Zipplet's Stuff

I have drawn up a set of milestones/deadlines which I am going to follow for PPC. This may be dissapointment for some and good news for others; remember a project like this is very large in scope and will take an immense amount of time to complete.

Not only is Pokemon a very difficult game to clone perfectly, it also contains an immense amount of data for the maps and such. This is not trivial to put in quickly for me, remember PPC is mostly a one-guy project (me) so I'm doing the programming, the majority of the design, the map editing, all of the debugging, tool programming (e.g. map editors) and I am even using my own multimedia API.

I will be looking out for some serious testers, probably by the end of Q2 2008. Game freak have an entire team of people working on their own games, and it still takes them a couple years.

Remember deadlines CAN STILL SLIP as I have personal commitments, I'll try my best though. I may also have to make adjustments to my LightX multimedia API as the project progresses, as this will be the first real use it has (other than the PTA engine demo).

• November 2007: Basic map editing functions complete, map engine work started, game core drawn up.
  
• December 2007: Player can navigate maps to some extent. First video to youtube.
  
• Q1, 2008: Script compiler, interpreter - script functions for world map. Full engine state keeping. Battle engine work. Full night/day transitions and weather effects anywhere on the map with the dynamic weather system. Second video to youtube.
  
• Q2, 2008: Well under way - battle system working properly with many attacks, gyms and suchlike too. 33-50% of the first region data complete. Battle animations may be missing. An early test version may be released.
  
• Q3, 2008: 75%-80% of first region data complete. Main storyline complete. Early beta version to testers invited. ZSIC service working; allowing trading and chat atleast.
  
• Q4, 2008: First region complete including first ending. Public version released of the first part of the game. ZSIC service fully operational.
  

When the project is further I'll put up a page for it on this site and keep an up to date milestone/deadline list there.

To keep up to date with major announcements about PPC, I suggest subscribing to the site news RSS feed, and perhaps the blog feed too. If you use Opera or Firefox, you should see an RSS subscription alert in your browser. I will be setting up a site especially for PPC when it's nearing completion.

Edit: Pokemon PC on the Pokemon Fan Game Wiki

Edited by zipplet on Thu, 11th Oct 2007 at 12:33 BST