Zumi

October 5, 2019

So! I've made a thread like this each year since 2017, and the last one was from March 2018. It's been 1 1/2 year, so it's time to make another one of these!

What is your favourite thing about Rejuvenation? This can be anything - from the custom graphics, to the story and it's characters, to the music!

Of course it'd be best if you kept it directly related to the game itself -- As a little note, saying "Oh [x] song is good" when referring to remixes made of songs from the mainline pokemon games rather than referring to the custom music made for Rejuv is a little bit backwards. Though, if you like the choices made to play certain music in certain areas/during certain moments, then that's completely fine! Either way, let us know your experience with the game. We'd love to hear it!

(as with the fanart thread, it's absolutely fantastic and incredibly motivating to us, the dev team, to see people enjoy the game -- so thank you in advance for leaving a message and for playing!!! <3)

July 30, 2019

1 minute ago, JK’S said:

Sorry for asking again, is it the door behind it, or the different door (the ones with the arcues logo

Neither! It's a secret exit somewhere :^)

July 30, 2019

Just now, JK’S said:

Is it near the place where u locate the horsea?

yes!

July 20, 2019

i was gonna explain the situation myself but two people replied before i could so LOL

but yeah, i had my own fangame called pokemon xenogene that ended up cancelled/on indefinite hiatus because i wanted to pursue creating original content as well as being busy as fuck with school at the time and generally having very little motivation to work on xenogene while ALSO doing work for Rejuv, so to avoid getting burnt out i've decided to stop working on it. i felt bad that the music went unused though since that's where the biggest chunk of time has sank into while working on the game, so I gave the rights to Jan to use any of the music he liked in Rejuv instead so they could still find some usage!

i do plan to update these songs sometime in the future as i can do better now in terms of mixing and instrumentalization!! but for now these will remain in the game as is uwu

July 20, 2019

Terajuma. You'll have to do a certain puzzle starting at a dive spot in Aquamarine cave in order to reach the switch you need to press to access the place though, so you'll have to look around a bit!

July 20, 2019

This thread has now been closed! The thread might be locked, but we'll still go over the remaining questions and answer them later. Thank you guys for your patience and your participation! Hopefully we've been able to satiate some curiosity within you all and give answers to the questions we could actually give details about! We won't be doing another one of these for a while, maybe another one after V14 or something, but nothing's set in stone -- all we know is that we'd rather have a significant amount of new content out before doing another one of these.

Thank you and hope everyone's looking forward to Version 13!

July 18, 2019

jesus CHRIST this is probably the longest one yet, but probably also the second to last one before the thread closes. I tried to answer pretty much all of the ones that came after my last answer post, so strap in and get ready for a long read!

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On 7/15/2019 at 5:44 PM, enderowl said:

I know I said that I'm done with asking questions, but I just want to ask one more.

Has anyone played a Persona game and if so, which one is your favorite?

I have! I like Persona 4 best in terms of cast of characters and Persona 5 for gameplay.

On 7/15/2019 at 6:02 PM, Aiko said:

If you had to place a canon time for the neo gearen sidequests and the like, is it while we're in gdc or later?

GDC, for sure. You can travel with the trains again after a certain point in time while still in GDC, so it makes sense.

On 7/15/2019 at 7:05 PM, lokighost said:

first thing is to you zumi love the art work you put in and to both you and jan on others thank you for a great game and my question is as we all know the new pokenom game is out at the end of the year and i'm guess it would be about verson 14 or 15 befor the new mons are added when do you think you guy would be putting the new mons in?

Thank you very much! Also, we're aiming for Gen 8 to be added to V13!

On 7/15/2019 at 7:08 PM, yume said:

Gonna keep it short this time, here's a fun question: If you were to live in Aevium, where would you live and why?

Personally I'd probably live in Sheridan or Akuwa town, Sheridan because I like foresty areas + Amethyst cave is close by which is very pretty, but I also like Akuwa town's aesthetic a lot as well as Route 4 being close by which is also very pretty + I like colder climates, so it's a toss up between those two tbh.

On 7/15/2019 at 8:16 PM, Raion said:

How old is Dylan?

Can't give an age but I'd say about mid to late twenties!

On 7/15/2019 at 8:43 PM, eternal.irony said:

1. Every time i heal in certain places or go through a cut scene i revert to the legacy sprites is there a way to fix this?

2. Do each of the Protagonists have a different cut scene for that when we have a memory resurface near the house in Zone Zero

3. Does Lorna's disgust to herself originally being called Nim have anything to do with Nymiera

4. Are Angie and Anju the same person or is Angie a descendant of Anju

5. What was the inspiration for special pokemon like Delpha or Tuff-Puff

6. Who is more of a memester Reina or Axel

Thank for creating an amazing game that gets me hype for every new release

1) This is a bug you might wanna report in the troubleshooting forum, not here.

2) Nope! It's always the same.

3) Can't say!

4) Can't tell you either :^) Thoooughhhh there is a pretty big hint to your answer in the game if you look for it and pay a bit of attention to your surroundings, so it shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

5) Delpha was based on Ash-Greninja's existence, while Tuff-puff's existence, well... Can't tell you about that one, unfortunately.

6) Honestly they're pretty close but I think Axel's a bit more of a memester than Reina is!

On 7/15/2019 at 10:29 PM, Generic Gamer said:

this may come out of left field, but is there an alternate timeline where everyone is living peacefully and having Slice of Life/Sticom hijinks, and the PC is basically the Kenny/"Lancer Died, you're not Human!" Recurring Joke?

god i wish, i want the characters to be as happy as the next person wants tbh

On 7/15/2019 at 10:59 PM, Dex said:

I kinda have two questions. One story related and the other development related.

1) So from what I can tell from the cutscenes in Version 11 and 12, the Interceptor some kind of Avatar (or maybe a better example would be the Harbinger from the game Omensight) and the MC is just the latest in the line of them? Or are they just some kind of fusion of multiple beings into one?

Because my read in the cutscene where the MC gets knocked out by the surfboard dude in V11 kinda supports either/or.

2) To the development team, Rejuvenation does quite of bit of outside of battle sprite animations (I'm honestly starting to love them, they're pretty entertaining). What was your favorite part to animate and what was your least favorite part?

I'm afraid I can't give you an answer for your first question as it heads into spoiler territory, sorry! As for the second question, I think @Jan is better suited for answering this since he does pretty much all of the animations for overworld sprites.

On 7/16/2019 at 2:34 AM, Magus543 said:

Now here's an art question, what exactly is Crescent wearing? Particularly that pink ish line in the middle of her Sprite, is that supposed to be a tie? Also what's that on her hair?

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Also during the illusionary fight with Melia and Aelita, if you lose, we are treated to a scene where surfer dude and dudette beat up our companions and us,but if we win, we see the entire group laying down badly beaten up, and the surfer duo behind us which implies they were watching the entire thing and that the Surfer Dudette didn't even help us during the battle. Does that mean the MC attacked all our friends with our Pokemon and beat them up after getting rid of the Pokemon in the way? Because, ow.

Crescent is wearing something similar akin to what Melia is wearing before the bad future arc, along with a tie and a little bit different of a skirt.

And as for your second question...

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The illusion likely made it seem as if the player beat up the pokemon, while in reality they were also attacking Melia and Aelita in the process, yes. Otherwise they wouldn't have ended up all beaten up on the floor, would they?

On 7/16/2019 at 3:49 PM, HakuryuYukio said:

alright, i have 2 questions for each member of the dev team,

1. What is your favorite mega evolution ?

2. What is your favorite eeveelution ?

1) I'm basic but i still like mega gardevoir...... good mega

2) Sylveon!

