I'm not familiar with the innards of Discord, but with all the online laws changing in unique ways around the world & the server absolutely being marked as NSFW 18+, it is quite possible that there is something jumbled in that mess that is preventing you from accessing the server. I'm truly sorry - if I could do something, I would. So instead, here is one more link that I generated literally right now: https://discord.gg/jtYw5awVtp
About 500 people have been able to use the unique link that's only here on itch in the sticky post - and that doesn't count the people who have used the very active, very real mind-body invite. I'm not sure why you and what seems to be a very small handful of people cannot utilize any of the discord invites, but I'm not sure there's anything I can really do to help you.
I'm sorry to hear that! I'd encourage you to explore the game a bit more and play around with the options and tools you have at your disposal to overcome those challenges, because the game doesn't get easier beyond Gym #1
I'm pretty sure some folks in the Discord have it running on a Windows emulator (I think Wine, but don't quote me on that, I don't have an Apple device). I'll never officially port it to other devices, because I'd have no way to upkeep them!! But I do know that people have gotten this game to work on Mac & Android devices.
Edit: It seems that for folks who aren't able to use the invites (Invalid Invite!) using a VPN may solve that. I do not know why, but one person has reported that it works. <3
I don't know squat about Joiplay. I know that it works, and there are a ton of people in the Discord server that are very knowledgeable about it, but I'm afraid that I don't know enough about it to make any sort of "official" mobile version. I wouldn't be able to troubleshoot it in the slightest! But Joiplay does work
woof, brutal. If you started with Abra, I'd explore Pallet Town a bit. If you started with Gastly, I'd recommend possessing the first trainer's Bunnelby! Good luck! It doesn't exactly get easier after the first trainer.
Thank you so much!!! I'm glad you're having fun with it so far :)
1. I don't want to get ambitious and say every female trainer class, but I'm not planning on stopping with the NPCs!
2. Not in this game, I'm sorry!!!
3. Oh hell yeah.
4. I... honestly hadn't considered it but I'm open to the possibility. There are a lot of possess & control types, so there can be quite a variety of scenes.
5. There's a little blurb in the changelog about Spidah, but the short version is that the possession mechanic was janky as heck & would break if you only had one mon in your party... So Spidah was introduced so that you'd start with two!
I'll look into that, but I don't yet know how to package a Linux release! I also don't have a machine running Linux, so I don't really have a way to test anything I put together. No promises, but I'm all for the idea!
joiplay isn't officially supported, but tons of people make it work! I personally don't know how to do it, but there are folks in the Discord that have figured it out ages ago.
The crits & Bubble hitting 4+ times is certainly bad luck! But I'd evaluate your team a little bit, and maybe pick a target for Gastly to take out of that fight, y'know?
They are not!!! Full disclosure, they won't be in the next one either. Evolutions are tied to scenes, so I've got to be very mindful of when I pull that trigger!
I'm happy to answer those!! The extra options with Leaf are a bit of a tease. In every other event, I hide them, but in that initial Leaf event I wanted to give you an idea of what you could & couldn't pull off.
Scenes are tied to evolution! Its why the 2-stage mons you get access to at the end of the demo have more than either starter - they evolve less, so they have a greater share of the total scene pool for that evo line, if that makes sense.
The grinding in this game will come from obtaining the special monsters. Once you have them, I'm not going to require you to do anything except evolve 'em to see their full suite of scenes.
I appreciate your kind words about the Innates! I really enjoyed making those sets, so I'm glad they were a standout to you.
1 - I'm pushing updates as I have enough content to justify them! They'll be released as new downloads, but your save will automatically transfer over! So no worries about that. You can carry your team from here until the end of time, no work necessary. You can outright delete your game folder & be completely fine, your save is stored elsewhere.
If you're using the itch.io launcher, I don't know if that is true. I'm speaking about the standalone .rar download.
2 - I think you can reasonably expect updates to go one Gym at a time. Of course, we've got 16 Gyms here, so it might not be exactly what you expect... Gym 2 is on top of Mt. Moon, for example. So that'll be the scope of this upcoming update!
Oh, really? That's actually a new one for me - thank you so much for bringing it to my attention! I've got it noted & I'll take a look at it later today. I might've missed a script command inside Pewter that sets your new TP location? Who knows. Thanks again!!
1 - you're correct to assume that they are functionally the same as Psychic & Ghost, respectively! The only difference is that Control types have an immunity to Psychic, rather than a resistance. I suspect that you encountered Joey's Rattata on Route 1 and that led to some confusion about type matchups. I'd check out your Pokedex once you get it - there is a new page that displays Innate abilities for each species you encounter. Rattata, for example, has Normalize.
2 - They do not get STAB, which is why those abilities exist. They functionally give you back STAB.
3 - Special mons will always be either Control or Possess type. You'll see plenty of them as the game progresses!
The full game will certainly be right here when it does release, same as right now! I will never hide a build behind any sort of paywall. No early access, no nothin. When there is a build ready, it will be public on day 1!
I've heard of this one happening a few times now. I'm not super concrete on what the exact trigger for this bug is, but if you join the Discord you are more than welcome to send me your save file & I'll mess with some internals to get your scene triggering correctly!
Psywave was a mistake - Abra initially had Confusion, but before release I intended to buff her a bit by giving her Psybeam but mixed up that and Psywave. The strategy for Abra is to use her to unlock the Viridian City market vendors & cop either Psyshock or Psychic. She turns into a glass cannon at that point, and can usually outspeed her competition and land Hypnosis if you go that route as well.
Purifying Salt does work, but Abra doesn't have the bulk to fully take advantage of it. Magnet Pull is there purely for thematic reasons around the spoons. She's unique from Gastly in that Gastly has more or less her maximum power straight out the gate. Her power curve upon evolving will kind of just keep her at the same level. Abra, though, is considerably more dramatic. You'll really start to feel that when she evolves - Magnet Pull is there to keep them in check. With almost anything else, Kadabra & Alakazam would run completely rampant (at least, they did in my testing). I agree that Abra is the less powerful choice, though. I've added a moveset overhaul to her for next update and I'll continue to look for sneaky ways to buff her (things like the market in Viridian) that make her a more viable choice without directly increasing her max power.
You don't mention this at all so I'm going to bring it up here - you know that Control types can steal a mon after the battle, right? They come with some EV training, an egg move, and usually an item as well. You can snag some of the most powerful mons in the game like this.
You control the mons you possess -- not everything will be good with Levitate or Bad Dreams. That's for you to decide who you want to target with those!
EV Training is a slower burn! I'm adding areas that have exclusively one EV type (Pewter Mine is the first, with only Machop). I don't want to just cram all of these locations into the first chunk of the region, though! There might be a temporary deal, but I haven't decided on that yet.
