Ice Cream Sand Witch

Found it. It's when Titania talks to Taka for the first time. TITANIA: Tch. Don't act like your precious little team is that good at keeping secrets anyway. I've been getting information out of your grunts for months. And giving them false intel in return. That's the thing about a group of people who are just using each other. They're easy to exploit.

Wait, Victoria's rival theme changed? I don't think I noticed that. Musically, I prefer the new gym leader theme since it has more noise and energy, but as a Gym Leader theme I think the old one fits more. The fact that some legendary theme tracks have been used for different purposes (XYZ trio for Gym Leaders and Legendary Beasts for Meteor underlings) makes me wonder what tracks legendaries will use.

Miltank.

I recommend making it to where non-staff and non-development members can't post threads in the "Public Development" subforum. I believe that's the way it was with the old site's Development Blog, but I've seen ordinary members make threads for E16 questions in Public Development.

E15's TV event had Gardevoir telling her that Bennett joined Team Meteor and Serra saying she's going after him.

Episode 2 is now out! Although I originally planned to do an announcement showcasing Olidroll City, I was actually ~95% done with ep 2 by the time the site came back online. All that was left to do was finish the story events and ask Palletite for help with the sprites for trainers battled in the episode. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get Contests to work correctly yet. I actually only recently realized the Contest mod for Essentials hasn't been updated for a few versions. I'm not sure when I'll have them working, but I have no plans to give up on it. As mentioned in the announcement above, since the episode structure has been changed, ep 2 adds 2 more gyms, bringing the badge total to 7. The marble location list and Pokemon obtainability list have been updated for ep 2. Here are the Pokemon newly obtainable (outside the starter event of course):

My hypothesis is that they'll be for a postgame sidequest, maybe for Darkrai or Giratina.

I'm still getting used to the new arrangements, trying to figure out where everything is, etc. but I think I've mostly gotten the hang of it. I definitely think the layout looks better than the old one.

PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT: CHANGE IN EPISODE STRUCTURE I was originally going to include this in the announcement within the coming days where some of Olidroll City will be shown, but I thought it needed its own post to explain everything about when certain features will be coming, etc. Ever since the beginning of making Spork, there were 4 episodes planned: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Dessert. But in the past few days, I've considered changing that. I came to the final decision to do so yesterday. This is the new episode structure from episode 2 onwards. Episode 2 - Olidroll, the Human Capital: +2 gyms; 7 badges total Episode 3 - Forks: +3 gyms; 10 badges total Episode 4 - Sea Star Society: +2 gyms; 12 badges total Episode 5 - Ice Cream Sundae: +2 gyms; 14 badges total Episode 6 - Party: +4 gyms; 18 badges total I'm not yet sure if ep 6 will continue to the E4 and postgame, or stop at the 18th gym with everything after being in an episode 7. Right now I'm leaning towards the latter. There are two main reasons for this change. The first is that when I think about each episode being 5 gyms, it seems so far away both in what needs to be done and the time to episode release. It makes me wonder "When will I get there? Will I ever even get there?" But when broken down a little, it becomes more visible. The second is that Olidroll could be considered an arc in itself. I based the new episode structure somewhat around arcs. (ep 1 content from beginning to 5th gym I'd also consider an arc, which may have partially been why I started with a 5 gym per episode rule) What this means in terms of things I've mentioned in the past as being in a certain episode: Pokemon Contests: will still be in episode 2, since they're in Olidroll Move Tutor: also still in episode 2 since she's in Olidroll. She's already been evented in. (Move Deleter is also in Olidroll) EV Training Centers 2 and 3: The second is still in episode 2. The third will be in episode 3. Surf and Fly: will be in episode 3. Hidden Power changer: episode 3. Sidequest Areas: The police one is still in episode 2. Beyond that, I've actually thought of another one as an extension of something I already had planned, so there's going to be 5. The third (the new one I thought of) will be in episode 3, the fourth will be in episode 4, and the fifth will be in episode 6 or 7. Battle Frontier: episode 6 or 7 Holiday Pokemon: Christmas = episode 3, Valentine's Day = episode 4, Mother + Father's Day = episode 5. Mega Evolution: episode 6. Ep 2 teasers: The one about the Data Vault is for an episode 3 event. The previous one about getting someone into trouble refers to an ep 2 event. Bigger part of Virima City: will be explored in episode 3. I think that's everything that's been mentioned before. This also means that episode 2 is close, but Olidroll announcement won't be release time. For the announcement, there are specific things I want to use for screenshots, so the announcement will be when I get to that point. There'll still be content I'll need to add after, and I'll need Palletite's help for ep 2 character sprites. I hope people are okay with this change ^^'

Out of curiosity, have you watched all these shows? You seem to know a lot of characters.

The link is in the first post of the thread under "Download Link". http://www.mediafire.com/file/62w6u21p9xwu055/Spork+1.7.zip

Still in beta testing.

Current version goes up to the 5th gym. From the last sentence under the story section of the OP: "The first demo goes up to the fifth gym, the second goes to gym 10, the third goes to 15, and the fourth covers gyms 16-18, the E4 and Champion, and the postgame." Episode 2 is currently in development, with an announcement coming soon.

It's possible there are other species who are more advanced than we're aware. Octopuses can solve Rubix/Rubiks (not sure which spelling is correct, I've seen both) Cubes.

The sprites weren't made by me. Art is actually my weakest area ^^' The sprites were made by a person named Palletite. If the tall grass you're referring to is the part that the trees cut into, that will be fixed for episode 2. I've been meaning to change that but kept forgetting to. The edges of maps being visible will also be fixed; I'm aware of it happening to the west of Virima, north of Aliora Meadow, and north of the part where Western Waterway meets Gellene. 1.6 actually did remove a lot of empty space, although it seems like I missed some key buildings like the Rap Battle House and Aliora's Herb and Berry Shops since I was mostly thinking about NPC houses. I plan on improving with mapping as I continue to make the game.

A jamming signal has been used before in the official games. Ghetsis's cane in BW2 worked like this to prevent the player from catching Black/White Kyurem. Also, the way you worded this: "Alolan Variants being inspired by Insurgence's Delta Pokemon" makes it seem like you're saying that Gamefreak got the idea from Insurgence. I don't think they'd knowingly take an idea from a fangame (they'd probably have to take action against Insurgence if they knew it existed, like with Uranium), and Delta Species existed in the TCG in 3rd Gen. It was Insurgence who was inspired by the TCG, where the concept originally comes from.