A solo developer identified for creature-collector RPGs is within the early levels of constructing a brand new 3D recreation impressed by some viral Pokemon fan artwork, itself primarily based on Ken Sugimori’s unique buying and selling card recreation designs.
Yanako RPGs is an indie developer and creator of MonMae, an open supply recreation making engine designed for followers of basic Pokemon video games. Their debut title is an upcoming 2D pixel artwork monster-taming RPG referred to as Dokimon, inbuilt MonMae. And for the developer’s subsequent undertaking, they need to make a 3D Pokemon-like recreation primarily based on the unimaginable artwork of Pokeyugami, which we first found (and raved about) again in 2022.
I am placing into play the shifting components wanted to make a recreation like this, beginning as quickly as Dokimon is finishedBig because of pokeyugami for the inspiration and superb illustration of this artwork fashion in 3D pic.twitter.com/pyRnD6L8n6September 1, 2023
After I first noticed Pokeyugami’s quick clip of what a 3D Pokemon recreation in Sugimori’s unique artwork fashion would possibly seem like, I declared, “This must be an actual factor.” And now it appears I am getting what I requested for in the end.
Though it is nonetheless within the very early conceptual levels, I could not be extra enthusiastic about this undertaking. Like a whole lot of you, I grew up on the Pokemon buying and selling card recreation and people early Recreation Boy classics, so the concept of a 3D reimagining with fashionable controls is an precise dream.
Yanako says the sport “will mix components of 3D and pixel artwork just like how newer Pokémon video games did it, however the goal focus/fashion will likely be watercolor 3D.” The plan is for the untitled undertaking to incorporate “some components folks actually loved” from Pokemon Sword and Protect, Pokemon Legends Arceus, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, and even Pokemon Black and White 2 “in some circumstances.”
Once more, this recreation is however a twinkle in Yanako’s eye at this level, so it may change types dramatically by the point it is truly in growth and past, but it surely sounds just like the core thought of getting a 3D creature catcher within the fashion of Sugimori’s timeless artwork is not more likely to change.
In the intervening time, listed here are the greatest Pokemon video games you’ll be able to play at present.
