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See, I actually like that it wasn't really addressed that Fairy was a "new" type. It was the exact same way when they introduced the Steel and Dark types in Gold and Silver. These types have to be treated like they were ALWAYS part of the Pokemon world, so putting special attention on it would...

It's hard for me to separate my favorite mechanics from mechanics that drastically changed Pokémon, but I'll try to keep in mind the ones that I personally liked the most in the list below: Gen II - Shiny Pokémon. It really added a new level to Pokemon, and gave people incentive to go and hunt...

Above all else make the fangame you personally want to make. So long as it's something you think will cause people to have fun, or that you would enjoy playing, then make what you want. So long as you're aware that stuff like this can be VERY (I mean VERY) divisive, you've got the freedom to...

Or more themes in general?? User submitted themes? Fangame specific themes???

Count me in 100%! And then I'll make a game from all the Iron Mapper maps I make. It'll be a dumb game.

Everyone talks about Kanto being boring, but I personally think it adds to the charm. It's based off of the Tokyo metropolitan area and gives an experience akin to someone growing up in that area. Cities that were divided by wooded areas. You fought off the mafia. It was a very suburban area...

Actually I found that normal's boost came in the form of Sound-class attacks (Hyper Voice, for instance) that can bypass substitutes. I think capitalizing more on those moves and making sure later game Normal type moves get advantages can help strike that balance. Seriously a STAB Boomburst is...

A nice shiny badge, shown at the top of this page.

I can't think of a particularly good one either, but in theory, yes what you're saying. Or a character that's meant to invoke a specific childhood reference. Or even the etymology of Pokemon names (Moston, Mosachuset ;) )

I've said this many places, many times, but essentials is its own best tutorial. Within that game folder has examples for almost any basic thing you need to make a Pokemon game. Play around, create test maps, and reference the examples in essentials in the wiki as often as you can, without any...

MOST reference humor takes no effort to write. Reference humor that can be incorporated that makes people smile, feel included, and gives an overall positive disposition toward the game--now that's rare indeed, but certainly takes loads of effort.

Yeah to point to the above, if you're going to do a joke/meme game, do it well. Forced jokes feel so weird. I can't exactly say the RIGHT way to do a joke/meme/whatever game, but it should look and feel as though thought was put into the experience (even if the end result is meant to feel like...

I would say that in terms of overall gaming i am a casual Socializer. I get the most enjoyment out of multiplayer games like Smash, Mario Kart, Runbow, etc. It's also why I enjoy streaming Pokémon games--to be completely honest it's gotten harder for me recently to enjoy games just sitting by...

Shiny Pokémon are valuable precisely BECAUSE of how rare they are. Take away the rarity, and you depreciate their value. The value we went for in Ethereal Gates was 1/1024, which, in retrospect, was a tad high. It was good in that people found shinies on a pretty regular basis and so people got...

References are fun! They give a little nod to the player, and it's a little shared inside joke between people in the "real world" that perhaps people in the "game world" wouldn't get. When done right it can serve as a little treat for the player! Here's the important thing, though. Depending...

Author's Note: This game was made for a GAME JAM at PokéCommunity. It won the Game Jam, though there were only four entrants. Here's my award to prove it. It's very pretty. The basis of the challenge was that you were given a random legendary (and one week!) to build a very short "dungeon" and...

I actually enjoyed the Braille! It was fun to have to look up all that information back in a time when we didn't really have too much internet access to figure out these puzzles--rumors would run throughout the school and we'd all sort of group-figure-out that we needed Relicanth and Wailord...

Hey! So I thought this was a nice fun bite-sized romp, and that's usually what I like in a Pokemon Fan Game (what with my attention span being close to nothing, thanks to Netflix and technology). Pros: - The length of the game was perfect. You set us up on a small island with the objective...

I'm definitely a huge fan of interested overworld mechanics, be it the Acro Bike tricks, or PokéRide in general. I think it adds a lot more depth to Pokémon, rather than it just being about traveling, doing your turn based battle, and traveling again. Different things to do on the overworld...

Actually, on the point of mixing canon pokemon with fake pokemon, something that I've found that helps the "immersion factor" (and something we were planning to do in Pokemon Helio Version, the predecessor to Ethereal Gates) was having the person who was spriting the fakemon ALSO sprite the...