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Update 2/26/26

I would've waited until tomorrow to post this since it's Pokemon Day tomorrow, but I might get too distracted for the rest of the week and forget.

I'm probably going to be slowing down a little bit for personal reasons. (Reasons involving my husband again, so I'm not going to go into any details.)

Good:

-Finished Cerise's, Esmaralda's, Kai's, Rebecca's, and Umeko's friendship syntax, meaning that every "present" candidate's syntax has been finished.

-Gave Cerise different "after talk" dialogue if she's cleaning up after your Mareep. (As a spouse.)

-Went through the v.19.1 version for any syntax changes and replaced some of the ones that I barely used that were changed. Like the bug contest. I dunno if it was necessary, but again I barely used them so replacing them was really fast. (Unlike the days that it took me to finish the syntax for farming and gifting to candidates.)

-I've been phasing out the ability to give a candidate who you chose to just stay friends with the ability to give them a Valentines day gift. (Only if you're at the max friendship level before a relationship though.)

-Made it so you can buy pride flags... Or posters. They're more like posters.

-Changed my profile picture after having the same one for years, as you can see! I think it'd make more sense for the professor of the region to be the PFP for the development blog, but also I just like the edit I did for her.

Here's the full body .png:

This is what you'll be seeing when you start a new game from now on.

Neutral (bad?):

-Got a bunch of things set up for testing. (Trading, farming, etc.) I haven't actually tested anything yet though.

-Instead of just being really windy, the "bad winds" storm in the winter time will act more like a blizzard. Though the icon and the TV will still state that it's windy to indicate a different scenario that can happen with really bad weather.

I will not subject you to the torture of having to wait until spring on a day that it's raining and on a Monday just for ONE event! UNLIKE A CERTAIN COMPANY!

So for some context: In Harvest Moon: DS Cute (one of my favorites. Maybe in my top five) Skye has some very specific conditions that has to be met for his second heart event. Basically, it has to be raining on a Monday. In that game snow doesn't count as rain, so if you don't see the event before winter time you have to wait until Spring. I never got rain on a Monday before winter time.🙃

-I decided to not try to add in some of the food item's battle functions. Mostly because they were sort of broken anyway.

When you used one a pop-up would happen claiming that your game has crashed, but the game will function again the second that pop-up goes away and the intended effects happens anyway, for the most part.

I was trying to make items that were like full restores, but they didn't fully restore your Pokemon's health and they only cured one status effect. They were also supposed to disappear after use, but they didn't. It was purely a "let's see if I can do this" kind of thing that sort of worked.

My main intent with those items was to have a way for you to gain your own HP back anyway, and they still function that way, so I'm going to just leave the battle functions out.

I dunno if anybody will be broken up over this or not.

Bad:

-Got rid of the Roulette mini game. (At least for now.) I'll look for a new script for that later. It's definitely not a priority right now.

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Update 3/10/26

I got "busy" and development slowed down because of it. And by "it" I mean Pokopia.

Coding:

-Finished the trade syntax for Umeko, Souma, Rebecca, grouped together spouses.

I got so bored that I considered just locking out the trading requests for now, but I got enough done that it feels like the sunken cost fallacy to do so at this point.

-Fixed one of the rival events with Souma and Cerise to work for all seasons. Also I actually turned it on for all seasons.

-Of course this means that I rewrote every candidate who has a "complicated trade" trading syntax in the meantime. I just haven't gotten to replacing them all yet.

-Added all of the custom Mega Pokemon in the game. And by that I mean Raichu. I forgot that the only Mega Pokemon I actually inserted into the game myself was Raichu. (I did it first, Game Freak!)

Graphics:

-Made a Fakemon that I've been thinking about making ever since the concept was brought to my attention through a MandJTV video while playing... Certain livestreams in the background, so I can pay attention to what was going on with... Something. I tried working on the game instead but I couldn't focus on either thing that way.

I wasn't even sure I really wanted a baby Miltank/Tauros in the game, especially since I decided on having a "Partner Tauros," but uh... I made them anyway.

