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I'm not entirely sure how to work IRC so multiple threads might sound more my style.
^^^^ Well, if we narrow down to one topic, then I'd say the main story first, so we can get a theme decided on
Alternatively, what Alkthash said. This is like, what #ijbm was designed for.
Maan, what's wrong with deserts? There is some harsh beauty there and forests and grass gets boring all the time. And there are a ton of ways you could vary up the desert idea.
Crimson: Game editors for Pokemon exists
Why build a new engine when we can use existing ones? Although some editing of the engine itself might be neat...
Okay big questions
The region itself - how big, the type of environments do we want etc,
How many pokemon do we want to think up? 100? 200?
Plot?
See, when Nova said "tone" I thought she meant story tone.
Um, no yeah, deserts are cool. I like deserts.
Maybe even a salt flat.
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I didn't know that we might actually make this game. I don't know coding, but I'd be fine pitching character/pokemon/dialogue ideas and stuff.
That sounds good. But a lot of our ideas are sort of converging and diverging along the same lines, it seems. So, moving to an IRC channel sounds good. Could I get a link to said channel?
#ijbm.esper.net Use something like mibbit to get there fast and easy if you don't have an IRC client already.
^^^^ Well, before we could figure out types of environments or even how many Pokemon, I think we should all decide on the basics of the plot first
About normal-sized for a Pokèmon game, I guess? I figured they were all about the same.
If we're using only our own, I'd say 150, though 200 could work if we're just brimming with ideas.
I get lost in IRC channels personally.
Because then it's this but line-by-line instead of post-by-post.
Link to the IRC
http://wbe003.mibbit.com/?server=irc.esper.net:5555&channel=#ijbm
I'm on the IRC channel now, if anyone wanted to go there. lol apparently I wasn't
200 might be a bit much, considering that 156 is the most a game's ever done. 120-150 sounds good, though.
Right, this has been a good first day.
Current Devteam list:
Anyway, the eight of us are each coming up with a portfolio of up to 8 Pokemon or families to submit for voting. Submissions are due a week from today, though sooner is fine.
Nova has the more detailed log, I believe.
Indeed I do!
Here is the log for the Seventeenth of October, 2012.
I will type up a summary of what was said in an hour or so.
This site will be pretty important, as it is one of the best resources for ROM editing tools
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1kzg87yqja3u6qu/Prototype Gym Leader Theme.mp3
Okay, okay. I'm not too used to Dropbox yet. But I hope I got it set-up right.
Really, this was something I ended up doing in my free time and I'm not even sure if it fits as a Gym Leader theme or a Pokemon theme in general.
Also, just for clarification: I take it hypothetical Base Stat Totals would come after we decide which Pokemon ideas are good and bad?
How much detail should our portfolios go into? Ninjask'd.
I think we should at least get all the Pokemon ideas set-up before we even think about Base Stat Totals and movepools personally.
@Gym Leader theme: Three comments:
-The scalar opening riffs feel a little dragged out
-I think it's a tad ominous for Gym Leaders, especially with the bassline. In that regard, maybe it would be better for a climactic encounter of some sort? Like, with a legendary?
-Shit, man, you're good at piano. :O
^ Agreed. Just felt like I should be asking this now.
Yeah, I was thinking some kind of climatic battle too after giving it a listen too.
On the last note, I'm not really good at piano that much. Sure I've taken some classes, but I cannot play that in real life. Thank you, Fruity Loops.
Though, on that note, I would say that I don't want that sort of motif for a Big Bad battle, personally. You guys probably know what I'm going to suggest, but, really, it's a serious suggestion, and I wouldn't advocate for it being *ahem* extreme.
Oh. Okay. Should I search Fruity Loops, then? Because, in spite of no music theory background, I'd like to mess around with something like that.
Yeah, I wouldn't think of this as a Big Bad battle theme personally either.
So, what is it just out of curiousity? You can PM me about it though if you're nervous.
^ Sure if you'd like, I'm sure there are some *COUGH*TOTALLYLEGITIMATE*COUGH* full versions of it on the interwebs somewhere.
Heavy metal. I mean, lots of metal borrows from classical music, even, and it translates pretty well to techno/grandiose music, while being aggressive and in-your-face enough that it would fit for a bad guy. I'm not saying there should be chug riffs throughout, or that we should bring someone in for harsh vocals, but I feel like rollicking drums and blazing guitar seems right.
EDIT: Off the top of my head, look at this. Maybe that's too metal, but it does what a bad guy theme should do, without ever being so heavy that compositional nuance is lost. A minute and a half should be enough to see everything it gets at, and everything that I think would make for a good villain theme.
Heaps of video game music seems to be composed along the lines of heavy metal first, if you ask me.
Sounds interesting. I have heard some metal roots in the later games, or at least I think I do. I'm kind of glad the BW guitar fonts don't suck.