School Starting

YAY! School starts soon! (I'm not being sarcastic.) So I decided to make a small update, as I haven't it a day.

I've actually started the game. I know, it's a shocker. Anywho, I am working on coding the first room where you get your Pokemon. I have a feeling it will take a while, seeing as I don't exactly know how. (I only know how to make maps.)

I'll have screenshots up soon.

Pokemon Government

As stated before, the Pokemon government is rather biased, or at least canniving. They fight against the teams because they fought against something in a court of law, and then created a ruckus. They give out false information to the media and stir up a sense of fear and hatred within the Pokemon community.

Their law enforcement agency is the PCI, or Pokemon Crime Investigation. They are very stereotypical--buff, all in black and very serious looking. Yeah, because I'm that creative.

These guys have some enforcer Pokemon. You know, Growlithe, Squirtle, Gligar, Wobbuffet, Jumpluff, Gastly, Pidgeot, Stunky etc. Maybe some darker looking Pokemon, like Absol or something.

So, yeah. These guys will get in the way a lot in the game if there will ever be one, and stuff like that.

Start of Game

As I have no ideas for the Team Fauna Suit Design*, I will get right to the start of game.

You have just been recruited for Team ----- and are about to be sent off to get a debriefing. However, just as you are going in the hall with your group, you hear a beeping from the wall. There is a bomb going off inside, and it explodes. You run for cover with another grunt, who will be your rival. You are told that you should run to the Pokemon storage area, a luscious area where this team's Pokemon are kept. You take a Pokemon, and your rival takes a different one. Just then, a two Rookie Agents come in to attack you and your rival and, in their minds, save the Pokemon from harm. (The Government has been feeding the public lies about the operations in Team -----, saying that the Pokemon are being tortured/mistreated.) You fight them off with your Pokemon, and are assigned to a different base afterwards.

Yeah, that's about it. What Pokemon? No idea. Something related to your team, I suppose. (eg. Fauna: Poochyena, Sentret, Bidoof?)

*Not entirely true--I feel like they should have hoods.

Team Flora Suit Design

So, each Team suit has had certain guidelines that they need to follow: they need to have black, the suit needs to be tight-ish, and they need to have a brightish color. (eg. Yellow for Rocket.) Well, following these guidelines, I have composed a suit for Flora. Now, I don't have a sprite yet, and may not have one at all. If somebody would like to come forward and sprite it for me, that would be great.

The Team Flora suit would have a green theme, if you hadn't guessed. For both male and female, they would have a green under armorish texture that goes all the way down to just below the thumb knuckles. This may transform into a vine-ish design, I'm not sure. Then there would be a black Park Ranger kind of vest with a high collar for the boys and a shorter vest that ends with the rib bones for the girls. The pants would have lots of pockets, would come down to the ankles, and be forest green. The shoes would be black, I suppose. Just make them suttle.

So, yeah. That's about it. Hair color would be regular, I suppose. Nothing really fancy.

Team Flora Pokemon

Team Flora Pokemon -
1. Bulbasaur
2. Ivysaur
3. Venusaur
4. Caterpie*
5. Metapod*
6. Butterfree*
7. Weedle*
8. Kakuna*
9. Beedrill*
10. Oddish
11. Gloom
12. Vileplume
13. Paras*
14. Parasect*
15. Venonat*
16. Venomoth*
17. Bellsprout
18. Weepinbell
19. Victreebel
20. Exeggcute
21. Exeggutor
22. Tangela
23. Scyther*
24. Chickorita*
25. Bayleef*
26. Meganium*
27. Ledyba*
28. Ledian*
29. Spinarak*
30. Ariados*
31. Bellossom
32. Sudowoodo
33. Hoppip
34. Skiploom
35. Jumpluff
36. Sunkern
37. Sunflora
38. Yanma*
39. Pineco
40. Forretress
41. Scizor*
42. Shuckle*
43. Heracross*
44. Celebi*
45. Treecko*
46. Grovyle*
47. Sceptile*
48. Wurmple*
49. Silcoon*
50. Beautifly*
51. Cascoon*
52. Dustox*
53. Lotad
54. Lombre
55. Ludicolo
56. Seedot
57. Nuzleaf
58. Shiftry
59. Surskit*
60. Masquerain*
61. Shroomish
62. Breloom
63. Volbeat*
64. Illumise*
65. Roselia
66. Cacnea
67. Cacturne
68. Lileep
69. Cradily
70. Anorith*
71. Armaldo*
72. Tropius*
73. Turtwig*
74. Grotle*
75. Torterra*
76. Kricketot*
77. Kricketune*
78. Budew
79. Roserade
80. Burmy
81. Wormadam
82. Mothim
83. Combee*
84. Vespiquen*
85. Cherubi
86. Cherrim
87. Bonsly
88. Skorupi*
89. Drapion*
90. Carnivine
91. Snover
92. Abomasnow
93. Tangrowth
94. Yanmega*
95. Leafeon*
96. Shaymin*
97. Pinsir* (I forgot him.)

