Digimon Fangame?

[Meness]

I'm currently having ideas on a Digimon fangame. I myself know how is it working with fangames, I can see where it might go. But I still want to try this out.

Anyways, moving on, I've got basic plot down. Basically it would play out a bit like the first Digimon World game, with the feeding, pooping, sleeping, happiness and discipline system. The only thing that I might change is the battle system.

I'm using Digimon World DS sprites, due to them having the most 2D walking sprites. I have a screenshot:

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Of course I will be spriting a tileset.

Now the reason I posted this in Concept Development is, I really need help with what Digimon you start with and also the evolution lines. I'm not an expert in the evolution lines and the conditions for evolution for each Digimon. So yeah I'm gonna need help on that.

Right now, I'm working on getting all the available Digimon sprites into RMXP format.

 

[Daxis]

http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Digimon_Wiki

 

[Xilef]

I tried making a digimon fan-game in rpg maker a long time ago.
It was terrible.

If I were to go back and do it over, I'd recreate Digimon World PSX's gameplay and make my own story.

 

[Meness]

Well that was straight xD thanks.

But I need help deciding on the starters. Any suggestions?

 

[Xilef]

Well that was straight xD thanks.

But I need help deciding on the starters. Any suggestions?

Digimon games these days copy Pokemon very closely, don't have multiple starters. Have people start off with 1 that evolves into different Digimon, like how Digimon used to be before they made that silly anime.

My website is all about the original digimon, http://www.digimonpet.net/

I do strongly suggest you don't try to mimic the current pokemon-clones digimon games have become and look back at Digimon World PSX.

The starter on that was either Agumon or Gabumon depending on your choices during the introductory interview, from those you could evolve them into 96 different digimon, and if you hacked you could get up to 160 different digimon.

 

[Meness]

xD I did say that this game would be more Digimon World PSX. Hence the clock and happiness system. I just don't know what battle system to use. And if I tried to go for the Digimon World 1 battle system, I just have no idea how to script.

Thats a good idea, Agumon and Gabumon. They were versatile. And I loved that game so much x) But wouldn't it feel a bit taking too much from the original game?

 

[Xilef]

Try and come up with a story to get this concept rolling a bit then.

My story was about 2 children, a brother and sister, the brother lost an arm when his sister fell over on some train-tracks, he tried to grab her but the train took his arm and sister.
He faced bullying at school for having 1 arm, he was constantly emotional about the death of his little sister, then when some kids give him grief, he bursts and seriously hurts them. His emotions build enough that the digimon can see his soul and decide to drag them into their world to save it from corruption by the second analogman, turns out his sister was taken to the digital world which is why her body wasn't found or the boy's arm, he gets digitised a massive metal arm and his sister is grafted some wings and koromon joins them, they use their abilities to traverse the world, wings flies over obstacles, arm brute force, digimon is customised based on care like in digimon world psx.

Get those creative juices flowing!

 

[Xilef]

Accidentally posted twice due to horrible web-browser

 

[Meness]

I know about your game. I was following it intently, actually :D

Well my story is you're an average guy. And people where you live just don't care enough about average people to befriend them. So you're a bit emotional. But you have like this one friend, who is really close to you. One day he disappears, and you're devastated. You feel like you've lost a great part of your life and you feel empty everyday. A few days later, you walk around your friend's house and discover a hole in his room. You jump in and get thrust into the Digital World. You land unconscious and get carried off by some DemiDevimon. You wake up in some palace, where you are being prepared to be eaten by a Digimon (not decided who yet). A mysterious boy with a mask comes to your rescue and gets you back to the real world. He was keen on not revealing anything about himself and left you.

Determined that that was your friend, you jumped back in the hole. This time you land safely, and are greeted by *your Digimon here*. After a bit of asking around, you find that the mysterious boy has been helping out in the Digital World a lot. You follow all his cases, sometimes cleaning up messes that he left.

Well thats's what I have so far. Kind of cliche, I guess..

Edit : Ohh I just noticed, the that was straight message was directed at Daxis. Not at you, Xilef. Just thought I should clear that that up.