I have a question, are there shiny variants of mons cards? I would love to see that (And to get some too, by being lucky) Like there are shiny mons in the original games, I would love to have the possibility here as well
I really wish this is in mobile so i can play in between breaks at work lol. Also i hope u add more content at least up till 3rd gen. The first 3 gen have always been my favorite, i dont mind if the later gen isnt added. But i guess its called crystal for a reason :(
I have to say this is amazing and so much fun, Now I know you technically cant get any monetization from this but i would pay for a full decked out version (pun intended) of this with more features
You can just save the save files with a new name to start a new save and rename later to go back. The FAQ on the discord should have a path to the save file.
This is an incredibly fun, addicting game. I used to love pokemon games but as I got a full time job, I got bored of them and couldn't even play something for more than 15 min. I could play this game for hours. This game is what made me return to gaming.
I made an account just to tell you that this game is amazing. I'm on my way to making a living dex right now, and was wondering if all of the Legendary birds and dogs are in this as well as Ho-Oh and Lugia? I have Mew, so I assume Mewtwo is in it, but haven't found anyone other than Mew yet. I really hope that this doesn't get taken down by Nintendo, it's truly fun and I've spent around 10 hours or more on it the past two days and hope to find all the Pokemon (:
Couple pieces of advice on gameplay, is that it's a bit tough to get out Glyph'd Pokemon unless you spam Lucky, which isn't a bad thing, but they're somewhat lackluster for the extra berry cost. Maybe a 3DP start of turn would help circumvent that but it could also make it harder, and the ability to sell from card packs or not take the free cards, just my two cents though, thank you very much for the game <3
Same here, I made this account like 2 days ago because I wanted to recognize his efforts, this is an amazing game indeed.
(SPOILER ALERT!!! Just in case you want to find out which pokemons are in the game by yourself don't read any further)
About your questions I have Zapdos and Entei, which means that the others may be here too (Also MissingNo, which I also have), it doesn't matter if you get a new packet of cards or choose from free cards, I got Entei from a Free Card and both Zapdos and Missigno from Packets of Cards.
Okay thank you, I needed to know if they were in because I've been mass spamming the packs hoping to find any other Legendries but because I capped out on berries and had like 8 copies of every other Pokemon the game ran super slow when in the Poke Inventory and had to make sure I wasn't bogging myself down for no reason lol
Thanks for letting me know, that explains why my game is running as slow as a Snail, well, I'll have to sell some cards then, and just a suggestion, you can give your cards the "Harvester" Glyph, so when you use them they give back any berry you used to summon them, a combo that I use is "Lucky" + "Harvester" so when I summon the card I get 2dp and also when it faints I get back the berries to summon any card I got in my han
Harvest+Lucky+Memento is undoubtedly the strongest trio of Glyphs in the game in my opinion. +2DP on play, +2DP on death and berry refund is stupidly broken. It's hard to find all three to throw on one thing but I just put it on the Entei I found and he's a beast :)
After gym leader 3 each fight has worse and worse odds of winning. I am forced to put garbage into my deck as the minimum deck size increases. Unless I want to grind loops MANY times to fully upgrade that garbage, my odds of drawing good cards drop significantly after each gym battle. The minimum deck increase should be lower. Also the fade to black after each battle is about 5x too long.
What benefit does Evolution offer? I thought it would amplify the stats gained by levelups, but I tried that theory by evolving Bulbasaur into Venusaur, but the level up results after that weren't much different from what Bulbasaur would get. Mind you, I haven't gotten past the first gym so my level cap is still 2.
I must say, I created an account here, just to leave a comment complementing the game, really simple, but extremlly fun, an amazing casual game, really well done, congrats for the idea and execution.
This game is super fun! I've been having a really great time with it. I wanted to ask a quick question. Are certain events more likely to happen in certain cities?
The reason I ask, is that in my playthrough, it felt like "Tribute" and "Evolution" became increasingly rare the further I progressed. Idk if it was just my luck, or if that's part of the game.
All opponent main decks have a limit, and they're never bigger than the maximum deck size, even for gyms.
I appreciate the feedback, but many of your suggestions just really go against the base gameplay style and strategy design I set for it, and would completely change the game in ways opposite to what I want it to be. I understand no game mechanics are for everybody though, and I appreciate you giving the game a try.
