A game by @Michael_ and @Ekat

Introduction:
It's about time I brought the club back from its incorporeal state. Pokémon Ashen Frost, formerly Pokémon Present, revolves around Sylvester, a kind, albeit surly, officer-turned-detective in Riverview City. Sylvester works alongside his not-quite-canine unit, Swinub, to solve minor cases. Tracking down missing cheques and ice sculpture vandals doesn't come without risks, however; the frigid metropolis is home to ordinary people and criminals alike. To uncover the truth, Sylvester steps on the toes of some of the city's most important figureheads... as well as the mafia's.

Features:

• A story-driven plot consisting of 14-15 cases, involving searching for clues, presenting evidence and solving mysteries
• A fully fledged case system, complete with its own ui and features
• Pokémon from Gen 1-8 available
• A continuously expanding city to explore, complete with a ton of side content
• Reborn AI and field effects to keep players on their toes
• An optimization area to allow any party member to become battle-ready in no time!
• An overworld encounter system, with areas involving wild grass being very far and few between
• A unique battle tower system, complete with random teams akin to the battle factory as well as its own field effect
• Fully functional and running on MKXP, yielding improved performance and modular screensizes

Screenshots:

Download:

Following Progress:

Progress can be followed in a number of places. Some notable options include joining our Discord Server where the most up to date news is posted and following our Twitter. Above all though, hopefully this project looks interesting to you. If you've read through this far, thanks for checking out the game! Hopefully you'll hear back from us soon with the release! Cheers!

Credits:

Well, with the revival of the club from its unorthodox slumber, I figured I might as well bring back the dev blog as well. Hopefully everyone is currently doing well and staying safe! It can definitely be frightening to watch/experience what's currently going on around us, that with COVID and the protests and all. 2020 will be a year to remember for sure. But enough of that, on with the actual post.

Ashen Frost has had a ton of stuff in the works since our last post so I feel like it's best to just fire them off buzzword-style!

• The game has been fully ported and is playable in MKXP - we just have a couple minor issues to iron out but nothing too major
• The battle roulette, our battle tower-esque factory is fully accessible now within the Lonardo Casino, complete with random team generation and all. I've also taken the liberty of updating the battle tower sets themselves to delete the whole gen 3 aspect the current ones have going on.
• Encounters have been/still are being completely revamped - there are now more obtainable mons throughout the world. The game used to be very Ghost-Normal-Ice centered for the most part. We've done our best to try and remedy this though. That includes Gen 8 mons being available as well.
• Battles as well continue to have their balance changing - I'm definitely aiming for a tough but fair situation. Some fights that are too tough have been nerfed while others continue to be buffed.
• The game now has custom shinies that me and Josie have been working on! They're about 85% finished. We also take fan suggestions from people who may want to see a certain palette.
• Mechanics and learnsets are fully updated to Gen 8 standards. Pokemon who do not exist in Gen 8 retain their Gen 7 attributes, as expected.
• A whole slew of bug fixes and updates have been done on the game, ranging from a much faster happiness and experience share growth rate, to improved UI, to even small fixes like the EXP share being toggle-able from the menu now.

We're really hoping to be able to release this game soon. Currently, progress sits about later-case 12 of 14/15. If all goes well, Ashen Frost will definitely have its re-release in the next coming months. Additionally, I'd like to remind everyone that the discord is probably the best spot to get updated info quickest. It's pretty active so come by and say hello if you feel like it! But uh, that's all from me. I'll drop some screenshots down below but I think that's it! Cheers!