Pokemon Play & Control "Demo"
I made a post about this some time ago but recently I used the Petey Pest base to actually "bring it to life". There's no battle system or anything but you can see how traversing the original Pokémon map could fundamentally work! Add in a cool controllable battle system and it's not hard to believe how a fully platform/smash bros. style Pokémon game could work!
Here's some mock screenshots. The intro. A wild encounter. A battle with Brock and choosing your starter!
You'll notice I changed the eyes. I get some (if not all) people won't like this but my idea was, if you change something from the norm, you have to make a stylized choice as Pokémon sometimes does. It might not be the best, but for the sake of change, I went for it. This came from my characters I chose to feature in this. Their eyes have no whites in them so I figured unless there was a specific reason I would just take out the whites.
That being said the Pokémon platformer sprites used in this demo and screenshots aren't mine. They come from a talented artist named: ZebubAl-Zemmons
Here's his Deviant Art Profile:
Check out ZebubAl-Zemmons's art on DeviantArt. Browse the user profile and get inspired.
On top of this all the tiles originate from the official Pokémon GBA games. I edited them to make them fit into a platform style! It was a bit of a process but I think it translates pretty perfectly. Everything in the demo (outside Pokémon battles) translates the same as it would in the original game.
Here is a back and forth example of the path from Pellet town to Pewter city! I tried to make it as true to the original. Pathways you can only go up. Ledges that if you drop down you'll have to back track. Blocked paths you cant get by...
...and just incase you wanted to see the entire route layed out...
Here's a link for a bit more info on this little project I had done before. It used to be called "Platform & Control" but I figured "Play" would work better for what the game was going with... Also just a little Easter Egg. P&C which stands for Play and Control also stands for the two people that started this blog... Perry & Cary. Those are the two figures you see in the screenshots and video :)
So here’s a project I’ve been on-off working on for some time now. I don’t think I posted this yet so here it is... This is a perfect recre
...This is just a little add on but before I went for the GBA style I thought maybe the original Gameboy style would be better. Here's a little product of that. Oak's Lab in the original GB design but in a platformer style:
