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A subreddit dedicated to creating Pokémon Fan Games made in RPG Maker XP. Here you can learn how to make them, and show off your progress! New developer? Check the sidebar for a list of helpful links!

r/PokemonRMXP (RPG Maker XP) is a subreddit dedicated to creating Pokémon fan games made in RPG Maker XP. Here you can learn how to make them, and show off your progress! New developer? Check the sidebar for a list of helpful links!

This forum is organised and coordinated by fans. Pokémon and its assets are copyright of Nintendo, Creatures Inc., GAME FREAK Inc. with no association to the moderators or users of this forum. See also this DeviantArt statement on Fair Use.

Rules of r/PokemonRMXP

We have 4 simple rules here. Breaking any of these rules may force us to remove your comment, or post. Repeat or blatant rule breaking will result in a permanent ban. Before posting please check that your content doesn't violate our rules below. We expect all users to read and understand our rules before posting here.

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2: All content must be relevant to making Pokémon fan games in RPG Maker XP. Do not post something unrelated to making fan games with RPG Maker XP.

  • No screenshots of your fan game playthrough.

  • No Let's Play videos. Reviews of fan games are allowed.

  • No troubleshooting how to play fan games.

  • No questions related to walkthroughs, this forum is not a guide for existing fan games. If you have gameplay questions about specific fan games you need to ask in their dedicated communities (forums/Discord servers/subreddits etc.), check our sidebar to see if the forum you're looking for is listed there (please understand, just because you may not be able to find these forums does not change the fact that this subreddit is not the place for your questions).

  • AI and the use of AI are unwelcome in our subreddit.


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We do allow the sharing of fan games here.


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In recruitment posts only, you are permitted to mention briefly that you are willing to compensate financially out of your own pocket for services. You cannot be running any kind of crowdfunding service for your game. If you're compensating your team members it must be out of your own pocket. You cannot state what you charge for your services either. You cannot discuss payment publicly here at all, discussing rates must be done privately outside of this subreddit.


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Mythic Town. Please Give your Thoughts and Opinions

So this Area, Mythic Town, is for my VTuber Game that contains members of Mythic Talent, and I made the map so that it works with the environment. And for those who do ask, the grass in the town will have wild encounters, which I don't think a modern Pokémon game has done.

https://preview.redd.it/lmf7kdf1kyge1.png?width=1603&format=png&auto=webp&s=66e9cfd274067634797213aa0ab5f066a9b611b8

8 Comments
2025/02/03
17:21 UTC

73

Pokemon Moonlight Sky is looking for anyone interested

Pokemon Moonlight Sky is looking for anyone interested in joining our team

Story: For the story itself, it revolves around the Player and their Rival traveling the Region to solve a case of disappearances. All the people that have disappeared were patients of a Sleep Lab and thus, they become the prime suspect as the story continues. The Champion himself is so unsure of everything going on that the Player is tasked by him to check the Gyms to see if the Leaders are involved with the case. As the truth comes out and the sleep lab reveals that they have been kidnapping and experimenting on their patients, the Player and Rival have to stop them.

Planned Features:

  • Dream and Nightmare forms
  • New megas
  • New evolutions to previous Pokemon
  • all Pokemon up to gen 9
  • z moves
  • New move and abilities
  • side quests

If interested join the discord server and ping me

https://discord.gg/HBDH6H3Uce

8 Comments
2025/02/03
06:33 UTC

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Sport moves and Ion Deluge

I messed up trying to edit their PBEffects. I haven't gotten OBEffects down at all I haven't edited or creates one successfully yet.

I just want to combine the effects essentially

Ion Deluge: would have its same effect and weaken water moves

Mud Sport: would have its same effect and make normal moves Ground

However, I messed up somehow and now Ion Deluge is active all the time and the added effect didn't work at all for the Sport moves

1 Comment
2025/02/03
03:11 UTC

2

Abilities semi-related to Pursuit effect

Looking to design these abilities and need some help with it.

Hot Streak - Causes all user moves to have the pursuit effect

Ball Fetch - Updated ability idea. If anyone switches out at the end of the battle round the user will switch as well

0 Comments
2025/02/03
03:03 UTC

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Need help with conflicting information on lag causes

The (old?) Tutorials that thundaga uploaded said that bigger maps will cause lag yet I've seen people in comments on this sub saying big maps are fine and its just multiple events would lag it. Can someone please clear it up for me?

2 Comments
2025/02/03
02:55 UTC

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How to create a custom Pokémon game distributed for free on Itch.io / Steam?

Hello friends, my first time actively using reddit here, because I saw that I can learn a lot from the community.

I live in Brazil and, together with a friend, we want to create our own "Pokémon" game using our city as a backdrop. The issue is that I want to use the same mechanics, so I thought about making a fangame using Pokémon in RPG Maker XP. What I think about doing is:

- Create fakemons

- Change the entire UI layout like menus, messages, notifications, etc.

