Pokemon Uranium is not a very good game.

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Araxxor: Oct 20, 2012; My disdain for you all knows no bounds.

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

However I hit Save instead of Save As so that's now Birbie's front sprite.

This is an improvement.

# ? Feb 19, 2017 04:33

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# ? May 14, 2024 00:21

WrightOfWay: Jul 24, 2010

SpruceZeus posted:

dunsparce is great and cool and possibly my favorite pokemon of all time? maybe number two it's a close contest

what it doesn't need, though, is an evolution. i don't understand at all why everybody wants it to have one. maybe a mega evo tops, maybe.

Mostly because it has completely garbage stats.

# ? Feb 19, 2017 04:34

hopeandjoy: Nov 28, 2014

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

However I hit Save instead of Save As so that's now Birbie's front sprite.

hopeandjoy posted:

This is why OFS threads are sooooo good.

# ? Feb 19, 2017 04:35

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

However I hit Save instead of Save As so that's now Birbie's front sprite.

I feel like we've got a goon project in the making.

# ? Feb 19, 2017 04:35

Orange Fluffy Sheep: Jul 26, 2008; Bad EXP received

I mean the game does not care if I have totally wacky files so long as they have the right name and format. It displays 007.png for a Chyinmunk.

Even if 007.png is something out there.

# ? Feb 19, 2017 04:49

Danaru: Jun 5, 2012; 何 ??

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

I mean the game does not care if I have totally wacky files so long as they have the right name and format. It displays 007.png for a Chyinmunk.

Even if 007.png is something out there.

We're on a dangerous slope right now.

Let's ramp it

# ? Feb 19, 2017 04:52

Tyty: Feb 20, 2012; Night-vision Goggles Equipped!

The thing that bugs me the most about Birbie's design is mostly the eye really.

Looks a lot better, and if you make the white of the eye a bright blue color (like Pikipek) you can keep the theme of having a big face on the front to ward of predators.

Pokemon has a lot of very well defined stylistic stuff to it, particularly in eyes/claws/etc. The most jarring thing to me usually is how fan designs tend to not follow this very well. Spritework dithering or poorly-defined shapes be damned.

# ? Feb 19, 2017 05:00

Orange Fluffy Sheep: Jul 26, 2008; Bad EXP received

Tyty posted:

The thing that bugs me the most about Birbie's design is mostly the eye really.

Looks a lot better, and if you make the white of the eye a bright blue color (like Pikipek) you can keep the theme of having a big face on the front to ward of predators.

Pokemon has a lot of very well defined stylistic stuff to it, particularly in eyes/claws/etc. The most jarring thing to me usually is how fan designs tend to not follow this very well. Spritework dithering or poorly-defined shapes be damned.

I think you should workshop it some more.

# ? Feb 19, 2017 05:14

Tuxedo Ted: Apr 24, 2007

This thread is turning magical.

Danaru posted:

We're on a dangerous slope right now.

Let's ramp it

# ? Feb 19, 2017 05:19

AweStriker: Oct 6, 2014

Danaru posted:

We're on a dangerous slope right now.

Let's ramp it

I wholeheartedly agree.

Goons are only separated from heaven by that which they will not ramp.

# ? Feb 19, 2017 05:22

FeyerbrandX: Oct 9, 2012

Are Turkey's Flying type?

# ? Feb 19, 2017 05:25

Tyty: Feb 20, 2012; Night-vision Goggles Equipped!

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

I think you should workshop it some more.

on it boss

# ? Feb 19, 2017 05:31

FPzero: Oct 20, 2008; Game Over
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Tyty posted:

on it boss

I knew there was a reason I wanted you for Awful Emblem.

# ? Feb 19, 2017 05:40

Tyty: Feb 20, 2012; Night-vision Goggles Equipped!

FPzero posted:

I knew there was a reason I wanted you for Awful Emblem.

You mean besides cronyism?

# ? Feb 19, 2017 05:43

LoseHound: Nov 10, 2012

Tyty posted:

The thing that bugs me the most about Birbie's design is mostly the eye really.

But that's what I like about it. The design isn't perfect, but it's got a cute-but-weird vibe to it. Something like this:

FeyerbrandX posted:

Are Turkey's Flying type?

please do not spoil birbie's evolutions thnx

# ? Feb 19, 2017 05:44

Seraphic Neoman: Jul 19, 2011

Tyty posted:

on it boss

Holy poo poo :five:

# ? Feb 19, 2017 05:57

Leal: Oct 2, 2009

Tyty posted:

on it boss

Someone shoot this to the dev, I wanna see if they flip poo poo that someone did an improvement on their game.

# ? Feb 19, 2017 06:40

Kemix: Dec 1, 2013; Because change

Thread's turning into something from chronenberg. LETS KEEP RAMPING IT UP PEOPLE. THIS SUSTAINS US.

# ? Feb 19, 2017 06:46

XavierGenisi: Nov 7, 2009

I can imagine that it can be hard to come up with a design for your fake pokemon, especially if you're making like, 150 of them or however many you decide to include. Not every idea can be good, and even some good ideas might just not pan out as well in the final product. Like, Chiynmunk, and Birbie. Like, they're alright enough. They could be better or improved a bit, but the idea is pretty solid (for Birbie anyways), and I get what they're going for. But then you get Barewl and it's like "what the heck is this strange beast".

I can imagine the design came about like this, more or less:

Though it'd be an improvement if that was the case.

