SnowGlaceon

Yo. You can't get rid of me that easily, unless you're a heatran. But it's 3:30am here. Not planning on sleeping, so I'll probably be dead tomorrow. R.I.P. Snow x2 Shia where you at?

BREAKING NEWS! Nintendo's full of bs. Like, real, hardcore bs. And they're greedy (wait that's just business never mind). So from what I've gathered, I think we'll be okay as long as exactly $0.00 is made off of this. Cool. I like the Cipher peon theme. Might be fitting for Team Ultima grunts. Might get an area theme out of there too. For now I'm going to do some extensive research on BGMs from Xenoblade, the shadow Pokemon games, and Kid Icarus. I've been through their music before, so it shouldn't take too long to find good ones to use. In fact, I have a few in my head already. There are 3 types of music we're using 1) Atmospheric This is like city's and routes and surfing and stuff. Also emotional themes, like tension, sorrow, etc. Simply put, your overworld stuff. Also looking for gym themes for each gym. Like the building. These will likely be royalty free. 2) Encounter A cross between overworld and battle. The name sort of explains itself, but to clarify it's the themes that play when you meet up with a rival or something like that. 3) Battle Need I say more? Leaders, trainers, Rival's, the works. I'll make a playlist of them and sort them out later. It's gonna be a long playlist. Also have to gather all the gym leader themes (though some might be cut/changed).

So, I found something. This is Nintendo's stance on usage of game/website/graphic/music usage. We appreciate the interest in Nintendo and in all our video game products. To us, it represents a great sign of success and recognition of the Nintendo brand. "Nintendo" is a registered trademark of Nintendo of America Inc. Nintendo owns extensive intellectual property rights in all of its products, including video game systems, game titles, characters, game software, graphics, artwork, and screen shots. Nintendo also retains rights in content on Nintendo's web sites, including articles, artwork, screen shots and other files. Trademarks and copyrights for third-party games and characters are owned by the companies that market or license those products. While we are grateful for all the requests for permission to use Nintendo properties, we are not able to grant such requests. We receive thousands of requests and we do not have adequate staffing to review them all. Therefore, our general policy is to decline requests for permission for the use of Nintendo properties. Although we are not able to grant permission, use of Nintendo's properties without formal permission by Nintendo may still be allowed under the relevant laws of the particular jurisdiction involved. Thus, we encourage you to seek your own legal counsel if you have any questions about whether your particular proposed use is permitted without Nintendo's authorization. Nintendo cannot provide legal advice. So now I need to find out what these "relevant laws" are. Edit: I realise I don't actually know where to look for these. And we'll probably some uprising stuff, Lore. I know we have some Xenoblade already. That and it's our safest bet. Royalty free music is a thing. I know some good royalty free music. Apparently Smash Bros music is complicated. Smash Bros is a collab. of a bunch of games, so since the music from it doesn't belong to ome specific game it can't be sold. I don't know about free usage.

I'm doing some research now. I have some good and some bad news. The bad news is that apparently Nintendo is VERY protective of their music. I don't think this means we can't use it, I'm not sure. I'll keep looking. However, the good news is there are some titles which are safe from this protection (huh. Weird phrasing). These are pokemon and Xenoblade. Edit: Kid Icarus Uprising tooWill keep you posted on what I find

:/ That's.... Worrying. I was hoping we could avoid copyright, since there won't be any money made off of this and I was planning to give credit (of course). A lot of the music we have so far is from Ninendo(whom I don't think I can contact or get permission from...) but still, I don't want to get the game shut down. Especially when it comes to the themes from outside Nintendo. I do know some tracks will be safe, like the ones from Electric Mudkip. So yeah, I'm worried now. Great. Brb searching for info on copyrights. Fits perfectly! I think the classic elements go something like earth, fire, water, air. I'm curious to see where you'll put the ice area. Mountain? Or tundra? And ground, rock and fire seem pretty volcanic, so there's that. What about Normal? EDIT: ninja'd Poison. Fairy fits in more with a group like Dark, Psychic, fighting and Ghost. Also makes sense, since electric and steel fit in with a city theme.

one step ahead of you. It'll be used, but sparingly.

