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  1. Maruno

    Fan Game Prompts

    In your region there have been a lot of claimed sightings of rare Pokémon variants: Weezing with three heads, Arbok with unusual chest markings, pink Kecleon and Butterfree, and so on and so forth. The local Professor specialises in Pokémon forms, and both he and you are keen to discover these...
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    Entertainment Caption This!

    "I've left Jeremy another note, but I can't find him."
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    Pokémon Essentials v17.2 - 15th October 2017

    ATTENTION! Pokémon Essentials version 17.2 has now been released. It contains fixes for some bugs that cropped up in v17.1. Go download it if you want your game to work properly.
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    Creative What Pokétch app ideas would you want to be a thing?

    I imagine a Vs. Seeker app would be popular. It'd show a simplified view of the surrounding area, perhaps just as simple as differentiating between walkable and non-walkable areas, and would have icons indicating trainers you have/haven't fought/are able to rematch/are ready to rematch. Tap it...
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    Overview Tutorials and Resources Requests

    There could at least be a general guide on the likely causes of incompatibility, and how to search for evidence of them (i.e. read the Essentials change log, ask). Certainly you couldn't get into specifics, because scripts will be rather different to each other and advice on fixing one will...
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    [Legacy] Suggestions to improve Essentials

    Do you mean that the player's surfing graphic overlaps part of the land when you're surfing along a coastline? It does that in Gen 3 (obviously, since Essentials uses FRLG overworld graphics), and that's all Essentials is replicating as far as the overworld 2D tile-based maps go. If you're using...
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    [Legacy] Bug report thread

    I improved how reflections look in v17. I think this goal alone would be seen as a good thing by the majority of users. It turns out that the way I achieved this improvement was at odds with how you currently make your maps (more specifically, how you designed your tiles). You have yourself...
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    [Legacy] Bug report thread

    I made still water tiles behave that way on purpose. It lets water reflections render properly now, i.e. just on the water, not also the coastline. If you have a look at the example maps, you'll see how to map still water effectively. Why do you want to put other ground tiles underneath water...
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    [Legacy] Bug report thread

    That's not a bug. Still water tiles work as intended.
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    User Experience

    The loose aim of the recent Essentials v17 was to improve user experience in regards to the game's mechanics. Quick-swapping controls in the party/storage, support for multiple keyboard layouts, being able to view the Pokédex from a Pokémon's summary screen (and mark it from there too), showing...
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    Form evolution question

    Form-specific evolutions are designed for Pokémon that do not change their form throughout their lifetime. To get a Raichu form 1 (Alolan), you'll need to evolve a Pikachu form 1. This form 1 Pikachu doesn't need to look any different to a regular one, or have any properties different to it, or...
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    Resource Free Summary Screens

    I see in those animated screenshots that there's a random "20" floating around beneath the Pokémon's name. Obviously it's the level, but there's no "Lv." in front of it.
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    A Speed-up button in Fan Games. (Do or Don't)

    There are plenty of ways to speed up, say, egg hatching. Make them require fewer steps, don't have breeding in your game at all, have those warming abilities that speed hatching up, invent an item that speeds hatching up, make them take a certain amount of time in the party rather than a certain...
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    Start-To-Pokémon

    We all know that making creatures fight each other is the point of Pokémon games. On that note, how long do you think you should play a game before: a) being given a Pokémon? b) being let loose into the world with it? Are there any situations in which it would be acceptable to make these...
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    Pokémon Essentials v17.2 - 15th October 2017

    ATTENTION! Pokémon Essentials version 17.1 has now been released. It contains fixes for some bugs that cropped up in v17. Go download it if you want your game to work properly.
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    Pokémon Essentials v17.2 - 15th October 2017

    Pokémon Essentials, version 17 27th August 2017 Download There was a longer gap between v16.2 and v17 than there was between v1 and v10. A Quality Update Essentials v17 was focussed (vaguely, more or less) on making quality of life improvements. Things that make the game easier to play, or...
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    Evolution Method depending on Form

    You could always wait for Essentials v17, which has this feature. It'll be available tomorrow.
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    Entertainment Caption This!

    "Good lord, there's an old woman living in there!"
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