I will agree that I'd like to see you get more than one bonus point of damage when type advantages overlap (ala 4x weaknesses). You could have stated your case for it better though lol
- Can you put a "Sort by Berry type" in the mon select screen?
- It gonna be nice have a "withdraw" button on the played mons to back them to our hand and replace to another mon on the same place. It gonna be a trick over the elements or replace some played trees and rocks.
You can also use Steam's "add a non-steam game to my library" and then Properties > Compatibilty and check Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool
I have never been able to figure out Wine and Lutris, but learning that I can force run things with Proton is a bloody game changer! Thank you so much!
With Lutris, Wine, and Proton, most games can be run stably in Linux nowadays. The only issue I've had so far with Fedora 35/36 is multiplayer in Borderlands 3.
I appreciate that. I'm still new to Linux, having only installed Mint within the last 3 or so months. While I'm enjoying it, I'm still learning things all the time. Lutris and Wine are on my to-do, but I've been dreading it.. Not entirely sure why, but I have been.
Are you supposed to not be able to save your progress between the final fights and have to do it all in one sitting? I quit out after winning the first battle, and upon reloading the game saw that I had to redo it.
Yep, just like the original games, you can't save in-between fights during the League. There's a message in the bottom right corner that says "saving disabled" during that part.
For the love of god please use this as a stepping stone to a game with an original IP. It's so good and you deserve compensation for your work. Only thing it needs is a roguelike mode.
Suggestion: for the keyboard shortcuts, while using TAB to go over the cards in hand, we could use the numbers [1][2][3][4][5] to select the position we want to play it and if there's already a card in there, it makes the card attack
Could you make it so you can just click card and destination slot, as well as add an "attack all" button? Feels sluggish to have to drag and drop to place cards, or have to click each one to attack.
so if I can't beat the first gym leader and am forced to redo the first route which is even harder. I can't beat the trainers because the game is grindy and there is little skill. don't get enough money to power up enough to beat 2nd gym leader so I have to keep going forever??? it's incredibly boring as well, it's like tic tac toe in that even if know a great strat you just eat shit against the wrong trainer with bad luck. also, WHY can I only level things once???? I don't want to waste my money on other mons which I don't want just so I can actually scrape by. hate this game and I mean it please fix everything... you can't cancel it when you level up as well, this game is fucked ong
Are u so mad because u like the game and you struggled on the second route so u decided to write a more emotional post? But consider that this game is completly free and is made by one guy as hoppy project.
There is some stuff that should help:
1) You can level up as many times as you want in the screen as long you don't reach the level cap or u don't have enough money. You can also leave the level up screen if you don't to level up a Pokemon.
2) You can also go back to the first route and grind there if the current route is to hard.
3) If you enter a Trainer Match you can instantly leave the battle and skip the trainer this way
4) Don't stay to long in the sun if you are made out of milk, else you will get sour milk.
The Tic Tac Toe reference doesn't make sense, till you can't loose in this game even if your opponent has the best strategy, because it simple mechanic and has zero luck to it and not really comparable to this game in terms of luck.
There is a guy who finished this game in round about 2:30h and that is not that much. The skill you need for this game is to grind efficient and this is one of the fun parts of the game.
So I found this game through the article Polygon had on it. I've been playing for a good while now (I'm still on my first playthrough and going for the 7th gym now) and I really enjoy the game.
My main suggestion (which may have been suggested many times) is to allow for setting the number of berries instead of all or nothing.
I mean I make it work by using only 1 berry type for the deck but there's so many I don't use because they're of the other 2 that I know would be useful but if I've got 30 of each berry in then I'm likely to have trouble playing anything that has a Glyph on it at all, especially if it had 2 berry types needed. Just would be nice if I could set one to like 17 and the other to 13 so I have a more balanced number of berries without having to sift through almost a hundred.
Maybe if we could at least have like increments of 5 there's more ability to modify the deck's outcomes for things. Otherwise I feel like I just have to pick 1 type of berry and use it forever. Enigma are rare enough it's hard to build a deck with them and rightfully so since it's the catch-all type berry.