The other ones can answer this one separately tbh

On 7/16/2019 at 4:03 PM, DerogatoryTrainer said:

Might as well take advantage of this.

1) So after Maman dies what happens to the orphans? Do we really leave a nine year old in charge of like twelve 5-7 year olds or are we now the co-owner/piggybank? 'Cause I don't see Mosely getting a job to feed those brats.

2) I found a book about the Interceptor that said we don't get infinite lives. So how many is there? 7 for the seven character sprites? 9 like a cat?

3) How will the Elite 8 work gameplay wise? Is it a brutal gauntlet of 8 Elite trainers one after another and then the champion or is there a breakroom halfway in?

4)Will there ever be another tournament that we can win without terrorist interrupting like they do every fun thing in this game?

5)Will all 5 star shards combined bring back Hardcore Trainer Adrian from pre-Version 9?

1) I'm afraid I can't really give you an answer for this one. I'm not even sure if Jan knows LOL

2) Who knows? :^)

3) It's not gonna be an 8-person gauntlet, but I'm not gonna go into further detail about it!

4) Maybe in the future! But the tournament's gonna be the least of your worries for a while, hehe

5) I wouldn't be able to tell you even if i could

On 7/16/2019 at 4:51 PM, Tj simmons said:

Would it be possible for us to get a list of all the v12 side quest, I feel like I'm missing out, can we?

V12 has the following sidequests added:

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- Hidden Library finale

- Narcissa quest finale

- Ana quest continuation

- Kingdom of Goomidra

- Multiple dive quests (Route 11, Terajuma, etc.)

- Zone Zero sidequest (Gible unlock)

- Gen 2 Virtual league finale

I might have missed a couple, so if I have feel free to add to this list!

On 7/16/2019 at 5:57 PM, Cyphre said:

This one might be a little silly, but how exactly Madame X sees through her helmet? I didnt notice any holes or anything in it.

Edit: Also during alternative future, the golden ray that split castle in half, was this Yveltal's Decimation or "Father" and his powers?

You know those windows they use at detention centers and interrogation rooms in crime series which you can see through from one side but you can't from the other? Kinda like that!

Also, that's deffo Decimation at work LOL

On 7/17/2019 at 12:49 AM, nhehvnukl said:

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Is the spell Karrina used on Karen Risky? If not, why doesn't Karen just gets someone to use it on her once in a while?

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I wouldn't say risky as much as it's ineffective long term, and Karinna isn't really keen on using Garufan magic as that's what killed her parents, so I doubt she'd like to use it more than necessary. Besides, Karen would probably be too out of her mind at the time that it's necessary to even consider on her own to get someone to cast the spell on her.

On 7/17/2019 at 2:33 AM, Dragonslayer7500 said:

Spoiler for v12 but...

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what does dafuaxs ability temporil shift do?

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Stats cannot be lowered and casts Hex in the future.

On 7/17/2019 at 8:04 AM, Alisae said:

Will there be more side quests in goomdira?

Also is there plans to do anything more with Oblitus Town?

Also what is Amberette town in the present?

1) Nope, Goomidra was a standalone sidequest for V12! But its lore might be important....

2) Yes, but can't go into detail!

3) Who knows?

On 7/17/2019 at 8:14 AM, CrystalKing said:

Would it be possible for us to get a solid timeline on when the time-travel segments take place? Further explanation in the spoiler.

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For example, I assume by Indriad recognizing us as having witnessed Anathea's death, the Marianette Gym segment takes place after the first Kugearen segment. I'd also assume the Vivian and Nymiera segments take place before Marianette's Gym as well, considering Anju is not yet jailed by Indriad in those trips to the past.

Does the Marianette Gym segment even take place in the same timeline? How about the prologue — does that take place before all this? After? In a different timeline entirely?

As you can probably tell, this timeline is the toughest thing for me to wrap my mind around, largely because of Maria/Marianette's shifting identity and name, the repeated changes in the look of the Theolia residence (including when it looks like the house near Zorrialyn Desert), etc. Whatever clarity you can offer would be greatly appreciated!

I cannot give you an exact placement in the timeline in terms of how much time has passed between each segment, but the events in the past can likely be seen as chronological in the following order:

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Kugearen > Past Sheridan > Hiyoshi city > Chrysalis Manor

On 7/17/2019 at 11:11 PM, Revok said:

1)How big is aevium in comparison of real continent ?

2)What is your favorite region in the game ?

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Plot related question (I know you can't answer everything on this subject so I will try to not ask a " Who is Madame X" kind of question lol)

3) So if I understand well the power of the interceptor is that he can see what the player see on screen (and he also can survive multiple death)? For example did the main character see Valarie wanting to dream and dreaming about the attack on the group ?

4)What is the timeline ? I thought it was The story of Nymeria's painting ->(long time) Seven Kingdoms ->(long time) The past we are in (Nymeria,Vivan etc...) ->(4-5 decades) Main game, with somwhere in between Miera region events.

I thought there was a long time between the seven kingdoms and Nymeria/Vivians era but with the last sidequest of goomidra kingdom I'm a bit lost (because Nymeria was a friend of Kasumi).

5)Do we know other kingdoms outside of the ones of Kasumi/Iesel/Griselda ?(I may mispell one of them)

Thanks for creating this cool game

1) Tbh I don't think anyone's really stopped to think about this?? but I'd probably say about the size of Italy, which is then split into multiple islands.

2) While I love Terajuma, I'd say my favourite area is Terrial just for all of the stuff that involves GDC. You guys haven't even seen half of the shit that's gonna happen there :^))))))

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3) Pretty much, yes! Which is also why the player knows that Tesla wasn't at the Grand Dream Ball and was able to reassure Amber that she wasn't there.

4) I'm afraid I won't be able to go into full detail about this. Not all secrets have been unveiled yet so I don't think I can tell you!

5) There's a total of seven kingdoms! Some of them do not have a name of a ruler stated yet, but Spacea and Tiempa also were rulers of their respective kingdoms. That leaves two that are still unknown.

On 7/17/2019 at 11:38 PM, Fredzard said:

1)When Madame X saves MC in the Chapter 10(The past),she said that she never saw us in the events,like we never do time-travel,so why Cella/Eldest and Hazuki remembered us?

2)In the Undergrond(GDC's sidequest),there is a woman that can read our future,saying to us that we'll do a final fight against someone,with 3 our friends...is this canon for the story?

1) Hmmmm.....

2) Yes!

22 hours ago, Celyna said:

Will there be any future episodes with more of a focus on Melia? (as the focus generally felt as though it shifted away from Melia after v10, despite her omnipresence)

Perhaps!

~~tfw when we focus on melia people complain that she gets too much screentime and when we don't focus on melia people complain that she doesn't get any anymore. this is a lose-lose situation OTL~~

21 hours ago, Azzie said:

This may or may not be something you can answer! But seeing as the stuff that makes it a question in the first place is all v12, spoiler:

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Is there any actual magic in this setting at all? Specifically, is the Garufa magic we've seen in the story actually magic?

Well, you've seen Karen use it before... Do you think it's magic, or do you think it's something else?

...If you can't tell by my answer, I can't give you a solid answer for this one, sorry ;v;

17 hours ago, seki108 said:

Are there planned to be more unique/rare items that can be traded for AP points in future versions, as well as more/higher achievements I suppose?

IMO, the achievement system is more interesting that just being given HM replacements and is a positive addition now that I'm replaying the game from the start.

IIRC yes there are!

16 hours ago, sagenion said:

DOES PARALLEL UNIVERSE EXIST IN THIS GAME? BRCAUSE IF I RETURN TO THE PAST TO CHANGE SOMETHING THE PREDESTINATION PARADOX WILL MAKE THE WHOLE STORY NO SENSE??? THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE ENABLES THE BAD FUTURE WHERE MELANIE IS THE PRINCESS CONTINUES TO MOVE ON RIGHT?

