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Released Project Vanguard (4.0 UPDATE RELEASE 8/27/2025)

This project has a release available. The full version is still a work in progress.
Project Status
Released
Project Version
4.0
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Logo is a WIP
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Welcome to Ayrei​

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The Ayrei Region, a landmass split into four different quadrants.
Each with their own people and Pokemon every moment of your adventure has something new in store.
This is not the full planned region, only what's currently available in 4.0


No Gyms, No Elite Four
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In Project Vanguard, the role of the Pokemon Trainer is no longer to collect gym badges and become the champion. Instead, Trainers protect the region from criminal organizations, aggressive wild Pokemon, and whatever other conflicts come their way. As a brand new Trainer, you'll enroll in the Vanguard Academy, a school dedicated to teaching the next generations of Pokemon wielders. As you rise through the ranks, you'll face new challenges, meet new friends, and of course, uncover your mysteries past.
Oh, that's right, you.
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An individual who's awoken in this region with no memory of who they were before.
With no where else to go, you join your newfound friend, and become a Pokemon Trainer.


New Regional Forms
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In the region of Ayrei, you'll encounter a total of over 300 new regional forms, evolutions to existing Pokemon, and even completely new ones. With thousands of hours of work from both our artists and balancers, each one will be fun to play with and offer a useful role in your team.


A Brand New World To Explore
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The region of Ayrei is built with exploration in mind.
On your journey across it, you'll not just find trainers to battle, but also den's home to rare Pokemon, treasures guarded by powerful opponents,
and a lot of optional areas you'll miss if you don't look hard enough.


Defined Difficulty Modes
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Vanguard has three difficulty modes for your choose from. Each one with hand crafted teams for every important boss trainer. No matter what type of player you are, one of these modes should offer an engaging experience.

Quality of Life
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While we still want Vanguard to feel like an proper adventure, we of course cut down on a lot of the tedious tasks you'd find yourself stuck with in other games. This includes the removal of EV training, as points can now be allocated at any time from the summary screen, and other Pokemon customization items now being easily purchasable.


Additional Features
Old Gym Leaders return as cosplayers ("super fans") for you to battle with new teams!
Most route Trainers are optional (progress at your own pace!)
Non-Binary protagonist option
28 Starters (22 of whom are Regional Variants!)
Advanced Pokedex that displays the stats and learnsets of every seen Pokemon
EXP all (right after picking your starter)
Infinite Repel (right after picking your starter)
Canon Pokemon up to generation 9
Fast travel between towns


Download
Goes up to chapter 35, around 36-38 hours of playtime

Development team
Ayrei - Lead developer, Story, Eventing, Mapping
Ironic Omens - Concept Art, Cutscene Art, Spriting, Story writing assistance
Moonpaw - Spriting, Concept Art
Jaguarkia - Spriting, Concept Art
Simonz - Spriting
CherubiNym - Concept Art
Chrysanthemum - Spriting
NnekArt - Concept Art, Spriting
Verity - Custom Music
Draco - Balancing every regional, fakemon, and main story boss fight
Fictional - Also balancing every regional, fakemon, and main story boss fight
Just_a_Gameaddict - Balancing Super fans and Route Bosses
WeOathKeeper - Programming custom moves and abilities
Dred - Bugfixing and Mapping help
katsuki - Spriting


Previous development team members/contributors
Spriting - PrismShrimp, Celestial Fearow, Chobbis3, Chobbis4, Pixeldust64, Givemeloop, Kana, Darkside Official, Alcreed, HyperTox
Mapping - Kristalwolf, IceGummi, Chobbis3
Advanced Battle AI - Moto & Demice



If you find your work in game that is uncredited, or work of yours that should not be in Vanguard, please contact me and I will work towards fixing the issue ASAP.

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
Amras Anárion
IndianAnimator

Demice

eriedaberrie#1569
NoProbro
Biggusweeabus

Music
GlitchxCity
VanniluxePavilion
Kamex
Bliitzit
Sheddy
Mewmore
BitSymphony

Battle backgrounds
Aeveontrainer
Advanced Pokedex
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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.
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Xavier Ren said:
Game is very good aside from the fact that it lags so much everytime i run into grass. Need asap fix
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What kind of lag? does the game's fps drop (becomes slower visually) when you enter a wild battle, or do you blackscreen/load for a couple seconds longer than expected after the animation when you enter a wild battle. Or does it just occur when walking through tall grass (no wild encounter involved)
 
Ayrei said:
What kind of lag? does the game's fps drop (becomes slower visually) when you enter a wild battle, or do you blackscreen/load for a couple seconds longer than expected after the animation when you enter a wild battle. Or does it just occur when walking through tall grass (no wild encounter involved)
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Fps drop whenever i walk/run into grass
 
I have a gaming laptop and im playing on it. I use speed up fuction and everytime i step into grass , fps drop
 
For some reason it keeps showing me this
 

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I'm playing pokemon vanguard and i'm at a place i have to disable generators i only see 2 yellow doors there's a blueishwhite door dosnt open
 
When i playing this game this game really instantly make me feeling at home, maybe because i got feeling of pokemon heart gold and bushido that make the game pretty enjoyable to me. Hope this get completed someday also don't forget to stay healthy 👍
 
safr said:
When i playing this game this game really instantly make me feeling at home, maybe because i got feeling of pokemon heart gold and bushido that make the game pretty enjoyable to me. Hope this get completed someday also don't forget to stay healthy 👍
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Glad you enjoyed it! I'm on track to finish the game in around 4-5 years and I'm constantly providing development updates in the discord if you ever want to check that out!
 
Ayrei said:
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm on track to finish the game in around 4-5 years and I'm constantly providing development updates in the discord if you ever want to check that out!
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I'm doing new playthrough this morning and This is the first time i got this bug and making the game automatically crash, I'm sorry you need to zoom the photo little bit so the text will be visible I'm really bad at taking photos 🙏
 

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there is a Charmander in route seven when I interact with it my character becomes invisible to me can you help me to fix it and the game have so much bug but the game is still good👍
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there is a Charmander in route seven when I interact with it my character becomes invisible to me can you help me to fix it and the game have so much bug but the game is still good👍View attachment 14599
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Hello, I'm sorry you've encountered this error. Please make sure you've correctly installed the latest 2.0.13 patch since I have fixed this error. To fix the player being disappeared, you can try going through certain doorways as I believe most of them are marked to remove transparency
 
Ayrei said:
Hello, I'm sorry you've encountered this error. Please make sure you've correctly installed the latest 2.0.13 patch since I have fixed this error. To fix the player being disappeared, you can try going through certain doorways as I believe most of them are marked to remove transparency
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thanks it work i want to ask one thing again im now in chapter 16 im stuck at the room in vanguard academy when i try to go out it wont finish loading just black screen and for my bad english
 
pepsilon said:
I was excited to see a game that advertises a unique soundtrack, but it's just the same songs everyone else borrows from Reborn and Rejuv, mixed with some random Pokemon and Mystery Dungeon tracks.
Rather than being epic and unique, this seems like one of the most painfully generic soundtracks I've heard.

As for the game itself, well... at least that's a different story!
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well honestly the soundtrack was kinda thrown on its head a little while back because some people making youtube content on the game started getting copyright striked for some music in the game.

And to be fair rejuv and reborns has a lot of copy right free music choices, but a lot of those are just place holders for now.
 
Yayyy update, i hope i will not encounter same bug, thank you for the update
 
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