[Released] Pokémon Dustbowl (v0.3.2)

[Dastardly Desperado]

Introduction:
This fangame is designed around the sandstorm weather and is located mainly in a large desert with many sub areas.
There are a lot of changes to all the Pokémon, many moves, and some abilities in this fangame.
I manually rewrote all the movesets for this fangame's roster.
Open "Improvements to the Pokémon" spoiler for more info.

This fangame isn't compressed. Players can modify their copy of this fangame to make your own fun with what I've made so far using RPG Maker XP.
This will also be the case in later versions. I left a lot of comments throughout the events and scripts.

I haven't created any graphics for this fangame yet. I want to make sure this fangame works and is fun before delving into making things look nice.
This fangame contains very brief references to other fangames and games that aren't Pokémon officially or fanmade.

This is my first created Pokémon fangame.
I've been playing these fangames for about a couple years, but in March '24 I decided to start making my own.
My main goal of creating this fangame is to create my own favorite fangame.
Highlights of features in this fangame:

• The total roster planned for this fangame is 154 species including evolutions.
• A gigantic amount of balance changes to all the Pokémon in all aspects.
• Atypical starter trio, based on battle niche instead of type triangle.
• All trainer battles are in doubles format.
• Radial game world layout. You don't have to remember which town each NPC service is located, they'll all be in one place as you unlock them.
• Access to healing your party for free in the middle of every route.
• More specific details on changes are accessible in-game. You don't need to open a wiki for this fangame.
• Unobstructive grass. You don't have to trudge through grass encounters to progress through areas.
• There are always repeatable trainer battles available for money and experience. They're not always caught up with the player's level.
• Animated battle sprites and dynamic camera. These are from plugins that came with the Pokémon Essentials package I started this with.

There's a lot more changes listed lower in the spoilers below and some that I haven't thought to add there.
A lot of planning went into designing this fangame to make everything useful.

Spoiler: Download

The version before the current one will be available for a short time while I test for bugs, in case a bug in the new version that doesn't exist in the previous version causes significant problems.
v0.3.2:

https://drive.proton.me/urls/A7ANDW1QQG#GAcxWijVJoog

Read more of this post for more information on this fangame.
The file is currently uploaded to Proton Drive, which is inaccessible to some countries including Russia and Turkey.

Spoiler: Changelog

March 21 2025, v0.3.2 release

Spoiler: v0.3.2 bugfixes

• Mountain, card house guard, no longer pushes you after you pay cash for membership to the card house.
• Mountain, card house guard, no longer softlocks during the ugly route.
• Mountain, card house guard, the Pokémon battle after the brawl is doubles format.
• Turning Circles, shortcut between the east Desert Plains and Turning Circles, ranger now uses correct trainer battle and no longer crashes the game.
• Turning Circles, hermit in the recovery house, softlock occurs at the end of the ugly route. This was caused by the same issue as the card house guard.
• Mountain bikers hiding in the taller grass are no longer extremely fast when spinning.
• Haunting Hit, a move currently only available to Bramblin, has 75BP instead of 60BP.
• Deleted some trainers in Turning Circles; 20 in the caves, 18 in the outside.
• Turning Circles, hermit inside the recovery building, no longer softlocks during the ugly route.
• Turning Circles, hermit inside the recovery building, now offers fast travel assistance after good or bad routes.
• Friend Guard no longer increases normal-type damage received.
• Evening Star, ruffian trainers; their Lairons no longer have Wide Guard or Protect.
• Evening Star, ruffian trainers; their Gravelers no longer have Protect.
• Updated green ranger books for Shroomish, Spinda, Drilbur, Carbink, and Solrock for missing info.
• Increased the power of Sprinting Slap and Sprinting Smash from 70 to 80.
• Dwebble learns Harden instead of Withdraw at level 7. Harden in this game applies to both the user and ally.
• Updated my notes in the dev room for act 3's roster.
• If you white out after defeating the miscreant boss but before returning to town on foot, there's now a conditional obstruction that directs you back to the Badlands to resolve the next intended interaction before unlocking more areas and features.
• Adjusted the Advanced Pokémon Machine to no longer tease its features and instead say it's unavailable.
• Act 2 postgame access to Dragon Pit, and by extent two other postgame unlockable areas, now requires unlocking the second tier of civilian trainers. Previously only required having defeated the eighth crime gang.
• After defeating the ruffian gang at Evening Star, the biker punks in the Desert Plains use fully evolved Pokémon.
• Trainers in Clear Skies use stronger teams in the act 2 postgame.
• Added more trainers to Clear Skies to preview more of the act 3 roster.
• I've also been working ahead for v0.5.0 a little bit, but none of that is accessible yet.
• I wrote a simple guide. It's in the "notes from desperado" folder.