I'm going to call them something like "Kaf." A simple and boring name, but one that works for both Miltank and Tauros. (Since both baby cows and baby bulls are called "calf.") Every other idea I had would've leaned towards one or the other, which I don't want.

I gave it all of Miltank's Egg Moves. (Even Dizzy Punch.) And also Endeavor- the one Egg Move that Tauros can learn that Miltank can't. (The only other Egg Move that Tauros can learn is Curse, but so can Miltank.)

I actually put in some effort into the little details. I looked up the personalities most people noticed in their calves and I even looked up the average height and weight of a calf for this! Also the Pokedex color for Kaf is "black" for the hood thing since the main color changes with the gender.

At some point I think I want to make it so you can sell male Kafs since Tauros isn't a Pokemon that you can get in the region.

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Being the champion

Being the champion works a bit differently in this game than it does in... Probably any other Pokemon game that has Gyms and an Elite 4, fan or official. Though part of it is kind of similar to the Gen 7 games.

Becoming the champion has extra perks:

You will get $50,000/month for as long as you are the champion.

You will get a small vacation home with furniture you can use, like a radio, a kitchen and a TV. (You can buy these items in Ceres, too. They're free in here, though.)

You can just waltz right into the Elite 4 area just to say "hi" to it's members, battle them casually.

But there's a catch. After you become the champion you will be obligated to return to the champion's room once a year to challenge anybody who enters.

If you don't do this before the end of the year, the title of "champion" is given back to the original owner and you'll have to do the entire challenge over again to get it back.

Similarly, if you lose while doing that challenge, the person who beat you will take the title and you'll lose your perks and will have to start over to get them back.

So far there are 6 different trainers who can challenge you. (This is how it's similar to the Gen 7 games.) The game will pick at random. I'm not going to tell you who those trainers are to avoid spoilers. I will tell you that you would need to unlock one of them before they will try to challenge you.

You might already know some of them, and they might be hanging around the region. That doesn't matter. Even if you can see them where they usually are, they'll also be waiting for you in the Pokemon League. (This is just so you're not forced to wait until a certain day to challenge them.)

I didn't give them different teams when they're champions, (so far,) so their trainer class will be the same when you battle them as champions. (Even if it doesn't make any sense.)

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Download 2/22/24

Link to the blog page that has the download (I actually updated the details this time!)

Story:

+Finally finished Souma, meaning that I can finally start testing this build.

Edit: I lied. I'm not done yet. I completely forgot about the winter maps.

Misc:

-Changed the intro so instead of playing as the first two options you now play as the player you choose and it won't change unless you're able to use the custom clothes feature. I dunno why I didn't do it this way in the first place. It's so much easier this way.

-Added a little Easter egg in the intro house.

+I think I successfully changed it so you won't be forced to have a child. The countdown for the discussion to have a child shouldn't happen until you buy a crib or two.

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New Pokemon... Technically.

I was in a mood to do a sprite but PayPal is giving my commissioner problems so I decided to take the moment to do one for myself.

It’s baby Kangaskhan! Or in this case, “Joroo.” (Joey/Kangaroo. Also the baby kangaroo in Winnie The Pooh is called “Roo.”)

The reason for this Pokemon is that in the BETA of the first gen, there was going to be a third evolution for Marowak instead of Kangaskhan called “Guardia.” We only have the back sprite of it, buuut...

See what’s in it’s arms? A baby that looks suspiciously like baby Kangaskhan.

So basically, this entire time that theory was as true as it can get while at the same time still not completely true.

I wanted to do something that relates to this in my game somehow. It actually took me a little while to figure everything out. I’m still probably not done with it, but I’ll explain why in a little bit.

Originally, I was going to have the evolution line like this,

But there was a pretty big balancing issue. Even if I don’t have Mega Kangaskhan’s stone available in the game at all, poor Cubone and Marowak would be ignored because of Kanga’s base stats equaling up to 65 more than Marowak’s base stat total, and there’s only one evolution to get to Kangaskhan where there are two to get to Marowak.

