With it being October tomorrow, it'll only be one month now until Tamagotchi's 30th Anniversary on the 26th of November! And with the Tamagotchi Anime's 17th birthday coming on October the 12th, this October will be declared....TAMOCTOBER! This monthly creation challenge is designed to allow yourselves to showcase your love for the Tamagotchi anime in your own creative way.

Get inspired by these prompts above, and share your fanart across the reddit channels! Combine them with your favorite franchises and discover combinations you'd never imagine! Not good at drawing? Share your creativity with music, poems, fanfictions, and anything that inspires you, including YouTube videos, with the tag #Tamoctober! We're looking forwards to what you can cook up with these characters this month. After all, this 30th Anniversary is going to be the best one yet. GOOD LUCK!

A Pokémon Essentials Project designed to celebrate the 30th Anniversaries of both Pokémon and Tamagotchi, to celebrate the best of the fans of both franchises, to serve as a massive love letter for both franchises and fan games in general, and to prove that the latter isn't completely overshadowed by the Digimon they inspired!
HOW THIS IDEA CAME TO BE
It was a foggy November night, and I was wondering what sprite project to do next after my big success, Pokémon North, South, East, and West, as next year is Pokémon's 30th Anniversary. Initially thinking of doing a region based off Neopets, and then one off Australia, I then realized that next year is also the 30th anniversary of Tamagotchi, and I was instantly struck with a storm of ideas!
Now, I am calling for help to make this project a reality. Now, I know for sure this likely won't be finished before Pokémon's 30th Anniversary on February the 27th, and maybe not before Tamagotchi's 30th anniversary on November the 23rd, as I've got loads of other projects to do in the meantime including doing education...But maybe with the community's help, who knows?
THE STORY SO FAR:
Over to a new unknown Tamagotchi, "Kyatchi", to explain everything....
"Ah, sorry to have kept you all waiting…moves onto the scene My name…is Kyatchi. I…have come to make an announcement for everyone, the whole planet! So, you might be wondering why I invited you all here. Well...Following the end of the Tamagottsun, there's been reports of mysterious creatures appearing all over the Tamagotchi Planet. These creatures possess a mysterious power that is beyond anything that we've ever seen here...such power could change the Planet in more ways than we could ever imagine. They came in all shapes and sizes...and some of them looked awfully like the Tamagotchi Planet's residents. I wonder if the Tamagottsun's end was what brought them into the planet itself. These beasts have a wide variety of behaviours, and some might bring forth catastrophe if left unchecked. However, the scientists of Mame City have recently discovered that these creatures can shrink in size at command and fit right into your pocket. Thus, they have dubbed these creatures "Pocket Monsters"... or "Pokémon" for short. Now...pulls out a Poké Ball After budding inventor Mametchi discovered the potential of these creatures, he had invented a device that can not only force a Pokémon to shrink into it, but also tame it instantly. And once tamed, the Pokémon will trust you and fight by your side for life. He has dubbed this device, the "Poké Ball". Now, this device is intended to be distrubuted to all shops as I speak, and it will hopefully pave a future where Pokémon and Tamagotchi live in harmony...Oh, and one more thing. Whatever you do...do not throw this device at another Tamagotchi or yourself. It's currently untested against those...Now, as for me... I have come...because I have an idea. I have decided to use these Pokémon...to determine who this planet's true saviour is. Sponsored by the Gotchi King, I have created...the Gotchi Mon Royale! This experience is designed to take you across the planet's beauty and witness how strong these Pokémon can be at the same time...and show that your past feats were not merely flukes. You will work with your Pokémon and use your talents to bolster their power, working your way from the minor Tama Rank...all the way to the coveted Royal Rank, the rank that will decide...the Tamagotchi Planet's Champion."

But it's not all calm here on Tamagotchi Planet...a mysterious Legendary Pokémon known as "Amestra" has been running across the planet for years, having landed ten years prior to "The Big Race"...it appears that this Psychic/Dragon type Pokémon has been running for a reason, being chased by a familiar black fog...and it has something to do with the Tamagotchi Planet and the Earth itself. Is Amestra truly the Tamagotchi Planet's saviour as everyone expected? Or is it up to something truly sinister?
FEATURES:

• Travel on a Pokémon Journey across the Tamagotchi Planet! Visit many of it's locations from the virtual pets, the anime, and the video games alike in a detailed ten chapter long story, as you climb up the Gotchi Mon Royale's ranks and find out the truth behind Amestra, and the Pokémon sent seemingly to hunt it down, alongside a mysterious cult of living eggs known only as "The Purity Rebirth"...
• Catch, train, and raise the perfect harmony between Pokémon and Tamagotchi! The Tamagotchi Planet has it's own regional dex of 431 Pokémon, of which 185 of them are new, alongside eleven new regional forms! These Pokémon are based off Tamagotchi characters from nearly every source you can imagine! Every Pokémon, even the returning ones, has it's own new Pokédex entry written in third person by none other than Principal Mimizu himself! Walking Pokémon also make a comeback here....
• Play as one of 15 characters! Play as one of 15 different Tamagotchi from the franchise, each one having their own unique rivals and personal events: Dialogue also changes depending on who you are. It's like having 15 games in one!

