- Pokémon Essentials Version
- Non-applicable
The Ultimate Pokémon Game World Builder is a tool built in Notion and designed to help you manage all of the organizational aspects of building a fan game.
Instructions
To use, simply create a free Notion account, open the url, and click the "Duplicate" button in the upper-right corner of the screen (it looks like the "copy" icon). This will add the tool as a template to your Notion workspace to edit and add to as it fits your needs.
Pokémon & Data Management
It includes interactive databases for the Pokémon, Abilities, Moves, Items, and TMs that you want to put in your game, as well as pages to flesh out your Region, Gyms, Locations, Conflicts, Factions, Battle Gimmicks, Game Systems, and Characters.
World-Building
There are two templates for your story outline: one that is based on the traditional 3-Act story structure, and one that is specifically geared towards the standard Pokémon game's story beats, dungeons, and progression. Take what works for you, add what you need, and discard the rest.
Code & Documentation
The Code and Documentation section comes pre-loaded with a section of quick-reference Script Commands for PSDK games (Essentials users may consider stripping these commands and replacing them with their own). Additionally, there's a page for Documentation for your major systems to help team members maintain code together and a release schedule based on the release schedule we created for Pokémon Skyquake.
Promotion & Dev Blog
The Promotion Section contains a social media schedule in Kanban, Table, and Calendar views to help you refine, manage, and track your social media posts to maximize promotion of your game. It also has a place to work out the elevator pitch for your game and a section called "Why Should You Play My Game?" that is meant to workshop contest pitches. There's also a Dev Blog section where you can build a Kanban-style blog to record and distribute your learnings on your dev journey.
Creative Sandbox & Accredation
The Sandbox section contains a blank canvas for quick brainstorms to help you get a bunch of ideas on the page and help you wittle down to the best ideas that you will place throughout the rest of the world-building document. Finally, a Credits section helps you track which open-source resources you're using in your game and who to attribute those resources to for proper accredation.
Instructions
To use, simply create a free Notion account, open the url, and click the "Duplicate" button in the upper-right corner of the screen (it looks like the "copy" icon). This will add the tool as a template to your Notion workspace to edit and add to as it fits your needs.
Pokémon & Data Management
It includes interactive databases for the Pokémon, Abilities, Moves, Items, and TMs that you want to put in your game, as well as pages to flesh out your Region, Gyms, Locations, Conflicts, Factions, Battle Gimmicks, Game Systems, and Characters.
World-Building
There are two templates for your story outline: one that is based on the traditional 3-Act story structure, and one that is specifically geared towards the standard Pokémon game's story beats, dungeons, and progression. Take what works for you, add what you need, and discard the rest.
Code & Documentation
The Code and Documentation section comes pre-loaded with a section of quick-reference Script Commands for PSDK games (Essentials users may consider stripping these commands and replacing them with their own). Additionally, there's a page for Documentation for your major systems to help team members maintain code together and a release schedule based on the release schedule we created for Pokémon Skyquake.
Promotion & Dev Blog
The Promotion Section contains a social media schedule in Kanban, Table, and Calendar views to help you refine, manage, and track your social media posts to maximize promotion of your game. It also has a place to work out the elevator pitch for your game and a section called "Why Should You Play My Game?" that is meant to workshop contest pitches. There's also a Dev Blog section where you can build a Kanban-style blog to record and distribute your learnings on your dev journey.
Creative Sandbox & Accredation
The Sandbox section contains a blank canvas for quick brainstorms to help you get a bunch of ideas on the page and help you wittle down to the best ideas that you will place throughout the rest of the world-building document. Finally, a Credits section helps you track which open-source resources you're using in your game and who to attribute those resources to for proper accredation.
- Credits
- I humbly appreciate if you'd consider crediting Driftwood as the creator of the The Ultimate Pokémon Game World Builder if this tool helps you commit your ideas to the page.
