monster game rpg

I refactored my code a lot. I have many files now. I pointlessly made a custom console for debugging but you can’t use certain things on mobile like auto backing up on refresh and checking the file path on errors. In other news I managed to make the fighting 2v2 which is making me think I could do 6v6 maybe. What if I make a skill tree for every monster so you can easily decide what moves to have in battle… and maybe increase available skills to 6. It’s so boring 1v1 with 4 moves. 

fyi dont use the breeder its a small bug but i fixed it in my current code. ill upload later.

so i made it dual screen like an nds. more mobile friendly. 

i uploaded the new version on https://tmarshall.x10.mx/mygame6/
i changed a lot of stuff compared to the old version. next i think i want to try balancing the game more. battles can be too difficult early on but if i add more moves like scratch, growl ect then the enemy will have a higher chance of using one of those moves instead of attack every time. so will be easier to win early on. i dont want to copy pokemon too much but i was thnking of adding leer or something. i need to come up with new moves that arent attacking moves that i can use. anyways if anyone is reading this let me know what you think! 

Ive gotten better at coding. i am using my scenes to keep track of all the pages and stuff. I added more moves and some have special effects like hypnosis, confusion, paralyze ect. when you catch a monster it lets you name the monster and then it show the details. i made a teacher where it lets you teach any move to any monster. its not restricted yet but i should limit the moves it can teach. when you talk to the monster it shows the affection level and lets you interact with it. also added a monster breeder. say you catch a monster it has 4 moves already learned and you wont be able to get a move that it learned on a lower level because its already been replaced. so if you breed a monster then you will get a low level of a specific monster so you can get the moves it learns on the lower levels. when you interact with the monster you can also feed it berries. there are specific berries for each type of monster. eg poison, electric. added an animation for the experience bar. also i made the pokedex (enclyclepdia?) look nicer. i think thats it. i haven't uploaded the changes yet im just trying to polish the game a bit. but if someone is interested then let me know! i am going to try to upload the new screenshots. i think thats all i added. i think i should add accuracy to the monsters because i have sand attack. it will influence the dodge mechanic instead of it just being random. not sure how i will do the math for that but im sure chatgpt will help. i also need to add poison cure berry.. and i dont have a key for my items i need to rework that so the name isnt the key and i can have names with capitals and spaces so it looks nicer. maybe i should make it so you need cut to cut down a tree instead of an axe? with the new moves i added i need to make sure its balanced better i think. i also added more dialogue messages like when a monster gets burned. but i was thinking it should have a dialogue after every attack but it just covers the pokemon when the dialogue is there so i am not sure what to do there. i would have to rearange the UI but i cant find a UI I like. i was thinking of cleaning up my code a bit now that i have things working well. it would be cool to have more animations for my atacks but its hard to find free stuff online and i dont have an animation artist. i need to move away from pokemon and pokedex and pokeballs and make it unique to my game... because of copywright. 

fixed the burn and poison mechanics. fixed the pokeball catch rate. also fixed the levelup so the wild pokemon dont learn more than 4 moves. added a cancel button so you dont need to learn a new move. 

redid the attack logic code. figured out you can do promises in the code, basically instead of doing oncomplete of tweens you can do await and async. basically how it works is the code has to finish executing before it goes to the next line so you can have a tween that does an animation and it won't overlap with the next tween so you can control the order that all the animations and code gets executed and it doens't overlap. makes the code a lot cleaner.

been improving the code and fixed a few bugs. added a UI for the monster party and the items. havent uploaded the code yet though i want to make sure i find all the bugs. still havent uploaded the dodge and crit, poison, burn cut and the 10 elemental moves and also a few new pokemon. still trying to polish the game and find all the bugs... sometimes the burn gets triggered twice. my attack code is a nightmare. when i implemented speed i had to keep track of who was attacking first based on the speed. its pretty confusing, been thinking of doing a different aproach for managing the attack sequence. maybe an attack queue? sometimes i have double attacks or tripple attacks and then having it burn at the end of the turn or poison, i need to somehow do it in a certain order i think. chatgpt has a word limit but perplexity doesnt but it has a limit to how many times you can upload text to it per day. but i was thinking of seeing if it can come up with some way of having an attack queue. like an array of attacks and it plays it in a sequence. would make my attacking logic pretty fancy. 

