Text Monster Collecting Game

dulsi

Gamingonlinux mentioned this game. I haven't had the time to check it out yet. I wonder if it is more complete than tuxemon. If so maybe a GUI version could be created.

Peter

Pokete is a good game and it's fun

I played another FLOSS Pokemon game, it had graphics. I don't know if it was Tuxemon (Edit: I looked it up and I'm pretty sure it is Tuxemon). There was only a long intro story, no fighting at all.

Note that Pigeon Ascent has all the mechanics of a Pokemon game but is limited to mutant pigeons. It has graphics. It could be turned into a full-scale monster game. It is written using Godot so it only runs in my browser, not native (for me).

Greetings
Peter

Peter

Important update: Tuxemon is Alpha state but improved a lot and is now playable. For example fights work already.

There is a third open source game similar to pokemon: OpMon.

Edit: List of libre Pokemon games and games with similarities to Pokemon:

Tuxemon
Pokete
OpMon
Pigeon Ascent
Is this list worth being put into libregamewiki? Edit: Maybe a sub-genre of RPG called "Pokemon"?

Greetings
Peter

dulsi

That's great to hear. I tried to help the Tuxemon project. I implemented a choice in the conversation system but didn't do much more because I wasn't sure of the project's direction. Not to mention I've never played a Pokemon game.

Peter

I never played original Pokemon, too. Neither Gameboy/computer nor card game. But I watched the Anime a bit. But I have no clue about the monsters and their abilities. Which is probably good because I approach playing or programming similar games without thinking how the original mechanics are.

I have a libregamewiki account but I can't figure out how to add a Pokemon category to RPG.

Greetings
Peter

Technopeasant

I agree it would be good to have a sub-category but would want a more generic genre title than Pokemon clone. Maybe creature battling RPG?

https://libregamewiki.org/Category:Creature_battling_games

Pigeon Ascent really should have an article made.

Other games not mentioned yet in this thread are OPMon and Tangomon.

Peter

Technopeasant I mentioned OpMon. But I didn't know about Tangomon. Thanks for naming it.

I feel a bit overwhelmed by the complexity and verbosity of Libregamewiki-articles. There's so much to do. So I probably won't write articles for that wiki. :(

Greetings
Peter

Technopeasant

It is mostly the templates that can be a bit tricky, but writing a stub without them would still be helpful.

Peter

Ok, done. My article is now waiting for approval.

Peter

I wonder what happened to Pokete in the libregamewiki's list of Pokemon-like games? And why can't the Pokemon-like games be found from the main site?

Modanung

Peter
The category is called creature battling games, which is listed under genres.
This genre list is accessible through the main page.

Peter

Ah, ok thanks for the clarification. I was missing it in the top row.

Peter

There's something going on in that wiki. Now Creature battling games have vanished from the genre list. (There were there yesterday iirc.).

Modanung

Peter Still there for me.
But I agree it would probably be fitting to have it in the RPG menu as well.

Technopeasant

Yeah, I am really not sure how that all works, I sometimes notice pages load differently whether I am actually logged in or not.

Technopeasant

I have moved the category to Monster-taming games to match the new (well, from April 2023, about seven months after I created the Libregamewiki one...) category on Wikipedia.

https://libregamewiki.org/Category:Monster-taming_games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster-taming_game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Monster-taming_games

Peter

I think "taming" and "collecting" is not optimal. "Training" seems better to me. But "monster-taming" is an improvement over "Pokemon-like" :)

DrAlta

Peter

Monster-taming focus on improving your monsters. take the first Digimon World game you only have 1 monster at a time.

Monster-Collecting, is about getting as large of collection of monsters as you can get.

Monster-training sub type of the 'training' genre, training is the genre Princess Maker belongs to.

Technopeasant

Indeed, but probably better to be consistent.

Modanung

Brings back memories of Black & White... and makes me think how the game would be different with multiple creatures.