You can scroll-up/scroll-down with your mouse to change the number of berries 1 by 1. Also, you can add more berries than the same quantity of Mons cards that you have, just in case for those mons that use 2 berries or 2 diff berries
Ah, I want to say I tried that and it didn't do it. Gonna make sure to look into that. Did seem like a weird thing to not add given all the other wonderful Quality of Life things integrated.
I'm in love with this game! I have never played something like this before, it's refreshing! But I have a question, why Porygon2 is not in the game? It's a Gen2 evolution just like Crobat and I don't understand why it is not there, I have more questions like what are those cards with different colors? Are those the legendary cards I've seen people talk about? And, is there going to be more events in the future like: "You have encountered Team Rocket Grunt! if you lose this battle you will lose one of your deck cards, but next time you fight another grunt and win the battle you will regain your card/s back" also it would be nice that they more money than intended when losing, also having other types of events would be nice! (Also I believe this is a bug but I can't level up my porygon to level 3)
I don't know if mine has something weird, for example, it's card is a bit more darker than the other normal types cards, I can't evolve it and I can't level it up further than lvl2, I only have one porygon tho, maybe that one is bugged or something
Your porygon isn't bugged you just used it for a tribute to boost another pokemon you can see the x at the top of the card and the heart. A card can have up to 3 hearts.
Because of the x you cant do that mucht with your porygon like evolution or level up, but you can tribute another pokemon to your porygon so it will be back to normal. Maybe the picture helps
I believe it's only 1, because after it gets an "x" it no longer can be used for attribute material. The only thing I think attribute does is increase the health of the card, please correct me if I'm wrong, I wish there was a super detailed guide somewhere to understand those mechanics
Love it, but would like to see more deck building insentives. for example, abilities on all the pokemon, or something that differentiates them from one another. simplicity is cool, but so is complexity.
No problem. The game is amazing. I love the concept, it's a fresh take on an old card game, and it's really fun and enjoyable. Thank you for watching my videos, i'm glad to hear you liked them.
So, going first is just strictly always the best? You can just choose to not play any cards on turn one going first and then still attack with them next turn. This is pretty much why most games have summoning sickness every turn.
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I have a question, are there shiny variants of mons cards? I would love to see that (And to get some too, by being lucky) Like there are shiny mons in the original games, I would love to have the possibility here as well
I really wish this is in mobile so i can play in between breaks at work lol. Also i hope u add more content at least up till 3rd gen. The first 3 gen have always been my favorite, i dont mind if the later gen isnt added. But i guess its called crystal for a reason :(
I have to say this is amazing and so much fun, Now I know you technically cant get any monetization from this but i would pay for a full decked out version (pun intended) of this with more features
I agree with this!
I do have one recommendation for a future update. Multiple save files. Please. xD
You can just save the save files with a new name to start a new save and rename later to go back. The FAQ on the discord should have a path to the save file.
This is an incredibly fun, addicting game. I used to love pokemon games but as I got a full time job, I got bored of them and couldn't even play something for more than 15 min. I could play this game for hours. This game is what made me return to gaming.
I made an account just to tell you that this game is amazing. I'm on my way to making a living dex right now, and was wondering if all of the Legendary birds and dogs are in this as well as Ho-Oh and Lugia? I have Mew, so I assume Mewtwo is in it, but haven't found anyone other than Mew yet. I really hope that this doesn't get taken down by Nintendo, it's truly fun and I've spent around 10 hours or more on it the past two days and hope to find all the Pokemon (:
Couple pieces of advice on gameplay, is that it's a bit tough to get out Glyph'd Pokemon unless you spam Lucky, which isn't a bad thing, but they're somewhat lackluster for the extra berry cost. Maybe a 3DP start of turn would help circumvent that but it could also make it harder, and the ability to sell from card packs or not take the free cards, just my two cents though, thank you very much for the game <3
Same here, I made this account like 2 days ago because I wanted to recognize his efforts, this is an amazing game indeed.
(SPOILER ALERT!!! Just in case you want to find out which pokemons are in the game by yourself don't read any further)
About your questions I have Zapdos and Entei, which means that the others may be here too (Also MissingNo, which I also have), it doesn't matter if you get a new packet of cards or choose from free cards, I got Entei from a Free Card and both Zapdos and Missigno from Packets of Cards.
