Pokemon Battle Advanced - demo

Relive the classic. Like you've never played it.

You know this town. The red roof, the fountain, the path north into the tall grass. Pokémon Battle Advanced rebuilds the start of the FireRed/LeafGreen journey as an HD-2D world of pixel sprites in a 3D world with real light, weather and water. Then it throws out the turn-based menu. Every battle happens in real time.

The demo takes you from your bedroom in Pallet Town to Brock's Boulder Badge in Pewter City. It's a free fan project, and it runs right in your browser.

Battles in real time

• No turns, no waiting. Move your Pokémon around the arena, line up your attacks, dodge, sprint and jump. Four moves sit on a diamond under your fingers, and each one has its own cooldown.
• Tag-team wild Pokémon. Send a second fighter into a wild battle, switch which one you control, or let your partner fight by itself.
• Fight on land, in the water and in the sky. Water types swim and dive under the surface, flyers sweep over lakes, and Pokémon that can't swim wade through the shallows.
• Type matchups still matter. Super-effective hits, status conditions and stat changes all carry over from the games you know, now under real-time pressure.

Boss battles

Your rival Blue wants a rematch on Route 22. The Viridian Forest bug catchers block the path. And at the end of the road, Leader Brock waits in the Pewter Gym with a Geodude and an Onix that fills the whole arena. Gym Leaders have their own music, their own arena and an AI that reads the type matchup.

A world that lives

• Day turns to night. A real game clock runs from morning through midday, afternoon and sunset into night. Street lamps and windows light up after dark.
• Storms roll in. Rain clouds drift across the map on the wind. Roads darken and puddles form, thunderstorms throw lightning, and the ground dries again after the storm passes.
• Water you can see into. Lakes and ponds reflect the sky, and Pokémon swim in them.
• The route you remember: Pallet Town, Route 1, Viridian City, Route 22, Route 2, Viridian Forest and Pewter City, with the people, trainers and Pokémon of FireRed/LeafGreen in their places. The world is built bigger than the original, so there's more room to explore.
• Catch Pokémon, fill your Pokédex, raise your team and watch them evolve. Your Pokémon can also follow you around the overworld.

This is just the beginning

The demo ends at the Boulder Badge, and the roads past Pewter City stay closed for now. More of Kanto is on the way. Follow the page to hear when it opens up.

How to play

In the browser: press Run game. Chrome or Firefox work best (Safari has WebGL 2.0 issues), and you may need to click the page once before the audio starts. Your progress saves in your browser's storage for this site; clearing site data resets the demo.

Keyboard

Move	Arrow keys (hold Shift to run)
Talk / confirm	E
Menu / back	Esc
Send out / recall a party member	1–6
In battle: moves	W A S D (the move diamond)
In battle: jump	Q
In battle: quick items	hold Z + a move key
In battle: switch / 2nd fighter	1–6 (hold for the 2nd fighter)
In battle: pause (ally mode, control the other fighter, run)	Esc

Gamepad: left stick moves. In battle, A B X Y are the four moves, RT sprints, RB jumps, LB (hold) opens quick items, LT swaps which fighter you control and Start pauses. Use D-pad ↓ for the party ring. In menus, A confirms and B goes back.

Touch screens: turn on OPTIONS → TOUCH CONTROLS. You get an on-screen stick and buttons.

Known issues

• Some moves still play a placeholder hit effect while the move effects are finished.
• Pokémon abilities have no battle effect yet.
• Trainer battles are 1-on-1. Two-fighter battles are for wild Pokémon only.
• The first area you load can hitch briefly while shaders compile.

Credits

Made by Daigan Games, in Godot Engine 4.7.

Pokémon sprites: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon sprites from PMD SpriteCollab, CC BY-NC 4.0. Artists: Spike Chunsoft (original sprites), 3P1C, Deeshura, Emboarger, Emmuffin, Grimlin, Gust, G〜, JFain, Morei, NeonCityRain, Prismatic, ShyStarryRain and Top_Kec.

Move effects: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Origins asset collection (PMDCollab), with effects from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald and Pokémon Ranger.

3D world: Kenney City Kit Suburban, Nature Kit and Fantasy Town Kit (CC0), and world models from Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver.

Music & sound: Kenney interface, UI, impact, RPG, digital and sci-fi sounds and music jingles (CC0) · Aureolus_Omicron, 15 Melodic RPG Chiptunes (CC0) · AkitsukiShintai, move sound effects (PokemonHD-2D) · original synthesized cries and effects made for this game · MUSIC-SOURCE-TODO

Fonts: Pixelify Sans (The Pixelify Sans Project Authors) and Nunito (The Nunito Project Authors), both SIL Open Font License 1.1.

🔗 Support me: https://www.patreon.com/c/DaiganGames

Legal

Pokémon and all related names, characters, sprites, music and other assets are © Nintendo, Creatures Inc. and GAME FREAK inc. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon © Spike Chunsoft. Pokémon Battle Advanced is a free, non-commercial fan project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo, Creatures Inc., GAME FREAK inc., The Pokémon Company or Spike Chunsoft. It is not for sale, and no money is made from it.