I hope you don't use the same battle system found in every pokemon ever. You'd think by now they would have used the advance hardware to improve the gameplay. But that's Nintendo for you! All talk, no innovation. Just like Apple.

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/deflect hatred

Technically Nintendo is incredibly innovative as well ;)

2v2! That would be heaven if you allowed for coop play :D

BLAST FROM THE PAST

2 vs 2!

Yes. 2vs2 Pokemon. Fancy that.

Well, that was the point. I was implying that Nintendo stole Blue Zodiakos's idea. At the time of this thread (over a year ago) there was no 2 vs 2 Pokemon.

It's kinda weird that the first post I see when coming back to the verge-rpg page after over a year of absense is... my old pokemon post! O.O

I was going to make a seperate post apologizing to several people for being gone so long, and being force to abandon my internet server for a long while (I had to move under some pretty quick circumstances), but not many people knew me anyways, I suspect, so there isn't much point.

It's weird knowing the stuff I know now - I've been going to college for over a year now studying compute science, and all the stuff I thought I knew when I was making stuff here last time, compared to the stuff I know now. I'm no longer horrible at art, for example - I know my way around photoshop pretty damn well, and that was a huge stopping point for some of the things I wanted to do here, as well as other private projects. I've gotten much better at programming too, because of college, and since I've been making quite a bit of money playing a game called Second Life, where I script for money while I'm going through college. I'm also a bit older, my interests have changed slightly, and I'm in a relationship. Weird how things can turn around so quickly in just a year or so.

My judgement tells me it's probably not a good idea at all to persue this kind of game anymore, or any other type of game 'sequel'. Those of you who told me that in the beginning, I salute you, hehe. I've learned alot since then about various copyright law and such, as well as the importance of coming up with your own ideas. I know it's frustrating sometimes to see a game like Pokemon, for example, and wish that lots of things were implemented completely differently. Gah... if only the world worked in ways it doesn't. :D

I'm still interested in making games though, which is why I'm going to college for that very thing. My mistake last time was making an idea, coming up with a prototype quickly, and not thinking about the design problems that would crop up later, or not thinking about usability concerns for people that wanted to use my library (my particle library comes to mind). So I'm not going to announce anything yet that I'd like to do, even though I already have quite a few ideas of things that I WANT to do.

I'm going to think about it for a tiny bit; I really want to remake my old particle library using all the stuff that I know now, to make it easy to implement into any game with an absolute minimum of effort. It's hard for me not to get excited about my own projects like that, but I think that I should be a little more cautious from now on about jumping the gun and announcing things before I have a solid prototype or plan, at the very least.