Currently creating Pokemon: FireRed in C# using MonoGame!

Pokemon: FireRed Clone

BaronSwango

Felt like adding more to the map, so I made the gate to Viridian Forest and all of Viridian Forest including NPCs/Trainers and signs. I decided that I'm only gonna include up to Pewter City for the project (will add the actual story up to that point as well eventually) cause I gotta stop somewhere lol. I might start working on trainers engaging on a player or start working on the items system next. It's been around a year and a half since I first started working on this and it's nice to start to see everything come together

Finally back on the Pokemon clone grind after a packed semester. Started work on the bag menu for holding all player items. Mostly just frontend work on it so far, but I wanted to get the basic animations and functionality operating before starting the creation of the item system, which I'm doing next

Been a while since my last update on this. I had to scrap the entire grass animation for now due to a game breaking bug that popped up out of no where so I'll work on that later. I instead just decided to make the Pokedex (just numerical mode). Works exactly like it does in the real game and wasn't too too complicated to implement. Also is linked to the player save file so when the player has a wild encounter with a new Pokemon it'll be added to their Pokedex. Don't have the catching implemented yet but will be easy to mark Pokemon captured as well. I have all 151 Kanto Pokemon info stored in an xml file so all the shown pokemon data is grabbed from there

Finally somewhat completed grass animations. Took me a while to figure out how I was going to implement this and while it's still not 100% done I'm pretty happy with how it looks so far. For sure a humbling experience solving this

Started creating animated tiles! These are gonna be the most basic but I'm happy with how they turned out. Gonna start working on the grass animation next which should look cool when it's done. Also did some tweaking to the delay counters which didn't change anything visually on the frontend but I just did it to make code a little less messy.

Pretty small but added the escape mechanic in wild battles. Uses a formula that takes both Pokemons' speed stat to determine whether or not the player can escape from the battle

Seems like a bigger update than it actually is but I implemented wild battles when moving in grass. I already had the framework made for encountering a wild pokemon and the whole battle system done, so was just a matter of setting up specific pokemon, their level range, and their encounter rates for each specific area. Fully customizable as well with no code needed, just have to add the encounter rates and pokemon into a map XML file for each area

Finished interiors and NPCs in Viridian city (gym just gonna be locked, i'll do pewter's gym later). Pretty nice that it's gotten to the point where I didn't have to write a single line of code to do any of it, just laying out data in various XML files. I decided I'm gonna do the first part of the story of the game up until Pewter city's gym and then I'll probably call the project quits unless I'm bored and feel like working on more in the future. I'm probably gonna start working on some smaller features now and then start building the bag menu. After that I still have catching Pokemon, wild encounters, trainer pathfinding/AI, pokedex, trainer card, animated tiles, a couple of other menus, and the story to go, but I'm happy with its progress so far.

Expanded the map and added more NPCs. Prob gonna finish the rest of the house interiors for this area and then start working on trainer spotting a player and trainer battle AI. Ill probably add animations for doors/walking into areas and stuff towards the end of the project just cause I don't feel like doing it rn

Made a basic system for loading new maps! Pretty interesting to see it all come together. Will work on adding animations for entering and exiting doors and other tiles eventually but just wanted to get the basic idea of being able to easily load a new map and spawn the player at a certain area. It's also possible to save the game on a different map as well

Added areas zoned using a rectangle to the map along with an animation to show entering/exiting to new areas

Been a while since I've done an update on my Pokemon clone just cause I hadn't had much time to work on it last semester, but I picked it up again recently and have made some solid progress. 

New creations/additions:
- new movement animation (for player and NPCs): a little difficult to explain but basically the animation frame changes based on distance (new) instead of a fixed time (old), makes the animation a lot smoother
- new NPC movement: free-roaming and fixed path algorithms
- minor NPC AI: prevents player from moving to the NPC's destination/position and vice versa to avoid collision glitches, NPCs also avoid solid tiles when free-roaming
- custom tile map editor (completely separate program): imports, manipulates, and exports a map into XML format (used by the actual game)
- expanded the map with the custom editor: Route 1, Viridian City, Route 2
- added more NPCs around with their own dialogues
- fixed some small bugs 

Unfortunately this is a lot to put in a short video so I'll just put a screenshot of Viridian City with some NPCs

Been a while since I've made an update. I haven't had the most amount of time to work on the Pokemon clone so I haven't made any large amounts of progress. I've been working on NPC movement for a little bit now and it's been somewhat tricky, but I'm starting to get the hang of it a little. In the original Pokemon games, I labelled four different NPC/Trainer movement types: still (no directional or positional change), rotator (directional change but no positional change), set path (directional and positional change on a guided path), and zoned (directional and positional change anywhere within a zone). I currently have working versions of still, rotator, and set path NPCs (zoned is going to take some basic AI work that I've never done before). The video shows a set path NPC that's been hard coded just to help me get a start on evolving them into something more. I have yet to handle player collision with moving entities and also need to give some AI to the NPCs so they don't move when the player is standing in their path.

Well, I finally created a somewhat completed trainer battle. I also show how the exp and menu systems work as well as Pokemon shifts inside of battles. Implementing the trainer battles didn't take a lot of additional code, I just had to thread together the animations and battle stages that I had already created.

Finished another little trainer update. Added the intro trainer battle animation and merged in the battle animations/framework as well.

Started working on trainers and trainer battles!

Pokemon: FireRed Clone

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