# Pokemon-Style RPG - RPG Template | Summer Engine

## About this template

The Pokemon formula works because every system reinforces the next. Catch creatures in tall grass, build a party of six, and grind type matchups through a fire-beats-grass-beats-water-beats-fire triangle. Four moves per creature forces hard choices. Evolution through leveling, stones, or trading gives players milestones. Eight gyms plus an Elite Four gives the journey shape. A rival who picks the starter strong against yours keeps the pressure personal.

Summer Engine helps you build the full loop: encounter tables for each route, a type effectiveness chart, the 4-move battle system, evolution chains, gym leader teams, and Pokedex tracking. You design the creatures and the region. The AI builds the systems that make catching and training feel like the real thing.

Great Pokemon-style games layer depth under simplicity. A kid can win by over-leveling their starter. A veteran wins by reading type coverage, managing PP, teaching TMs, and breeding for stats. Build both paths and the game stays satisfying for hundreds of hours.

## Who it's for

* Designers who want the classic Pokemon structure with their own creatures, types, and region.
* Solo devs who have a full creature roster sketched and need the battle and progression systems built.
* Teams building a nostalgia-driven creature RPG for handheld or mobile with gym-based progression.
* Anyone who has drawn a regional Pokedex in a notebook and wants to turn it into a playable game.

## Highlights

* ### First Region Prototype  
Build Route 1 through the first gym: tall grass encounters, starter trio, rival battle, and a gym leader with a type-focused team.
* ### Full Badge Quest  
Create all 8 gyms, the Elite Four, and the champion battle with escalating team difficulty and type coverage challenges.
* ### Pokedex Completion Game  
Design a regional dex of 150+ creatures with evolution chains, version exclusives, and trade evolutions to drive completionist play.

## Highlights

### Tall grass encounters

Wild creatures appear when players walk through tall grass. Each route has its own encounter table with level ranges and rarity tiers.

### Type effectiveness triangle

A type chart where fire beats grass, grass beats water, water beats fire, plus secondary types that create double weaknesses and resistances.

### 4-move combat

Each creature knows up to four moves. Learning a fifth forces players to forget one, creating permanent team-building decisions.

### Gym badge progression

Eight gyms with type-specialist leaders gate progression. Badges unlock HM usage and raise the obedience cap for traded creatures.

## Features

* ### Turn-based battle system  
Classic 1v1 battles with a 4-move menu, PP tracking per move, type matchup damage multipliers, and STAB bonus for same-type attacks.
* ### Evolution and leveling  
Creatures evolve through level thresholds, elemental stones, trade triggers, or friendship. Each evolution unlocks new moves and stat growth.
* ### Party and PC box storage  
Carry six creatures in the active party. Store the rest in PC boxes accessible from any healing center. Swap freely between hunts.
* ### TMs, HMs, and breeding  
Teach moves outside the natural learnset via TMs. Use HMs for field traversal. Breed creatures to pass down moves and optimize stats.

## Genre fit

* RPG
* Creature Collector
* Turn-Based
* Adventure
* Desktop
* Mobile
* Handheld
* Web

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