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Greetings. I am Eevee, and this is my.. experiment. It is not so much a web site as a testing ground for whatever I happen to be doing at the moment. For quite a while, that has been the construction of an epic Pokédex, but on the off chance it is ever finished to my satisfaction, I have plenty more ideas for applications to write. In other words, this is not nor was it ever intended to be yet another Pokémon site.
You are welcome to create a community here (when the forum happens to be working), but I make no effort whatsoever to censor anything or adhere to any sort of "rating". I also have a bit of a problem with people who cannot get enough of their own inane babble and people who cannot string two words together coherently to save their lives. I suggest you keep that in mind if you wish to "contribute". Beyond that, I think nitpick rules are the fastest way to create a religion, so I try to avoid it at all costs.
If you wish to actually contribute -- i.e., look at and amend the code -- drop me a line and we'll see what we can do. Veekun is written in Perl and running atop Catalyst on FastCGI. (PHP sucks.)
I am also distributing my raw Pokédex data, as I think it's ridiculous to claim ownership of data someone else invented that I collected. If you would like it, you can get a MySQL-compatible dump from my code repository. Fair warning: the schema has no real documentation at the moment and is subject to change without notice.
I am wide open to suggestions, comments, criticisms, improvements, and free money.
Pokémon News
In an expected move, Game Freak has announced a new generation of Pokémon today during Pokémon Sunday. The first Generation V Pokémon has been revealed. Many details are unknown at this point, but it is known that the new Pokémon will be starring in the next Pokémon movie, Ruler of Illusions Z.
The official Japanese card website has revealed more cards from the Reviving Legends expansion. These cards include Houndour, Houndoom, Houndoom Prime, and a reprint of the Neo Genesis Sneasel.
According to Newtype Magazine, the title of the 166th episode of <i>Pocket Monsters: Diamond & Pearl</i> is <i>Depart! Nagisa Tower!!</i>. The episode is set to air March 4 on TV Tokyo.
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I don't work on current veekun any more, it's slowly falling apart as I upgrade the server (look at the resources page), and I want to get rid of it as soon as possible. Ideally, I'd like the beta to replace current veekun by HG/SS's release (or maybe the day of, although I'll be out of town at the time).
However! The beta is still far from complete. I've been putting a lot of work into the staples like Pokémon pages and some gaping holes like encounters, but that means I've had to put off stuff like recreating the Pokémon search for quite some time. And I haven't even started on anything like a forum, which is a giant undertaking.
If I made the beta the real site today, there would be no advanced search and no way for anyone to communicate. I can't even post real news right now. Hell, the front page of the beta is blank. This sucks.
So! I have six weeks. Assuming I keep the old site around for emergencies, what does the beta critically need for it to replace veekun? In order of important, right now I think I can get away with:
- advanced Pokémon search
- Pokémon and move lists
- user stuff (registration, login, permissions)
- a shoutbox
After that:
- barebones forum (so I can post news)
- breeding chain calculator (because it's fairly unique)
- item/ability pages
And then I guess everything else in the current order.
I do have a roadmap of everything I wanted by release, which I consulted for the above list.
Thoughts?
Keep in mind I still only have cursory Japanese knowledge, I'm highly unlikely to be fluent by the end of the year, and it took me months to beat either Pearl or Platinum. 8)
To mark this slightly-belated occasion, I've cobbled together a history of its development, complete with screenshots and demos of what it looked like—long before anyone actually used it. (The screenshots are at the bottom, to trick you into reading all the words.)
Forum
| Gen 5 | Zhorken | 02/09/10 04:40 | |
| Riddles | MissSkymin | 02/08/10 21:47 | |
| Beta changelog II: Electric Boogaloo | Eevee | 02/08/10 12:15 | |
| D&D is not pokemon related | Pumaman | 02/07/10 05:50 | |
| Some help please | MissSkymin | 02/05/10 21:56 | |
| Who's got Shiny Pichu? | Happy | 02/05/10 07:47 | |
| what pokemon would you have in the real world, | Happy | 02/05/10 07:29 | |
| Veekun beta and HG/SS | Eevee | 02/04/10 17:20 | |
| I build pokemon sprite merges, any one want one? | rotom123456 | 02/01/10 23:01 | |
| Egg/previous evolution moves on evolved Pokemon | spriteless | 01/28/10 07:12 | |
| Ban the user above you... | Broken_luck | 01/27/10 18:53 | |
| Suggestion | ShinyMew | 01/26/10 22:35 | |
| Ten years | ailuros | 01/25/10 17:22 | |
| Avatars | Zerovile | 01/21/10 01:45 | |
| Cresselia event | spriteless | 01/18/10 20:02 | |
| Background Music | Monferno | 01/13/10 06:26 | |
| Cool new pokemon Ideas | Happy | 01/09/10 11:56 | |
| im kinda new to the building up the pokedex | apn220 | 01/04/10 18:32 | |
| Action Replay codes can be posted here to share. | ACE | 12/28/09 18:31 | |
| Bad jokes | Dusknoir44 | 12/26/09 04:56 |
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