Pokémon Love Link - Weekly Dev Blog (Current: Week 2)

[Luximora]

Premise
This is a dev blog for my Pokémon H-game (Pokémon Love Link), I'm going to update this every week. it is in the genres: RPG, Dating Sim, sandbox, H-game. Think games like summertime saga/summer memories/Daily Lives of My Countryside etc. mixed with a Pokémon game.

I'm creating a Pokémon fan game with hentai elements using Pokémon Essentials. The game will focus mainly on human characters like Cynthia, Skyla, Hex Maniac, and some originals. While there may eventually be some "poképhilia" content with Pokémon like Gardevoir, and other Pokémon but right now, the main focus is human x human interactions.

The game will follow the traditional Pokémon format with 8 gyms, the player will be able to complete them nonlinearly. The starter town is at the very center of the region, and the plan is for trainers to levels scale with badge count (wild Pokémon do not). This system is inspired by a Pokémon Crystal ROM hack that I played (it was very fun).

I want the region to be pretty small, but with lots of activities and places for trainers to hang out, train, and have story events happen. This also means you can go back and forth between towns and points of interest easily without having to slog through routes and wild encounters.

I do want to create a game that is good even on its own, like if you removed all the porn the games story, writing, balancing etc. would still be worth engaging. If you have any questions or need more details, feel free to ask. There's a chance Nintendo or TPC might take this down, but I'll keep a low profile to avoid issues.

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Table of Contents

• Week1
• Week2

 

[Luximora]

Week1 (7/13/2024):

Although this is technically Week 3 due to some restarts, I'm finally confident in this direction. I began with boring setup tasks like tileset configuration and plugin installation etc. Then, I mapped the hometown, aiming for a warm, cozy fall vibe. Let me know if I succeeded on that front.

So far, the town includes a café, a general supermarket, and an undecided third store. Suggestions are welcome! This town is the region's center, so I want it to be full of useful spots and utility and I'm honestly not super sold on the cafe and supermarket idea so if you have better suggestions, I want to hear them.

In terms of gameplay, the town's gym will be the final one, accessible only after earning the first 7 badges, I know I said you would be able to complete the gyms in any order, but I want the last gym specifically to be special, similar to Giovanni's gym in RBGY for story reasons. There's also a park with tall grass for wild encounters, as the region will have fewer routes.

I also created a dummy UI for a girl's affection display and placeholder choices for the romance system, though the button is non-functional for now. This week involved a lot of map remaking and setup, but I now have a clearer vision for the game. So hopefully I get more done next week.

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[Luximora]

Week2 (7/19/2024):

This week, I focused on the intro story and character creation. While the game will feature many cameos from Pokémon characters, I also want to introduce some original characters to enhance the story, they won’t make up the majority of the cast but a few will be there, and some will take HEAVY inspiration from characters you may recognize so that character is basically making a cameo in spirit. I believe that having a defined main character (MC) adds more relatability and is just easier to write for (imo).

Here's a very short rundown of the characters introduced so far:

• Player Character: The MC.
• Your mom: Your character's mom.
• Willow: Childhood friend and friendly rival.
• Lara: Mean rival.
• Willow's Mom: Brief appearance.
• Professor Ivy: From the Orange Islands arc of the anime.

Spoilers Ahead - If you wanna go in the game blind, don’t read:

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Spoilers Over. Besides that I've worked on some of the interiors of the towns in the town I'm naming "Lyra Town" I want to name each area after a constellation, I'm not sure if people have noticed but each town in Pokémon games have a theme, in Kanto the theme is colors, in Johto it's plants, in Unova it's cloud types etc.

The week ended with these developments, so not much to show visually due to the focus on story elements and I’m obviously not showing a lot of that since I don’t want to spoil the story. Here are some of the interiors though.

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[Erosoft]

Nice work so far! I also happen to be developing a human-focused eroge using Pokémon Essentials. Currently upgrading to v21 and having some headache with that.

I might begin my own devblog and maybe we can draw inspiration from each other in some way!

 

[Luximora]

Nice work so far! I also happen to be developing a human-focused eroge using Pokémon Essentials. Currently upgrading to v21 and having some headache with that.

I might begin my own devblog and maybe we can draw inspiration from each other in some way!

Cool, I personally have worked on a lot of games before but struggle to finish em' so I made a dev blog to kinda keep myself responsible and is pretty motivating since I don't want a make an empty week with nothing to report. Upgrading definitely sounds like a pain in the ass, I was actually downgrading my own game from v21 to v20 to use certain plugins that arn't compatible with v21, I mention it briefly in my week 1 blog but that week was technically week 3 cuz of that and some other things. I'd definitely recommend eeveeexpo, it's basically relic castle with tons of free recourses for essentials, and good luck dude!