What's the main protagonist lookin like?

[bilussenpai]

I want to know if you guys had any Ideas because tinymeowmix and I could start to work on that. I saw the game is being based In India, so we could take some ideas.
Thanks.

[Leafeon]

This can go under story brainstorm. We haven't really discussed that and that would be a good topic to bring up there as it will reach a consensus faster. I'm also not sure what art style we a using (FR/LG,RSE,DPP,HGSS) so that would also be an important thing to bring up.

[Devoxys]

I think the protag is gonna be Zarel, but its not finalized.

[Snaquaza]

I disagree with the protagonist being Zarel. That shoudl be good for a leader, but I feel like the protagonist should either be abstract or someone who has to do with the project.

[Ace]

I'd prefer an abstract protagonist.

[social]

Could we have sort of an aging protagonist as an option? I think it'd be really cool to start out as a young boy, and as we venture through the game we grow old, but while keeping a cool maybe mysterious look to us.

[Flerovium]

I don't think it would be fair if the protagonist were someone working on the project..

It should be like in previous main series games where the protagonist is just some random kid who takes on the gyms and E4, eventually growing in fame and power.

[Twix]

I feel the protagonist shouldn't be based on an already published idea and we should think outside of the box. Personally, I think Social's idea of an aging process could actually be pretty cool, where as the player progresses the game they age. We could even add some things with birthdays and getting gifts from the protag's parent, but that's probably too cheesy.

[Tazonite]

Let's just make Snaquaza the protagonist.

[Saburo]

I want to go with multiple avatars if we can. 
Each gender gets four choices. 

For all male character sprites:
- Height: 5'7
- Age:16


For all female character sprites:
- Height: 5'5
- Age: 16 


Male 1

- Ethnicity: Caucasian 
- Hair color/style: Black and for hair style i'll put a link for reference ( hairstyle reference  ) 
- Eye color: Green
- Clothing: Black tank top, Black leather jacket, Blue Jeans, black boots
- Accessories: Possible tattoos, and pocket chains 

Male 2
- Ethnicity: African american 
- Hair color/style: Black, style either dreads or buzz cut
- Eye color: Grey 
- Clothing: Yellow hoodie ( hoodie reference ) or zipped up jacket ( Jacket reference ), Black jeans, and black sneakers 
- Accessories: Beanie, and ear piercing 

Male 3
- Ethnicity: Latin American 
- Hair color/style: Brown, and style is spiked, pony tail, or mohawk  
- Eye color: Blue
- Clothing: White/blue v-neck t-shirt, brown shorts or pants, white sneakers or flipflops 
- Accessories: sunglasses, and watch

Male 4
- Ethnicity: Asian 
- Hair color/style: Blonde or Black, and style is spiked 
- Eye color: Brown
- Clothing: ( Shirt ) ( jacket  ), black pants, white or black sneakers
- Accessories: Possible tattoos, and possibly a beanie or sunglasses or just glasses 

Female 1
- Ethnicity: Caucasian
- Hair color/style: Brown, and style is French Braided or Bryce Howard's hair style in JW (aka my avatar) 
- Eye color: Blue
- Clothing: Black or white Sundress, brown sandals 
- Accessories: small earrings, and a flower in hair 

Female 2
- Ethnicity: African American 
- Hair color/style: Black, and long or short curls 
- Eye color: Green
- Clothing: Black or Red tank top, brown or black short shorts (booty shorts), black sneakers or sandals 
- Accessories: Gold Necklace, and gold bracelets 

Female 3
- Ethnicity: Latin American 
- Hair color/style: Blonde or brown, and ( hairstyle  )
- Eye color: Brown
- Clothing: Green or yellow shirt, black skirt, brown or white sandals 
- Accessories: ring, and earrings 

Female 4
- Ethnicity: Asian
- Hair color/style: Black or Red, ( hairstyle  ) ( hairstyle  ) 
- Eye color: Grey
- Clothing: Pink or Blue shirt, short denim shorts, black sneakers 
- Accessories: watch, and possible tattoos


Nothing is final, just made these up on the top of my head. Just sort of a base to get the creative juices flowing. Let me know what you think! 

[Trickster]

What if we gave multiple choices for protagonists based off of already existing trainer classes? For example, you could choose to be an ace trainer, hex maniac, psychic, ranger, etc. It wouldn't affect anything except aesthetics, though.

[Mirror Bubble]

Jun 19, 2015 3:28:41 GMT 1 Saburo said:

I want to go with multiple avatars if we can. 
Each gender gets four choices. 

