BIGFriv Posted 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hey everypony. If you’re here you probably want news on the games development, and what has been happening behind the scenes. It’s been half a year since the release of E1: Auld Lang Syne, so I decided it’s time to talk about the game in general, past, present and future. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ First things first, I got good and bad news. THE GOOD: I am working on E2! The current goal is to reach the 4th Gym (just so you remember, E1 went up past the 2nd Gym). I feel like every update will try to aim for 2 Gyms minimum, but of course it's not a guarantee as it will fully depend on the quantity of content I add. THE BAD: I’m slow, like really slow, and I have to juggle more than I feel capable of. Mapping, eventing, general coding, plus, I don’t want to go to work, and then come back home and only focus on Divulgence. It would quickly start feeling like a job and it's the reason why I had a burn out a few years ago and didn’t touch the game for a year. I love mapping in specific, it’s the one thing I really like doing. But I am a bit too detailed and I like adding more and more, and I refuse to back down on that. As such, I am still searching for general coders (new moves, abilities, maybe a bit of AI, or anything of sort), Trainer/Pokemon Sprite artists, a second mapper, and an eventer. I despise eventing, it’s the worst thing ever. Oh! And I also recently updated the game to Essentials v21.1 which came with a BUNCH of new problems to deal with, it was worth it to fix the frame drops but man some of these errors make me mad. So yeah in general what I mean is, the game is being developed, but it’s still slow and I am sorry for that. But don’t expect E2 in 2026. ____________________________________ Here’s two random screenshots of some stuff I worked on: (dont mind the text not being positioned correctly) E2 still has no name, it’s something I’ll figure out before release since it has to fit the theme/story of that segment. ____________________________________ So about Divulgence, it’s weird to see so many people actually like the game! Honestly I was a bit worried since E1 did come out in a shaky way and lacked one or two things that I added in patches. Fun fact, Divulgence was actually named Divine Flux until 2019? The game is really old, conceptually I mean, I originally had the idea to make a fangame back in 2014, and then started on it in 2015. It’s been over a decade now, the game got corrupted three times forcing me to redo everything, and then I hated everything I was doing so I restarted twice. Divine Flux still has a thread on these forums, here you go: Up until 2020 when I finally released the original Tech Demo as Pokemon Divulgence, which I changed and made it go up to the 2nd Gym and released in 2025. The current story ideas I have were improved over the years and more interesting, in the original Divine Flux version, Will didn’t even exist as a character and instead it was mostly about Synea. Keren was also not the weird emo guy we know now, but instead an asshole rival that liked to do graffiti in every area you visit (his old sprite was re-used for the Hoodlum you fight in Steeplin City). But the basic premise of the player going out to find their mom has remained true. The story has evolved, more characters were added, some relationships became more developed and more complex and I think that’s for the better. ___________________________________________ Speaking of story, I probably have said it before but I’ll repeat myself. I do have the general idea of where the story goes, what big story moments happen and how the main game ends. Post-game I don't know much about yet. What I don’t know is exactly the order of these events, some can happen at any moment, I would just have to write dialogue and extra moments for the characters to talk about them. Other moments I have to decide when the player would be the most affects and interested in them while not fucking with the normal Pokemon gameplay. But I’ll figure it out. ___________________________________________ In extra extra news, E2 will have some tiny edits to early game (I promise I won’t do a Rejuvenation and remake the starting area fully). These edits will simply add a bit more of a presence to some of the friends that were present at the birthday party. Russel and Kevin in specific, I never intended for the friends to have a super big role, but multiple people have asked me to give them more and to not just suddenly drop them, so, I will do so! The player's dad will also have one or two extra events. And because of that, all of these characters got some tweaks to their designs. I still don’t have any Trainer Sprites for them, but I hope to get some one day (if you want to help it would be great, otherwise Ill probably commission). [img]https://i.imgur.com/8354SuA.png[/img] Spoiler https://imgur.com/8354SuA [img]https://i.imgur.com/8354SuA.png[/img] CREDITS TO: clairemelle Adding these new scenes and tweaking the early game will be something that will probably be done a bit later. I prioritize new content over old one, so you won’t get any screenshots of these scenes for now. There’s still some characters that need designs, like the next two gym leaders, the bodyguards, Courtney, the drunk pirate and Sonnus. I’ll update you whenever I get new stuff. —------------------------------------------------------ Route 10 Again, if any of you are interested in joining the team for any reason I’ve mentioned above:CoderEventerMapperTrainer/Regional/Fakemon Sprite Artistor even something as simple as rebalancing Pokémon Please DM me here, on Discord, or find me in the street, whichever you prefer! Peace hoot. PS: I got addicted to Deadlock, send help. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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