- Take all the assets including tilesets and charsets and draw over them in the same size but using my friend's illustration strokes.

The question is: how complex is it to do this? knowing that I'm a complete beginner in hacks and fangames who doesn't have much time to dedicate to the project?

In my head this could work, I've already worked with RPG Maker 2000, mv and mz.

Am I imagining too much? Is my idea something viable or is it something much more complex than I'm thinking? Thank you very much :)

4 Comments
2025/02/03
00:32 UTC

4

how do I make custom tilesets?

hey guys, do any of you know how to make custom tilesets?? there's barely any information about it and all the information I found was kinda confusing

4 Comments
2025/02/02
22:10 UTC

23

All caps like Gen 4 or nah?

17 Comments
2025/02/02
17:42 UTC

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Is there a way to make an event check if you're on a bridge and, if so, do nothing?

I tried using conditional branches with pbBridgeOn, pBridgeOff and with $PokemonGlobal.bridge = 0, all had the same result of setting whatever I called rather than checking for it.

EDIT: I figured out a bit of a workaround, no idea if it'll work for all events but it worked for the hidden item I was using - Every time you call pbBridgeOn call pbSetSelfSwitch(XX, "A", true) where XX is the event ID of whatever event you want doing nothing when on the bridge and do the same but false for every pbBridgeOff, and then have the item activate a different self switch when picked up.

9 Comments
2025/02/02
17:08 UTC

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How to make the Wardrobe BG appear?

As the title says, I'm using the Wardrobe Plugin (DarrylBD99, StarWolff), but whenever I open the menu the background doesn't load. I've looked at the different instructions and text files, but haven't found a way to fix it. Am I just being stupid? (To be clear, the wardrobe functions. It's just that some of the UI doesn't appear.) Any help would be much appreciated! :)

https://preview.redd.it/mnc0i6alarge1.png?width=263&format=png&auto=webp&s=51f5475fb2d347d3f5116834d465573419d93950

https://preview.redd.it/72qec6alarge1.png?width=784&format=png&auto=webp&s=01fba33e1c0f5d4dd5de451dbb764e27a647a852

https://preview.redd.it/cj26f7alarge1.png?width=1012&format=png&auto=webp&s=393af7ff92179bba8c10ae429496fc6cd9052861

https://preview.redd.it/f9fbkqzrarge1.png?width=849&format=png&auto=webp&s=090832f2a084949b7bff3bdb5ba67ca067c8bf25

2 Comments
2025/02/02
16:56 UTC

4

How to divide the pokegear

I want to ger rid of the pokegear and make a traditional physical town map like gen 1-3 aswell as taking the phone and making a phone item with PC access. What I wanna do: Remove the pokegear. What I wanna add: a phone item with the phone aswell as pc access.

I just realized I could just rebrand the pokegear, but I want a paper town map.

7 Comments
2025/02/02
14:33 UTC

15

Feedback needed!

I tried to make the still water in my game a bit prettier. Especially in the fairy area, since the color is different.

So, which color is better? The darker, more saturated one, or the lighter color? I'll use one version for both areas c:

https://preview.redd.it/ef839m91dqge1.png?width=1858&format=png&auto=webp&s=3cdfccb9c30f7a9e3f76f14020d9731e4282989c

13 Comments
2025/02/02
13:48 UTC

137

First map of my game

5 Comments
2025/02/02
13:36 UTC

151

Adding More Medieval trainer Sprites

3 Comments
2025/02/02
11:18 UTC

4

Buffers. How do they work?

So i was watching thundaga's pokemon game tutorial and he hit me with the tree buffers. How would I go about making a buffer without tree's due to them not really fitting into my setting.

edit:

Troublesinclair brought up a good point, i should have mentioned my setting to get better help. I apologize.

I'm going and 8 district (8 badges) walled off city in a future setting. Map transitions so far in my head will be check points with guard walls/ towers and will be asked your reasoning for visits. Limited space means less room for natural habitats for pokemon. Most pokemon come from scrounged PCs and can be bought at certain locations throughout zones with an earned currency/ gambling/ busting smugglers (like end dungeon loot.) It's a massive under taking and i plan on 1 district at a time to avoid burnout (and obviously learning everything as i go)

3 Comments
2025/02/02
05:02 UTC

9

I'm looking for Mappers, Composers, and Writers to help out with Pokémon Evergreen's development!

0 Comments
2025/02/02
03:27 UTC

2

Gen 1 and 2 sprites with no background (transparent).

Hi,

Looking for gen 1 and 2 sprites front and back for a project I'm working on and can only find the front sprites on a transparent background. Anyone know where I could get back sprites without them being on a white background?