Not parallel universes, but close! In this game, you'll mostly get to deal with different timelines, rather than universes.

13 hours ago, Dragonslayer7500 said:

Just as a fun question, the only gyms left are fairy dark steel and dragon right?

Yep!

11 hours ago, MDM1 Beans said:

I know that you've said that there will not be any sort of romantic storyline for the MC, but I was wondering if at any point through the story so far other characters had exhibited romantic feelings towards the MC? (I'm thinking Amber specifically)

You know, a tiny crush from a character on the player would've been possible even though it'd never turn into anything more, but the continuous asking about whether there's characters who could be a love interest, show feelings for the MC or a romance route for the player has become so grating that we don't even want to acknowledge any options anymore, so nope. Sorry. We'd rather go for no confirmation at all, because at this point it'd just become a situation in which no matter what we'd get to deal with shit from people LOL

11 hours ago, Aiko said:

Will Venam's parents and Tesla ever become aware of Kenneth and Jenner's deaths?

Possibly. Some of them did cut ties though, but idk what plans Jan has for them.

10 hours ago, kulesiak said:

So, reborn is canon in rejuvenation. Is rejuvenation canon in reborn?

Well, from what I recall, Rejuv takes place about ~5 years after Reborn, so does it really count as canon when the events of Rejuv haven't even occurred during Reborn?

9 hours ago, GreatNinja said:

We saw Keta/Kenneth in the destroyed future. But he was in Kanto and moved to Aveium AFTER the calamity. So why did he move, in this timeline, to a nearly destroyed Aveium?

Also, why do we get there a relationship point with a dead caracter? (Keta)

When there's less and less land to live on, people flock to whatever lands remain. Kenneth likely ended up on the same islands as Mosely etc. simply through process of elimination. And the relationship point probably was used for story purposes, so I wouldn't worry too much about that one.

8 hours ago, DanelerH said:

When the Interceptor dies, they get revived. To what extent is the body restored and does restoration only occur upon death? For instance, suppose the Interceptor lost an arm, then died two days later. Would they be revived with the arm, without the arm, or would the arm have already been restored?

The two times the player has died (Valor mountain and Kugearen), they got restored entirely. I think it only happens upon death, however, so wounds they sustain while alive will persist until death, then revive with a complete body.

7 hours ago, Magus543 said:

Oh, this thread is closing? okay last two questions, 1: For Zumi, what's the thought process on deciding the colors of this game's shinies? 2: for Jan, how did it feel when you put both Adrienn and Aya in Rejuvenation and made this game a shared universe? Because this game was inspired by Reborn after all.

EDIT: With regards to the below response, let me change my question: For Zumi: Out of all the music pieces you contributed in this game, which one are you most proud of? For now at least.

Also i personally think Amethyst factory and that song when battling Flora in V12 are some of the most damn catchy tracks in Rejuv. Even if Amethyst factory was randomly made.

1) I can still answer this question despite the answer you got! Some of the shinies in the game are done by me after all. Tbh I either base them on an existing concept or character or idea, then apply basic color theory to choose my colors. I have a lot of experience with figuring out what colors look nice together and which fit certain mons. For example, fpr the Infernape line shinies I chose to use a purple/green/black/white color scheme. I wanted to give Infernape a bit of a spooky look, but because green and purple are contrasting colors and are normally grating to look at when next to each other I made the green saturated while I made the purple darker and less saturated so it'd be easier on the eyes than when both colors would be saturated. The black and white were added to break up the colors as well, giving it a more balanced look.

This may all sound like artist gibberish because honestly I just have a lot of experience in color theory from the 10+ years of art I've been doing LMAO but that's my process!

....that, or i just base the color scheme off an existing character because i enjoy being self indulgent from time to time.

~~cough talonflame & simon blackquill cough roserade & my own character Damian cough cough swanna & miles edgeworth cough coUGH COUGH~~

2) I'll skip the question meant for Jan and just treat the music question as the second! My personal best piece I've contributed is probably the music used in the fight with Flora. Initially I made this song for my own fangame which I was working on for a while (it was the admin theme for the evil theme in the game), but because I currently have no intention of continuing work on it as it's on indefinite hiatus, I gave the rights to Jan to use music and graphical assets from the game as he pleases as I'd rather have them be repurposed in a way that other people still get to enjoy them rather than them forever going unused. I'm still incredibly happy the admin theme found a purpose as Flora's own battle music as it's probably the most complex piece of battle music I've ever composed, and I'm also extremely happy people have been liking it as much as they have!!!

I do plan to remake the song at some point with better mixing and instrumentalization, but just between you and me??? I lost the original file for it and frankly i'm booboo the fool and i don't remember half of how i managed to put together that song.

it's gonna be a challenge. OTL

5 hours ago, sparsyle said:

If Erin was originally older than Melia, is she still older after Melia's +3 years in the past, or is she now younger?

Yes! Erin is still roughly a year or so older than Melia, even after spending time in the past.

2 hours ago, Harryp said:

1. Was the Amanda we meet supposed to be a robot from the start of development. Jan seems to be writing as he goes (it has to be a pain to update the past content to fit the current narrative.)

- Ren's character was written terribly assumably joining team xen because we saved his town it sounded quite geniune, but he apparently joined to save melia but why didn't ren just leave team xen when he found out she was alive. We meet ren when we are looking for crawli but that's the last time we meet him until v11 where he is a VERY important character. The MC and the cast should have had more ineractions with him between the gap.

2. Are we going to actually battle flora seriously? We fought Ryland who was controlled by flora, she even says that ryland's Pokemon were disappointing. Bladestar had a terrible defeat they got destroyed in the judicial district off screen, the mechanical rayquaza also vanquished dozens of them. They took the limelight for a while just to be slaughtered.

3. Is the ANA side quest going into the main story? It is a amazing sidequest with unique content.

4. How are you going to distribute mega stones and z-crystals? Sidequests, some in the main story?

5. How are hard is it going to be sprite all the gen 8 Pokemon from scratch add abilities, move sets and implement them into old and new areas. Are you going to add additional gen 8 features as well?

6. Was Pokemon rejuvenation intentionaly made to give off an anime feel? It just gives off the feeling, with charcter interactions and such implying the latter, same with the story and the format of the game ("arcs"). Many people are also asking for romance. We get our starter 1 hour into the game and there are many segments were its just story with there being an apparent lack of gameplay, the game also contains tons of text (also before battles your screwed if you lose, for example ryland battle if you lose you have to spam a).

Thank you very much for creating this amazing, and innovative game it provides a unique view on the Pokemon world an experience the main series could not emulate. The sprites, art, story are all fantastic.

1) Amanda's role has changed a couple of times over the course of development, so this is not always how she was gonna turn out. However, there's been a hint to her being "different" from the very start of the game, as Jan even remarks in game that Amanda got a new hat, something she wasn't wearing during the scene where the player registers their character, and which is something Jan obviously wasn't used to.

"Why didn't Ren just leave team Xen" have you tried leaving a group with evil intentions? Ever heard of people trying to leave the mafia without being haunted by their past in some way or another? It's not that easy LOL, he's basically stuck between a rock and a hard place, especially now that his body is at Xen HQ and he's literally surrounded by people who could end his life right then and there.

2) "She says Ryland's Pokemon were disappointing" That's really just her personality! The fight with Ryland has been giving people trouble more than once. Can't tell you about what will happen to the remains of Bladestar tho... Not everyone was wiped out, after all. There's still a couple of scattered members about, and if you think about that Flora isn't the only admin of Bladestar....

3) Can't say!