Thank you for your patience and playing my fangame.

March 9 2025, v0.3.0 release

Released - Pokémon Dustbowl (v0.3.2)

Download and use v0.3.2! Introduction: This fangame is designed around the sandstorm weather and is located mainly in a large desert with many sub areas. There are a lot of changes to all the Pokémon, many moves, and some abilities in this fangame. I manually rewrote all the movesets for this...

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October 11 2024, v0.2.0 release
v0.2.0 changelog here:

[Released] - Pokémon Dustbowl (v0.3.2) - The PokéCommunity Forums

Introduction: This fangame is designed around the sandstorm weather and is located mainly in a large desert with many sub areas. There are a lot of changes to all the Pokémon, many moves, and some abilities in this fangame. I manually rewrote all the movesets for this fangame's roster. Open...

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September 15 2024, v0.1.0 release

Spoiler: Progress

This fangame is currently in version 0.2.0.

My plan is to alternate between versions that add new content and versions that fix a lot of bugs, for a total of ten versions where the tenth is v1.0.0 instead of v0.10.0. I've planned out future areas, encounters, some general map layouts, and features to add to this project but I'm also open to feedback and suggestions.

I've completed a few test playthroughs so far to check for bugs, but I'm sure there are more problems that I haven't found or fixed.

There's a developer room accessible in-game that contains a bunch of my notes. Check it out if you don't mind being un-immersed and want some insight on how this fangame is designed.

The next version, 0.2.0, is planned to add an arena similar to the Pokémon World Tournament in the official games Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 in addition to fixing bugs and adding graphics including a title screen. This is getting postponed to 0.4.0 to go along with other repeatable content I have planned for that update.

Spoiler: Story

The story begins with the player's father going missing while far from home working at a sawmill in the desert. The player's dad would send letters home telling about how things are going, but at some point the letters stopped coming and the company he worked for is trying to pay off the player's family. The player decides to venture down to the desert and search for the player's father personally. Along the way the player deals with gangs of criminals making problems in the desert and chasing away the locals. The player also meets a stranger that helps the player along the way, giving useful items or telling the locals about the player's accomplishments.

Spoiler: Improvements to the Pokémon

• A lot of balance changes to base stats, moves, abilities, etc.
  • Standardized level required to learn new moves.
  • Everything gets STAB with the favored physical/special attacking stat.
  • Mixed attackers get both physical and special attacks, typically at the same level for players that want to only use one of them.
  • Custom created abilities, especially ones that grant immunity to sandstorm's chip damage.
• I created custom scripts to improve a lot of moves to be a lot more useful, so be sure to read the descriptions and try using everything!
• I'm also still working on creating more custom scripts for more interesting and useful effects!
• There's a lot of custom created abilities that grant immunity to the sandstorm weather chip damage. If you see a custom-created ability, assume it has this.
• Atypical starter options. Three starters that aren't the typical fire, grass, water trio.
• The starters each have a powerful ability with multiple effects.
• The summary screen shows IV and EV numbers.
• Part of the v0.1.0 postgame unlocks EV training spots where only one species can be encountered per room.
• Everything yields effort in multiples of four, and only in one stat. First-stagers yield 4 effort in one stat.
• Convenient ways to optimize Pokémon you already have are available in v0.1.0! No need to hunt for nature or special learnable moves.
• You can get nature mints, resetting effort, remember moves, and change nicknames.

The Pokémon available in this fangame are limited to a small roster. This isn't a National Dex fangame.
The total amount of Pokémon planned to be obtainable in this fangame by full release, including evolutions, is 137 154.

