Early Concept Art
Posted By GlitterBerri at 1:15 PM on Wednesday May 29, 2013
Status Screen
| Number: | 124 |
| Name: | Dragonchi |
| HP: | 200 |
| TP: | 200 |
| Level: | 47 |
| Attack: | 100 |
| Speed: | 75 |
| Intelligence: | 28 |
| Defense: | 125 |
| Special Attack: | Fire Breath (TP – 20) |
| Value | 128,000 Gold |
Translator’s Notes
There is evidence that money was intended to be a more prominent game mechanic, however. The status screen concept art above displays the monetary value of the Pokémon in question. Tajiri also had this to say about the role of money in the games:
Tajiri: I was thinking about allowing players to trade Pokémon with money attached, but I gave the idea up in RGB as it doesn’t do anything to increase your understanding of the games.
This status screen differs from the final game in other ways as well. Instead of a Special stat, the Pokémon has Intelligence. Fire Breath, the only attack listed uses something called TP, which undoubtedly stands for Technical Points.
In Pokémon RGB, each move has a certain number of Power Points (PP) allotted to it. Run out of these, and the move becomes unusable. While PP are tied to individual attacks, TP seem to have been tied to individual Pokémon: a bank of points that could be drawn from. It is unclear whether Dragonchi would have had a list of basic actions, such as Attack and Defend, that it could use in addition to its stat-draining special attack, and whether or not these would have also used up TP.
Index
| Page # | Category | Title |
| Page 01 | Intro | Life Before Pokémon |
| Page 02 | Design Doc | Tajiri’s Pokémon Vision |
| Page 03 | Concept Art | Adventuring With Pokémon |
| Page 04 | Concept Art | A Battle Between Trainers |
| Page 05 | Concept Art | A Day in the Life |
| Page 06 | Concept Art | A Battle Between Pokémon |
| Page 07 | Concept Art | Trading Pokémon |
| Page 08 | Concept Art | At the Pokémon Hotel |
| Page 09 | Concept Art | Catching Pokémon |
| Page 10 | Concept Art | At the Pokémart |
| Page 11 | Concept Art | Status Screen |
| Page 12 | Concept Art | Battle Screen |
| Page 13 | Concept Art | Opening Sequence |
| Page 14 | Concept Art | Overworld |
| Page 15 | Sprite Art | Sprites |
| Page 16 | Outro | A Brief Conclusion |
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