First PGP Dev Diary: Story and Early Development

Hello everyone, and welcome to my PGP dev diary. PGP is the codename for my Pokemon game, so stick with me, and eventually, I will reveal the identity of the GP.

In the meantime, join me as I request assistance from you all, and reveal some Pokemon that I have designed!

I currently have a PokeDex containing 90 Pokemon, which I thought was going to be the final edition of it, but then I realized that in order to be a fresh start, I'm going to need about 40 more. Luckily, in the first run of Pokemon conception, I envisioned around 180 Pokemon!

So I don't know what you guys would like to know about the game. It introduces a new evil team, which I am considering renaming, but I will stick with it for the sake of this article. Come to think of it, I can't remember off the top of my head what the aim of this team is, but it has something to do with freedom and fair treatment of Pokemon and whatnot, similar to Team Plasma's ideals.

I can tell you that there is a touch of incarnations embedded into the story somehow, and you will all find out very soon. I can also tell you that it involves the player and his rival. Screw it, I'll reveal the premise right now.

"Hundreds of years before the events of the game, there was a young man named Mada. He had always been relatively aggressive towards others, until one day, he was pushed over the edge, at which time he seized control of his small town. A few years later, a boy was born, a Pokemon prodigy some may say. He excelled at all sorts of tournaments, and at the age of 10, the community approached him. Mada was seeking to exterminate every Pokemon in the vicinity of the town, and the residents couldn't bear to lose their friends and life partners."

They persuaded the boy to challenge Mada to a battle in the castle's court. After an intense few hours of battling, and a spectacular finish, the dust and smoke cleared. Neither of them were to be seen. The townspeople grieved and rejoiced simultaneously. They had lost their greatest hero, but were rid of their greatest fear. The town was eventually abandoned because of the sadness associated with it, and the story of the hero eventually ran dry, and everyone forgot about it. But their spirits lived on, and to this day, no one knows where they are..."

Pretty good, eh? (Canadian cliche ftw!) Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the opening cutscene, presented in glorious text-o-vision!

Stick around, because I will have a lot more from the world of PGP!