Spoiler: Improvements to the World

• A very frequent and recurring stack of books with information on a lot of the gameplay changes.
• Drink water to fully recover your party for free and can be used as often as you want.
• Every "route" has one of these around the middle of it.
• Each "route" has a total of five Pokémon that can be encountered and caught that are only in that area.
• This fangame is designed with a central town, and all the "routes" surround it.
• The central town, Dustbowl, contains all the important services including the Name Rater, Move Reminder, effort removal, and more.
• The services are optional and can be unlocked while venturing through the world.
• None of the services get softlocked to lose access to unlocking them if you progress past the area they're available in.

In the event of any changes to the base stats of any Pokémon species or any other reason for the base stats of a Pokémon needing to be reset, there's a computer in the downstairs laboratory at Dustbowl that will recalibrate the base stats of a selected Pokémon in your party.

Spoiler: Trainers

• Trainers will use Pokémon locally available and/or in the lower level area nearby.
• Trainer battles are all in doubles format.
• Trainer battles inside caves or buildings will have sandstorm weather during the battle, so any effects that rely on sandstorm being active will still work.
• There are trainers that can be rematched an unlimited amount of times. Most of them are in the v0.1.0 postgame.

Spoiler: Items

• Very low cost medicine items. Healing items like potions have much lower cost. Buy them in bulk so you don't have to retreat and fully heal so often.
• Higher tier healing items have their cost versus healing amount scaled to proportionally match "Potion" including drinks like Lemonade.
• There are no HMs to navigate the overworld.
• There are no overworld items, hidden or in item balls.
• There are NPCs that can give you items.

Spoiler: Difficulty

• Level caps. The overall level cap for v0.1.0 is 20. The long term max level cap for the full version of this game is 50.
• Max party size is 4 instead of 6. This also applies to all trainers. Choose your team carefully and adapt to your current area.
• All individual values are zero. This displays on the summary screen when checking your Pokémon. This also applies to all trainers.
• Evolution accessibility is very tightly controlled. Everything has its evolution condition edited.
• Only learn moves by level up. No tutor, TM, or egg moves.
• All Pokémon only have one ability. There are no second or hidden abilities.
• Move pools are heavily restricted. A lot of coverage moves are removed.
• The max amount of effort per stat is 200 instead of 252, and the max total effort is 500 instead of 510.

Spoiler: Screenshots

Spoiler: Credits

Pokémon Dustbowl is a fangame made using Pokémon Essentials 20.1 with additional music from the official Pokémon games downloaded from ENLS's Pre-Looped Music Library.

Pokémon Dustbowl is made by me, using the many resources credited below.

Pokémon is owned by The Pokémon Company, Nintendo, and affiliated with Game Freak.
No copyright infringement is intended with this fangame. No right is claimed to the Pokémon intellectual property. I don't claim ownership or distribution of Pokémon as intellectual property. This fangame is not presented as being an official or legitimate Pokémon product.

The specific Pokémon Essentials package I started this fangame with is from here:

GitHub - Manurocker95/Pok-mon-Essentials-20.1-with-Elite-Battle-DX

Contribute to Manurocker95/Pok-mon-Essentials-20.1-with-Elite-Battle-DX development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

This comes packaged with many plugins including animated sprites in battle.

Spoiler: copied from README.md

# Pokémon-Essentials-20.1-with-Elite-Battle-DX

- Credits:

EBDX (Essentials v19.1) + Pokémon Essentials:
- Luka S.J.
- Maruno
- Marin
- Pokecheck.org
- PinkCatDragon
- Tebited15
- BadSamaritan
- WolfPP
- redblueyellow
- Damien
- Issei Hyoudou
- Nasasu
- luckygirl88

Port to v20.1:

- Manurocker95

================================================================
Gen 8 Pack:

Battler Sprites:
Gen 1-5 Pokemon Sprites - veekun
Gen 6 Pokemon Sprites - All Contributors To Smogon X/Y Sprite Project
Gen 7 Pokemon Sprites - All Contributors To Smogon Sun/Moon Sprite Project
Gen 8 Pokemon Sprites - All Contributors To Smogon Sword/Shield Sprite Project