4) Some z-crystals can already be found scattered about, while mega stones will likely be obtainable through sidequests.

5) We'll probably be able to gather a lot of sprites from various places (there's a couple of spriters on deviantart that allow usage of their sprites for fangames), but we'll probably have to do a lot of the backsprites ourselves. We are gonna add pretty much everything aside from Dyna/Gigantamaxing, likely.

6) I don't think it's intentionally done, but it's just Jan's writing style. Most of the people on the dev teams enjoy anime including Jan himself, so there's probably some inspiration taken from it, yes. The people asking for romance routes thing is something we didn't really ask for though, that's entirely on them and not ours LOL, especially since we never said they were gonna be a thing to begin with. That just became a thing out of its own, unfortunately.

1 hour ago, TheTruth3233 said:

1). Which protagonist did you have the most fun designing?

2). Are the confirmed genders for the protagonists still the same or is each one optional now?

1) I'm not really 100% the person who designed the characters, but Alain has my favourite design. I also really like Ariana's design!! i love her braids

2) They're still the same! But we still think your appearance shouldn't be tied to your appearance, hence why we let people choose from all 6 characters regardless of gender.

July 18, 2019

This thread will be closing tomorrow, so if you still have any inquiries left, better post them before the thread locks!

July 15, 2019

Can you please quit worrying about whether there's romance in the game or not? Like legit, at this point this song and dance is getting genuinely old and it's becoming increasingly tiresome to continuously have to debunk these assumptions. The reason you're not getting romance routes is because Jan doesn't feel comfortable writing them as he doesn't like harem-y game types and mechanics. I've said it before -- Rejuvenation is not a dating sim and never was gonna be one, so please stop assuming that it was. That's literally all there is to it, nothing more.

(btw the Ren/Aelita speculation is fine, but this doesn't necessarily mean that based on their interactions there's romantic tension between the two, keep this in mind)

July 15, 2019

back at it again at krispy kreme, lesgooooo

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On 7/14/2019 at 11:01 AM, Generic Gamer said:

Well, i have a few questions here for the devs, if they'd so kindly answer!

1) What was the most frustrating thing to deal with during the development of a new version of Reborn?

2) What is all of your favorite foods?

3) What is the favorite foods of all the main cast?
4) What pieces of Music (could be from any source) would be the Main PC's/The Interceptor's Theme?

5) Out of sheer curiosity....was "Mr. Ren" Nastasia's Childhood Crush? ~~yes, i totally ship them~~

6) Is the Tournament inspired by a Tournament arc from another videogam/anime/manga? (like the N1 Grand Prix from Megaman Battle Network 3)

Sorry for the little bombardment of questions, just wanted to ask a few questions that were nagging me at the back of my head.

1) Don't you mean Rejuvenation? hehe
Also I'd probably say that the most frustrating part is when a game breaking bug shows up that can't directly be alluded to its source, like the window resizing bug or the team replacement bug that showed up in V12. Can't speak for Jan but from my own observations Jan also really doesn't like eventing puzzles LOL

2) (i'll have to edit this as time goes on bc i didn't get answers from everyone yet LOL)

Jan - Pizza/Burger/desserts

Zumi - Curry Madras/Stone oven pizza

Azery -

Winter -

Alex - Cake

Inuki -

Sardines -

Icy - Ice Cream

Ramiru - Noodles

Smooge -

3) I think @Jan can answer this one better than i can sdhjsdhsd

4) I guess Painful truth would make the most sense? Both the title screen version and the updated version.

5) Doubt it, it's probably just a politeness thing

6) Nope, very likely just inspired by the world tournament from B/W2!

On 7/14/2019 at 12:13 PM, yume said:

Ahh, when I saw this thread 2 days ago I was like "omg this is awesome, I have questions... but I can't remember any of them right now o-o", then I saw that it's only open for a week and was even more like "omgggg", so this morning I thought about some things I'd like to ask. (This could get a bit lengthy.)

First of all though, thank you for the opportunity and also thanks for making Rejuvenation, Jan, Zumi and dev team I fell in love with the game and kinda "marathon-ed" it in a week when I played it for the first time last September (after my bro had recommended it to me ). I also did an intense run in ~Feb/March and boy that was hard, haha. Anyways, feel hugged, you guys, for making such an awesome game! Keep up the good work, but don't forget to take breaks

Here are my questions:

Development & technical questions

1) So, idk if this was ever mentioned, but who is part of the development crew and who does what? Also, which part is the most / least fun for you while developing the game? I'm kinda curious about that.

2) What was the weirdest or most unexpected bug you've experienced during development until now? And which feature was the hardest to implement until now?

3) Will the in-game menu from V11 come back sometime? I read it was removed because it was laggy for some people, but are you considering to add it again if you can manage to reduce the lag? (I thought it was really pretty, but can't do anything about it if it doesn't work properly, sadly )

Characters & story

4) I know Zumi said the ages of our main characters are more or less up to our own imagination (or ~18 years), but I've been wondering about the age of some other characters.

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Specifically, Nastasia and Karen.

Guess I can elaborate on this a bit. It's kinda obvious that Nastasia and Anastasia from the past are the same person, so if she aged normally she should be around mid fifties. Am I right about this?

Karen on the other hand - I'm just not sure. From her in-game sprite I thought she'd be around Tesla's age, but her battle sprite (from the sidequest) looks younger and also guessing from her diary entries I'd say she's around the same age as Damien, Alexandra, Ryland and Adam? Talking about those four - am I guessing right that they're a bit older than the main cast?

5) Another question about ages: Who is older, Melia or Erin?

6) This one is kind of a weird question, and I might not get an answer.

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Were Alice and Allen the same person? Because when they were sent to us from the toy box I remember one of them saying "so we finally separated completely" or something along the lines. I also remember back in the Unknown dimension we never saw them together on the screen at the same time.

7) Will we ever find out Alice's real name?

How many of the Elite 8 have appeared in the game until now? (Just "appeared", doesn't mean "we" / our protag have met them yet).

Other

9) This question goes to Jan. Since I've played Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky for the first time ever this year I've been wondering - are you a fan of the PMD series? While playing the game there were so many times when I was like "ohh, I know this song from Rejuvenation :D"

10) V12 question so I'm gonna put it in spoiler tags.

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Was the Texen part planned or was it added in because of all the people memeing Texen in the Reborn discord? Either way I laughed so much

11) Do you generally like reading the player reactions to story & sidequest content?

12) This one is addressed at all of the dev crew: What's everyone's favourite Pokemon?

I think this is all for now, I knew it would get long

Love you guys, I'm out

oogh that's a lot of questions, but i'll answer the ones i know i can answer!

1) Our team consists of @Jan, @Alex, Azery (i still can't @ him because of his username >:^( ), @Ice Cream Sand Witch, @Inuki, @Sardines, @Ramiru, @Winter, Smooge and me!

2) Prooooobably the window resizing bug that happened in V11. that stuff was BAD

3) Possibly, but until we know a method to not have a laggy menu we'll have to stick to the old one.

4) Nastasia's age is [REDACTED], but Karen is much younger than you think! She's around 27 to 28 years old. Alexandra is a bit older than Damien, Adam and Ryland, around the same age as Karen, so the other three should be in their early to mid twenties.
5) Erin is older by one or two years!

6) Perhaps :^)

7) Alice's name is Alice!

8 ) Afaik 6 have appeared so far!

9) I'll leave that answer for Jan in that case LOL

10) 100% planned!

11) Yes :^)

12) This has been answered in a previous post so I'm not gonna list them all again. Try looking up the answer in a post from one of the other devs!

On 7/14/2019 at 4:10 PM, Magus543 said:

Now here's something more behind the scenes, how did Kanon go from generic romantic rival to Venam and jerkass to us for some reason from what i can tell off older builds, to literally a magic construct slave?

