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Released Project Vanguard (MASSIVE UPDATE RELEASE 5/24/2024)

This project has a release available. The full version is still a work in progress.
Project Status
Released
Project Version
3.0
ETA Next Version
Jan 1, 2025
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Logo is a WIP
Project Vanguard is a Fangame primarily developed by Ayrei, PrismShrimp, and Rexaura

50 years ago, a devastating attack by a group called "The Defiance" took the world by storm. Today, Trainers are required to gain proper licensing in order to use Pokémon.

The Ayrei Region

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This is not the full planned region, only what's currently available in 3.0

Story
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Niall and Nephele

You awaken in front of a girl named Destiny, who claims to have found you unconscious in a nearby forest. Other than your own name, all of your memories seem to be lost. With no other options, you accompany Destiny to the Vanguard Academy, a school designed to transform novice Pokémon Trainers, into professionals with the goal of defending the region from threats known as Renegades, Pokémon Trainers who refuse to abide by the new laws set in place.

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While attending the Vanguard Academy, you'll meet and befriend a variety of different characters!


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Powerful and Professional Trainers will guide you through your journey!

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Renegades and Rivals will stand in your way, overcome them and prove your worth!


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Uncover Truths you would've previously thought impossible. This world is filled with mysteries that are more than meets the eye.




Features

Explore a vibrant new region!

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From snowy forests, to hot deserts, there are many different places to explore in the Ayrei region!


270 Regional Variants and Fakemon

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Build a team you've never built before!

A plethora of side content!

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Complete sidequests, explore optional areas, and challenge powerful boss Pokemon and super fans of old Gym leaders!

A "Grindless" experience!

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Tools to edit and train your Pokemon have never been easier to obtain!



Download
Goes up to chapter 27, around 30-32 hours of playtime

Development Credits
Ayrei - Lead developer, story, eventing, mapping, shaking and screaming in essentials.
PrismShrimp - Lead artist and spriter
Minbo - Spriting
Rexaura - Balancing every regional, fakemon, and boss fight
WeOathKeeper - Programming custom moves and abilities
Spriting - JaoCraftBr, Celestial Fearow, Chobbis3, Chobbis4, Pixeldust64, Givemeloop, Kana, Darkside Official, Alcreed, Simonz, HyperTox, Glowing0v3rlord, Alcreed
Mapping - Kristalwolf, IceGummi, Chobbis3
Concept art - Cloudberry Sanchez
Advanced Battle AI - Moto & Demice





Credits
Pokemon Essentials v19.1 by Maruno
Graphics and ScriptsMagiscarf
WesleyFG
SailorVicious (Formerly known as Heavy-Metal-Lover)
Shawn Frost
NSora-96
PeekyChew
MewTheMega
Kyle-Dove
Pablus94
Princess Phoenix
Zeo254
Claisprojects.com
Minorthreat0987
The-Red-Ex
UltimoSpriter
TyranitarDark
DarkDragonn
rafa-cac
Phyromatical
Alucus
Newtiteuf
ChaoticCherryCake
moca
Akizakura16
Kyle-Dove
Clara-WaH
ThatWelshOne_
raZ
Marin
Maruno
Nuri Yuri
PurpleZaffre
Savordez
Vendily
Mr. Gela
Voltseon
Neo-Spriteman
VanillaSunshine
PurpleZaffre & Maicerochico
AtomicReactor
Zerokid
Amethyst
Jan
Zumi
Bazaro
Koyo
Smeargletail
Alex
Noscium
Leparagon
N-kin
fishbowlsoul90
princess-phoenix
DatLopunnyTho
Conyjams
kaji atsu
The cynical poet
LuigiPlayer
Falgaia
Pikafan2000
Mashirosakura (Magearna recolours)
Lord-Myre
MillaLya
AveonTrainer
JorgeBurgos
KajiAtsui
cubeR
DiegoWT
rhaidor
KnoblePersona

IndianAnimator

Demice

eriedaberrie#1569
NoProbro
Biggusweeabus

Music
GlitchxCity
VanniluxePavilion
Kamex
Bliitzit
Sheddy
Mewmore
BitSymphony

Battle backgrounds
Aeveontrainer
Advanced Pokedex
FL
Gen 9 Project
Script Gen 9 and Adapting PLA for v20:
-Caruban

PBS for Gen 9:
-Caruban
-PorousMist (Updated the short 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

Pokemon Gen 9 icons:
-ezerart

Pokemon Gen 9 Followers:
-Azria, DarkusShadow

Gen 9 Item sprites:
-Caruban, lichenprincess

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

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)

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

PLA Pokemon cries ripped:
-Morningdew

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

PLA Pokemon icons:
-LuigiTKO

PLA Follower sprites:
Boonzeet, DarkusShadow, princess-phoenix, ezeart, Wolfang62

PLA Sprites from Smogon Gen8 Sprite Project :
-Blaquaza, KingOfThe-X-Roads, KattenK, Travis, G.E.Z., SpheX, and 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

PLEASE TELL ME IF I MISSED ANYONE!