# ? Feb 19, 2017 06:53

Crosspeice: Aug 9, 2013

Let's Redesign Pokemon Uranium Because It's Trash

# ? Feb 19, 2017 06:56

Gyra_Solune: Apr 24, 2014; Kyun kyun
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we have barely started the game and already it is turning magical

# ? Feb 19, 2017 07:54

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Tyty posted:

on it boss

Only 200 more to improve upon! :v:

# ? Feb 19, 2017 09:49

Jen X: Sep 29, 2014; To bring light to the darkness, whether that darkness be ignorance, injustice, apathy, or stagnation.

Crosspeice posted:

Let's Redesign Pokemon Uranium Because It's Trash

I remember Quovak did a whole thing in his golden sun LP about fixing the problems with it. It would be pretty cool to collectively do the same to uranium.

# ? Feb 19, 2017 10:26

CoffeeAvenger: Nov 3, 2016

XavierGenisi posted:

I can imagine that it can be hard to come up with a design for your fake pokemon, especially if you're making like, 150 of them or however many you decide to include. Not every idea can be good, and even some good ideas might just not pan out as well in the final product. Like, Chiynmunk, and Birbie. Like, they're alright enough. They could be better or improved a bit, but the idea is pretty solid (for Birbie anyways), and I get what they're going for. But then you get Barewl and it's like "what the heck is this strange beast".

I can imagine the design came about like this, more or less:

Though it'd be an improvement if that was the case.

It's like he stuck the masked man's helmet on a Mr. Saturn, replaced the nose with a tail and called it a pokemon.

# ? Feb 19, 2017 14:42

RareAcumen: Dec 28, 2012

Crosspeice posted:

Let's Redesign Pokemon Uranium Because It's Trash

Pokemon Uranium: A Region Reborn

# ? Feb 19, 2017 14:51

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Tyty posted:

on it boss

LoseHound posted:

But that's what I like about it. The design isn't perfect, but it's got a cute-but-weird vibe to it.

Birbie is acceptably weird-cute in its current form, but the redesign is quality work, well done.

CoffeeAvenger posted:

It's like he stuck the masked man's helmet on a Mr. Saturn, replaced the nose with a tail and called it a pokemon.

Would totally want to see a Masked Mr. Saturn, though.

# ? Feb 19, 2017 16:07

Reimou: Jan 20, 2015

Heh, the first time I discovered asset-swapping, I made some very immature changes to an old Windows 95 game called Castle of the Winds. That Teen Birbie Squad goof was a great mistake.

Regarding the actual game, one very unfortunate technical issue persisting throughout the game, that I don't believe has been mentioned yet, is how choppy it is. The FPS is regularly in the teens on the overworld map areas, and in-battle I've had it chug down to single digits. I believe this is a compatibility issue with the specific RPG Maker engine used for Uranium on modern hardware, so there isn't really any good fix for it. Even if you go into the project with as much good faith as possible, it's hard to not assume that's a laziness issue, instead of an unfixable technical issue (aside from completely porting the game up to a new RPG maker version, which I have no idea how practical that is).

If this game only makes 25% of its shots that's still pretty acceptable for amateur work, in my opinion. I do wish the community wasn't so unfortunate; I ended up getting temp-banned from the Pokemon Uranium subreddit, and never felt like going back, but I guess that's my fault for trying to go against the grain of that community.

# ? Feb 19, 2017 17:30

Orange Fluffy Sheep: Jul 26, 2008; Bad EXP received

GeneX posted:

I remember Quovak did a whole thing in his golden sun LP about fixing the problems with it. It would be pretty cool to collectively do the same to uranium.

I had examining fully-evolved pokemon with something like that in mind, though it'll have to wait as the first thing I get fully-evolved is a canon Pokemon.

# ? Feb 19, 2017 19:22

Unknown Quantity: Sep 2, 2011; !
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A lot of the design here seems to be based around either throwing whatever the artists could put together and then statting it based on appearance or to arbitrarily fill some kind of meta. There's a very common and recurring issue around the type combinations and coverage they choose for the Fakemon but I'll let OFS go over that. Needless to say, it doesn't even remotely consider the possibility that children or just casual players of the series would be playing this.

# ? Feb 19, 2017 19:29

Fargin Icehole: Feb 19, 2011; Pet me.

When I saw the intro to this, I couldn't help but think about this treasure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBC05NIndvQ

# ? Feb 19, 2017 19:46

AmewTheFox: Oct 7, 2015; I AM THE STRENGTH

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

"The-e-e same!"

# ? Feb 19, 2017 22:03

Aesclepia: Dec 5, 2013; Next verse same as the first.

RareAcumen posted:

Pokemon Uranium: A Region Reborn

A Brave New Pok�mon
A Pok�mon Too Far
Pok�mon Over Troubled Waters
Their Pok�mon Were Watching Arceus

# ? Feb 20, 2017 02:56

Orange Fluffy Sheep: Jul 26, 2008; Bad EXP received

Aesclepia posted:

A Brave New Pok�mon
A Pok�mon Too Far
Pok�mon Over Troubled Waters
Their Pok�mon Were Watching Arceus

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"Ahhh . . . ," declaimed Dick Solomon, "That was good. Cold."

# ? Feb 20, 2017 03:20

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# ? Feb 20, 2017 04:37

Nihilarian: Oct 2, 2013

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# ? Feb 20, 2017 04:52

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Crosspeice posted:

Let's Redesign Pokemon Uranium Because It's Trash

This sounds great. Lets do it.

Everyone picks a uranium pokemon then gets to redraw it and we replace the sprites with the re-draw.

# ? Feb 20, 2017 04:54

Ramos: Jul 3, 2012

Give me a random lottery and I'd be up for that.

# ? Feb 20, 2017 05:15

XavierGenisi: Nov 7, 2009

You know, I think we should just let the game have a chance to show us what it's got. After all, aside from the dead mom and parental abandonment setup, it's a good start to the ga-