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News & Announcements / Pokemon Universe Tribute Thread
« on: March 15, 2016, 01:55:32 PM »
Hey everyone. Pokemon Universe is not being worked on anymore. It has not been worked on for quite a while, now. There have been surges of activity, hype, and production throughout this project, but overall, the ambitious project has come to an end.
Joining this forum as a teen and now making a career off the skills I learnt from this forum has been an amazing progression to reflect on. I thought i'd open this thread as a sort of "obituary"-- the Dutch hosts of this website are being forced to pay for the domain and bandwidth for a closed project.
Now, the definite future of this forum has not been collectively decided upon just yet, so this isn't an announcement of its closing. However, to make it clear-- the game is not in development, and most likely never will be.
Reminisce away, friends. It's been a hell of a journey, and we thank you for being a part of it!
For some fun facts:
Joining this forum as a teen and now making a career off the skills I learnt from this forum has been an amazing progression to reflect on. I thought i'd open this thread as a sort of "obituary"-- the Dutch hosts of this website are being forced to pay for the domain and bandwidth for a closed project.
Now, the definite future of this forum has not been collectively decided upon just yet, so this isn't an announcement of its closing. However, to make it clear-- the game is not in development, and most likely never will be.
Reminisce away, friends. It's been a hell of a journey, and we thank you for being a part of it!
For some fun facts:
- From the start, it was known this project would struggle, and perhaps may never come to fruition, as it was done completely through volunteer work.
- Most of the work got done in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
- The project was pretty much dead by 2013. Although it did see a surge in activity and development by some very talented mappers and artists, its future as a website and "company" started to be reconsidered during this time. With a lack of pixel artists, for two years prior, and developers that could work full time, it was seen as hopeless.
- Although it did die down, the workload, and organisational structure within the production team was very comprehensive and taken seriously. It was very much like a professional company, although without all the formalities.
- There has been no real progress on the game itself for about 2 years at this point.
- This forum spawned four real-life relationships I can count, and two babies!
- Power user Jerry has had the same profile pic for nigh on 7 years!
- Carbon is now a gay trans-genderfluid furry. Who would've thought.
- Chit chat thread: http://www.pokemon-universe.com/index.php/topic,1167.0.html
- Anonymous Guild: http://www.pokemon-universe.com/index.php/topic,2301.msg44883.html#msg44883