So, until (assuming I will) make a Mega Marowak available in the game, male Kangaskhan won’t exist and the evolutionary line will look more like this.

Okay so it says “Happiness Female Only” but I guess that’s not actually a thing, and I’m not exactly sure how to do that. I think I know how, but again it will (probably) change eventually anyway, so for now it’s actually going to evolve into a Kangaskhan when it’s at level 28, but only if it’s female.

And Joroo will only have a 11.9% chance of being female. At least for the time being. Once (if) I make Mega Marowak (I’d like it to be inspired by Guardia, but the differences between Marowak and Guardia aren’t big if you take away the baby) I’ll go insane and change it to what I original was going to have it as, with a 50% chance of getting either gender. And unfortunately (for the moment anyway) I have only one detail to add to a Mega Marowak and that idea alone doesn’t justify a Mega.

Though until this, Joroo may change genders once it evolves. But we still love it all the same~

Also I changed the shiny form of some Pokemon. Specifically the ones that looked too much like their original. For most I just played with the hue on FireAlpaca, but for some I manually recolored them myself. I guess I forgot that I did that for Kangaskhan, but that helped me decide on what color should be the shiny form of Joroo.

Also also, I’ll be replacing Cubone with Joroo in the Safari Zone. And in one or two other places probably.

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It took me around 5 hours to figure out how to take Klein Studio’s outdated Secret Base script, convert it to work on the current version of Essentials, and make it work for tiles that AREN’T just secret base tiles, ALL ON MY OWN! All so the player can place furniture on where they want it! (Except for dolls so far. For some reason those aren’t showing up, but I wasn’t planning on having the Player placing dolls in the first place.)

I’m still working on the new house, but it’s all just... I’m so tired I can’t think of the word for it. It’s just looks, mostly. (Like replacing Red with... Probably just an arrow or something, and blocking off that one area you can see in the video.) The events I’m just copying and pasting from the old Player’s house.

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Holy shit, this shit might actually work.

So I asked ChatGPT because I figured that it will find the source of the problem that I'm obviously not getting from trying to ask actual people for almost a year now and the problem is... The game's too big.

Y'see, RPG Maker XP is like... Almost 21 years old. So it's stuck as being a 32 bit system, despite how much memory I have on my Windows 11 laptop. I don't fully understand it, but I can't debug it in it's current form.

Technically I could still add maps expand the story, and I was going to do that anyway, but the main problem is that for some damn reason the game almost always defaults any new maps to being a "cave" and randomizes Pokemon that are usually around level 50. (I'm sure that that was programmed in on purpose. I don't know why the fuck anybody would do that, though.)

This would also mean that I can't add any new wild Pokemon or trainers.

BUT, because I finally got my damn answer, I had an idea- delete every single map that doesn't have a wild Pokemon in it, debug the game to add every single possible trainer and Pokemon I'll want added in, (and then some,) and then put them back into the game in numerical order. (By it's internal number.)

Sure, I won't be able to debug the game after that, but still.

I did this, tested the debug and it WORKED!

So then I did it all again after realizing that I'll be adding a bunch of new maps. So I added those (all blank) and it still worked!

So I added a bunch of Pokemon that I might not actually have in the game and IT STILL WORKED!

So here's the deal now: I can't continue with anything but the Pokemon and trainers in the game for a while. A lot of the sprites of the cut Pokemon need work but I will be keeping some of them unedited until I know for sure what I want to do with them. (The sprites won't even be in the game yet.)

And just to be safe- I have to add in some Pokemon, maps and trainers I might not even use, because it'd be better to not need them but to have them than it would be to need them but not have them. And there's a lot that goes into a Pokemon. So even if there's already information about them (like abilities, stats, etc) it will still take awhile to actually input all of that in while also having to come up with at least half of it myself.