Overworld Sprites
Gen 6+ Berry Tree Overworlds - Anarlaurendil
Gen 6 Pokemon Overworlds - princess-pheonix, LunarDusk, Wolfang62, TintjeMadelintje101, piphybuilder88
Gen 7 Pokemon Overworlds - Larry Turbo, princess-pheonix
Gen 8 Pokemon Overworlds - SageDeoxys, Wolfang62, LarryTurbo, tammyclaydon
Gen 1-5 Pokemon Overworlds - MissingLukey, help-14, Kymoyonian, cSc-A7X, 2and2makes5, Pokegirl4ever, Fernandojl, Silver-Skies, TyranitarDark, Getsuei-H, Kid1513, Milomilotic11, Kyt666, kdiamo11, Chocosrawlooid, Syledude, Gallanty, Gizamimi-Pichu, 2and2makes5, Zyon17,LarryTurbo, spritesstealer, LarryTurbo

Icon Sprites
Gen 1-6 Pokemon Icon Sprites - Alaguesia
Gen 7 Pokemon Icon Sprites - Marin, MapleBranchWing, Contributors to the DS Styled Gen 7+ Repository
Gen 8 Icon Sprites - Larry Turbo, Leparagon

Cry Credits:
Gen 1-6 Pokemon Cries - Rhyden
Gen 7 Pokemon Cries - Marin, Rhyden
Gen 8 Pokemon Cries - Zeak6464

Script Credits:
Golisopod User, Luka S.J.

Compilation of Resources:
Golisopod User, UberDunsparce

================================================================
Gen 9 Pack

Script Gen 9 and Adapting PLA for v20:
-Caruban

PBS for Gen 9:
-Caruban
-PorousMist (Updated the abilities, items, and moves description)
-DJChaos (TM Items)

Pokemon Gen 9 Battler Sprites:
The-King-Of-Roads-X, Mak, leParagon, Caruban, Azria, Mashirosakura, Katten, jinxed, OldSoulja

Battler Sprites QC:
leParagon

Pokemon Gen 9 icons:
ezerart

Pokemon Gen 9 Followers:
Azria, DarkusShadow

Pokemon Gen 9 Cries:
Edited from Lightblade Absol Gen 9 Cries compilation video

Gen 9 item icons:
-lichenprincess (Tera Orb, Bamboos, Tera Shards, Mirror Herb, Loaded Dice, Leader Crest, and Kubfu Scrolls, Booster Energy, Gimmighoul coin, TM Material, Kofu's Wallet, Sandwich, Herba Mysticas)
-Caruban (Punching Glove, Auspicious Armor, Malicious Armor, Ability Shield, Clear Amulet, Covert Cloak, Scarlet&Violet Book)

Original Pokémon: Legends Arceus Expansion Script :
-StCooler (Original script for Gen 8 Project in v18 and Status sprites)
-PorousMist and curryofthepast (Adapting the script for v19.1 use)

PLA item icons :
-AztecCroc, 3DJackArt, Caruban, lichenprincess

Pokemon cries ripped:
-Morningdew

Pokeballs battle animation and summary icon:
-Caruban
-WolfPP (Beast ball battle animation)

PLA Pokémon icons:
-LuigiTKO

Follower
-Boonzeet
-DarkusShadow
-princess-phoenix
-Ezeart
-WolfPP

PLA Sprites from Smogon Gen8 Sprite Project :
(https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/smogon-sprite-project.3647722/)
-Blaquaza, KingOfThe-X-Roads, KattenK, Travis, G.E.Z., SpheX, Hematite

Animated gen 6 and Megas:

Diegotoon20
Snivy101
Typhlito
Legitimate Username
Ayanocloud
N-Kin
Turtleye
Siiilver
Wyverii
Branflakes325
princessofmusic
Layell
branflakes
Falgaia
aXl
Wobblebuns
N-Kin
zerudez
Brylark
princess-phoenix
TrainerSplash
Gnomowladny
Gardow
RockAdam