You can play as either, from left to right, Mametchi, Kuchipatchi, Memetchi, Kuromametchi, Lovelitchi, Melodytchi, Himespetchi, Moriritchi, Coffretchi, Candy Pakupaku, Yumemitchi, Kiraritchi, Pianitchi, Miraitchi, or Clulutchi. Yes, all of those are real Tamagotchi!

• Introducing Cheer Abilities! For once, you are no longer merely giving commands to your Pokémon, you fight alongside them! You can use a unique ability alongside your move that is different with every character you play as. Once you use it, it goes on cooldown for three turns.
• Introducing Biomerge! Once you've progressed far enough into your Pokémon Journey, you gain the ability to merge with your active Pokémon to show the true bond between a Pokémon and a Tamagotchi! While Biomerged, your Pokémon's stats get a massive boost, they become immune to all status changes and stat drops, and you get to use your Cheer Ability every turn! But be careful, for if you get knocked out while Biomerged, it's all over! Every character has a unique appearance when Biomerged.
• All previous gimmicks return! As you proceed through your Pokémon Journey, you'll eventually gain the Omni-Ring, which allows you to unlock Mega Evolution, and eventually Z-Moves, Dynamaxing, and Terastalization! This fangame brings in 41 new Mega Evolutions, 11 new Gigantamax forms, and 11 new signature Z-Moves!
• Experience new moves and abilities! Pokégotchi Endless Dreams brings 21 new moves and nine new abilities to the table: Can you master them all?
• Pokémon Contests make a return! The Hoenn Pokémon Contests make their grand comeback in the Tamagotchi Planet! Buff your Pokémon's contest stats by feeding them Poffins made from the berries you gather across the region, then enter them into Contests to dazzle the crowd! The coveted Master Rank Ribbon is at reach...
• A vast soundtrack! Listen to a vast array of songs from a wide variety of franchises, mostly from the Tamagotchi series...which songs can you remember from which franchise?
• Animated cutscenes! Some of the cutscenes in this game are animated just like the Pokémon and Tamagotchi Anime itself...funningly enough, both were animated by OLM, Inc.!
• Raise your own Tamagotchi in the game?! At a certain point in the game, you'll obtain a Tamagotchi Device that allows you to raise your own Tamagotchi in the game, even as you're going along! Each TamagotchI Device has it's own selection of characters from throughout the franchise, some more obscure than others.
• A...special guest? Since Tamagotchi was the original inspiration for Digimon, it was only fitting to include a single Digimon in there...beware the mysterious Tamagotchi X, and his partner, the Psychic/Dragon type Magnamon!

Other features include:

• Take part in over 100 sidequests to complete, including a vast postgame
• Challenge the Battle Frontier in the postgame with six familiar facilities: Battle Tower, Battle Factory, Battle Arena, Battle Pyramid, Battle Hall, and Battle Castle
• Collect over 600 different kinds of Plushies, containing many characters from past monster taming games and the Pokémon franchise itself
• Play the game in either Normal Mode or Challenge Mode, and set a variety of limits, including a level cap and the ability to enforce rules for Nuzlockes, Monotype Runs, Egglockes, and Wedlockes
• Built in randomizer mode for a unique gameplay experience
• Gain several quality of life features, such as automatic Move Relearner, Pokémon Box Link, and the Judge Function
• Keep 15 Save Files at once, and transfer Pokémon between them

ROLES NEEDED: (VOLUNTARY!)
This fangame uses Pokémon Essentials in order to make it. I will require the following roles to get this project finished:

• Spriters for the following categories:

Gen 3 style sprites for all of the trainers in the game
Gen 3 style back sprites for the 15 playable Tamagotchi
Gen 3 style sprites for the plushies
Gen 3 style overworld sprites, including playable characters, NPCs, and Pokémon
Gen 3 style maps

• Mappers
• Essentials Programmers (I can handle the PBS files!)

