allow me to furiously type answers as furiously as youve furiously typed your questions (furious in the performance of the action not in the furiousing of the emotion)
1- yes, and yes
2- you are ash so that will depend on you!
3- no sequel from me at least, no not ever, but there can be sequels. wait for the ending
4- i made a bunch of stupid troll games back in the day and then toby fox made undertale and my friend was like "YOU! YOU COULD HAVE MADE THIS!" Now that's not entirely true because I suck at music but making a similar long form joke game? yeah i can do that. immediately though what really launched this project was Space Funeral (there's a reference to this in the Giovanni fight) although Franken probably also had a small influence. Also some old game making buddies were involved in Bubsy 3d 2 and the Sonic Dreams Collections while another made an infamous Sonic game that I will not name (that I apparently was a big influence in but have never played because it's...). Anyway that made me feel like I hadn't lived up to my true trolling potential and so we have this.
5- butts
6- you will see this has been thought of
7- this one sticks fairly close to canon
8- eventually, but mainly the ending.
9- as many as i can fit in and not die from overwork or miss out on other life opportunities
10- please dont get super jaundice but august 2027 is the goal im filling mistys gym right now
11- yes actually and the manga where there's the clefairy and pikachu. you get two of them because (1) i realized one clefairy was not enough and (2) because you don't have the clefairy and pikachu (so you just get two clefairies instead). jigglypuff just seemed appropriate to add given the anime. some things in this game are very very thought out while others are utilitarian for a joke
12- you get pikachu in the demo already though :(
13- personally i find the s s anne to be adequate
14- probably but i am too i have to stop myself from focusing on it
15- text
16- i want the finished product to have a sizeable amount of content so it's not a disappointment. The final game will aim to be finishable in a dedicated day of play (e.g., someone could spend an entire Saturday on it). But, if I piece it into tiny demos, it removes the thrust of it. Hopefully, they'll be at least 5 hours of new content in the final release for a normal run, so 7.5 hours total or so including the demo, more or less, depending on how involved you get (so, 7.5 for a first run from where the demo starts, but maybe you go back and check all the dialogue and endings? That'll add some hours). But also, this could be more time. I think the playtester spent longer than this on it, maybe.
17- no quite the opposite you will see more on this.
18- yeah free. part of the reason im making this is because i got a bunch of free games and workshop content over the years, so this is paying forward with more free stuff.
19- the entire game will be easter eggs. there's one especially though i showed to the playtester though and he loved it
20- Misty is a tragic figure. Part of the original appeal of Pokémon was not just the Pokémon, but the cast, and Misty played the titular girl character, designed to attract the prepubescent boys with her belly button. Yet as Pokémon became a cash cow, Ash and Pikachu continued on, but Misty was cloistered away in the Water Gym when she became gradually less appealing to keep boys interested in the show. There are many other Pokégirls. But they are all necessarily vicious, existing only through the consumption of what came before them to live a short span with Ash before they too are then devoured by the next one that comes along. But Misty? She never devoured anyway. Well, not until later, possibly.