Vanilla Style Version
Pokémon sprites:
KingOfThe-X-Roads, Mak, Red7246, Vent, Caruban, leParagon, Sopita_Yorita, Z-nogyroP,
Alxndre~◇, Mashirosakura, NanaelJustice, KRLW890
Blaquaza, KattenK, Travis, G.E.Z., SpheX, Hematite

Gen 9 Icons:
Vent, Katten, leParagon, Cesare_CBass, Alxndre~◇, Jordanos11

PLA Icons:
LuigiTKO, Pikafan2000, Cesare_CBass, Vent, Cesare_Cbass, MultiDiegoDani, leParagon, JWNutz
and thanks for
Pokémon Icons Act 2.9 - Teracristalizando
(https://whackahack.com/foro/threads/pokemon-icons-act-2-9-teracristalizando-07-08-2022.63896/)

Walking Wake and Iron Leaves sprites:
Jordanos11

Terapagos, munkidogi, okidogi, Fezandipiti sprites:
Ruben1986

Full Sprites Credit List:

Sprites list

docs.google.com

EBDX Extra moves: NikDie

And let me know if there is someone that I forget to mentions here.

Spoiler: Plugins

Animated Sprites, by Manurocker95, KleinStudio, Luka SJ
Better Healing Machine, by mej71, Rua
Easy Mouse System, by Luka S.J.
Elite Battle DX, by
Luka S.J.,Maruno,Marin,Pokecheck.org,PinkCatDragon,Tebited15,BadSamaritan,WolfPP,redblueyellow,Damien,Issei Hyoudou,Nasasu,luckygirl88,NikDie,Manurocker95
Roulette minigame (which I haven't been able to get working), by FL (Eevee Expo)
Following Pokémon EX, by
Golisopod User, Help-14, zingzags, Rayd12smitty, Venom12, mej71, PurpleZaffre, Akizakura16, Thundaga, Armin (Fairies Resource Pack), Maruno
Generation 8 pack scripts, by Golisopod User, Luka S.J.
Generation 9 pack script, by Caruban
KFootprints Ex, by Manurocker95, KleinStudio
Lin's IV and EV display, by LinKazamine (Relic Castle)
Luka's Scripting Utilities, by Luka S.J.
Modular Menu, by Luka S.J.,Manurocker95
Modular Primal Forms, by Manurocker95
Modular Title Screen, by Luka S.J.
No bump sound, by Manurocker95
Overworld Shadows EX, by Golisopod User, Wolf PP, Marin
Showdown Utils, by AceOfSpadesProduc100,Cilerba,Marin,Nuri Yuri,Manurocker95
Better speed up, by Marin, Phantombass
Sun Rays, by Polectron, Manurocker95
v20.1 hotfixed, by Maruno
Auto Multi Save, by http404error

Spoiler: Animated sprites

Images have been copied from the following plugin:

v21.1 - Animated Pokemon System [DBK Add-On] [v21.1]

Animated Pokemon System for v21.1 Upgrades your game with animated Pokemon sprites for Gens 1-9 and other animation flourishes. Overview This plugin builds upon the Deluxe Battle Kit to implement fully animated Pokemon sprites for all species...

eeveeexpo.com

Only a few of the images have been copied. I've tested to make sure these battle sprites animate.
I don't know the individual credit per sprite, so I'll credit the entire list that's credited for the battler sprites.

Plugin Credits:
Creator: Lucidious89
Based on the Generation 8 Pack by Golisopod User and EBDX by Luka S.J.