Okay thank you, I needed to know if they were in because I've been mass spamming the packs hoping to find any other Legendries but because I capped out on berries and had like 8 copies of every other Pokemon the game ran super slow when in the Poke Inventory and had to make sure I wasn't bogging myself down for no reason lol
Thanks for letting me know, that explains why my game is running as slow as a Snail, well, I'll have to sell some cards then, and just a suggestion, you can give your cards the "Harvester" Glyph, so when you use them they give back any berry you used to summon them, a combo that I use is "Lucky" + "Harvester" so when I summon the card I get 2dp and also when it faints I get back the berries to summon any card I got in my han
Harvest+Lucky+Memento is undoubtedly the strongest trio of Glyphs in the game in my opinion. +2DP on play, +2DP on death and berry refund is stupidly broken. It's hard to find all three to throw on one thing but I just put it on the Entei I found and he's a beast :)
Same here, I also made an account just to talk about how much I love this game LOL
I don't like the balance.
After gym leader 3 each fight has worse and worse odds of winning. I am forced to put garbage into my deck as the minimum deck size increases. Unless I want to grind loops MANY times to fully upgrade that garbage, my odds of drawing good cards drop significantly after each gym battle. The minimum deck increase should be lower. Also the fade to black after each battle is about 5x too long.
Plays card game, complains about the odds
Bruh
What benefit does Evolution offer? I thought it would amplify the stats gained by levelups, but I tried that theory by evolving Bulbasaur into Venusaur, but the level up results after that weren't much different from what Bulbasaur would get. Mind you, I haven't gotten past the first gym so my level cap is still 2.
afaik evolution doesn't change their stat progression but it does give a one time stat boost, a bonus level up basically
Also, some pokemon gain new types by evolution (not many in gen1/2)
I must say, I created an account here, just to leave a comment complementing the game, really simple, but extremlly fun, an amazing casual game, really well done, congrats for the idea and execution.
I just finished the game, Really good, TBH better than the pokemon card game in my opinion
Thank you so much!
Your game is so awesome ! I think your game has a real potential :)
I can't wait for the gen 3 and gen 4 updates. Gardevoir and Lopunny are my two favorite Pokemon. xD
download link seems to be dead. discord link is too. Which is a shame! I really wanted to play this!
Updated Discord link! Thanks for the heads up, it changed for some reason.
Download seems to be working properly by the way, please try again!
Ah, my mistake! Turns out Itch doesn't play nice with my VPN
This game is super fun! I've been having a really great time with it. I wanted to ask a quick question. Are certain events more likely to happen in certain cities?
The reason I ask, is that in my playthrough, it felt like "Tribute" and "Evolution" became increasingly rare the further I progressed. Idk if it was just my luck, or if that's part of the game.
Keep up the great work! This is rad!
The chance stays the same throughout the game! Lady Luck is just unpredictable sometimes.
Thanks for playing! I'm glad you're enjoying it!
All opponent main decks have a limit, and they're never bigger than the maximum deck size, even for gyms.
I appreciate the feedback, but many of your suggestions just really go against the base gameplay style and strategy design I set for it, and would completely change the game in ways opposite to what I want it to be. I understand no game mechanics are for everybody though, and I appreciate you giving the game a try.
And again, thanks for the feedback!
I will agree that I'd like to see you get more than one bonus point of damage when type advantages overlap (ala 4x weaknesses). You could have stated your case for it better though lol
Will this ever come to android?
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Two suggestions:
- Can you put a "Sort by Berry type" in the mon select screen?
- It gonna be nice have a "withdraw" button on the played mons to back them to our hand and replace to another mon on the same place. It gonna be a trick over the elements or replace some played trees and rocks.
I miss the "sort by berry type too" it would be great
This looks so GOOD! I can't play it, though.. I'm on Linux. :(
I believe wine plays it just fine!
I use Lutris for this game on a Linux system and it works just fine.
Add the path for the .exe and install wine.
You can also use Steam's "add a non-steam game to my library" and then Properties > Compatibilty and check Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool
You can WHAT?
I have never been able to figure out Wine and Lutris, but learning that I can force run things with Proton is a bloody game changer! Thank you so much!
