YAPU - Yet Another Pokémon Unity

A framework for Unity to develop classic 2D top down Pokémon games. Developed by @varguiniano.

Being in early stages of development, this mostly a dev blog.

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Thread of dev threads.

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In case you missed it, you can now try YAPU yourselves!

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So I've finally published YAPU as an open source project on Github. You can check it out right now and play around with it!

https://t.co/84P8RoYqQE

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Graph command system and public code release!

https://t.co/Gbbk2ElND6

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Hello! It has been a good while. Time for another dev thread before the year ends! This one is going to be quite short, but it comes with very good news.

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Thread of dev threads.

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Quests and Gen 1.

https://t.co/ZI44HqHusL

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Hello hello! It's time for another dev thread! Forgive my tardiness, I was caught up with something.

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I hope this compensates having disappeared for so many months. I can't wait to hear what you think of the project!

See you on the next dev thread!

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So I've finally published YAPU as an open source project on Github. You can check it out right now and play around with it!

https://t.co/84P8RoYqQE

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The documentation is still very lacking, but I will be expanding it once Christmas is over and I get some more free time.

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And... that is the end of the updates... Since most changes have been made under the hood and the graph system took a LONG time to implement, I don't have much else to show...

So I thought it's fair that at this point I show you everything.

[YAPU - Yet Another Pokémon Unity @YAPU_dev]

Hello! It has been a good while. Time for another dev thread before the year ends! This one is going to be quite short, but it comes with very good news.

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And with the newly added graph system I've been adding some more examples to the demo project, like a league.

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Some other smaller changes include the ability to trade with NPCs (with multiplayer trading next on my TODO list).

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Adding gens 2 and 3 was way easier than 1, and with most abilities and moves implemented, as well as more editor tools to aid in the process, I expect the next gens to go by quite quickly.

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With that we are up to:

430 Pokémon (1276 if you count all forms separately).
182 abilities.
584 moves.
1551 items.

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The other big part of development was adding gens 2 and 3 (and their families).

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Most of the changes since the last dev thread have been QOL changes. The biggest one is replacing the old command system that you can see in previous threads with a new shiny and way more powerful graph system that makes it much easier to define the behaviour of actors.

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I'll see you on the next dev thread. Thank you for reading this one. I hope the news weren't too disappointing.

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And who knows, maybe by then the waters have calmed down and I'll release not only a demo, but the source code too.

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That said, I'll return to my hole for another few months. I want to add gens 2 and 3, trading and a bunch of QoL improvements.

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On a positive note, a few people have already tried the demo and have given me a lot of feedback, strong points and things to improve. I'm very happy with the results so far.

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The main goal of YAPU has always been to make a game for myself and my friends, so I'm in no hurry to release YAPU.

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However, with the recent you know who activity, specially the shut down of Relic Castle... I'm going to keep low for now. I'm not in a position to afford any kind of lawsuit.

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And with all this work done, this is where I would announce the release of a tech demo so you all can try YAPU's features.