Also: Was V12 supposed to have a branching route because we were given the option to join Team Bladestar, yet V12 acts like we oppose Flora. Illusion of free will shattered.

Old concept was meh as Kanon was a pretty obnoxious character in past versions, kinda like a variation of Texen but with an obsession of Melia and being a jackass to anyone else??? and one Texen is more than enough LOL

The way Kanon is written now gives him more depth, rather than being like "ha everyone but melia is a peasant", he now starts out as a guy with slight trust issues trying to figure out how he can do good in the world (and going about it slightly the wrong way during the events in Kugearen), only to later discover his purpose but also realizing he's but a servant made out of Garufan magic. I think that concept as a whole is more interesting than the holier-than-thou attitude he had before.

And nope! No branches. Flora had no intentions of playing friendly.

On 7/14/2019 at 4:13 PM, GreatNinja said:

-Is the red-haired girl with the Naganadel called Freya, by any chance? Why has she and Kieran relatively weak pokemon besides their UB? (Stantler, Klingklang... it's almost contradiction how less threatening they are compared to them)

-In earlier Versions, we fought Nastasia with her full team. Why was that battle removed?

-Why could Allen easily destroy the Garufa Machines while we, the interceptor, couldn't so easily?

1 & 2) Can't answer that, sorry! The second one moreso because I actually don't know LOL, someone else might be able to tell you that. Probably story reasons tho.

3) he's got the power of ~~god and anime~~ the Unown on his side uwu

On 7/14/2019 at 4:34 PM, Winter Angel said:

When I started a new save file, I realize that there is now a personality test option we can do aside from the pick your character. What are the (canon) personalities of the MCs?

Aevis: Confident

Aevia: Reserved

Axel: A tricky memester

Ariana: Peppy

Alain: Annoyed 24/7

Aero: Studious and cool

On 7/14/2019 at 5:20 PM, Canno1i said:

Some questions I have was when creating Pokémon rejuvenation did you

1. Have a storyline/plot already set up for the game like a road map since the beginning and think up more new plot points as you’ve done more versions.

2. Have any unused content that was taken out story wise before the release of any of the versions.

1) Rejuv used to have an on-the-fly story, but since V6 it's actually had a roadmap for the remainder of development. The story's already been planned up until V16, the last version!

2) We do! There's a couple of characters that used to be more important as well as a good amount of maps and story points but haven't been used in the modern versions of Rejuv in favor of having a better and more comprehensive story.

On 7/14/2019 at 5:22 PM, DarkMaster said:

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Okay, here's one. How the heck were you able to make it so that we could swap characters, get their teams in our party, and then when it came time to swap back, we got our team back how it was before the swap? Like, is it all just pure eventing, or is there a script that goes along with it?

Pretty sure it's done entirely through eventing and the use of variables and switches!

22 hours ago, Cyphre said:

Have you considered doing "in the next episode" stuff at the end of an episode? Showing a few frames, dialogues or screens to hype future events and so we could keep speculating.

You do get a title, but it's pretty hard to show frames of content that hasn't been made at that point, now isn't it? Dialogue maybe, but that might just end up being confusing so it's best to wait until stuff is shown off in the dev thread.

13 hours ago, 16kims1 said:

Sorry if this was asked already. But, is Jan the only who works on the story/writing, or is it a group effort? Or was the plot already planned out at some point?

Jan does pretty much all of the story/writing, yes. He's the one who planned it out as well!

12 hours ago, MetrololAce said:

Am I the only one who feels the story and its characters have gotten a bit convoluted?

Its something I've been feeling for a while now, but the situation with Nim has really made me feel like characters have gotten out of control in this game.

I feel it is a symptom of the episodic releases, where we are away for some months, then come back to massive character development minutes into the episode.

Not that any of this is bad, but how have you managed it? Is the story written to completion already with structured plans and finales for all these characters?

I worry that introducing so many characters in so many different contexts will be very overwhelming when, down the road, some one tries to play through this fully released game in a couple sittings.

A lot of it may seem convoluted right now, but that's most definitely the result of episodic release. It's much easier to understand each character's arcs when you binge play the game, but as the game stands unfinished right now, it's harder to give everyone answers immediately. Unfortunately this'll likely remain a problem until the game's complete :^(

Most of the characters already have their fates determined for them, though! You'll receive your answers in due time :^)

5 hours ago, Cyphre said:

Also i have another question.

First, considering the events with doctor Isha, is Mosley questline now officially missable unless you do it by the end of v12? Are you okay with quests being missable or do you plan do implement some way of warning players?

Rn it's still possible to do the Lost Camp post V12, but this will likely be patched out in a later version. The hidden library quest also becomes missable after a certain point, and while a warning would help in some cases, the player does have a good amount of time to do these quests from the time they become available, so on the other hand it could be seen as repercussion for ignoring the quest for too long.

2 hours ago, BRS swag said:

This thread was a great idea. A bow to whoever came up with this. Now, I have a few questions, just my predictions:

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Did Nastasia and Madame X decide wrongly about Ren in Blacksteeple Castle about him being one of the dark prophecies (the path of betrayal, if it's called that, cuz that was also there in v8 and v9 in the Hidden Library basement)? Coz Ren seems pretty chill and `Staassia too. Maybe Team Xen was a group of totally misunderstood people, atleast the executives, admins and higher ranking grunts, except maybe Cassandra.

I've been playing Rejuv since V8 and it's like totally undergoing rapid metamorphosis every episode. There was a battle with Ren/Nastasia v/s MC/Melia. Is there a possible explanation as to why it was removed? If I remember correctly, she had a Kantonian Ninetales as one of her pokemon.

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Since the Normal gym badge is now a key, do we have to fight a new Normal type leader?

There is a lady in GDC Main Street in one of the buldings near Pokecenter, she says that her daughter and she came from Kanto to Gearen city and then to GDC. Could that be a hint to one of our gym leaders?

This question is actually linked to the 4th one. Is Deagan from WLL still alive? Could he still be the Dark - type gym leader? Building onto it, could Alexandra or Nancy (if she is still alive) be a Fairy - type gym leader? Coz, Dragon-Fairy relationship is pretty much like Damien and Alexandra. Alexandra always gets her way, even with Damien trying his best.

Are you open to suggstions on Crests? I can totally help you out.....

How did you come across the idea of Dimensional Rift Pokemon? I totally love that idea. I can help you there too if needed...

Could Jan be the champion in-game?

Just for fun, which do you prefer: Milk and then Cornflakes or Cornflakes and then Milk?

1) Can't tell!

2) Like mentioned above, story fluidity reasons probably.

3)

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Nope! the badge is still on your trainer card, so it's still legit

4) Nah, it's not that deep LOL

5) Can't answer that!

6) You can suggest them but it's up to the others to choose if they'll actually use the idea lmao

7) Inspired by PULSE mons, likely. Just a little different!

8 ) Who knows?

9) cornflakes then milk is the only way and if you do it the other way around you're a heaten and should be put in jail for cereal crimes

By the way, as a little heads up, please understand we will not be able to answer 99% of your questions about future content, as we don't want to accidentally spoil anyone. Please keep this in mind before asking your questions as we'd rather not continuously have to tell you that we can't say!

July 14, 2019

Hey guys, a little reminder to not use this thread for inquiries about the game a la bug reports and save file issues! This is moreso to ask about the development/story of the game or personal questions specifically for the devs.

July 14, 2019

as per usual can't answer all of them, but here's a good chunk of your questions answered again!

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8 hours ago, ChrisC said:

I was wondering, will the 8 gen pokemon will be put into the game during v13 or v14?

