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:

• 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.

Notable GOAT threads:

• 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

Great a new pokemon game and i didn't even get x or y yet.

I'm still working through the pokedex challenge on Omega Ruby. o3o; haven't finished the game once to my shame.

I trusted the trademarks would be used, Gamefreak has been having 3 to 4 years between each gen so it's logical. Plus the fact that pokémon exists 20 years now No way they would let go the oppurturnity to release a game on a special year like that.

It feels like Gen 6 was just yesterday! But yes, it looks like another generation coming up I actually found out about it a day before the announcement when they trademarked the logos and names, was glad to see they were not just trademarking them so people don't use them.