Update 8.15.2023 is out!
Here's a list of some new features you can expect to see in this release. Not all of them are available immediately at the start of Week 4.
- The game has been written out to the end of Week 4, on May 2nd.
- The first route scenes for Blue, Sonia, Whitney, Professor Kris Cherry, and Hilbert are written.
- 34 new Pokémon can be caught and trained, not counting evolutions of new and old Pokémon.
- A new wild area has been implemented. This one might be a bit harder to get to than the others, though!
- Events for hitting level 20 and 30 proficiencies have been implemented.
- The item system, which allows you to to equip and use items from your inventory at any time (outside of battle, of course) has been implemented.
- After a "certain event," it will become possible to sell and gift items, including Experience Shares and Lucky Eggs.
- Investment should start yielding results, and increase the selection at the Pokémart.
- Janine will now tell you what level you should be during any freetime.
- Battle RNG is unseeded.
- Seeded RNG is no longer based on your name, and is based on a random value. `as^fa9..32 7SShf*#jh` is no longer the luckiest Pokémon Trainer in Kobukan.
- The PC now has infinite slots from the beginning. I guess you could crash the game, now, if you catch, like, eight billion Rattata.
- Losing battles in the wild punishes you, but winning consecutive battles rewards you.
- Updated assets for a great many students and teachers, including Surge, Roxanne, Falkner, Brawly, Karen, Clair, Winona, Red, Ethan, and Cheren.
- Certain wild and starter Pokémon have been changed. The Starter Scraggy and Dhelmise have been replaced by Sneasel and Maractus. The wild Litwick has been replaced with Litten. All Pokémon previously in the game are still accessible, one way or another.
- Many, many, bugfixes.
- Added two new bondable characters.
- Removed Red.
Finally, here are some screenshots!
Please report bugs and typos in the discord, linked in the OP.
Also, let's all give a big hand to our beta testers. (Any bugs that got through are, of course, entirely their fault, and definitely not mine.)
Enjoy!~
EDIT: Bugfix build 8.21b.2023 is now out!