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While a bit on and off, I've been on this forum for 10 years... Holy shit I need to let that sink in. From a dumb kid to a less dumb adult. From possibly depressed to genuinly happy. I think the only thing I can say from here is thank you @Amethyst for creating such a welcoming community.

So, I’m still alive. mentally I’m a little shaken by recent events. I live in the USA, so I’m sure people can figure it out. Being an enby isn’t the easiest thing here even where I live being generally pretty accepting. I got bullied off TikTok years ago and HAD to delete Instagram this week cuz it was nasty as hell on there. so I’m alive that’s at least a positive. to my main point, been mulling this over a while and I’ve come to the conclusion that I need some help, I don’t really know where to post this or even exactly what to ask since it’s not a 100% gonna happen thing, me and a friend have been working on and off on our own HIGHLY ambitious pokemon fan game, we have nothing past the planning stage because it’s just the two of us and I’m the only person handling the entire creative side of it, so more to the point, are there any sprite artists and musicians who would be willing to help us out, anyone is welcome really, just over 18 years old please. I can’t pay you anything it will be entirely free labor. A passionate labor of love though. I’ve a general idea and overall story beats planned to a degree, I could use some help with the fine tuning as it’s definitely unique in the way that you aren’t allowed to catch Pokémon or even learn new moves it’s about the characters especially since they already had their major journeys. It’s pretty dark in a lot of places and I don’t plan to shy away from that stuff. If anyone is interested in helping me and my friend and by some strike of luck are also willing to put up with the fact that the story is essentially mine and mine alone. I guess message me or respond to this and we can figure out a way to communicate. FYI discord is a no go, I really dislike it. I’d be more inclined to give out my personal phone number over that lol. TLDR: want some help with a possible fan game, but the story is completely under my jurisdiction. Open to criticism and possible changes but need more people on the music and artwork side of things. And I’ll need to talk to my friend about this as hell want to know and will more then likely be the person responsible for relaying messages back and forth between devs. if you want info on the game before deciding there isn’t much rn as it’s in a strange transition period and I’m debating a lot of choices. All devs will be included in the game as trainers/ npcs depending on what you want.

nobody else seems to be acknowledging it, but: happy birthday our great ame! 2^5 years old!

I just remembered I had an account here

Hey everyone I’d say how’s it going but I honestly don’t expect anyone to respond, it’s cool tho. Hopefully everyone is doing well. I’m ok-ish, I think I’ve gotten to a point where I know I’ll never REALLY be 100% ok. annnnnyyyyywayyyy. this is another request for some help, again can’t pay worth a damn I’m broke as hell. Passion project and all that, anyone who’s got any talent regarding anything when making fan games is welcome. Message me or respond here and we’ll talk. I don’t have any social media anymore sooooo, yea communication will be a bitch but we can figure it out. beyond that however I just wanna say have a great day/night. Stay safe, and keep bein awesome

Randomly logged in after a while. I guess might as well make a post about something. Free game Holocure getting big update Friday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa-fOwDHN6g&pp=ygUNaG9sb2N1cmUgMC43IA%3D%3D

Logging back in here for the first time in YEARS and seeing my old og CC profile pic has me spiiiiiiinning rn

Rediscovering Pokémon Reborn: A Fresh Take on the Pokémon Universe I recently dove back into Pokémon Reborn, and I’m honestly amazed by how much this fan-made game offers. It's not just your typical Pokémon experience; it's got depth, grit, and a challenging edge that makes it feel unique compared to the official games. For those new here or considering playing, Pokémon Reborn is a fan-created Pokémon game with a darker storyline, tougher battles, and a massive world to explore. What really draws me in is the mature tone of the story and the complex characters. It feels like a Pokémon game with a realistic twist—one where the world and characters are struggling, just like in real life. I find myself more invested in the plot because it’s unpredictable and, at times, intense. The difficulty level is also worth noting. Gym battles require real strategy here! You can’t just go in with brute force and expect to win. Field effects play a huge role, forcing you to think about your moves and team compositions in ways you wouldn’t normally have to. It feels rewarding to finally take down a gym leader after multiple tries, knowing I had to adapt and learn from each loss. Has anyone else recently jumped back into Reborn, or maybe you’re playing it for the first time? I’d love to hear how you're finding it so far. What strategies have helped you in the tougher battles? Any favorite moments or characters that stand out? Looking forward to hearing everyone’s thoughts! And for those considering starting the game, I can’t recommend it enough—it’s a journey worth taking for any dedicated Pokémon fan!