You'll notice that I have asterisks next to some names. That means that they fall into both categories. I think that I should give those Pokemon to Flora, or they won't have any Pokemon. I think there should be some 'neutral' Pokemon that can fit on both sides so there can be around 150 for each. There needs to be the same number.

The way the Pokedex in these games will work is that you will recieve it and be told to record all the plant-like or animal-like Pokemon's data. Once the game is over you will have the complete Pokedex open.

Team Fauna

As mentioned in my previous post, the second team in the generation will be 'Team Fauna', a team dedicated to giving them a higher standing in the Pokemon community.

Team Fauna's leader, Arthur (meaning bear-man), was walking to school one day when he encountered some bullies in a crowd of people. He was an unpopular child, very weak and intelligent for his age. He did not have any Pokemon of his own for whatever reason. The bullies had a plnat-like Pokemon pull down his pants. I'm thinking it was like an Ivysaur or something, using its long vines to pull his pants down. Anyway, he was very upset, and ran away. An animal-like Pokemon, probably a Poochyena or some other dog-like Pokemon, came up to comfort him. He developed a hate for plant-like Pokemon and a love for animal-like Pokemon. I'm thinking that Ivy and Arthur were friends before these incidents, but not anymore. This could help in the end, and have some good character to it.

Again, Arthur fought for animal-like Pokemon’s rights in court, but was denied. He then went on to find out about the ‘Life Force’, and the same basic thing happens. In the end, I have a feeling that Ivy and Arthur make up and become friends again.

That is the basic gist of it, and I will have a list of Pokemon for each team and a explanation of the Pokedex in this setting.

Team Flora

I've decided to take the whole 'Team' idea a bit farther. I enjoy it immensely, and have recieved some positive comments on it.

The teams in Pokemon lack character. I'm not even sure what Team Rocket was trying to do, Teams Magma and Aqua had good intentions, but no back story and Team Galactic didn't even make sense. The Galactic Grunts didn't even know what the were doing! The key parts to making a good team is backstory. With a believable story, the rest is much easier.

My generation of teams are Flora and Fauna, serving plant-like Pokemon and animal-like Pokemon, respectively. There's a very easy backstory to these teams and their team leaders, but today we will discuss Team Flora.

Team Flora respects plant-like Pokemon and believes they serve a very important role in society both in the Pokemon and Human 'government'. The team leader, named something like Ivy, would believe this because of something in her childhood, as you would discover in some way or another. This something would most likely be along the lines of an animal-like Pokemon attacking her or a loved one, and a plant-like Pokemon successfully saving her. This lead to a bond with that and all plant-type Pokemon and a hate for animal-type Pokemon.

To make this a very reasonable team, instead of just some idiotic team that, instead of debating the ethics of making reservations strictly for plant-type Pokemon go around fighting, I have decided that they should have gone and argued before you joined, but were denied. Infuriated, Ivy did all the research she could on expansion of forests on a vast scale. She realized that there was a 'Life Force' or something that could be used to make things grow; but she also realized that the only way to get this vast energy at her disposal was to become Pokemon Champion. Having been shunned, she could not battle Gyms to face the Elite Four, so she gathered a group of followers and named them Team Flora.

You come in at about this time. She is waiting for the right person to come in to fight the Gyms. You are the one, so, in time, she promotes you and sends you on a mission to beat the Gyms and collect the Gym Badges. She is patient, knowing that you will not displease her. (That, or she knows you can just continue from where you last saved.) Throughout your journey, people , Team Fauna, for example, will be trying to stop you, but you will just fight them off. Once you complete your job of collecting the Gym Badges you are promoted, and told that you must challenge the Elite Four. You do so, become the Champion, and and now keeper of the 'Life Force'. Ivy then uses it to expand the forests, but realizes that she has thrown the ecosystem out of balance. She hastens to restore the status quo with the help of Team Fauna, and then the whole after-game stuff begins.

Until the after-game, you cannot catch animal-like Pokemon. You will be able to, with the support of Ivy after she finally realizes that all Pokemon must live as one.

Stay tuned for Team Fauna and other information!