Battler Sprites

• Gen 1-5: Luka S.J.
• Gen 6: All Contributors To Smogon X/Y Sprite Project
• Gen 7: All Contributors To Smogon Sun/Moon Sprite Project
• Gen 8: All Contributors To Smogon Sword/Shield Sprite Project
• Gen 9: All Contributors To Smogon Scarlet/Violet Sprite Project
• Contributors to the original "Sprites Animados" spanish plugin:
  Tenshi of War, DPertierra, Skyflyer, Hellfire_raptor, Antiant, AshnixsLaw, AyanoCloud, Azrita, BR0DE0, Caruban, Creobnil, DanEx, Diegotoon20, dimbly, ekurepu, Ebaru, EricLostie, Falcon7, Federico97_ez, Fleimer_, Franark122k, Hellfire0raptor, HM100, HyperactiveFlummi, iametrine, Involuntary-Twitch, ItsYugen, jinta, justnyxnow, KingOfThe-X-Roads, kiriaura, Legitimate Username, localghost, lucasomi, MallowOut, mangalos810, MCH4R1Z4RD, N-Kin, NoelleMBrooks, Noobiess, Nolo33, OldSoulja, OmegalingYT, PKMarioG, PomPomKing, Poki Papillon, PumpkinPastel, RetroNC, RadicalCharizard, seleccion, SelenaArmorclaw, SkidMarc25, Snivy101, Sopita_Yorita, SoulWardenInfinity, TheAetherPlayer, TheCynicalPoet, Typhlito, uppababy
• Other Contributors: Lucidious89, Regis, Rod, kayzering

Special thanks to whoever set up the software that automatically detects the frames of these sprite sheets to animate.

Cacti sprites are from the "Wild West" tileset created by Ekat99 on DeviantArt, linked below.

Wild West by Ekat99 on DeviantArt

www.deviantart.com

This tileset is credited to Ekat, Heartlessdragoon (RSE Rips), Vurtax (Mis Objects)

Hopefully that covers everything...

 

[floodryan123]

So how complete is the game? Seems cool.

 

[Dastardly Desperado]

So how complete is the game? Seems cool.

As far as the amount of playable content, there's about a quarter of what I have planned so far.

 

[Dastardly Desperado]

Version 0.2.0 is now available!

Download link here:

Proton Drive

Securely store, share, and access your important files and photos. Anytime, anywhere.

drive.proton.me

Changelog for v0.2.0 will be cut from the original post and moved to this post.
I reformatted things a bit, but there's a text guide packaged with the game on how to move your old save from v0.1.0 into the new folder.
The new folder won't need to be migrated to the later updates since I removed the version number out of the game's title.

You don't have to start over with a new save file, but I recommend it.
This update added a lot of bug fixes, quality improvements, graphics, balance changes, and some pieces of things that'll be used in later updates.
This update did not add more playable content in terms of new areas, higher level cap, or more accessible kinds of Pokémon.
The next update will focus on adding those things.

Spoiler: v0.2.0 changelog

IMPORTANT CHANGES:

• Multiple save slots, up to eight.
  • There's a text guide packaged with my notes for how to migrate your save to the current version and change the name to work with this plugin.
• I made a basic title screen and changed the sound effect that plays.
  • I was having trouble with this for a while. I can make a better title screen later.
• Each of the starters is now a variant form. Visit the research lab in Dustbowl, downstairs, and talk to the scientist to convert your starter.
• Each of the starters now gets a False Swipe variant based on primary STAB. For existing saves, use the move reminder's service to get it.
  • Existing saves from 0.1.0 will need to change the form of their starter first at the scientist in the Dustbowl research lab, downstairs.
• Balance changes for the slow and steady starter's movepool. Slightly better moves for now, much better moves for later.

BUGFIXES

• The ranger book located in the worker's barracks at the Sawmill says that Makuhita's ability is Sand Trickle, but it's actually Sand Bath.
• The player's mom had no default text. She shouldn't ignore the player anymore in certain circumstance.
• There's a redundancy with the sheriff in Dustbowl while the player has yet to defeat any gang boss and talks to him the first time.
• The info textbook claims that abilities don't change upon evolution, but for some species including Trapinch this isn't true.
• Test mode NPC in the card clubhouse appears while the switch for test mode is off. He should only appear if that switch is on.
• The player's mom turned left during the initial cutscene when the player goes downstairs for the first time.
• Many gen5 Pokémon overworld sprites appeared to be floating. I manually edited the ones in the current roster to fix this.
  • Roggenrola oddly didn't have this issue, as seen in the developer room.
  • I'm going to have to manually check every overworld sprite in the future.
• There's a punk in the west Desert Plains that forces a second trainer battle.
  • I checked the rest. They don't have this issue.
• Dustbowl's Game Corner, the left prize vendor that has consumeable and hold items, while the amount of gangs the player has defeated is less than two, the option to exchange coins for a Great Ball didn't appear.
• Exiting the Bigrock lower floor cave by talking to the ranger needs the cave exit flag so that Escape Rope can't be used while outside the cave.
• Pawniard was added to the encounter table for the upper Sawmill.