Sorta following up with what Lore said here. I'd like to officially offer my services as the music guy, since I've sorta been keeping track of everything there. While I can't make any music (yet. Give me a year. also some software) I do have some experience with it, and have been listening to remixes and BGMs for a while, so I could find some pretty sweet tracks. I probably will need/want suggestions from people. Oh. And I can help with story/personality stuff. Not nearly as much as Lore can, but I write a little. I'd offer my services in art, but I don't really know how to sprite, make tiles etc. This makes sense. And it allows for Aqua's character to be involved. Sounds good to me!

Not a spoiler, so I'll post it here. That's the end of the sidequest for now. I believe you need to go to the place where the litwick event ended. Use dig on one of the tombstones and place the ladder there.

Deoxys theme for a fighting leader? Would be better for psychic or even Ice imo, but whatevs. Personality is mine not very descriptive, so in the spirit of fighting, let's make him hyper-competitive.

Busy! R.I.P. Snow He was a good kid Mde is next.

Co-dev? Nah. I'm just giving musical input here and there. Sorry Aqua, still can't find anything. Just trying to help a bit with the small stuff. Speaking of which, who's part of the offical dev team? This'll be one heck of a gym. Level scaling might be a thing, but that'll only affect Tyranitar. I'm assuming either Carbink or Tyranitar is going out first? Carbink for screens and T-tar for sandstorms. And a special T-tar, huh? That's a good way to nerf it.

Yo. So these themes you chose.... are pretty sweet. I'd recommend going with the last one as your battle theme. The one from touhou? It sounds graceful, yet intense enough to work. The first VS Diancie theme would be good for the rock gym/ mines music. Also had a thought. We could make the gyms have a double function. Like how Rochelle's is a jewlery store and a gym. I don't think this'll work for all of them, though.

Figure out which fingers to use to play passages, huh? I suppose that's something I'll pick up as I get better. Although I should probably get more comfortable reading bass clef first. and memorize where the notes are. I'm used to treble, so once I start learning base... I just hope my teacher is patient. Thanks for the advice. Alright, thanks! I'll definitely ask if I need help, which I probably will tbh. we aren't derailing the thread. We're talking. About stuff. And I'm trying to keep it alive.

Sure! It's your character. Although I don't know when Jacob wants us to get access to Mega Evolution... But a jeweler sounds great!

I highly, highly doubt that. I kind of like the idea of a public development game, but I don't think that would work very well. Everyone would want something, and you can't please everyone. As of right now, the dev team is just trying to get characters down. This game is very early development. Some parts of the story will be created here, especially when it comes to character development, but I don't think that all of it will.

Awesome! So we got the gym leaders now. What next, rivals?

Perfect. Calling her Cindy for short. Short backstory: they met when Snow was depressed at the loss of his family. He (almost literally) encased himself in an ice shield which she got through. Let's try to get an even number of male and female characters... I'm not sure what the numbers are right now, but I think we have more guys.

No worries! We're still sorting everything out and putting together the story. As of now, I've been in quite a few scenarios. I have a relatively good back story, and Im taking on the role of Cheren so the player will end up seeing me quite a bit. Especially whenever BN is around. Plus there's the entire thing with the ghost leader... So I could do it, but I'll leave this decision to Jacob. Whether or not it's me, we should probably get another gym leader on the good side to help out. And my character needs a girlfriend. How many girl gym leaders are there anyways?

Not quite. Although snow falls from the sky, although some say it grows from the ground. Bonus points to whoever knows where I got that from. Take a guess, Shia?

So kinda like how BW ended. Okay, but you might not want to make that city available until the end of the game.