The discord
https://discord.gg/sr24E8keRs
Why join the discord?
I'm not always online this site or others that I have this game posted on.
Joining the discord allows easy access to bug reporting, game patches, progress updates, beta testing, and more.

Feedback would be appreciated
 

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Ramesh

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Is there a place where i can find the game music like on youtube or spotify ot something else as the music is dope
 

ArcWisel

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I can't play the game neither in Game.exe or Game.exe original. This error pops up. I downloaded the patch by the way
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Ayrei

Lead developer of Pokemon Vanguard
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I can't play the game neither in Game.exe or Game.exe original. This error pops up. I downloaded the patch by the way
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If you're getting an error that has to do with "save file" on your first loadup then please delete the "Pokemon vanguard" folder in either %appdata% or saved games. (From the FAQ page on the games website, please refer to there if you have any other questions)
 

PokemonGamer2000

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hi, good game, but can i just say something? what's with the difficulty? basically every route trainer has 5-6 Pokémon which is way too much for a Pokémon game especially really early in the game, and they are evolved like what? even tho i'm playing on easy mode it's till terribly hard cuz it's pretty unfair, it sucks, cuz they are still so high leveled and evolved and every trainer has like 5- 6 Pokémon which makes the game way too hard and not fun. cuz no route trainer in normal Pokémon games has 5-6 Pokémon their team cuz that makes the game way too over difficult
 
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Ayrei

Lead developer of Pokemon Vanguard
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hi, good game, but can i just say something? what's with the difficulty? basically every route trainer has 5-6 Pokémon which is way too much for a Pokémon game especially really early in the game, and they are evolved like what? even tho i'm playing on easy mode it's till terribly hard cuz it's pretty unfair, it sucks, cuz they are still so high leveled and evolved and every trainer has like 5- 6 Pokémon which makes the game way too hard and not fun. cuz no route trainer in normal Pokémon games has 5-6 Pokémon their team cuz that makes the game way too over difficult
tbh I'm not sure what you mean by this. I've been going through an redoing a bunch of the trainer teams for next update, but the currents ones don't have 5-6 Pokemon. Yes some important trainer fights will have 6 but I'm pretty sure thats exclusive to normal mode (which you should be sticking to casual mode if you're struggling with difficulty) but most of the route trainers have like 2-4 Pokemon and even then they don't even have EV spreads or predefined learnsets.
 

PokemonGamer2000

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tbh I'm not sure what you mean by this. I've been going through an redoing a bunch of the trainer teams for next update, but the currents ones don't have 5-6 Pokemon. Yes some important trainer fights will have 6 but I'm pretty sure thats exclusive to normal mode (which you should be sticking to casual mode if you're struggling with difficulty) but most of the route trainers have like 2-4 Pokemon and even then they don't even have EV spreads or predefined learnsets.
cuz i was going through route 5 after the first gym badge, and most of the trainers had evolved high level pokemon and like most of them had like 5 team members which is terribly hard at that early in the game. i am playing on easy mode at least i think so Cuz Tbh i haven't played this for a while and decided to play it again recently cuz of the updates so I'm continuing where i left off, i don't understand how it could be so hard. Ps; is there a level cap in this game? my bayleef stopped gaining exp at 33
 
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Ayrei

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cuz i was going through route 5 after the first gym badge, and most of the trainers had evolved high level pokemon and like most of them had like 5 team members which is terribly hard at that early in the game. i am playing on easy mode at least i think so Cuz Tbh i haven't played this for a while and decided to play it again recently cuz of the updates so I'm continuing where i left off, i don't understand how it could be so hard. Ps; is there a level cap in this game? my bayleef stopped gaining exp at 33
you are playing an incredibly old version of the game, download the new version from the thread
 

PokemonGamer2000

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Posts
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does swablu evolve differently in this game? cuz like it was electric and dragon type and then it became a normal altaria at level 35

i tried opening the new version of the game but i keep getting a error message

when i started the new version, it somehow deleted my old savefile, which sucks but at least i can play it over again with the new features
 

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Ayrei

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when i started the new version, it somehow deleted my old savefile, which sucks but at least i can play it over again with the new features
It's a completely different experience, your save file wouldn't work with it anyways. I would suggest joining the discord if you have consistent questions about the game since I am much more active there than here
 

Ajibounce

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Help! My game froze after first being talked to the Battle Dojo manager. It wouldn’t advance from a white screen, and I could still access GUI.
I have the patch, is it supposed to be in the game folder?
 

Xavier Ren

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How far is the current progress if i may ask? (how many gyms, how much % /100% )
 
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