HUZZAHS! are in order. Bottle Cap wrapped up his special training! Now he’s four stars! He only needs four more power ups to be completely topped up. And he needs to mega evolve twenty-three more times and he’ll be maxed out with his mega evolution benefits. And he’s already a five heart buddy. To recap: we started this around June twenty-eighth and his stats were Attack thirteen, Defense zero, and HP nine. And the training is one research task for each point in each stat. So, we had two tasks to complete for Attack, fifteen for Defense, and six for HP. You have one year or three-hundred and sixty-five days to complete the Hyper-training and when we finished it on November first, we had two-hundred and thirty-nine days left so it took us one-hundred and twenty-six days to finish this. Not bad to get me a shiny, four star Charizard after nine years. I have to say, this whole really is superbly well designed to in that it creates a pretty good real world equivalent of the pokémon games’ kind of ‘casual’ quest style and translate that into the AR game model. And they started actively adding into the game the various features that drew in all of us to the original Game Boy games, it’s no surprise that Pokémon GO has lasted this whole time. Seriously, next July sixth will be a full decade for this game. Anyone else still playing consistently and enjoying it like me? Feel free to share your stories here. I can always use more material to keep this thing consistent.
In other gaming news, I finally finished updating the resources I’ve been making for the Marvel Multiverse Role Playing Game. You’ll find the resources in the page titled Tabletop Gaming Resources on this very website. There’s a tab for this game specifically and within that tab you’ll find all the information to create new, original characters for this game and everything else you’ll need to run your own games using the d616 system. Soon I’m going to put together another page on here for original material and other content for MMVRPG. Some things I’m putting together are characters, ships, and such based on the Stargate franchise. I’ve already run a game using henchmen based on Jaffa soldiers and one of the players even took on one of the symbiotes and melded with it. A very ‘Tim’ thing to do in such a game and I’ll admit, I didn’t totally expect someone who isn’t me to have done it. It was a fun game with all first-time players. I’m going to making new material and if anyone has ideas and wants to workshop concepts and designs for this or other games, again, feel free to write me here and we can figure some things as a group.
I’m working on some employment issues right now and then I’m going to finish up some podcast things and post content from LA Comic Con. I can’t wait for LACC next year! It’s going to be so much fun!