BALANCE CHANGES

• Reduced the cutscene when starting a new game.
• Switched the levels Phanpy learns Howl and Pound so that Phanpy has access to fairy STAB while playing through this area.
• Increase chip damage dealt by sandstorm to 1/8. It was supposed to be 1/12 initially, but it turns out I edited hail instead of sandstorm accidentally.
• Changed the tileset for taller grass so that the lower tile can trigger grass encounters.
• Cacnea learns Helping Hand instead of Trailblaze at level 7. Trailblaze wasn't strong enough to be useful.
• Revamping Gulpin's custom ability, Gelatinous. Now works like Lightning Rod's redirection plus Volt Absorb's healing, but for steel-type.
• Changed the natures for some of the gift Pokémon after the intro sequence is done and the player is free to venture the world.
• Nerfed the base power of False Swipe and variants of this move from 50 back down to 40.
• Vibrava learns a 60 base power physical dragon move upon evolution that's also available by reminder.
• Hone Claws can be used on either the user itself or the ally, same as I changed Work Up.
• Changed when Sergio returns to the south end of the Highway in the temporary postgame, from appearing immediately after the player defeats the miscreant gang boss to instead after the player talks to Lee after beating the miscreant gang boss. It's a very small detail.
• Reduced the coin cost of the Ultra Ball at the Dustbowl Game Corner prize vendor from 500 to 250 coins.
• Rock Slide base power reduced to 50, and accuracy raised to 100.
  • In case you haven't been reading the descriptions, this move has a 20% chance to debuff Speed instead of causing foes to flinch.

NEW THINGS ADDED
These aren't new playable content. These are mostly minor additions to improve aspects of this fangame that already exist.

• Importing animated sprites from a plugin meant for v21.1. The source has been added to the credits for this fangame.
• Added a minor text interaction for the player's console at home in Clear Skies. There's no practical benefit to it.
• Created more overworld Pokémon that randomize which species appears, based on the encounters in the area. Currently only in Desert Plains.
  • This style of overworld encounter will be how future overworld Pokémon are set up instead of a static species.
• Added some useful hold items to the Clear Skies Game Corner left prize vendor including Exp Share, Macho Brace, Amulet Coin, and the Power items.
• Added some flavor text to the TVs in the player's house in Clear Skies and the red-roof house's TV.
• The mart in Clear Skies is open for business starting in the temporary postgame. Goods are based on Lee in Dustbowl.

New moves added to the currently available Pokémon within the current level cap:

• Harass: 40 base power, special dark move, with 100% chance to lower the target's speed one stage. Learned by Cacnea, Vullaby.
• Burrowing Bite: 70 base power, physical ground move, another Freeze-Dry-like move but against bug-types. Learned by Trapinch.
• Dragon Talon: 60 base power, physical dragon move, with 30% chance to lower the target's defense by one stage. Learned by Vibrava.
• Hot Rockin': 60 base power, physical rock move, that heals the user by 50% of damage dealt. Learned by Shoulder.
• Short Horn: identical to False Swipe, but poison type. Learned by Knuckle.
• Soft Stone: identical to False Swipe, but rock type. Learned by Shoulder.

As a reminder, there are no softlocked moves in this fangame. Nothing loses access to moves by evolving.
Anything an early stage Pokémon can learn, the evolved forms can also learn by level or reminder.
I've been working on creating many more moves in preparation for later versions. I'm still testing and making these. These aren't accessible normally yet.

INFO ACCESSIBILITY

• Revamped the green ranger books to make them easier to use.
• The player's mom now tells the player about the info textbooks during her first cutscene dialogue.
• Moved the brawl minigame guide from his current position on the bench at the start of Droute to instead be near No Warming.
• Adjusted telegraphed intent of the hoodlums in No Warming to better indicate what the player should do.
• Add a lot of info on the currently obtainable Pokémon to the developer room including base stat changes and explanations for all the changes per species.
• Wrote a .txt packaged in the download that has info on where to find each Pokémon species, and more importantly containing the game's whole roster.
• Pokédex that shows the encounter area.
• Region map can be seen in the Pokédex and on the wall in most buildings.