It would have been okay to put this in the trainers journal, but whatevs. Warning: Incoming rambling I... Actually do know how you feel. We're pretty similar actually. To start, I'm blessed/cursed with a pretty vivid memory. I remember every mistake I've made, every thing I wish I could change. I think we're all like that. We all have things we wish to forget, things we want to redo, but unfortunately the laws of time currently don't allow for that. You can't change the past, but you can learn from it. In a way, it's good to mess up, so that you remember not to make that mistake again. Ah, inconsistency. I feel you man. I switch personalities pretty often. One moment I'm super excited, the next, I'm irritated. Usually it depends on the situation. It's just who you are, not much you can do about it. But it makes you interesting. It makes you different than everyone else. Indecision is a pain too. Honestly, I don't really know how to solve this. I struggle too. You say you're worried about your relationships with people, but let me ask you a question. Are you around the right people? Some people won't understand, some are just detrimental on every level. Being around them for too long will hurt you, and will make you doubt yourself. You should find someone you trust to tell them all this. Someone you know can and will help you. The future is unknown to us. We have no idea what's coming our way. Trust me when I say that I have spent days reflecting on this. Take the world on one day at a time. That's all you really can do. Exams are.. Ugh. Start studying early. Really early. In this paragraph, you have basically described my life for the past 7 years. Which is bad, because I'm pretty young. No one is useless. It's simply impossible for someone to be useless. Don't even think about calling yourself useless, a burden, or anything like that because you KNOW It's not true. If no one cared about you, if everyone chose to forget, you would be in a much worse situation. If you, God forbid, died right now, people would be devastated. The world would miss out on something. Once again, you managed to describe my life for the past 7 years. You cannot control your emotions. You can't. It just doesn't happen. You can hide them, hold them in, suppress them, cloak them, but that just makes things worse. Holding things internally builds up and makes you feel depressed and confused. That's why it's good to rant sometimes, like now. You can't decide how you should feel, but what you can decide is what you choose to do in whatever situation you're in. This is coming from someone who spends literally every moment of his life thinking about stuff. I never stop thinking. I think about this all the time. When asked 'What's your personality' or 'What are you're greatest Traits' I can never give a clear answer. I don't know what my personality is. I don't know who I am. I don't know what my greatest traits are, and quite often I don't believe I have any. I seemingly fit in everywhere and yet nowhere at the same time. When I think about it, my head hurts, my thoughts are jumbled, and I stay up late, all night even. Thoughts about my past haunt me, my future scares me, and myself is the worst of all. I don't know all the answers to your problems. I can't help you much, and I'm sorry for that. But I can relate to you. I know exactly what you're feeling. I'd like to help. That's one thing I can say about myself, I want to help everyone. Be there for people, because I know what it's like when no one is. It makes me feel useful when I help people. Maybe you're the same way? You're entertaining, that's for sure. There you go, +1 skill! So hold your head up. You're the only you, and that's what makes you interesting. If you ever need to talk/rant to someone, I'm always available, and would be happy to talk. Everyone on the forums is like that. That's just the way it is here. So relax bro, we got you.

Exactly! I agree. I like the idea, (I don't mind at all that you picked my character, it's a bit flattering actually) and you were right about my character being the kind of guy to do that, but maybe we should use someone else for your idea. In any case, if he heard such rumors, the first thing he'd do would be to gather more information. Try to verify them. If they turn out to be true, then he would confront Erebus and try to persuade him to change his mind. What happens after that depends on what Erebus does in response to his request. Well, they want an all mechanized world, right? It wouldn't be too hard to advertise their ideals, saying that they could better the world. Maybe do what Ghetsis did at the beginning of B/W, with the speech and all. TV adds, posters, rallies, all that stuff. As for Snow's parents... I didn't give them a profession (whoops), so let's say they were scientists, and the idea of creating machines to help humanity appealed to them, so they joined BN. That raises the question of why BN started the terrorist attacks though... I don't think that's been answered yet. Maybe to get peoples attention? Persuade them to invest in machiens that could protect them? I dunno. At least we're getting some background now.

Ralts is an event, and Growlithe, and Mareep iirc. I'd recommend the eevre event, but I think you have most bases covered. Maybe get a poison type like Crobat or a steel type like Magnezone for fairies.