We're gonna try for V13. This will come with a good amount of graphical and technical work, so it'll take a while for the next version to come out, likely :^(

7 hours ago, Hydrogen said:

Could you post a link for v1-8? It might be interesting to play and see how much the game improved and changed.

Maybe some day, but for now those versions will remain in the fridge for the time being

6 hours ago, Tj simmons said:

I Quick Question, The light and dark prophecy about the four light and four dark and with what we know now about it, is the Mc apart of the prophecy or that doesn’t apply to him/her?

Seeing that he/she is the Interceptor

perhaps

6 hours ago, Alisae said:

not sure if someone asked this, but I thought I'd give it a go

Is there a chance we'll see more of Nancy? Like, is she gone for good?

Don't think we can answer that one for you yet!

5 hours ago, enderowl said:

Just wanted to ask three more questions and that is it.

1: How long has the MC been on their journey ever since the S. S. Oceana was raided and sunk to the bottom of the sea?

2: Which version had a easy development cycle?

3: Which MC design is your favorite out of the six that you can choose from?

1) I'd say a couple of months!

2) V12, for sure! Probably the shortest dev cycle we've had in years. Everything aside from that one nasty team switching bug we had went incredibly smoothly and pretty much without a hitch (yes the whole files lost thing during the "hack" was completely fake and i am, as a couple of people have said, full of shit LOL) so I think it's safe to say that was the best cycle so far.

3) Personally I love Ariana and Alain (braids girl and white haired nb) the most!

5 hours ago, hoshi said:

Will there be another public development thread for 8th gen shinies? I wasn't around when the first one happened and I would really like to help!

Not sure tbh, it's possible but it's also entirely possible that the devs during implementation already might do a couple of custom shinies, so we'll see by the time the full dex comes out and we have all the sprites we need.

5 hours ago, EliteFlyingTaco said:

You said earlier in this thread Amanda wasn't always a robot, was she turned into one or was she replaced by a robot double?

Replaced!

4 hours ago, Fireguy said:

What makes you decide to remove or add certain event pokemon from the game? Examples being Shadow Tympole and Shadow Toxicroak.

Some mons would just be too good around that point in the game, so it's for balancing reasons.

2 hours ago, Magus543 said:

Okay this one is for @Zumi, i really like Amethyst factory, what was the inspiration for the song?

Actually that's one of the songs that I didn't put much thought into LOL, I made that song when I was still using Mixcraft and a bunch of loops and shitty midi instruments, so I just slapped something together and was like "THIS SOUNDS LIKE A FACTORY THEME LETS USE IT FOR THAT" so it's. not that deep LMAo i'm booboo the fool

by now i'm putting more thought into songs + i'm using FL studio so dshjsd

17 minutes ago, SunSlash said:

What was the thought process that went into making rejuvenation?

Jan played Reborn for the first time and wanted to make his own game, I'm pretty sure. It first was a game he just made for his friends (me included!) without really having the intention to release it publicly, but a couple of us pushed him to release it on the forum here and it's kinda??? gone from there??? got WAY out of hand, had a couple of aneurysms in the process, shit caught fire and jan probably died four times during development, but now here we are at seaworld

jokes aside, i obviouslly cannot speak for jan himself as of what his actual thoughts are behind rejuv, but i'm pretty sure he just wants to tell a story of his own. he can probably give a more detailed explanation about the thoughts, all i can tell you is about the origins of the game.

July 13, 2019

can't answer all of the questions above, but i will answer a couple that i can!

On 7/12/2019 at 8:49 PM, Chrixai said:

I have a personal question for both @Janand @Zumi. Out of all the versions that have been made thus far, which is your favorite? Which did you enjoy working on the most so far? Story wise, character developments, special events?

late response but V12 is probably my favourite so far, though this also has to do with V12 having been an absolute blast to work on. there's a lot of stuff in this episode that i genuinely enjoyed making and playing, so that's probably why!

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tho probably my favourite thing was the battle with flora!Ryland. as well as doing the art and sprites for that version of ryland........ you could probably tell from how much effort i put into the art LOL

1 hour ago, Fredzard said:

Hello,Rejuvenation's team...

Like the others,I want to question to you something:

1)What is/are your favorite Pokémon?

2)Will we get legendary mons in the story or in the post-game?

3)In Chapter 11,Puppet Master says to the MC to beware the Xenpurgis...but,what is?

1) Mine's Ampharos, followed by Darmanitan!

2) Most of them if not all will be unavailable until post-game.

3) Who knows? :^)

July 13, 2019

the fact that you feel like you're entitled to date a fictional character says more about you than us not adding that feature in the game..... it's not a dating sim. it never was gonna be a dating sim. idk why you're going into a pokemon game expecting it to be a dating sim when it's not even part of the maingame series. the characters do not exist for the sole purpose of thirsting over. like jan already said in his post, just because a character is nice to you does not mean they're attracted to you, because yknow, friends exist! relationships are not inherently romantic and can be platonic too.

July 13, 2019

ive been posting nearly every day here but im in a MOOD

anyways here's a ryland doodle. i really like him

July 12, 2019

1 minute ago, Chamberofsecrets12 said:

I wonder, do you guys take about 1 - 3 month break before starting on the next version, because it seems that happened during v12. You definitely deserve it and it seems to be a good schedule, and also does jan ever take a break because it says that doesn't know how.

the ride never ends, my friend. the next version is already being worked on, we just take a little time before posting the new status thread. lots of it is preproduction and preparation anyways lmao

1 hour ago, Aiko said:

What, presently, is the most difficult thing to translate from textual story to video game, presentation wise?

I'm kinda guessing it's little nuances in how the characters move and behave. In text it's easy to describe facial expressions and changes in tone of voice etc, but the game's limitations with sprites make this a lot harder. Tho, Jan has been trying to give expressions to characters even with the limitations, which gives a little bit more personality to the characters, so it's being tried to work around this limitation ofc!

1 hour ago, Raion said:

Will it be possible to play as Zumi or Jan in Rejuvenation?

wh... and why exactly would you want this LOL

1 hour ago, Tj simmons said:

In future updates will you guys plan to add a Mystery Gift feature where we could have exclusive items and exclusive pokemon forms?

Also ik you guys said no Ash-Greninja because Ash isn’t in game but If u guys *do* implement it, Can it be like the Sun/Moon demo version where the Greninja had Battle bond ability even though Ash wasn’t in game?

the mystery gift feature is available in essentials, but i think this kinda depends on whether online play is added or not. that, or a small data patch that lets you download a certain mystery gift mon, but that's for way later in development, maybe V16 stuff I'm guessing.

As for greninja, still can't say anything about that dude. For now, don't get your hopes up for ash greninja being added in :V

July 12, 2019

1 hour ago, Commander said:

Pokemon Full Moon Crossover, when? I'm not sure what you're asking as something like an Insurgence crossover would be very difficult as Reborn is the odd duck and everyone is very protective of their games. If we are talking about within the community, we have a lot of nods to stuff. It's really hard to answer that as I'm not Jan but not very many games are past the drop off point where people to up and easily quit making the crossover a waste. It's a lot of factors and I don't think we are likely to see one but I wouldn't dismiss the idea entirely. Something unexpected could always happen.

Commander, do you mind not answering these questions yourself? The devs are supposed to answer these questions, not you.

July 12, 2019

part 2 because i have no self control. minor spoiler warning i guess

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July 12, 2019

alright hi i woke up so now i can get cracking at some of your questions! i can't answer them all, but i'll try to get a good chunk out of the way. sorry if i skipped your question bc that means someone else might be better off answering those for you! It's a long ass post so I'm putting it in a spoiler, but have a good read!