Thanks 👍

3 Comments
2025/02/02
00:08 UTC

229

Little Starting Village

17 Comments
2025/02/01
22:57 UTC

4

How To Do Sprites on Essentials

Not trying to spam post or anything, (I'm aware of the post I made hours ago) but I did need immediate help.

How do you make a proper backsprite, animation, and scaling for you Pokémon? With emphasis on the backsprite. I am aware that I would definitely need one for my game to be even somewhat serious, and it stumps me how I should do that. I would love to hear how people do that.

This is certainly second priority. I haven't gotten a good idea how to scale my sprites, and I would like some advice on this area. It doesn't matter to me as much insofar as I don't care if they are exactly proportional, but I wouldn't want my baby money looking half the size as my all power legendary.

How do you do animation for your sprites? Not in the sense of the Black and White style, (I know you just make pieces and download a gif and whatnot) but like DPPt, when you send out the mon and it does a little dance. If it can't really do something like that, it doesn't bother me but I assumed the engine may allow something like that.

9 Comments
2025/02/01
20:23 UTC

53

New OST | Pokémon Spiralys - A Spiraling World, Part 1 [Main theme]

2 Comments
2025/02/01
19:31 UTC

3

Check for opening and closing inventory

So I'm looking to add an event to my game witch is pretty much like the Spiritomb Encounter in Oras. Something that will autorun after you close the inventory in the room.

0 Comments
2025/02/01
18:18 UTC

74

What do u think about my game battle graphics? based on galar games

12 Comments
2025/02/01
18:14 UTC

8

Psa for anyone on the fence about making their own game over rmxp price on steam

Its currently 2.49 USD on humble bundle. humble

0 Comments
2025/02/01
18:02 UTC

13

Pokémon Cadmium Starter POCs

Hello people of r/PokemonRMXP! It is my pleasure to show you all my proofs of concepts for my starter Pokémon of the Aurana region, leading up to a demo for our game. Allow me to introduce Coyleaf, the Sprout Pup Pokémon, Ignifae, the Ember Fawn Pokémon, and Mizzle, the Drizzle Kit Pokémon!

Coyleaf, Ignifae Male and Female, Mizzle

Along with their shiny forms!

Shiny!

If you liked that, consider joining our Discord, or even consider upvoting, and if you would like to help us with this project, please message me on Discord at imyourstudent. Thank you!

6 Comments
2025/02/01
16:10 UTC

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Looking for plug and play battle/menu UI

Hey guys, are there any plug and play battle/menu UI I can use for my game. I’m open to any designs.

I don’t really know how to do changes so I’m hoping to find a plugin where I can just copy and paste it.

Thanks guys!

0 Comments
2025/02/01
15:45 UTC

7

I need ur opinon about my new battle graphics based on galar games

2 Comments
2025/02/01
12:19 UTC

9

What fan game should I play?

Welcome to r/PokemonRMXP's dedicated "What fan game should I play?" megathread. This replaces the previous post flair, when users could make individual posts asking for game recommendations. Individual posts of this nature are now banned, as they are antithetical to the focus of our community.

r/PokemonRMXP (RPG Maker XP) is a subreddit dedicated to creating Pokémon fan games made in RPG Maker XP. All content must be relevant to making Pokémon fan games. Do not post something unrelated to making fan games.


###Use this megathread (updated monthly) to ask for game recommendations.

  • Please be specific when asking for a recommendation. Asking for "the best fangame" or "a good fangame" is not specific. e.g. try asking questions like: "I'm looking for suggestions for good fan games set in Johto!" Or, "I'm looking for fan games set in totally unique fan made regions!"

  • Please be specific when suggesting a fan game. You cannot just paste the title of the game as a comment. Provide some detailed information about the fan game you are recommending, or your comment may be removed.

#If you would like your community added to the subreddits of interest section in our sidebar, send us a modmail!

####If you have any other questions you can send us a modmail message, and we will get back to you right away.


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7 Comments
2025/02/01
12:01 UTC

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Pokémon Realities

Hey everyone, it’s me again, so I’ve recently released a playable short demo for my Fangame, but that’s not why I’m here. What I’m here for is to ask you for assistance in creating my Fangame. I’m specifically looking for the following positions

Spriters: Mainly Pokemon & UI spriters (for regional variants, custom megas, & UI’s)

Concept Artists: For concept art of characters & new Pokemon

Coders/Eventers: Need people to help me implicate more complex events and code within the game to make it stand out from the rest

And well last but not least, we need fans of the game too, so please come check us out, we’d love to have you either as a fan of the game or a member of our team!

Discord Server Link: [Realities Server|https://discord.com/invite/Kwv7EcDMxY]

12 Comments
2025/02/01
09:19 UTC

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