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8/15 update- new cut Pokemon

I can’t remember the details... I think Korea got a slightly updated version of the Spaceworld Demo in 1998 with more Pokemon that were cut that I want to revamp and put in this game. Some of these Pokemon have new evolutions that actually make sense. (Well, one does anyway.) You can see those here. These new cut Pokemon don’t seem to have names for some reason, so I’m going to try my best!

So when I’m making sprites I tend to listen to videos that don’t actually require watching because I tend to listen better when I’m working. I’m in a not-so-great mental state right now but I can’t exactly get to what I need for my commissions at the moment. So I decided to revamp some of these cut Pokemon and add them to the game. Partially because I’m kind of at a writer’s block right now but also because I needed a distraction.

I’m not going to have all of them in the game (though I may revamp all of them to sell in a pack in the future) for one reason or another.

Manboo1 was already a Pokemon that we knew about in the 1997 Spaceworld demo, but it was apparently supposed to evolve into Ikari and then Gurotesu. In the 1998 demo two new cut Pokemon were revealed. These two actually looks a lot more like Manboo1. (Also I fixed Manboo1′s sprite up a bit.)

Since I have a Roman naming scheme going on for the region I decided to do that again here. I did remove the “1″ from Manboo’s name since I’m not sure why it’s there in the first place but I did decide to have numbers as a theme for the names I guess. So it’s-

Manboo, Dyobo and Triabo. Dyo and Tria meaning “two” and “three.” And then “bo” because... It sound stronger than saying “boo” I guess.

There was an eel Pokemon that was revealed to have been cut that actually looks a lot more like Gurotesu than Manboo1 and Ikari does. CRF speculates that this eel Pokemon was a preevolution to Gurotesu, so that’s what I made it be. Though I’m pretty sure this idea was used for Tynamo’s line, Gurotesu already existed in the game, so...

Unatesu (from “unagi,” the word for eel in Japan, and “tesu,” from Gurotesu’s name) and Gurotesu. I may change the type for Gurotesu now that it’s not connected to Ikari. I just don’t know what to yet. Either dark or electric. Probably dark to differentiate it from Eelektross.

Speaking of Ikari, it’s now a standalone Pokemon unless some MORE cut Pokemon from Gen 2 comes up.

So for some reason every time I blow a sprite up twice it’s size Tumblr does the same thing for every uploaded picture. I was thinking that Unatesu and Gurotesu were just picture because there’s less Pokemon in that picture but nooo!

ANYWAY! Since the snow rabbit is a Japanese thing for some reason, I decided to go with a Japanese name scheme for these guys.

Kitama, pure ice type. “Ki” from “Yuki” meaning “snow” and “tama” meaning “ball.”

Usaki, ice/grass type. “Usa” from “usagi” meaning “rabbit” and again, “ki” from “Yuki” meaning “snow.” I’m honestly surprised there’s not an official snow rabbit Pokemon yet to be completely honest.

And then Matsuki, (top) ice/grass type. From “Matsunoki,” (pine tree. I know it’s not an evergreen tree but when you think of snowy trees you think of evergreens) “Yuki” (snow) but also “ki.” (Tree.) Evolved from using an Ice Stone on Usaki.

And Tainoki... I can’t remember where I got that name from. (Besides “ki” being “tree.”) Grass/Fire type. Evolved from using a Sun Stone on Usaki. (As oppose to fire stone. The idea I’m trying to get at is snow melting from the sun and making this Pokemon.)

At this point I just went to bed. When I woke up my husband was awake so I could use his VITA. But I do have one other Pokemon that I may implement somewhere, somehow-

This one is a “maybe” because I like it. I just don’t know where or how to implement this thing. I revamped it a while ago because I needed more than two skeletal Pokemon for a commission.

I think this is based on the Qianzhousaurus considering the long snout and the short arms. I know that there are more spikes in this than there are the skeleton of a Qianzhousaurus but it’s a Pokemon. They’re supposed to look at least somewhat different from the real thing.

I’m not going to update the post where I have all of the Pokemon introduced until I’m done revamping the ones that I want in the game.

I might do a list of BETAs I’m probably not going to add in and the reason why, if only because it’ll distract me for a moment.