Freitag, 10. Januar 2020

Behind the scenes of the games that brought Pokémon to PC before Temtem

Although Switch owners got not just one, but a pair of new Pokémon games this year, folks who are committed to PC gaming got the short end of the Farfetch’d leek. Temtem, an MMO game openly – almost brazenly – inspired by Pokémon is out later this month, but you don’t have to wait until the 21st of January to play a Pokalike.

See, PC players are used to having to make do and mend, so there are in fact already Pokémon games that you can play on your computer. They’re ROM hacks, and they’re sort of like the Yu-Gi-Oh cards you might have brought home after being on holiday when you were younger: just as good as the official ones but, you know… not necessarily official. The creators of some of the most popular ones agreed to have a chat, and share some of the passion, problems and community spirit to be found behind the scenes of making pocket monsters work on personal computers.

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