With Lutris, Wine, and Proton, most games can be run stably in Linux nowadays. The only issue I've had so far with Fedora 35/36 is multiplayer in Borderlands 3.
I appreciate that. I'm still new to Linux, having only installed Mint within the last 3 or so months. While I'm enjoying it, I'm still learning things all the time. Lutris and Wine are on my to-do, but I've been dreading it.. Not entirely sure why, but I have been.
Are you supposed to not be able to save your progress between the final fights and have to do it all in one sitting? I quit out after winning the first battle, and upon reloading the game saw that I had to redo it.
Yep, just like the original games, you can't save in-between fights during the League. There's a message in the bottom right corner that says "saving disabled" during that part.
Huh, interesting. I never played the originals, just the pinball spin-offs.
the long awaited 'attack all' function.. hahaha.. but could you include an attack all button for mouse users too?
maybe soemthing simple as right click in the buttom to pass turn, than everyone attacks, before the turn end
For the love of god please use this as a stepping stone to a game with an original IP. It's so good and you deserve compensation for your work. Only thing it needs is a roguelike mode.
Suggestion: for the keyboard shortcuts, while using TAB to go over the cards in hand, we could use the numbers [1][2][3][4][5] to select the position we want to play it and if there's already a card in there, it makes the card attack
Could you make it so you can just click card and destination slot, as well as add an "attack all" button? Feels sluggish to have to drag and drop to place cards, or have to click each one to attack.
Thanks for the feedback!
so if I can't beat the first gym leader and am forced to redo the first route which is even harder. I can't beat the trainers because the game is grindy and there is little skill. don't get enough money to power up enough to beat 2nd gym leader so I have to keep going forever??? it's incredibly boring as well, it's like tic tac toe in that even if know a great strat you just eat shit against the wrong trainer with bad luck. also, WHY can I only level things once???? I don't want to waste my money on other mons which I don't want just so I can actually scrape by. hate this game and I mean it please fix everything... you can't cancel it when you level up as well, this game is fucked ong
Are u so mad because u like the game and you struggled on the second route so u decided to write a more emotional post?
But consider that this game is completly free and is made by one guy as hoppy project.
There is some stuff that should help:
1) You can level up as many times as you want in the screen as long you don't reach the level cap or u don't have enough money. You can also leave the level up screen if you don't to level up a Pokemon.
2) You can also go back to the first route and grind there if the current route is to hard.
3) If you enter a Trainer Match you can instantly leave the battle and skip the trainer this way
4) Don't stay to long in the sun if you are made out of milk, else you will get sour milk.
The Tic Tac Toe reference doesn't make sense, till you can't loose in this game even if your opponent has the best strategy, because it simple mechanic and has zero luck to it and not really comparable to this game in terms of luck.
There is a guy who finished this game in round about 2:30h and that is not that much. The skill you need for this game is to grind efficient and this is one of the fun parts of the game.
It's cute, not that well balanced though, quite grindy.
For the players I'd recommend perhaps just the first gym and nothing more.
What are cool games you would suggest?
Satisfying Missingno. Combo with One Shot Potential
How to play:1) Block until you have have Missingno.
2) ???
3) Profit
With lucky Berserk trigger it can do 250 damage in one turn.
Holy crap. That is absolutely broken, hahahaha. That's amazing.
Thanks for the kind words.
Your game made it possible to do such things ⎦˚◡˚⎣
So I found this game through the article Polygon had on it.
I've been playing for a good while now (I'm still on my first playthrough and going for the 7th gym now) and I really enjoy the game.
My main suggestion (which may have been suggested many times) is to allow for setting the number of berries instead of all or nothing.
I mean I make it work by using only 1 berry type for the deck but there's so many I don't use because they're of the other 2 that I know would be useful but if I've got 30 of each berry in then I'm likely to have trouble playing anything that has a Glyph on it at all, especially if it had 2 berry types needed. Just would be nice if I could set one to like 17 and the other to 13 so I have a more balanced number of berries without having to sift through almost a hundred.
Maybe if we could at least have like increments of 5 there's more ability to modify the deck's outcomes for things. Otherwise I feel like I just have to pick 1 type of berry and use it forever. Enigma are rare enough it's hard to build a deck with them and rightfully so since it's the catch-all type berry.
