Pokemon forum game idea Options

[Arbor]

Yesterday I was thinking, it would be so awesome if pokemon were more awesome. I mean, sure its already pretty damn awesome, but its made for seven year olds. Now, I've been playing the pokemon games since I was 7, but now that I'm 20, its just not doing it for me anymore.

So I had an idea. Why not make a new pokemon game?

Not a particularly new revelation there, granted. However I'm not thinking of making it in RPG Maker, or even making a game like that at all. It would be a forum based game, like Ninja Academy (for any who aren't familiar with that: http://ninja-academy-online.com/). Basically, it's roleplaying, with more added to it. Like D&D, only online.

It would be called PkRi (Pokemon Re-imagined), staying close to the pokemon universe, but turning it so it would work on a forum and making it more for older players. Gone will be the days of 11 year olds galavanting off to kick gym leader ass. Instead, it will be 16-40 year olds kicking gym leader ass, joining team rocket to take over the world, making their own team to rule the world, fighting in wars, traveling through time, and so on. Pokemon: with a hell of a lot more options.

Another awesome part of this would be that players could design their own unique pokemon, pokeballs, items, create gyms, and generally do whatever the hell they jolly well please.

I have time now so I figure I'm going to start designing this and I'm wondering if theres anyone else who would be interested in playing this with me.

This post has been edited by Arbor: Jun 16 2011, 12:18 PM

[udivision]

Hmm... Pokemon may be geared for 10 year olds, but it's geared towards everyone too. For that reason, not many people are looking for the "mature" pocket monsters experience. I personally wouldn't have interest in a project like this for that reason, but I'm sure if it's done well enough it'll attract it's own audience.

[kayden997]

You do realize that Pokemon White and Pokemon Black just came out March 6, 2011? So, no it hasn't been a long time since the last Pokemon game. Besides, Pokemon IS targeted for young people. If you want blood, guts, and... *cough* *cough* then it wouldn't actually be Pokemon now would it?
There is a Role Play section here already: http://www.rpgrevolution.com/forums/index.php?showforum=90
I don't think this theory would work out so well. I mean, yes you can typically create pokemon, different pokeballs (Which is stupid, who would ever use a net ball or dusk ball over an ultra ball?), and gyms if you wanted to but it may not turn out well.
Most fan games don't...

Well, that's my opinion on this

--EDIT--
The actual link is http://ninja-academy-online.com/

This post has been edited by kayden997: Jun 14 2011, 08:55 PM

[X-M-O]

It's funny because the very first web site I built was a Pokemon RP site. XD
Just me and like 12 school buddies (who didn't know what Photoshop 7.0 was, and hadn't heard of it) put it together and played amongst ourselves until about 30 random people from across the globe joined in. I killed it after a year because I left that school and graduated elsewhere.

Anyway, just saying that to say that if I have done it before, I'm certain it has been done many times by many people on many sites.
So it may be a great idea, but I know the amount of work that goes into it and you are better off making a simple RP in the RP section of this forum. (Besides, you are guaranteed better players in this community, lol.)

As far as interest goes, I obviously have interest (considering I've done it before and enjoyed it) but I'd not join a new site to develop or play it (I don't have the time for that). What I would do, is play an RP here on R3 if it looks interesting enough (thus far I haven't bothered because I haven't received enough motivation to venture into that section of R3).
So... convince me it's a great idea here on R3 (as an RP) and I'll join in. Of course I'd need to know a lot more about what environment the story would exist in, and what theme(s) would apply, as well as what characters/types of characters would be allowed, etc.


If you check out my R3 profile and follow the link to the Reversed Comic (here, I'll link you to the comic), I think that a story like that would make for a great RP. Of course you'd have to create your own version of it, etc.
(Original version from a fan comic of a commercial game... sounds funny to me too.)
Anyway, yeah I'm done blabbing, lol. XD
Convince me!

[Arbor]

You do realize that Pokemon White and Pokemon Black just came out March 6, 2011? So, no it hasn't been a long time since the last Pokemon game.

Didn't say ANYTHING about when the last pokemon game came out. I own pokemon black. I'm well aware.

Besides, Pokemon IS targeted for young people. If you want blood, guts, and... *cough* *cough* then it wouldn't actually be Pokemon now would it?

Let me take a moment to go over the meaning of mature extensively just so no one will question what I’m talking about in the future.