For all male character sprites:
- Height: 5'7
- Age:16


For all female character sprites:
- Height: 5'5
- Age: 16 


Male 1

- Ethnicity: Caucasian 
- Hair color/style: Black and for hair style i'll put a link for reference ( hairstyle reference  ) 
- Eye color: Green
- Clothing: Black tank top, Black leather jacket, Blue Jeans, black boots
- Accessories: Possible tattoos, and pocket chains 

Male 2
- Ethnicity: African american 
- Hair color/style: Black, style either dreads or buzz cut
- Eye color: Grey 
- Clothing: Yellow hoodie ( hoodie reference ) or zipped up jacket ( Jacket reference ), Black jeans, and black sneakers 
- Accessories: Beanie, and ear piercing 

Male 3
- Ethnicity: Latin American 
- Hair color/style: Brown, and style is spiked, pony tail, or mohawk  
- Eye color: Blue
- Clothing: White/blue v-neck t-shirt, brown shorts or pants, white sneakers or flipflops 
- Accessories: sunglasses, and watch

Male 4
- Ethnicity: Asian 
- Hair color/style: Blonde or Black, and style is spiked 
- Eye color: Brown
- Clothing: ( Shirt ) ( jacket  ), black pants, white or black sneakers
- Accessories: Possible tattoos, and possibly a beanie or sunglasses or just glasses 

Female 1
- Ethnicity: Caucasian
- Hair color/style: Brown, and style is French Braided or Bryce Howard's hair style in JW (aka my avatar) 
- Eye color: Blue
- Clothing: Black or white Sundress, brown sandals 
- Accessories: small earrings, and a flower in hair 

Female 2
- Ethnicity: African American 
- Hair color/style: Black, and long or short curls 
- Eye color: Green
- Clothing: Black or Red tank top, brown or black short shorts (booty shorts), black sneakers or sandals 
- Accessories: Gold Necklace, and gold bracelets 

Female 3
- Ethnicity: Latin American 
- Hair color/style: Blonde or brown, and ( hairstyle  )
- Eye color: Brown
- Clothing: Green or yellow shirt, black skirt, brown or white sandals 
- Accessories: ring, and earrings 

Female 4
- Ethnicity: Asian
- Hair color/style: Black or Red, ( hairstyle  ) ( hairstyle  ) 
- Eye color: Grey
- Clothing: Pink or Blue shirt, short denim shorts, black sneakers 
- Accessories: watch, and possible tattoos


Nothing is final, just made these up on the top of my head. Just sort of a base to get the creative juices flowing. Let me know what you think! 

Loving the blond and red headed Asians lmao lolololol

I love how the eye colors mix, that's good actually, to stick a bit away from racial distinctions.

All the possible tattoos tho. Not that that's an issue, it's just funny how many you put those on.


overall, this looks like a great base to work off of, if we want to make custom chars.

[Saburo]

Jun 19, 2015 4:04:12 GMT 1 Trickster said:

What if we gave multiple choices for protagonists based off of already existing trainer classes? For example, you could choose to be an ace trainer, hex maniac, psychic, ranger, etc. It wouldn't affect anything except aesthetics, though.

I did think about that, and i wouldn't mind if we went with custom characters or existing trainer classes. But, it seemed that people were leaning more towards custom characters, but like i said, i wouldn't mind either way.  

[Saburo]

Jun 19, 2015 10:36:33 GMT 1 Mirror Bubble said:

Jun 19, 2015 3:28:41 GMT 1 Saburo said:

I want to go with multiple avatars if we can. 
Each gender gets four choices. 

For all male character sprites:
- Height: 5'7
- Age:16


For all female character sprites:
- Height: 5'5
- Age: 16 


Male 1

- Ethnicity: Caucasian 
- Hair color/style: Black and for hair style i'll put a link for reference ( hairstyle reference  ) 
- Eye color: Green
- Clothing: Black tank top, Black leather jacket, Blue Jeans, black boots
- Accessories: Possible tattoos, and pocket chains 

Male 2
- Ethnicity: African american 
- Hair color/style: Black, style either dreads or buzz cut
- Eye color: Grey 
- Clothing: Yellow hoodie ( hoodie reference ) or zipped up jacket ( Jacket reference ), Black jeans, and black sneakers 
- Accessories: Beanie, and ear piercing 

Male 3
- Ethnicity: Latin American 
- Hair color/style: Brown, and style is spiked, pony tail, or mohawk  
- Eye color: Blue
- Clothing: White/blue v-neck t-shirt, brown shorts or pants, white sneakers or flipflops 
- Accessories: sunglasses, and watch

Male 4
- Ethnicity: Asian 
- Hair color/style: Blonde or Black, and style is spiked 
- Eye color: Brown
- Clothing: ( Shirt ) ( jacket  ), black pants, white or black sneakers
- Accessories: Possible tattoos, and possibly a beanie or sunglasses or just glasses 

Female 1
- Ethnicity: Caucasian
- Hair color/style: Brown, and style is French Braided or Bryce Howard's hair style in JW (aka my avatar) 
- Eye color: Blue
- Clothing: Black or white Sundress, brown sandals 
- Accessories: small earrings, and a flower in hair 

