What Happened To These Amazing Pokemon Fan Games?

Some Pokemon Fan Games reach a point where development is just dropped, and the finished product will never see the light of day. In this video I'm here to talk about a couple of those projects, but also fan games being abandoned as a whole.

0:00 Intro
0:50 Phoenix Rising
5:20 Pokemon Azurite
8:51 Why do Fangames Get Abandoned?
10:04 Closing Statement

Music used in this video:

Document regarding Azurite's state of development:

[EnigmaticGentleman]

Most people don't understand the role motivation plays in art. If you arent motivated you're either going to work slowly or not make very good art, its simply not the same as regular work.

[GardevoirBoy]

A fangame that was abandoned by Moonlight Eli, who now goes by Mixeli, is Pokémon BlazeRed & WaveBlue. It's a Pokémon Black and White style of the Pokémon Red and Blue game.

[hoangnguyen]

Felt bad for Azurite
I remember playing Insurgence years ago and saw Taen wiki that he'll be featured on Azurite as a character with importance and was so hyped for it cuz its like a pseudo Insurgence sequal in my view
Sad to see its state now

[robsterthelobster]

with azurite i was an acquaintance of one of the artist, not cowctus, and through them I learned of azurite back in 2017 and talked to the head dev a bit have been following ever since and I remember one day them editing their discord and twitter to no longer include azurite. i wanted to ask because I was curious but I didn't want to be "that" guy that knows a fangame dev and to constantly ask questions that they are tired of hearing or do not want to answer and after reading the doc it really bummed me out. i haven't seem the doc till I saw this video and it was a bit of heavy blow to read it

[blazie]

Phoenix Rising devs were worried they flew too close to the sun with all the trailers and stuff they put out

[BlinciLIVE]

Takes a lot of logistical planning with no pay and usually a full team to make a quality pokemon fangame come to life, big praise to those who pull off the development marathon o7

[Yoseqlo]

Hey, good video! I didn't know about the Phoenix Rising problems, just that I recently found out that they suddenly were making it into a OG game of their own, so, good to know what probably happened.
And I of course I will be interested in more covering of these kind of cases! Specially from the mouth of someone that have personal experience on the matter.

[cherryleehartley]

Its absolutely funny to me how fans would be all "gamefreak should take more time in development!" but when a fangame or romhack does take more time in development theyre all "why is it not completed?" "its never getting completed is it" like, hello? 😭😭

[cliffe_rosethorn]

A very well-constructed video and best of all you are speaking from experience as a game developer, much respect.

[AshGreninjaEX]

Surprised Ethereal Gates isnt on here i have a feeling that game got abandoned it never was finished

[Dr.Sho_Minamimoto]

In regards to Phoenix rising, I hope it succeeds in being its own thing.

Maybe even going so far as to be like “Casette beasts” where it’s like Pokémon but has its own flavor and won’t get Gulaged by by Nintendo and gamefreak.

[RedRaikou]

I played Phoenix Rising, it was so good, it was a real shame that it wasn't finished.

[DonleyDoesIt]

As someone who just finished chapter 27 of Vanguard and is dying to keep going, we thank you for your hard work and perseverance. I love nuzlockes but was getting tired of alot of the romhacks and Reborn is good but a little bit of an edgefest. Vanguards world, story and types are so refreshing. So, as much as I want to keep playing, take your time, we appreciate it, just don't give up on us 🖤🔥

[FaisLittleWhiteRaven]

Honestly I should be commenting about the actual games in this video (rip Phoenix Rising, you were fun for the roughly 2 hours of content you had) but too busying screaming of joy because I did NOT know about Relic Castle becoming Eevee expo and I am SO HAPPY to learn about it so thank you thank you thank you for mentioning it! <3 <3 <3

*immediately zooming over to make an account or whatever*

[XyerDark]

Azurite is absolutely dead, the main "dev" that wants to keep it afloat is a liar, who wants to keep the game in a state of "it's coming" due to egotistical reasons.

[AnimeFan-dlqd]

5:00 they want to make a new not pokemon related game.
Sure these questions will be asked there:D

6:35 yeah you need the demo for certain points:
-feedback, am I doing right
-FINDING bugs

[bee-Il]

and these are only the projects that got pretty far along and caught attention. game dev is so hard, and the tools for romhacking aren't up to industry standard. it's no wonder people give up. i wonder if developing in an open-source way would make projects more likely to be finished

[PokaPokasenpai]

Do you have a link for the Azurite document?

[staydetermined]

Oh my god phoenix rising, god I loved the short time I could play it,

[neoexodus]

i've been developing a Pokemon romhack for a few years now almost entirely by myself and i can assure you creating a whole world takes a VERY long time, and i'm not anywhere closed to finished either.