followers:
Azria, DarkusShadow

Pokemon Gen 9 Cries:
Edited from Lightblade Absol Gen 9 Cries compilation video

Gen 9 item icons:
-lichenprincess (Tera Orb, Bamboos, Tera Shards, Mirror Herb, Loaded Dice, Leader Crest, and Kubfu Scrolls, Booster Energy, Gimmighoul coin, TM Material, Kofu's Wallet)
-Caruban (Punching Glove, Auspicious Armor, Malicious Armor, Ability Shield, Clear Amulet, Covert Cloak, Scarlet&Violet Book)

Original Pokémon: Legends Arceus Expansion Script :
-StCooler (Original script for Gen 8 Project in v18 and Status sprites)
-PorousMist and curryofthepast (Adapting the script for v19.1 use)

PLA item icons :
-AztecCroc, 3DJackArt, Caruban, lichenprincess

Pokemon cries ripped:
-Morningdew

Pokeballs battle animation and summary icon:
-Caruban
-WolfPP (Beast ball battle animation)

PLA Pokémon icons:
-LuigiTKO

Follower
-Boonzeet
-DarkusShadow
-princess-phoenix
-Ezeart
-Wolfang62

PLA Sprites from Smogon Gen8 Sprite Project :
(https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/smogon-sprite-project.3647722/)
-Blaquaza, KingOfThe-X-Roads, KattenK, Travis, G.E.Z., SpheX, Hematite


Gen 4 Style Version
Gen 9 sprites:
KingOfThe-X-Roads, Mak, Red7246, Vent, Caruban, leParagon, Sopita_Yorita, Z-nogyroP,
Alxndre~◇, Mashirosakura, NanaelJustice, KRLW890

PLA sprites:
Travis, KingOfThe-X-Roads, Blaquaza, leParagon, Red7246, G.E.Z., Katten, Vent, Cesare_CBass, AlexandreV2.0, PKMNTrainerRick., CarmaNeko, JWNutz, Erkey830

Gen 9 Icons:
Vent, Katten, leParagon, Cesare_CBass

PLA Icons:
LuigiTKO, Pikafan2000, Cesare_CBass, Vent, Cesare_Cbass, MultiDiegoDani, leParagon, JWNutz
and thanks for
Pokémon Icons Act 2.9 - Teracristalizando
(https://whackahack.com/foro/threads/pokemon-icons-act-2-9-teracristalizando-07-08-2022.63896/)

Full Sprites Credit List:

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

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"Pokemon Snakewood" by Cutlerine

"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!

 

[A¹¹]

sorry for the bump but we are still looking for members!

 

[A¹¹]

a bump thaet actually matters. We now have Raffs in the team as a spriter!

 

[A¹¹]

just a bump to say that I'll slow down development a bit due to university stuff but also there is a dev blog! yay i guess

 

[PokéDevDustyn]

Man I remember trying to play this game once. It was so hard out the gate that I meant to come back but never did.

Have you had any luck looking for people to rework the maps? I love playing with maps, but I dunno if you are looking for a specific style and how well I could adhere to it.

 

[A¹¹]

Man I remember trying to play this game once. It was so hard out the gate that I meant to come back but never did.

Have you had any luck looking for people to rework the maps? I love playing with maps, but I dunno if you are looking for a specific style and how well I could adhere to it.

not yet but i'm trying to learn them myself with decent success

 

[PokéDevDustyn]

not yet but i'm trying to learn them myself with decent success

Sick! Well if you ever need help I'd be down to assist even with just workshopping and talking it out. I love map making and have since gotten a chance to look at the screenshots from your project.

 

[Ladon_Dum]

I'd love to work on this with you, I'd love to help out in the Spriting/Concept artist section.
Disclaimer: This is hopefully my first fangame I'll be working on and if life permits, I'll be with you till the game is done(Fingers crossed).

I will try to reach you to talk more on discord and we'll review the project.

 

[A¹¹]

Last bump of the year! Hopefully I should make a new dev blog before 2025. Trying to finish maps and sprites

 

[A¹¹]

Haven't bumped in a while but I just wanted to tell that for now Im free of uni so i have a lot more time for the game