Female 2
- Ethnicity: African American 
- Hair color/style: Black, and long or short curls 
- Eye color: Green
- Clothing: Black or Red tank top, brown or black short shorts (booty shorts), black sneakers or sandals 
- Accessories: Gold Necklace, and gold bracelets 

Female 3
- Ethnicity: Latin American 
- Hair color/style: Blonde or brown, and ( hairstyle  )
- Eye color: Brown
- Clothing: Green or yellow shirt, black skirt, brown or white sandals 
- Accessories: ring, and earrings 

Female 4
- Ethnicity: Asian
- Hair color/style: Black or Red, ( hairstyle  ) ( hairstyle  ) 
- Eye color: Grey
- Clothing: Pink or Blue shirt, short denim shorts, black sneakers 
- Accessories: watch, and possible tattoos


Nothing is final, just made these up on the top of my head. Just sort of a base to get the creative juices flowing. Let me know what you think! 

Loving the blond and red headed Asians lmao lolololol

I love how the eye colors mix, that's good actually, to stick a bit away from racial distinctions.

All the possible tattoos tho. Not that that's an issue, it's just funny how many you put those on.


overall, this looks like a great base to work off of, if we want to make custom chars.

Thank you! and yeah, I just really like tattoos for some reason lol. But, if you have any ideas you want to add to it, go right ahead. I tried making them as different as i could by adding unique features to them, and i'm not sure how well i did with the female ones i made because I had my cousin help me with that haha. 

[Mirror Bubble]

Jun 19, 2015 18:05:23 GMT 1 Saburo said:

Jun 19, 2015 10:36:33 GMT 1 Mirror Bubble said:

Loving the blond and red headed Asians lmao lolololol

I love how the eye colors mix, that's good actually, to stick a bit away from racial distinctions.

All the possible tattoos tho. Not that that's an issue, it's just funny how many you put those on.


overall, this looks like a great base to work off of, if we want to make custom chars.

Thank you! and yeah, I just really like tattoos for some reason lol. But, if you have any ideas you want to add to it, go right ahead. I tried making them as different as i could by adding unique features to them, and i'm not sure how well i did with the female ones i made because I had my cousin help me with that haha. 

Imo red and blonde hair aren't really Asian hair colors. As an Asian myself, I can say that in my travels through China, I have not seen a naturally blond or red headed Chinese rof.

You could try switching the Caucasian black hairs with the Asian hair colors, that would make a lot more sense imo

[Flerovium]

I honestly think that you should be able to mix and match hair/eye colours with your ethnicity as you please, whether or not you'd actually find people who are naturally like that in real life... Isn't what I just described basically how XY is?

[Hounds]

I agree with Flerovium. You should get to choose your protagonist/looks for the main character. I feel like adding that variety makes the game a lot more special.

[Snaquaza]

Saburo, if you want tattoos, maybe we can put them in a separate "design-your-character" screen, where you can select a shape and a spot on the body?

[Saburo]

Jun 20, 2015 17:02:33 GMT 1 Snaquaza said:

Saburo, if you want tattoos, maybe we can put them in a separate "design-your-character" screen, where you can select a shape and a spot on the body?

Yeah, that would be perfect. I just added different accessories to the different characters because I didn't know if it would take more work to customize your character. But if we can do it like X/Y style, i would much prefer that.

So, if we want, we can take the base of the characters i made without the accessories (Unless you guys want to change it), and then let the players customize the way the want them to be.

The separate screen would include hair color/style, eye color, one or two outfits, and various accessories. And for further customization, we can have a separate store for them to buy new clothes, accessories, contacts and then have a little place where they can get their hair and tattoos re done.

Unless we decide if that the character you customize in the beginning is permanent for the rest of the game (which would be easier) 

Now, i dunno if that's too much to work or if we can even do that, but what do you think? 

[Snaquaza]

I'd love it if we could do it like that, I don't have much experience with coding games however. minnow, whatagimmick, does either of you know how hard it is?

[kizzo212]

Well certain fangames like pokemon insurgence (rpgmakerxp+essentials thing) did manage to incorporate a character customization option, but I don't have much of an idea how this would be replicated in rpgmaker, let alone a romhack.

[whatagimmick]

Yeah, not really sure how you would go about doing that in a ROM. In RPGMaker I assume it's easier, but then again, I've never fiddled With RPGMaker.

[VigVig]

Why do all Americans call Africans African Americans, they are AFRICAN, not african americans

[Saburo]

Jul 13, 2015 7:46:59 GMT 1 VigVig said:

Why do all Americans call Africans African Americans, they are AFRICAN, not african americans

It's America's term used to describe Africans in a "formal" way. I will agree that is is ridiculous term, but I used it because the majority of people will know what it means and I just grew up with the term. 

[VigVig]

Lel It's a little pet hate I have, now for relevant stuff to this topic.

If you pick Asian don't make red an option for the female character, that is just dumb, maybe add that to Latin American or something.
blonde is, meh. Though we probs should put it in there in case there are some Asians playing who don't have black hair