It's a good barebones system. I was in one for a while that did just that and is still active. it's called Shadowlocke on DA. Don't worry, the locke part is optional. Though the gym leaders are NPCs and the battle system is completely RNG based. It has a ton of unique stuff to it with an active discord.
Got any more ideas to flesh yours out?
Canceled due to no motivation/ideas and slow progress. I may pick it up again after a while but i realised im simply not the type of person to run an entire arpg unfortunately. especially not with the features i planned to include, which was fighting, breeding, a bit of a trait/design system. if i pick it up again i'd like to make it more flexible and open.
Do you like Pokémon? Do you like creating art? Well, then you might love to participate in this ARPG!
Welcome to the world of PokéARPG!
Currently, the toyhouse world is not finished yet, as I am still trying to add code and stuff, but feel free to join it while you wait for me to finish AND our DISCORD!
https://discord.gg/8pNZe6KNqn Join up!!! <3
You are not required to be in the discord in order to participate in the ARPG! Currently, the discord is the only place with the most info as of currently, however! Toyhouse users will have to wait a little longer for me to get a world ready to set public!
Feel free to ask to be on a pinglist for when the TH World is set to public!
Pinglist:
None yet!
This group is all about catching, training, leveling up, and evolving pokemon! You will be able to gain a bit of experience per battles and art you make of the pokemon!
There's not much to do currently, Since we're still in a heavy BETA, and most features will be free to do for now! This allows me to test out and find what I'm happy with in regards to how the game works!
Current Features:
- Gaining your starter pokemon
- Registering for an inventory (Allows you to get currency, items, levels, and more pokemon!)
- A few basic prompts
- Art rewards
- A few adopts
Shops are not open yet
How to get a starter:
You design your own!
**Reference/Pokémon requirements:**
1. The Pokémon must be of the same type as the standard form of the species.
2. The Pokémon must only be one species; no hybrids or fusions.
3. The Pokémon must not be evolved, except in the cases of species with baby pre-evolutions; Pikachu, for example, is allowed.
4. The Pokémon's colors must stay relatively close to the standard form of the species. You can change to any color within the same color temperature group. You are allowed to have patterns as well!
Note: The color of eyes can be ANY color!
**Color temperature groups are as follows:**
Warm: Violet, Red, Orange, Yellow, Lime
Cool: Green, Teal, Blue, Indigo, Purple)
This might give you a basic idea of what is and isn't acceptable:
If you are still unsure of what color groups your Pokémon is, please ask!
5. The Pokémon cannot be legendary or mythical.
6. For Non-mutants, The Pokémon can have traits changed from the basic form, but no new traits may be added.
**You can:** lengthen/shorten the size of ears, tails, fur, etc, (Clarification, while you can give your pokemon nub tails, please try not to give them insanely long tails that are extremely different from the canon species. an arcanine with a 30ft tail wont fly.) change the shape of the eye/pupil/teeth, if you want it to be an amputee, I mean, go for it! *also that's not a trait, that's an injury/disability, either way.*
**You CAN NOT:** add wings, extra arms, add horns, extra facial features, etc.)
For Pokémon references, use this background:
https://sta.sh/21lzhjdk7agj?edit=1
Traditional artists are not required to use the background but you will need to include their nickname/name, species, gender (Please include their gender assigned at birth, feel free to include current gender off to the side if they do not identify as their assigned at birth gender. This is for breeding purposes.), type, a basic about, masterlist number, and if they are basic, mutant, shiny, hybrid, mythical, or legendary.
Writers, you can use this form instead:
Nickname:
Species:
Sex: Please include their gender assigned at birth, feel free to include current gender off to the side if they do not identify as their assigned at birth gender. This is for breeding purposes.
Type:
Color description:
About:
Other notes:
Masterlist number: #???
**Where do i find my masterlist number?!**
You can just ask here, or if you are in the discord, go to #claim-a-masterlist-slot and fill a little form there, i'll give you a slot name and it acts as an empty myo slot!
Right now, things like random encounters, exp, battles, etc will be either slow or nonfunctional but most of it probably will only function if i can find people willing to volunteer as moderators!
I'm going to be working on a big toyhouse code, complete with shops, info, guides, help, dexes/masterlists, etc.