Im finding lots of bugs... not sure why. i need someone to fix them for me lol... the attack sequence seems to be messed up. 

NinjaAdventure updated their pack so im going to add the new monsters... 

i realized a few bugs, i havent touched this project in a while i kinda want to colab with someone. 

i realized i forgot to add the chest asset so that didnt load in the demo on the site. 

i think the capture sphere formula is broken seems to always catch. it's supposed to catch based on how much health is left and the level of the monsters.

not sure how to fix the blurryness, i think its because im using the zoom on the camera. not sure how to manage linear scaling or whatever. 

i need to get more ideas on what to add to the game... maybe figure out cutscenes and make it more story driven. im not sure. 

built this in a few months of solid work every day. 

adding dodge, critical, burn, poison, cut, 10 new elemental moves, 

there i uploaded the most recent version.

if there's more interest i will update my itch.io download and browser play. currently only the most recent version is on my x10 site. i got the dialogue box working with the touchpad controls (when you are on mobile you can see the gameboy buttons) just haven't added listeners Everywhere yet. i am trying to figure out what to add next.

still having bugs with the dialoguebox... thought i fixed most of them but now getting strange results when adding keyboard controls. why is it so hard!

i need help wtih eliminating bugs. i am trying to add a turtorial and keyboard controls and im having lots of issues with the dialogue box ect

added a map  (m) and a difficulty setting
only accessible on my x10 site so far ... haven't uploaded here yet. :p

uploaded a new gameplay video to youtube. added items and trees. now its not so boring walking through the grass. you must beat the gym to be able to knock down trees. spacebar removes tree. spacebar opens chest. chest gives you a random item could even get a hyper potion or rare candy if you're lucky. 

i just uploaded the new game. it has gameplay to level 70~. doesn't take me long to level up i haven't made a 3rd town yet but on the way to the 3rd town there is a forest with a hut that lets you upgrade your pokemon. how the shrine works is if you collect an orb that matches the "following pokemon" type and you hit spacebar facing the shrine you can use the orb on the pokemon. it only takes effect if you use more than 3 times... then it will upgrade your special pokemon move. 

recently added more advanced battle logic i had to refactor the battle sequence so i can make it so one player attacks if the speed is faster than the other. the faster pokemon attacks first i mean... and each move has a speed so quick attack adds to the pokemon speed to determine which pokemon attacks first. its on my x10 site just want to get more content before uploading here. 

you can also play on my website if you don't want to wait for my new content to upload.
https://tmarshall.x10.mx/mygame2/index.html

been making improvements. will upload soon. so far i've reworked the moves so each pokemon has a special move and each pokemon has the moves tackle and quick attack. i haven't implemented speed yet. 
i also worked on the animations for quick attack and tackle, 
and recently just made it so the health bar slides when it updates, that was really difficult lol. but i'm learning so that's cool. 
next will have to be animating the experience bar i think, or adding another shop with a pc and or healing center not sure yet. 

oh and added pokemon, and changed the starter pokemon... now you have to pick from 3 starter pokemon. the dragon is kinda op. 

fixed bugs and made it so you can use your items  from the menu. 

tips... entering your house heals all the pokemon in your party.  you can hit spacebar when facing your pokemon that's following you and heal your pokemon for free... i should limit that. lol. its still in developement. my next upload will have many more pokemon! 

added a pc and fixed saving. working on bug fixes right now. 

figured out why lol i deleted some important files when i was trying to make the filesize smaller.

fixed.

apparently it didn't upload right. i just tried attacking and it threw an error. strange.

having hard time with the saving. not sure why it isn't working. itch.io seems to save the session so i guess i don't need to worry about it..