New game What's up you guys? I came to announce the next game I'll be working on. It's another mystery dungeon game and this time, the protagonist is an Absol. This game is called Pokémon mystery dungeon: Storms Of Disaster. Currently, I am almost done writing down the first 5 chapters of the game. However, this one won't have special episodes due to the game being longer than Winter's Fury. Storms Of Disaster will have 30 chapters. And I know what you might be thinking. "This dude is crazy! There's no way this game will be good! This is too bloated!" Hear me out. If this game had gyms, of course it'd be bloated. But since Winter's Fury, I've decided to ditch gym badges entirely. In my honest opinion, I think the badge system weakens the story of the Reborn games a little bit since the characters don't have lots of room to breathe. This is especially what happens in Rejuvenation. If the game didn't have badges, then most of the cast would be more fleshed out and they would also have more screen time. Then again, having too many similar characters may also be bad too. Which is why I wrote out every single character's personality and only gave the more important characters backstories. Moving on... I have a discord server for the game. So feel free to follow me there as I will be posting dev updates there from now on. Sure, I'll post updates on here from time to time but discord is much more convenient. Here's the discord code if you want to jump in: m45N2ENtgp Anyway, I hope you guys have a good day and I hope to see you all in my new discord server! I'm more active there so feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

I’m still alive. ANNNNYYYWAYY… I uh really don’t have any updates. I am however VERY BORED. Anyone reading this hope you’re having a great day/night. Take care of yourselves!

I haven't been active on this site in nearly a year omg. Im so old now so many things happened also whats good party ppl?

How I feel after finishing Pokémon Mystery dungeon: Winter's Fury Sup everyone. Grovyle here and today, I'll be talking about how I feel about finishing the game. I'll also discuss the development history of the game and oh boy is there a lot of it. First, I would like to thank everyone for playing Winter's Fury and that I won't be making another game for a long while. To be honest, this game wouldn't have existed if it wasn't for PMD: Broken Ideals. This fanfic traumatized me so much that I wanted to make a game about it. Look, it's not that I hate the story. It's good don't get me wrong but I felt so sorry for this poor Zoroark. She essentially lost everything and my reaction to the ending was a mixture of sadness and anger. I finished it around May 27th. That's a day that I won't be forgetting anytime soon. In short, this game was originally made out of spite. But after a good friend from the PMD: Guiding Light discord server cheered me up, I became passionate about making the game. Eventually, I realized that I had to move on from Broken Ideals and I suppose beating Articuno could represent my willingness to move on. I started working on this game in June and let me tell you, trying to focus has been a nightmare. My mind keeps going back to thinking about the poor Zoroark. Eventually, I stopped thinking about it after finishing the game. It felt a huge weight was off my chest. Look, I know loads of you will think I'm just an unhinged Zoroark fan if I told you about all the times I tried to console myself so I won't get into that. The story's main theme is about not letting your emotions control you. And no, this game is not saying to bottle up your emotions. Doing so will be very detrimental to your health. We can't throw away our emotions for long. They are bound to leak out eventually. We are human after all. Let's be honest, I felt like a Zoroark being the protagonist would fit the game's themes. As we know, these tricky foxes really hate people who hurt their loved ones and would ultimately let their emotions run wild for revenge as you'll see in the game. However, the main character stands out from the rest of his kind. As for the party members, I was inspired by the team dynamic of PMD: Gates to infinity. I really loved it there and wanted to implement something like that in Winter's Fury. I won't tell you all of their names since I want people to have more of an incentive to play the game. Zack the Zoroark is a young Pokémon who's sister got sick and was kidnapped by the Neverwinter Guard. He's utterly furious about it and runs away from home so his parents don't run into danger. Throughout the story, he matures and makes several friends. Something that most Zoroark wouldn't do. Mary the Glaceon is a troubled doctor who ran away from an abusive workplace in search of a way to continue her work in peace. Unfortunately, she gets caught by a member of the Neverwinter Guard but is saved by Zack. Eventually they became friends but Zack learns that she's a little arrogant. And for the last non-spoiler party member, we have Jack the Floatzel. He's kind of like my dad in a way in that he's energetic, cracks jokes, and he's a little pushy. He meets Zack and Mary in a forest but he mistakes them as members of the Neverwinter Guard and attacks them. After the battle, Zack and Mary explain that it's just a misunderstanding and Jack introduces himself as a member of an organization called Glacial Hope. They then start traveling together after Zack agrees to accompany Mary to their base. Oh yeah, remember the title for the game? Yeah, it's pretty obvious a lot of people are going to assume that Winter's Fury is a metaphor for my anger towards the author of Broken Ideals but it really isn't. If anything, it supports the theme of the game. There's tons of points in the story where the party members would get emotional but they don't let it control their actions. One last thing I'll bring up about the party members is that I feel like the people who read Broken Ideals would assume I ripped off the characters from there but I feel like the characters in Winter's Fury are distinct enough. Next, let's talk about my writing. I feel like it got better after having said friend from the Guiding Light discord server beta read the dialogue and reading the outline for the story. I even put him in the credits at the end of the game for being so helpful. Without him, the writing would still be messy like my first game. This isn't actually all of my thoughts and if I spilled everything, we'd be here all day. All I'm gonna say is thanks for reading my spiel about how a fanfic broke me and inspired me to make a game about it.