I'll wait a bit for feedback and bug reports while taking a break from working on this game, then get deep into working on the next update.

 

[parasolhyena]

Loving the game, just wanted to ask so I can stop resetting, Shoulder can only be male right?

 

[Dastardly Desperado]

Loving the game, just wanted to ask so I can stop resetting, Shoulder can only be male right?

All three starters are male with a set nature.
The nickname can be changed with the name rater but the game will still refer to the starter by the original nickname.

 

[Dastardly Desperado]

Finally, v0.3.1 is ready!
v0.3.0 has some small problems, so anyone that downloaded v0.3.0 should delete it and use v0.3.1 instead.

Download here:

https://drive.proton.me/urls/297058TVT4#wgQCSud1RMqz

Changelog located here:

Released - Pokémon Dustbowl (v0.3.2)

Download and use v0.3.2! Introduction: This fangame is designed around the sandstorm weather and is located mainly in a large desert with many sub areas. There are a lot of changes to all the Pokémon, many moves, and some abilities in this fangame. I manually rewrote all the movesets for this...

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You don't have to start over with a new save file. There's only one significant change for the early game, but it's something you can get very soon after the v0.2.0 endgame.
Thank you for playing my game!

 

[Dastardly Desperado]

v0.3.2: Update with more bugfixes, some balance changes, and a very small amount of added playable content.

Download link:

https://drive.proton.me/urls/A7ANDW1QQG#GAcxWijVJoog

Spoiler: v0.3.2 bugfixes

• Mountain, card house guard, no longer pushes you after you pay cash for membership to the card house.
• Mountain, card house guard, no longer softlocks during the ugly route.
• Mountain, card house guard, the Pokémon battle after the brawl is doubles format.
• Turning Circles, shortcut between the east Desert Plains and Turning Circles, ranger now uses correct trainer battle and no longer crashes the game.
• Turning Circles, hermit in the recovery house, softlock occurs at the end of the ugly route. This was caused by the same issue as the card house guard.
• Mountain bikers hiding in the taller grass are no longer extremely fast when spinning.
• Haunting Hit, a move currently only available to Bramblin, has 75BP instead of 60BP.
• Deleted some trainers in Turning Circles; 20 in the caves, 18 in the outside.
• Turning Circles, hermit inside the recovery building, no longer softlocks during the ugly route.
• Turning Circles, hermit inside the recovery building, now offers fast travel assistance after good or bad routes.
• Friend Guard no longer increases normal-type damage received.
• Evening Star, ruffian trainers; their Lairons no longer have Wide Guard or Protect.
• Evening Star, ruffian trainers; their Gravelers no longer have Protect.
• Updated green ranger books for Shroomish, Spinda, Drilbur, Carbink, and Solrock for missing info.
• Increased the power of Sprinting Slap and Sprinting Smash from 70 to 80.
• Dwebble learns Harden instead of Withdraw at level 7. Harden in this game applies to both the user and ally.
• Updated my notes in the dev room for act 3's roster.
• If you white out after defeating the miscreant boss but before returning to town on foot, there's now a conditional obstruction that directs you back to the Badlands to resolve the next intended interaction before unlocking more areas and features.
• Adjusted the Advanced Pokémon Machine to no longer tease its features and instead say it's unavailable.
• Act 2 postgame access to Dragon Pit, and by extent two other postgame unlockable areas, now requires unlocking the second tier of civilian trainers. Previously only required having defeated the eighth crime gang.
• After defeating the ruffian gang at Evening Star, the biker punks in the Desert Plains use fully evolved Pokémon.
• Trainers in Clear Skies use stronger teams in the act 2 postgame.
• Added more trainers to Clear Skies to preview more of the act 3 roster.
• I've also been working ahead for v0.5.0 a little bit, but none of that is accessible yet.
• I wrote a simple guide. It's in the "notes from desperado" folder.

Thank you for your patience and playing my fangame.

 

[floodryan123]

looks really cool.