Pokémon fans can’t fault Game Freak for the frequency with which they release titles. While other studios take up to ten years between one release and the next, there isn’t a year that the Japanese don’t release a new title from their pocket monsters. What we do tend to criticize those of us who have played Pokémon since its inception is the non-evolution of the saga.
Pokemon mechanics have barely changed in over 25 years. Game Freak has spent years without squeezing the full potential of his franchise; it focuses solely on selling its games to the little ones in the house, ignoring a huge public that already pays mortgages and would love to play Pokémon titles intended for adults. For the same reason, that market is currently the task of fangames. With this tool that we are going to talk about today, making one of these will be a little easier.
The Pokémon fangames, the future for the nostalgic?
Just as there are Pokémon fans who go through the games over and over again with invented rules to add complexity to the games, there are others who dedicate themselves to creating their own Pokémon adventures. To The Pokémon Company, these fans are not usually very funny, but the truth is that they contribute a lot to the community, and we cannot say that they actively profit from their creations.
There are quite a few fanmade Pokémon games that are worth playing. Obviously, none of them feel like playing an official title, since they are generally games made by a single person in which there are usually errors. But overall, downloading and playing one of these games on mobile can be quite an entertaining experience.
8 bits are back with Dokimon RPG
The problem is that creating a game like Pokémon is not easy. In fact, many games of this type usually end up half done precisely because of the difficulties that can arise when programming them. Until now, many indie Pokémon game creators have used RPG Maker, but that may change with the arrival of Dokimon + Monster Tamer Maker, a program for creating Pokémon-style games with Game Boy Color graphics .
It’s HERE! The announcement of Dokimon and a NEW game making engine specifically made for Monster Tamer games.
This is the new era we all deserve. Limitless monster tamer games, made for gamers, by gamers. https://t.co/U6eUYUSrU5 pic.twitter.com/duoPAiGi6T
– Yana (@yanako_rpgs) May 13, 2022
Yana, the Dokimon programmer, has been thinking about this project for 8 years. It has managed to program the base of this game engine, and it already supports the creation of maps, combat scenarios and information on creatures. Right now, the idea is to raise funds on Kickstarter to finance the program, with a goal of $10,000 to complete the first round of funding. This money will not go to perfecting the code of the program, but rather to pay the artists so that they can add more assets to the software’s libraries.
If all goes well, Dokimon’s release date will be December 2022 , so 2023 could see a resurgence of Pokémon games with those Game Boy graphics we loved back in the late ’90s.
