In Development Secrets of the Ages

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The winds of change are blowing and this world struggles with the evolution of tradition into modernity.

After a chance discovery on your family farm of a mysterious gemstone, and a subsequent burglary in the night, you find yourself thrust into an exploration of the region, hot on the trail of an elusive, secretive organisation with elusive leaders, motives and goals.

Through chance or fate you enter the Pokémon League, a recently created elite battle network. You may find some of the more... traditional leaders haven't taken too kindly to your presence. Fight, explore and learn about the mysteries of Rian.

Strange events start occurring around the region - reports of strange, maddened people, Pokémon arriving where they've never been seen before and people, vehicles and even entire places disappearing into thin air!

What is the Syndicate? Who is the enigmatic Count Furness? And what connection do they have to the strange events?

This is an ongoing project and we'd love it if you got involved and joined our Discord!

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• An all-new region based on a fusion of 1920's America, Britain and South Africa, featuring 8 new gym leaders.
• A unique time setting, based in the past, with a hidden mechanic to allow a connection to the modern-day Pokémon world...
• Character customisation engine! Choose every aspect of your player and customise the colours however you'd like, with an array of clothing to purchase around the region
• Mega evolutions make their return! Several new Mega evolutions to bring life to old Pokémon, as well as new evolutions, are planned!
• Phenomena make their return from Generation V, with shaking grass and dust clouds enabling players to snag rare items or Pokémon.
• Rian Forms - unique appearances and evolutions for several Pokémon, including the starter Pokémon Totodile, Cyndaquil & Chikorita. But some of these forms are different than the others in a special way...
• And many more, including an unreal time system, Gen 8 quality of life improvements and a carefully-chosen mix of Pokémon from all generations.

New Pokémon
Rian will include tons of new Pokémon to discover. What will you choose for your team?

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Chikick / Sektretair
Scrappy Pokémon / Striking Pokémon
Flying/Fighting

Dracozen
Thunderous Pokémon
Electric/Dragon

Tweetleaf / Excalibird
Apprentice Pokémon / Noble Pokémon
Grass/Flying

Swermin
Neglected Pokémon
Poison/Steel

Rian Forms / ??? Forms
There are also unique versions of many well-known Pokémon, a phenomenon similar to that seen in Alola and Galar. But some of these unique versions have something... special about them.

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Trubbish & Garbodor
Odious Pokémon

Steel

Timburr
Troglodyte Pokémon

Fighting
EVOLUTIONS TO BE REVEALED SOON

NEW: See our first ever trailer here!. Thanks to the guys who organised the Expo which featured it.

We hope to be able to provide a demo for the game by early 2026. Currently the first 4 towns and a city with 3 gyms are mostly finished, with progress rapidly underway for the next areas. A demo will be made available for testing once this full section of 3 gyms worth of content is completed.

WE ARE RECRUITING!
I'd love to hear from you if you could help us with any of these roles.

• Composer: Able to write pieces in a Gen IV/V style
• Artist (pixel art): If you've got skill with trainer sprites or tiles, get in touch!
• Writer/Planner: someone with great command of English and experience writing the many events and dialogue boxes that you'll see in the game
• Eventer/Map Designer: To plan the many routes and cities of the region

Boonzeet - Art, music, programming, direction
Saucecoie - Game direction, music composition
Flaradar - Sugimori art, character design, Fakemon design
GoldLeafSnivy - Fakemon design
G.E.Z. - Fakemon & Regional variant sprites, OW Pokémon sprites, other art
Antiant - Battle sprite animations
Scarlet Spectre - Fakemon design
AnonAlpaca - Trainer design and sprites, planning
JPA93 - Planning & Design
Vendily - Scripting

Spoiler: Resource Credits

With thanks to, for art, music, Essentials and help with code:
Maruno, Marin, Ham, Asdren, LuxDiablo, FL, KleinStudio, Luka S.J., Nuri Yuri, GiraPrimal, Flamguru, Poccil, BR0DE0, Snivy101 and the SOTA community

Resources:

Sound effects and Audio
ZapSplat
Freesound
Tjandrasounds

Public assets
1ofthe4rocketbros

Generation 8 Project
The Smogon Sprite Project Teams
veekun, Analaurendil, princess-pheonix,
LunarDusk, Wolfang62, TintjeMadelintje101,
piphybuilder88, Larry Turbo, SageDeoxys,
tammyclaydon, MissingLukey, help-14,
Kymotonian, cSc-A7X, 2and2makes5, Zeak6464,
Pokegirl4ever, Fernandojl, Silver-Skies,
TyranitarDark, Getsuei-H, Kid1513,
Milomilotic11, Kyt666, kdiamo11, Rhyden,
Chocosrawlooid, Syledude, Gallanty,
Gizamimi-Pichu, Zyon17, spritesstealer,
Alaguesia, MapleBranchWing, Leparagon,
Contributors to the DS Styled Gen 7+ Repository
Golisopod User, Luka S.J.

Plugins
DiegoWT
Carmaniac, NoNonever
Luka SJ, Maruno, Marin, Pokecheck.org, PinkCatDragon, Tebited15, BadSamaritan, WolfPP, redblueyellow, Damien, Issei Hyoudou, Nassau, luckygirl88, Manurocker95
Golisopod User, Help-14, zingzags, Rayd12smitty, Venom12, mej71, PurpleZaffre, Akizakura16, Thundaga, Armin (Fairies Resource Pack), Maruno
Golisopod User, Marin, Vendily

 

[safr]

The concept really cool because it's during groaring 20s era. Good luck and don't give up