Been a while... What is everone up to?

5 chapter demo for PMD: Winter's Fury Complete Hey guys. The 5 chapter demo is finished. However, I will not post the download link until I get feedback from the discord server I'm in. Speaking of that, I left the Reborn a couple months ago since it seemed like I was a little too worked up about Desolation's flaws and it felt utterly embarrassing. So that's when I realized that it's not really healthy for me to stay so for the sake of my wellbeing, I left. Some of you may or may not have interacted with me there before. Sorry for that by the way. With that being said, thanks for reading my status and I hope you all have a nice day.

News on my project So I finished writing down how each chapter is going to go and it's actually really simple. (I hope...) I even wrote down the characters so that I can keep track. Something that a lot of fangame creators are guilty of is that most of them don't write down their stories and because of that, the writing suffers and it makes the story "Convoluted". While I don't consider my first game having a messy story, I kinda changed traction after reading Guiding Light so I'm also a little guilty off going of script in my brain. But that's a story for another day. This time, I'm actually going to write down my story. Anyway, my new game is called Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Winter's Fury. The demo is currently taking it's time since today is the first time I'm working on it. When I'm ready to release the demo, I'll post the game in the Fangame Expose just like I did with my first game. Thanks for reading this update. Hope you all have a fantastic day!

New project incoming Good morning everyone! I know it's been literal years since I've posted here but I'm back again and this time, I have a new project that I'm currently brainstorming right now. Before we get to that, here's a little status update for me. Recently, I read another Pokémon mystery dungeon fic named Broken Ideals and it nearly broke me. I read this a month ago and it took me until the end of this month to finally get over it's ending. I'm also taking summer classes so I can get enough credits to graduate from collage. Oh, and I suffered some severe burn out at some point. Anyway, back to my daily scheduled update for the next project. Basically, it'll be a Pokémon mystery dungeon story but I'll still use Pokémon essentials. (I know SkyTemple exists but I don't feel like using it.) And I'm thinking of making a Zoroark the protagonist of this planned game. Note, this is not a spin off of Pokémon Sky. It it's own thing. This time, I'll be using gen 1-8 Pokémon instead of adding gen 9 since you know, feature creep and all. Keep in mind, this what I thought of so far. I'm still thinking about the story. However, instead of just using my brain to write the story which is what I did with Pokémon Sky, I'll actually have it written down so I don't go off track and I know quite a few people that can peer review the draft of the story so that it isn't all over the place. Thanks for reading and I hope to see you guys soon after I have the written down and reveal the name of this new game.

have I returned? who knows....

I don't know what it is about this day specifically that I randomly find myself here again. My guess is I just subconsciously link it to this forum. Or perhaps it's just the springtime? Anyway yea, this time thing flies fast. Hope you are all doing well.

Took longer than expected but the next part of "Setting off a Chain Reaction" is finally done

Happy Birthday , i hope that you will have a fun day

Heyyy happy birthday Amine!! I really hope you'll have a wonderful day

Happy Birthday , i hope that you will have a great day

Happy Birthday , i hope that you will have a great day

Happy Birthday , i hope that you will have a great day

I'm giving a "What if" dialogue for Pokemon Reborn : During cutscene after player defeats Luna : Luna : Speaking of which, I'm asking a question. I know it's just a foolish question but I'll keep your answer in secret because of what happened when Bennett said how he loved me. That was gross. Well then, I want a honest answer. Between me and the others, who do you prefer the most? -Answers as male : Anna -> Luna : Huh? I thought you were choosing me... Unless you trust her the most. Well, I'm glad to hear that. Victoria -> Luna : I guess you are in good terms with her since the first meet. No wonder she's trusts you. Luna -> Luna : So you prefer me. That's okay. Since you don't act like the way Bennett does. I guess I have to trust you a bit. Charlotte -> Luna : Well, after all, I confirm it's like you prefer light more than darkness. None -> Luna : Huh, dissapointing but I guess you have a good reason as for the part of being a trainer. -Answers as female : Noel -> Luna : So he's the only person you want to trust. I think it is enough for me to hear that. Cal -> Luna : Since then? I heard from Cain he was working with Team Meteor until betrayal. Do you trust him? Nevermind! Taka -> Luna : You like the guy working with Team Meteor? I don't know how to feel about that. None -> Same dialogue for None -Answers as non-binary : Adrienn -> Luna : You like the fairy type gym leader, after the turn of events, of course. Cain -> Luna : So, your rival then. It doesn't matter, anyway. None -> Same dialogue for None Note : It could give, lose or not affect relationship points depending of given choices.

Happy Birthday , i hope that you will have a fun day

One more for the road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UWNitDBb9M