VIS_MAGE'S PROFILE

Glad to hear the shift from the Pokemon brand seems well received. With so many fangames being shut down these days, I think it's the safest bet for the project. Currently working on getting some new tilesets ready. I'll be sure to post from screenshots once I get everything squared away.

As for the changes, I kinda agree with the sentiment of keeping the original design intact. For the most part, the three suggestions that came up were either:

-A few name changes, for some that weren't easy to figure out by reading it.
-Stat/move changes, probably the thing I'm least worried about making changes with.
-Design changes. The main thing I'm hesitant to make changes to.

I have them as handwritten notes at the moment. I'll get them typed up into a document, and release it here later.

Hey, this looks really interesting! I love this sort of discussion. If you're avalible, I'm interested in having you fleshing out a few of my battles that I've been stumped on.

The Boss

The boss I'm planning is Lucidrake (big guy). He's a magical creature that can send people into deep sleep, and feeds on their dreams. The little guy is Dreamon, and is pretty much the "pre-evolution" of Lucidrake, and would likely act as minions in the battle. One other note, the battle itself is actually taking place in another character's nightmare.

Game Info
At this point in the game, you’ll have access to 4 characters.

Characters:
Merric: The main character. He’s a well-rounded mage that utilizes Destruction and Illusion magic. This means that he’ll be able to reliable exploit elemental weaknesses, and reliably affect the emotions of the enemy (explained under mechanics). Additionally, he has a couple self buffs.
Maria: She’s your main healer, and has several support options. She can cast direct healing spells, or grant regeneration over time (more effective, but takes a while), and can cure basic status effects. Her buffs are almost exclusively single-target, but have a good duration, and are pretty potent (they can also be stacked for greater effect, see mechanics for stacking states). She also can Stance Change from a Cleric to a War Cleric mid battle. As a War Cleric, she gives up most of her naturally high magic defense, and some of her magic attack, in exchange for a major strength buff. In this state, her basic attacks with a staff have a chance to stun the enemy (skip 1 action).
True: She’s a rogue/assassin. She’s easily the fastest of the main party, but also pretty frail. She has plenty of ways to increase her critical hit chance, and most of her attacks add additional effects if they crit. Most of her attacking skills have chances to inflict a negative state, and she also has ways to lower her agro rate.
Matthew: He’s the team’s archer, and can act as a secondary support option. He has a range of skills to add elements/effects to his basic attack, and can combo these with a double/triple shot. He also has access to rally skills, which are smaller, short-lived boosts to the whole party *(as opposed to Maria’s single target, longer lasting, and more powerful buffs). He has a few other support options as well, such as increasing his agro rating. Not exclusive to him, but anyone with a bow can use special, but consumable arrows to utilize powerful attacks.

Mechanics:
ATB: We use an ATB battle system, allowing actions to happen immediately as they are chosen. It’s a “wait” mode though, so you won't lose time selecting your actions.
Emotions: One of the main battle mechanics is Emotions. Enemies have 4 emotions, Anger, Fear, Joy, and Sorrow. These emotions don’t do anything on their own, but instead change how the enemy acts in battle. (In the background, it’s really just an invisible stacking state. At 3 stacks, they get Rage 1, and at 6 stacks, Rage 2. I chose these numbers, as this way, a player can affect the emotions of one enemy on the first turn, if they specifically focus on them).
Stacking States: Most states (both positive and negative) can stack, refreshing their timer, and making the effect more potent.
Elemental States: Most elemental attacks have a chance to inflict their respective elemental state. For example, firebolt has a 25% chance to inflict a stack of Sear. These states can stack up to 5. With each stack, the opponent becomes weaker to the respective element. At stack LV.3 and higher, a secondary effect is also applied (in the case of sear, the enemy will start to take burn damage with each action). These states do have a timer, and will wear off eventually if not continually applied.
Elements: Just in case you're wondering, the elements are Fire,Water,Ice,Thunder,Wind,Earth,Light,Dark. At this point in the game, the only one the player's won't have any experience with is dark.
Agro: Pretty straightforward, but attacking causes you to draw in a little bit of added agro. Basic attacks draw the most, followed by most offensive skills. The exception being bows, which draw no agro. You can lower agro by just getting beat up a bunch, or guarding.

In general, I'm pretty comfortable with complex eventing, so go all out! :)

They look great! Their animations look really smooth too, I'm impressed! They'll work perfectly for the ruins.

Having a walking sprite too would be pretty nifty, just to match with the other Pokemon (hint-hint, nudge-nudge). They don't really have legs, so I'd imagine they'd either bounce their pot, or drag themselves around with their hands.

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I like the idea of bringing Nightmare back, really underrated move. Steel wing sounds good too (didn't even realize it wasn't on the list).

Of the other options, I'd say Zap Cannon looks the best to me. In that case, I could make Counter/Mirror Coat tutor moves.

I can imagine having two rivaling siblings, one convinced close-up physical attacks are better, and teaches Counter, while to other things long-distance special attacks to be the better strategy, and teaches Mirror Coat.

Thank you Miracle for offering to help out! Sorry I didn't make this all public earlier, but even if you're too busy to help out too often, every little bit helps out immensely! :)

Judging from your examples, I take it you did most of the original sprite work? By the way, is the Tomamer sprite recent? I don't have it in any of the files Ratty sent me.

As for priority, I suppose I'd start with some of the early-game Pokemon, and their evolutions. The starters' evolved forms might be a good place to start. One special request I would like to make though, is for Ascape and Irritormen, both because I'd like to incorporate them into the ruins, and because they're personal favorites of mine.

It looks like you already did this with Swantweet, but just in case, feel free to make the sprites as large as you feel is needed. I mainly bring this up as I'd assume the final stages of the starters to be fairly tall.

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Also, as a reference, these are the Pokemon that I do currently have sprites for:

Toribush, Flaregon ,Fairimp, Gustling, Swantweet ,Sesprit (male and female), Miceburg, Chibiwawa, Atmana, Afropup, Biseed, Phim, and Elink.

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By the way Seiromem, I should have those moveset documents should be posted tomorrow. They've got a pretty long list of natural moveset tweaks, and TM comparability up through TM 60.