VIEW THE DATABASE:
The below link leads to all of the other work I have done so far, including the game's full story...or at least, it's initial version. You are free to have a look, but if you want to avoid being spoiled, do not read the story serial!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZW1ENH7O-diX4R1W6QYsrDABw5UU6V9qyuE-AGG2r0E/edit?usp=sharing

JOIN THE DISCORD SERVER!:
If you're willing to keep in touch with the fangame's updates, or want to join the project to help in it's completion, click on the link below!

https://discord.gg/W2U2e9Evkv

VIEW THE INSTAGRAM PAGE:
The below link leads to the official Pokégotchi Endless Dreams Instagram page, where you can see all the new sprites made for the project so far and much more!

https://www.instagram.com/ubertrainerinfinitydx/

You might recall on the ROM Hack Reddit that, around last month, I pitched my recruitment post for my project, Pokégotchi Endless Dreams, a fangame designed to celebrate the 30th anniversaries of both Pokémon and Tamagotchi by serving as a crossover between the two, only for it to fall short on the account that all projects there must have some progress in them beyond sprites and databases.

Well...Following advice from funnycatswag to turn this back into a Pokémon Essentials Project like it used to be, I finally got my hands on RPG Maker XP a few weeks after that, and now I have the initial data of all the Fakémon in the project itself! You can see the full Pokédex (Or at least the first version of it) in the video shown in this post.

Notable things to note, though:

• Heights and weights are definitely not final! I auto generated those with an excel worksheet and it may have some improvements to seek.
• All Fakemon cries are placeholders, and will be replaced once I can acquire some help in making cries.
• One of the first tasks I desired from the recruitment period was finalizing this Pokédex. The regional forms (For Tandemaus, Maushold, Impidimp, Morgrem, Grimmsnarl, Whismur, Loudred, Exploud, Cleffa, Clefairy, and Clefable) were not yet implemented at the time of the video.
• All the game's Pokédex entries are written in first person by Principal Mimizu. Some of them are cut off: I've been looking for a way to make the Essentials Pokédex entries last more than four lines, as the base Pokémon Essentials game does not have a second page function like in Pokémon Red and Blue and Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.
• You may hear some background noise in the video, I recorded this with OBS Studio.

Below is a link to the database I've made for the project, which shows more details about Pokégotchi Endless Dreams!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZW1ENH7O-diX4R1W6QYsrDABw5UU6V9qyuE-AGG2r0E/edit?usp=sharing

The background music is the TamaTown Theme from Tamagotchi Adventure Kingdom.

While I intend to get help with making all of the overworld sprites for my project, Pokégotchi Endless Dreams, I made these ones, for the 15 playable Tamagotchi in the game, as part of a little free time months ago. They may not be the best, but they're certainly a start!

From left to the right, the characters are:

Row 1: Mametchi, Kuchipatchi, Memetchi

Row 2: Kuromametchi, Lovelitchi, Melodytchi

Row 3: Himespetchi, Moriritchi, Coffretchi

Row 4: Candy Pakupaku, Yumemitchi, Kiraritchi

Row 5: Pianitchi, Miraitchi, Clulutchi

(Yes, these are all real Tamagotchi!)

Below are links to the previous four posts I made:

Pokégotchi Endless Dreams (Recruiting!) : r/PokemonROMhacks

Pokégotchi Endless Dream's Regional Pokédex! (Feedback Wanted!) : r/PokemonROMhacks

Pokégotchi Endless Dreams's Fakemon! (Feedback Wanted!) : r/PokemonROMhacks

A clearer look at Pokégotchi Endless Dreams's Fakemon (Feedback wanted!) : r/PokemonROMhacks

Does this look familiar to you? Why, it's the same Pokédex post I made on the recruitment page for Pokégotchi Endless Dreams a few days ago, except now you can zoom in and have a closer look at all the names and types of the Fakemon, as well as all of the new mode changes, Mega Evolutions, Gigantamax Forms, and the all-new Biomerge forms!
These displays were originally made for the project's Instagram page, which you can see below:
https://www.instagram.com/ubertrainerinfinitydx/

Below are links to the previous three posts I made:

Pokégotchi Endless Dreams (Recruiting!) : r/PokemonROMhacks

Pokégotchi Endless Dream's Regional Pokédex! (Feedback Wanted!) : r/PokemonROMhacks

Pokégotchi Endless Dreams's Fakemon! (Feedback Wanted!) : r/PokemonROMhacks

Pokégotchi Endless Dreams

A ROM Hack of Pokémon Emerald that serves as a crossover between Pokémon and Tamagotchi, designed to celebrate the 30th anniversaries of both franchises!