You can scroll-up/scroll-down with your mouse to change the number of berries 1 by 1. Also, you can add more berries than the same quantity of Mons cards that you have, just in case for those mons that use 2 berries or 2 diff berries
Ah, I want to say I tried that and it didn't do it. Gonna make sure to look into that. Did seem like a weird thing to not add given all the other wonderful Quality of Life things integrated.
Thank you for informing me.
I'm in love with this game! I have never played something like this before, it's refreshing! But I have a question, why Porygon2 is not in the game? It's a Gen2 evolution just like Crobat and I don't understand why it is not there, I have more questions like what are those cards with different colors? Are those the legendary cards I've seen people talk about? And, is there going to be more events in the future like: "You have encountered Team Rocket Grunt! if you lose this battle you will lose one of your deck cards, but next time you fight another grunt and win the battle you will regain your card/s back" also it would be nice that they more money than intended when losing, also having other types of events would be nice! (Also I believe this is a bug but I can't level up my porygon to level 3)
I'm not sure what you mean about Porygon2 - I'm playing it right now as I type this. Are you not able to evolve a Porygon to get it?
I don't know if mine has something weird, for example, it's card is a bit more darker than the other normal types cards, I can't evolve it and I can't level it up further than lvl2, I only have one porygon tho, maybe that one is bugged or something
Your porygon isn't bugged you just used it for a tribute to boost another pokemon you can see the x at the top of the card and the heart. A card can have up to 3 hearts.
Because of the x you cant do that mucht with your porygon like evolution or level up, but you can tribute another pokemon to your porygon so it will be back to normal. Maybe the picture helps
Before Tribute
Wow! Thank you very much! That was the issue with my card, oh man, I thought I had 2 "legendary" cards, but they were just atributed.
That's really helpful, thanks! Is there a limit to how many x's a card can have?
I believe it's only 1, because after it gets an "x" it no longer can be used for attribute material. The only thing I think attribute does is increase the health of the card, please correct me if I'm wrong, I wish there was a super detailed guide somewhere to understand those mechanics
Love it, but would like to see more deck building insentives.
for example, abilities on all the pokemon, or something that differentiates them from one another. simplicity is cool, but so is complexity.
Um. Dev. Found an audio bug. Nothing major.
Oh, weird! Thank you!
Been watching your videos, btw! I really like them!
No problem. The game is amazing. I love the concept, it's a fresh take on an old card game, and it's really fun and enjoyable. Thank you for watching my videos, i'm glad to hear you liked them.
Vincent just sent out the rock with the best glyph set EVER!
Really loved it! Suggestions:
So, going first is just strictly always the best? You can just choose to not play any cards on turn one going first and then still attack with them next turn. This is pretty much why most games have summoning sickness every turn.
will there be a version for mac?
I tried to figure that out today, but sadly I found out that I currently don't have the necessary resources to make it work.
can someone tell me how to get legendary card,
tried to find them in the elite 4 area but cant seem to obtain them no matter how hard I try
Unfortunately its just luck I guess. The drop rates are miserably low, just keep trying. I got 2 of them from the "Free Card" events
I just released a patch that increases drop chance for those cards, among other things, so good timing I guess!
would it be possible to add multiplayer after beating the elite 4 ?
Th loop is a 7/10 and it looks like the enemy is trolling you with his full hand of cards ^^
lol
Played it up until the 2nd gym so far and I've got to say I'm loving it. Looking forward to seeing more of it!
If anyone's interested here's my experience of it
https://moodytail.itch.io/pocket-crystal-league
You linked to this same website! Did you mean to link to a YT video or Twitch stream? I'd love to see it!
Oh lol, meant to link this one
Fastest Patch in Pocket League History ^^
Thank you for the report! I had to delete your comment to avoid any exploits, but thank you for real! I genuinely appreciate it.
Good catch. It also works with:
- Evolution
- Tribute
- Glyph
Personally i would be cool when use a bug like this in an offline game and have fun with, but i am not the owner so anyway.
what was the bug?
If you really want to know it, then join their discord and send me a PM.
https://discord.gg/yNJUFT3a
Owner moodytail deleted the post because he doesn't want the bug exploit to show up here and he already patched it so i respect that.
okay! :D understandable