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9 hours ago, ShinyGolem said:

Is the dex planned to have any impact/rewards in the future? It doesnt really mean a lot right now. I beliwvw reborn had an npc who gave rewards which is nice as a reward for those trying to keep up with catching everything

There's no current rewards, but it's possible we'll add in something for that in the future! Actually, it sounds kinda logical now I think about it.

maybe my ingame npc will have more purpose than just upgrading the dex but that's up to jan in the end HJSDHSDJ

9 hours ago, Reginald Sanshire said:

Will Zumi ever get to Grand Dream City to show off the Advanced Pokedex that we helped her with?

perhaps for the above mentioned???? the world will never know

9 hours ago, Ruby Red said:

Will we be able to chose pronouns for MC in the future, or are we forever gonna be they/them?
~~unless its already implemented and i just dont know lol~~

maybe in a future version where we decide to add it for polish! might be added in the last version because it's a ton of work, but i wouldn't be opposed to helping out with it.

8 hours ago, Mr. Akeda said:

1) I am curious who is the developer's favourite character in pokemon rejuvenation

2) Is Madame X the curent strongest person in the game at this time? (comparing her to Karen, Crescent specifically)

3) I understand everything is down to interpretation and what was said about the topic so i apologize in advance here but if there was going to be even a subtle love interest wouldn't Aelita be the most logical choice? (this is just to satisfy my dying dream)

4) Are there any plans to do another game when this is completed? (ok i am finished now)

1) My personal faves are Aelita and Ren at the moment! Tho I also really like Amber, Nim, Erin, Venam, Huey and Reina.

2) There's yet anyone outside of the MC to beat her in battle, so I'd say so, yes!

3) We're not going to confirm or deny anything about whether a character is the most "logical" option, because if we do, we please one person and piss off a couple of others in the process, so there's no benefit in us for claiming if one chararcer would've been the "canon" route. There's never been a "canon" route as there's never been plans for romance with any of the characters.

4) Jan is planning to do a different game after Rejuv as far as I'm aware, but I'm not sure if this is gonna be another fangame or something else entirely.

8 hours ago, Muckizard said:

How is it possible for Ren to use an artificial body?Is it something like body transfer-NastasiaTech? If he somehow died in the artificial body,will he be gone for good?

Probably something along the lines of transferring consciousness into an artificial body! He won't die if his body is destroyed, which is something he's said before (or at least along those lines), which allows for him to take on more reckless missions.

8 hours ago, enderowl said:

I might get a vague answer for this but I'm going to ask anyways. Is the MC two people in one person, or just his own being?

Why don't you find out in a future version? :^)

8 hours ago, Commander said:

Two questions:

1. Was making this thread a mistake because holy hell the amount of responses.

2. So I know some of this predates thing I played but I feel like V10 and 11 were massive overhauls of the game including basically writing the entire beginning over. Was there anything particular that made you push for those massive overhauls or was it simply a lot of whimsical decisions that worked out? I'm mostly curious due to quite some drastic changes.

1) no, bc this is a prime opportunity to give some answers rather than leaving people in the dark

2) If the game can be improved, why not take that opportunity? There's no reason to not do it outside of just not feeling like it, but pretty much the entire dev team is like this -- if something can be better, we'll work to make it better.

7 hours ago, GreatNinja said:

-Any plans for Ash-Greninja? Will it be available?

-Any Plans for Nuzlocke runs?

1) no and who knows :^)

2) currently there's no settings for it, but it's possible to add these in later!

6 hours ago, Alisae said:

I have lots of questions so be patient with me

1) Will Follower Pokemon be a thing thats in the game?

2) Are the any areas that could potentially be remapped in the immediate future?

3) What was the idea around making the protag the interceptor?

4) What was the thought process behind putting the Amanda cutscene while we were crossing Zone Zero?

5) Why were Shadow Pokemon initially put into the game?

6) Why was the S.S. Oceania attacked?

7) How did people like Nim and Crescent obtain their psychic powers?

1) We're not adding these in as a main thing because we have a full dex and not all of the overworld sprites for it, so this will likely remain a mod-only thing.

2) Yes! There's actually one that Jan is currently working on redoing, but you'll probably get a preview later down the road as it's not done yet. :^)

3) Can't really go too much into detail about this one, but it's a little bit meta. I can't speak for Jan so he might be able to clear this one up better for you than I can, but I think the idea is that you, the player, can view scenes and/or things that the actual character you're controlling can't, which is where the idea came from. How far this is gonna be taken is gonna remain a secret tho!

4) Didn't you have to scratch your head when Melia showed up during that scene while she was supposed to be in the stasis pod in Zone Zero?

5) I don't remember the details clearly so maybe Jan might be better off answering this one LOL

6) To gather people to send to Blacksteeple. Y'all know what was gonna happen there :^)

7) Can't answer this one, sorry!

6 hours ago, interdiction said:

I think this is already strongly implied, but is Adam homosexual? I don't mean this question in an offensive manner, I'm all for more representation being queer myself, and it's nice to see the game's primary romance being between two girls and not forcing the player through romance themselves, as I dislike harem tropes myself. If so,

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are him and Damien (I think that was him?) attracted to one another (edit: again?), or just hanging out?

(V12 stuff above)

Edit: I'm pretty sure the game outright states both my spoiler and non-spoiler question to be true. I'd forgotten the content of some earlier cutscenes due to not having seen them in a while.

Adam is homosexual! But unfortunately his crush on Damien is onesided and his feelings aren't reciprocated : (

5 hours ago, The Fangame Riddler said:

What are the plans for a postgame, should you decide to implement one in?

Probably a lot of sidequests for legendaries, a couple of superbosses -- stuff like that! Don't know much about the other plans, but there's deffo gonna be a post game.

5 hours ago, D3ltaDragon117 said:

Wow, this is a cool opportunity. So i have a few questions:

1) Will there be a way to go back to old east gearen implemented in a future update (such as a timesplicer crystal maybe)? There's a lot of stuff that can be missed there. I didn't end up doing the hidden library help requests before the city got upgraded and I feel like I missed out on a really cool and important sidequest.

2) Do you plan on bringing back the old protagonists alternate outfits?

3) Any plans to add in a sort of recap? The time between versions, while unavoidable makes it really hard for players, well at least me to remember the story. It would be cool if you added a sort of chapter recap option on the main menu so you can get a quick summary of the story so far.

4) Will battle bond Greninja be added? I really wanna add a Greninja to my team but I feel sort of discouraged because a character in the main story already has one. It would be a neat way to distinguish it from Ren's Greninja.

5) Once the game is done, is there any plans to add a New Game+ option? I feel like there's so much that I missed but I don't want to start a new game because I don't wanna lose my Pokemon.

1) I don't think this'll happen, so make sure to do everything while it's still available.

2) No. The legacy sprites are no longer supported and will no longer receive updates.

3) We want to add in a journal, but please know this is much harder than people are making it sound and there's a LOT of content to summarize, so please understand that this might take a while if we're implementing this.

4) Already answered this question in this same point. We're not planning to add it in right now.

5) No clue actually?? Is that even possible with a mon game??? i honestly don't know LOL

5 hours ago, Chrixai said:

Tanks for adding this post! I have a few questions regarding battles and not just the Pokémon battles.

-Will there be battles where the MC will have to fight someone (EX. the unknown dimension, Saki vs Amanda, and Allen vs bladestar)or is our main focus Pokemon battles?

-Also regards to the first question about personal battles, will there be double battles too?

1) Don't think the MC will physically have to fight anyone LOL

tho i guess they did in the Unown dimension. but that was also a special case. so honestly idk. main focus is still pokemon battles tho!