By Mature, I don’t mean blood, guts, and sex. Now based on the definition in Webster’s Dictionary, 3rd edition from 1963, maturity means:

1. Based on slow and careful consideration.
2. Having completed natural growth and development, having attained a final or desired state
3. Of or relating to the condition of full development
4. Due for payment
5. Well dissected by the erosion of running water so that slopes predominate greatly over flats
6. Belonging to the middle portion of the cycle of erosion.

The erosion meaning is closer to what I’m talking about than gore and sex, which is, for some reason, what mature is linked to anymore. Granted, that may be what the dictionary says now, but I don’t give a damn. 1963 = Erosion.

When I said “I want a pokemon game that is more mature.” I mean “I want a game with more options, more story lines, more dynamics, more possibilities, and generally more awesome.”

@X-M-O

Yeah, I've seen sites around before for it, but I have my own idea of how to make a wicked awesome pokemon forum RPG ^^. And I would start an RP but then i lose the G and then its not quite as awesome. Also, a singular RP wouldn't be as dynamic as a multi-complex RP.

What I would like to do is take Pokemon and re-imagine it. Make in-depth story lines, unique locations, pokemon, items, etc, and generally have more options of things to do in the pokemon universe. You could be a trainer, professor, rocket, breeder, daycare person, work in a super market, be an orphan raised by wild growlithe, a gym leader, and whatever else you can think of. True all of this could be done with an RP in a single thread, but then its just less...awesome....

When I figure out how to explain this better, I will do so.

[X-M-O]

Yeah, I figured you didn't mean the definition of "Mature" as in "the rating".

Maybe what you're thinking of is more of an MMORPG, where you create your own character's story, etc., in an environment where other players do the same and interact with each other and affect each other in-game.
The idea there would be that there isn't any set storyline to follow, since you create your own. Of course you'd have to make a very dynamic and fun game in order to keep people interested (since you wouldn't have storyline quests in the same way that a more linear game would have).
Although, if you were to take the idea if Dream Of Mirror Online and conform it to pokemon (where there are quests that apply to whichever character class you choose, but you don't have to do them in any particular order or whatever) then you'd probably get a lot more attention.
That would take a lot of work and resources to develop and complete, though.

[Arbor]

Well the idea would be that the game would be played on a forum like NA. Apart from text and a few maps, both of which I can do, it wouldn't require anything more.

[X-M-O]

Ah ok. =]
So basically you just need to find a way to get a forum (or site that has a forum included) and the code/scripts/etc. required to allow such a system to work, right?
Or would you not even want/need scripts that do things like pokemon battles, etc.?

[Arbor]

I would need a dice roller but apart from that, nothing else I can think of ^^

[X-M-O]

I've developed similar scripts, so I think I can manage a similar script (not to mention, one may exist already somewhere, lol).

Anyway, as I mentioned in the PM, I'd be glad to help you out with ideas and such. I'm useful, even if I can't devote a lot of time to a project. ^^

[Arbor]

Thats fine ^^. Really this isn't that big a project. Its mostly just writing down ideas and organizing them, and when I can, making maps.

[X-M-O]

True, and it looks like fun. =]
Of course, with more ideas and such comes more things to do, lol.
(Big projects come from small ideas, at first.)

[literarygoth]

I absolutely love ~heavy on the sarcasm here~ how people see the word mature and automatically think blood, sex, drugs etc. When you think along those lines, guess what, your immaturity is showing.

I think a mature stylized version of pokemon would be interesting (I seem to recall a Japanese live action pocket monsters movie with a more mature theme?). I did enjoy pokemon up until silver and gold were released (sorry, I just don't like how many bajillion monsters there are now). Each game took place in more or less the same world, and it was all the same concept. I'd love to see Team Rocket explored more in depth and given more personality than plastic cut-outs.

I hope you succeed

[Amy Pond]

If you ever want to add a bit more functionality you might want to check out:

www.vdexproject.net

www.afar.ws

The latter being my game, the former being a pokemon game, both are created using forums but are built up on a lot more functionality. Battles, maps, automation, exploration, etc.

[Arbor]

Thanks for the resources but its not quite the same idea ^^.

For my game, all playing is done on the forum itself. Your role play and get experience for it. Say you write a 2000 word post about training with your pokemon. From that, you and the pokemon you train with get 1 exp per line (20 words). So from that you would get 100 EXP, which would be enough to level you up in the beginning. There will be certain bonuses, such as 10exp for catching a pokemon, or 20 for defeating a gym leader. And you as a trainer could take the skills Quick Learner and Great Teacher to give you and your pokemon respectively 10% extra exp so you can level up faster.

Its a game of words rather than graphics or scripts.