Planned Features:

●Play as one of fifteen different Tamagotchi

●Utilize the new Cheer Ability and Biomerge mechanics in battle

●All previous generational gimmicks return

●A vast story lasting ten chapters with side quests

●Play the game in either Normal Mode or Challenge Mode, and set a variety of limits, including a level cap and the ability to enforce rules for Nuzlockes, Monotype Runs, Egglockes, and Wedlockes

●Built in randomizer mode for a unique gameplay experience

●Gain several quality of life features, such as automatic Move Relearner, Pokémon Box Link, and the Judge Function

●Pokémon Contests make a return appearance!

Positions Wanted:

●Spriters for the following categories: (I've already made the front and back sprites for all of the new Pokémon)

●Gen 3 style sprites for all of the trainers in the game

●Gen 3 style back sprites for the 15 playable Tamagotchi

●Gen 3 style sprites for the plushies

●Gen 3 style overworld sprites, including playable characters, NPCs, and Pokémon

●Gen 3 style backgrounds

●Gen 3 style maps

●Mappers for Generation 3 maps

●Programmers fluent in pokeemerald-expansion and it's surrounding tools

●Sound Artists

●Storywriters/Game Balancers (I have a ten chapter tale ready but it needs reviewing!)

IMPORTANT NOTICE: I have not yet begun work on the actual ROM Hack itself yet because of my lack of skills in pokeemerald-expansion at the time.

Important Links:

The Recruitment Page: https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/pokégotchi-endless-dreams-help-wanted.539554/

The Database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZW1ENH7O-diX4R1W6QYsrDABw5UU6V9qyuE-AGG2r0E/edit?usp=sharing

The Discord Server: https://discord.gg/W2U2e9Evkv

The Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/ubertrainerinfinitydx// Scripter / Playtester / …>

Following on from the previous post I made, here's all of the new Fakemon I designed for Pokégotchi Endless Dreams! The first image shows all of the front sprites, the second shows a second frame for each of the sprites to correlate with Pokémon Emerald's animated sprites, and the third shows all of the back sprites, though the regional forms are not shown on the back sprite sheet.

You can view all the information about them in the database below:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZW1ENH7O-diX4R1W6QYsrDABw5UU6V9qyuE-AGG2r0E/edit?usp=sharing

Below are links to the previous two posts I made:

Pokégotchi Endless Dreams (Recruiting!) : r/PokemonROMhacks

Pokégotchi Endless Dream's Regional Pokédex! (Feedback Wanted!) : r/PokemonROMhacks

This post is designed to go with the Recruitment Post of Pokégotchi Endless Dreams I made here three days ago, and showcases the complete regional Pokédex! While I'm pretty sure it's the final version, feedback would be appreciated! (And don't forget to read the previous post about Pokégotchi Endless Dreams as well! You can see all of the new fakemon's information in the database below!)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZW1ENH7O-diX4R1W6QYsrDABw5UU6V9qyuE-AGG2r0E/edit?usp=sharing

Pokégotchi Endless Dreams

A ROM Hack of Pokémon Emerald that serves as a crossover between Pokémon and Tamagotchi, designed to celebrate the 30th anniversaries of both franchises!

Planned Features:

●Play as one of fifteen different Tamagotchi

●Utilize the new Cheer Ability and Biomerge mechanics in battle

●All previous generational gimmicks return

●A vast story lasting ten chapters with side quests

●Play the game in either Normal Mode or Challenge Mode, and set a variety of limits, including a level cap and the ability to enforce rules for Nuzlockes, Monotype Runs, Egglockes, and Wedlockes

●Built in randomizer mode for a unique gameplay experience

●Gain several quality of life features, such as automatic Move Relearner, Pokémon Box Link, and the Judge Function

●Pokémon Contests make a return appearance!

Positions Wanted:

●Spriters for the following categories: (I've already made the front and back sprites for all of the new Pokémon)

●Gen 3 style sprites for all of the trainers in the game

●Gen 3 style back sprites for the 15 playable Tamagotchi

●Gen 3 style sprites for the plushies

●Gen 3 style overworld sprites, including playable characters, NPCs, and Pokémon

●Gen 3 style backgrounds

●Gen 3 style maps

●Mappers for Generation 3 maps

●Programmers fluent in pokeemerald-expansion and it's surrounding tools

●Sound Artists

●Storywriters/Game Balancers (I have a ten chapter tale ready but it needs reviewing!)

IMPORTANT NOTICE: I have not yet begun work on the actual ROM Hack itself yet because of my lack of skills in pokeemerald-expansion at the time.

Important Links:

The Recruitment Page: https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/pokégotchi-endless-dreams-help-wanted.539554/

The Database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZW1ENH7O-diX4R1W6QYsrDABw5UU6V9qyuE-AGG2r0E/edit?usp=sharing

The Discord Server: https://discord.gg/W2U2e9Evkv

The Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/ubertrainerinfinitydx/