Mystery Gift is a function I’ve been working on in the background for Ecchi Version. My intended functionality is similar to that in the second generation where it’s an exchange between players and you’d have the trainer visit your game. You’ll be able to receive items, decorations, and more with them as well as battle against them once per day.

Similar to Cal in Stadium GS, it would be odd if you looked exactly the same, so your friend’s appearance will be based off of their Trainer ID. This is an old concept piece of one of the female trainers.

The next release will introduce the Mystery Gift functionality to the games. After saving, you will see an additional file in the directory named “(Player name).trainer”. This is a file you can send to or receive from your friends. If you place your friend’s “(Player name).trainer” into your Mystery Gift/Home directory, you will see them visiting your home!

The appearance is currently determined by modulo division of their Trainer ID, whereby it is divided by 4 and the remainder ( 0, 1, 2, or 3 ) determines the appearance. This system would allow me to evenly distribute appearances across trainer IDs, even expanding it. I plan to create additional appearances, so expect this to change in the future.

The appearance for trainer IDs with a modulus of 0.

The appearance for trainer IDs with a modulus of 1.

Now, here’s a quick question. Where do you want your guests to visit? The upstairs or downstairs of your house?

In the future, I intend to have the St. Andrew work as a place to host even more guests and expanding this functionality.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, trainers!

Update: Loud and clear. AI asset submissions will be rejected. I am sorry and do feel a bit bad for not using your animations that took a while to render, but eh, it doesn’t feel right.

Hi, here is another poll since it is pretty divisive. I wish for you to vote on it here: https://strawpoll.com/poy9kNOeDgJ. I wish to gauge the room and take the temperature of the audience.

I have experimented a bit with training an AI model on my own artworks for Pony and Illustrious. I have received a few animations for Allie and Emmie’s groping based on this model. In the past, I have been open to asset submissions.

Here are some rough mockups on a test map of how it would look like along with my old animations:

These would have a random chance to play when fully nude.

The issue now is that it clashes quite significantly with the older animations I’ve created around 2016-2017 and is more refined in its rendering than would really be humanly possible.

My personal opinion on the matter of AI slop ( even trained on my own artworks ) is that it lacks a human touch that I think will be pretty off-putting and it is very inconsistent. It is able to do things quickly, however.

As a tool, I see the utility in fundamentally being able to create an assistant which can handle tasks. On the other hand, I am giving up some of my creative vision of the project as I am not completely in control of it. I have valued keeping my specific vision of the project, but I’ve also allowed other people to submit assets in the past and have compromised on this consistency before. It also feels a little ungrateful to snub my nose at what probably took a long while to render.

Would you like me to use such assets? Would you want me to maintain a strict policy to exclude them? Make sure to vote and feel free to leave a comment with your feelings on the matter.

Holly City, a town nestled between the mountains.

Holly City Gym. As you may be aware, each Gym has its own unique version of the Gym theme.

Atop the location of a meteorite impact, what lurks beneath Argent City?

The encounter theme of the male Swimmer.

The encounter theme of the female Swimmer.

Considering the feedback, you’ll be able to switch between these settings.

I’ve been asked for some more examples and a better explanation. Each character would have a voice clip to utilize similar to Pokemon cries.

I am currently considering adding voice clips to the default scene handler. At the moment of writing this, every human character has a voice.

Now, here’s the question for you guys. Is this a bit jarring? That’s why I would like to weigh your opinions on the matter with a poll here.

Update: As a sizeable chunk were not fond of the voices, there will be an option to enable/disable them.

Haven’t really had too many scenes like this.

An additional scene to encounter in the Marigold Inn in Marigold City.