Shade I'd love to see if mine could be similar to how some of these species arpgs work with all the events and prompts to draw in order to gain currency or experience. I could set it up so that there are certain quests to go on where some sort of random chance can allow you to find stuff like evolution stones and etc, trading of course can happen, and so could other necessary pieces. But if also like to see breeding being possible, along with egg hatching, maybe even hybrids, shinies, etc. I don't have many ideas to make mine all too unique but I'm sure just by doing it that it might hold a different experience than the others. I am looking forward to doing this with help though, I'm not great with doing things alone so that's why I'm looking for people who are intered! People who'd be willing to help me build it up and mod around. 🤔
Obviously people who join in aren't required to stay forever. If they lose interest they can just leave if they want because I don't want to be that person lol "YOU SAID YOUD JOIN SO NOW YOU STAY FOREVER" LMAO
But yeah! I'm super open to suggestions, and am willing to give a listen to anything anyone suggests. Id love to put this together in a world and discord server both, ee
I think id say to join the group you'd need a starter, then basically through random chances you can encounter wild random pokemon and be able to catch them OR with some other fiddling around you might be able to increase your chances to encounter a SPECIFIC type of Pokemon or design your own hybrid/mutant if you hatch it? Maybe? I'm not sure. Since it's a very new idea id like to flesh it out without making this all concrete first.
Trainer ARPGs are pretty rare, I don't think I've seen one that does hybrids yet!
And yeah I'm not entirely sure if I'm alive enough to do a whole ARPG right now myself. My hands are really messed up and in pain right now, But I always love Pokemon ARPGs so I thought I'd check this!
I think a lot of what you need, if you get enough of an interest check to go ahead with the effort, is to start doing some systems. Like. A lot of systems haha.
Starter pick suggestions be like...
1. You RNG up to say... 20 Pokemon and people can claim one. FCFS. You'll need to re-randomize often enough to keep people coming but not enough people feel obligated to try to wait.
2. People can pick any starter Pokemon (+Pikachu/Eevee?).
3. You roll a small group (3-5) of Pokemon per trainer and they get to pick.
3a. You could also add in a promotional/rare item, like... a Fire Essence that makes any random Pokemon rewards you get, including the starter, be only of that type.
3b. The person just gets that perk automatically for starters.
Then there's per-route/city encounter tables, battle mechanics, whether or not you do abilities, stats, status effects... whooooo.
Oh and a suggestion from experience working a bit in the ARPG I mentioned. When logging an obtained/captured Pokemon, I recommend having people draw the Pokemon for their ref sheet as mandatory for 'obtaining' the Pokemon. Very good for anti-hoarding. Though it can be a bit odd sitting on capture links that get pretty old.
Shade I think I like those starter ideas! Like, almost all of them!
Originally I was thinking I would just grab all of the canon starters but I think your 1st idea sounds more fun! I think 20 or so, basic first Evo pokemon would be fun to make! Maybe I can make it sorta like a gatcha of sorts? Where out of the 20 if the person wants a reroll then they can maybe find a way to buy it? Maybe not with real money, but maybe some sort of currency? Maybe they can earn currency by drawing other people's Pokemon and then through certain prices they can buy a reroll? Maybe nothing extreme since it's supposed to be friendly to beginners!
I also like the idea of rare or promotional items being rewarded! I think I'll have a thing where like, each pokemon type will give them a chance to already be holding an item so if you gain a starter? Like uhhh maybe if it's dark type it can be holding the dark sunglasses item that powers up dark type moves? Idk
And also maybe I can add rare chance for a few chosen fakemon to show up? Not a lot since they aren't official. But since hybrids and mutants are a thing I don't see why fakemon won't be allowed sometimes! I'll think on it!
I'll make a server to start with and test some stuff out! I'll add an invite link soon! Even if you don't plan on sticking around or modding I'd still love for people to join in and send suggestions or help out as much as you're comfortable with doing! 💞
I can suggest things yeah. I did some staff work for about a month or two in Shadowlocke before my depression ate my brain, so I can give you a few ideas about what it takes to run a Pokemon ARPG. And before that, I played a few forum/AIM games which are basically the text/roleplay counterpart to ARPGs.
I'll check the thread once in a while or you can message me when the Discord is up.
Also, Dog, looking forward to meeting you there too! Setting up ARPGs is fascinating work to me, though I can't staff for them anymore at this point in time.
I came to the forums looking for something exactly like this aha. I'm in a Pokemon ARPG at the moment but it's kind of inactive so I figured another might be fun. Let me know when the Discord is up and I'll see how much I can help out with.
Heart-Star! Sure thing! im actually getting the discord server ready to let some people in! just know when i let yall in i probably wont have it ready to immediately start collecting pokemon properly but i might give yall a beginners discount for joining so early and let yall pick out your own first pokemon without the starter system in place^^
Shade dogcreep cursetheartist Helmoani Heart-Star
Hey! if you check the main post you'll see I have the discord FINALLY open! all features are not entirely ready but i'm still looking forward to seeing you there!