2) given how much the game broke by just trying to get the 1v1's to work, i doubt double battles will happen lmao

3 hours ago, SunSlash said:

any chance for more reborn crossover stuff (maybe the MC in reborn meets Rejuv MC?)

The Rejuvenation/Reborn crossover isn't done yet! There's still one last thing to wrap up...

2 hours ago, Majin J-Awesome_One said:

I've always wondered. When you 1st meet Melia, how old is she? I know that when we reunite with her, she spent 3 years in the past.

Melia is about 15-16 years old when you first meet her. She's around the same age as Venam and the MC post-timeskip, so roughly 18 years old!

1 hour ago, FlygonFreak said:

Hi! I've got a few dev-related questions, hopefully they're not too many/too boring for y'all : > (( and I also hope no one's asked these before, if so, sorry : < ))

1) How long have you been working on Rejuvenation, roughly?

2) How hard is it to optimize RPGMaker so the game doesn't lag too hard?

3) Rejuvenation feels like a very big project, so how do you manage to stay focused while making it? Have you ever had to take long breaks to recharge dem inspiration batteries?

PS: thanks for making such an awesome game!

1) I've been helping out since the start, so for about ~5 years now! Rejuv's been in development for a pretty long time and honestly I can't believe how fast the time has gone by since Rejuv first became a thing

2) God it's a pain. Some stuff runs fine on one computer and then blows up another person's computer, so it's kinda difficult to balance it. We try to not use features that we know don't work properly on weaker pc's though, like playing videos within the engine or gifs. We tried that with the flora bladestar intermission at the GDC Tournament........ didn't work that great LOL

3) Jan has had multiple burnouts while working on the game because he doesn't know how to take a fuckin break (SMH), but usually after that it's back to the drawing board and working again! Taking breaks usually is the most important to stay focused tbh.

For me personally, I usually crunch on my work for a couple of days and then hibernate for a few months, tho V12 awoke something inside of me for some fucking reason and now I can't seem to stop working on the game when the opportunity shows bc I'm having an absolute blast with doing graphics for it, but I do take in mind to take breaks bc otherwise it's not good for my health too yknow LOL

And thank YOU for playing the game! This goes to all of you

July 11, 2019

6 minutes ago, hoshi said:

Do you have official ages for the main characters? Also, can you tell how many endings/routes are there?

Actually had to answer this question earlier elsewhere! But to post it here as well, there's no set age for the protagonists as we'd like for players to fill in these gaps themselves -- however, they're designed with the idea of them being all around roughly 18 years old.

As for the amount of endings/routes I don't think we can give out details about that, sorry! ~~unless jan decides otherwise~~

July 11, 2019

6 minutes ago, Winter Angel said:

Ooh! I love Q&A! First off, thank you to everyone who put their time into making Rejuve possible as I know spriteing(?) and making a game isn't easy so likely there were quite a bit of bugs/issues that the team came across while making the game. How long does debugging take? Does it happen with the Alpha and Beta testing and/or usually before that? Also a question leaning towards Zumi, with all the gorgeous artwork you make for the game, how difficult/easy is it to make it into sprites/animation? I very much wanted to scream in excitement when I saw the V12 video drop on Jan's channel as it was so fluid (and Flora looks practically terrifying af). Thanks!

To answer the question leaning towards me (heh)

I studied animation for a good amount of time at school! It doesn't take too much time to animate them as a result, as most of the stuff I've learned at school in regards to movement/timing is stuff I can apply to both regular animation and sprite animation. The principles you have to follow in animation are applicable regardless of medium, after all! As for spriting, it is a skill I've built up over the years as I've been working on Rejuv since pretty much the beginning of the journey. It's something that I've learned over time. Combine that with that I also do regular art outside of Rejuv, so it's kinda just the combination of a couple different skills I've honed! It's a lot of practice, practice and even more practice, but it's something I enjoy doing, which is why I put so much effort into these things. You learn more when you have fun, after all!

July 11, 2019

Just now, ShadowStar said:

Seeing as V12 just released, what's your favorite thing to do to unwind after a release?

looking at ppl's reactions to the Big Whammys(TM) of the episodes.

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July 11, 2019

4 minutes ago, LisiaImai said:

Thank you for rejuvenation!! It's what gotten me back to Pokemon and I'm really glad to have stumbled onto it. Btw my question is that how does the dev team manage their personal life while developing this game? Is it a full time gig or just a side hobby? Ik it's kinda personal, but do u guys ever feel burned out? I do competitive cheer and vball and my mental health has been down the drain. Anyways. I hope the dev team aren't burned out after v12 n tysm again for this awesome game

It's a hobby for pretty much all of us! Of course, Jan still puts in most of the time out of all of us (to the point i feel like he does rejuv more than other stuff smh) but most of us do it next to other work we have. Personally I do work when there's a need for it, usually after work I actually need to do at that time i.e. commissions or other stuff like that. It takes more priority the closer to a release we are and sometimes it takes a little bit of time to get started (tho for v12 i got started and then didn't stop for 3 weeks), though I can't speak for the others how they treat the project -- so maybe others will be able to give you insight on how they deal with it!

July 11, 2019

1 minute ago, kulesiak said:

So, its mega ring, or mega-z ring like in reborn? Or we are not getting z-ring yet?

Just now, lolokxd said:

If I MAY ask, will the Mega Ring in Rejuv be obtainable from a SQ or story?

Mega ring will act both as the z-ring and the mega ring, and you'll receive it from the story, not a sidequest.

Just now, dragonza11 said:

1) have we seen the 4 people of the light and dark profecies? or are there some we havent met yet?

2) more like a theory than a question that i can verify: is Xerneas vital to the story or only arceus?

1) Yes! And no :^)

2) Can't say!

July 11, 2019

So... Lately we've been receiving a lot of questions in regards to the game -- more specifically about the story. We would like to clear a couple of these doubts or questions up, so this thread will remain open for a week to ask about anything in regards to Rejuvenation! This could be about the storyline, but also about the background or behind-the-scenes stuff in regards to the creation or writing of the story. Or, you could just ask the dev team how they've been experiencing development so far! The thread is meant less for the technical aspect of the development -- but if you're curious, you can still ask questions about it.

Answers will mostly be provided by @Jan and me, but it's possible that other dev members like Azery (change ur name binch!!! i cAN'T @ U), @Winter or @Alex chime in from time to time as well if they're able to answer the questions better than others can! Hopefully we'll be able to clear up any doubts or questions you might still have. We'd like you to stay courteous however -- any crude questions (i.e. "can you kill off this character bc they suck") will be ignored and removed. Aaaand of course we won't be able to give clear answers about most unreleased content, though that should speak for itself.

Before you post in this thread, we'd like to answer three of the most prominent questions that have been asked lately. We'd like you to read these thoroughly before posting! If these questions are repeated in the thread, they will be deleted as well.

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When are we getting the mega ring?!

You're finally going to get one in V13!

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Is the player going to be able to date anyone in the game? What are the relationship points going to be used for?

No. There have never been plans for romance routes, or a set romance at all. The MC is not going to end up dating someone whatsoever -- And the relationship points you gain from hanging out with characters are not used for romantic intentions, but rather will affect how future events might play out later in the game. Right now there's no direct notable consequences, but they will affect future events, so they are still important.

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Is Melia falling in love with the player?

No. Melia has no romantic feelings towards the player. Instead, Melia is in love with Venam and vice versa -- They simply haven't outright confessed to each other yet. There's been multiple hints towards this and proper buildup as well, but Venam and Melia definitely are attracted to each other in the romantic sense -- not in just the platonic sense.

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If you've got all that, go ham! We'll be happy to answer your questions! The thread will be open for a week, after that it'll close. A new thread might be made after V13, but that's still up in the air so we'll see around the time that's out. Still gonna take a while unfort

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