Pokemonium



=Pokémonium=

Pokémonium is a fan-made massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), coded using Java (programming language), started by developers in January, 2012. The first release of Pokémonium came out June 1st, 2012.

Premise
Pokémonium originates from the Pokémon MMO, Pokenet. Pokénet was a fan-made MMO originally started in February 2009 by former members of Pokémon Global, Pokémon Online Revolution. After a year, the company Nintendo sent a cease-and-desist letter to the developers on the grounds of copyright infrengement. The Pokenet project was subseqently shut down. In January of 2012, the project was revived under a new team of developers to create what is now Pokémonium.

The original features of Pokénet included:
 * Login/Registration
 * Starter Pokémon Selection
 * Chat
 * Wild Pokémon
 * Catching (including Boxes)
 * Leveling/Evolution
 * Pokémon Center and Poké Mart
 * Johto
 * Player vs. Player Battles (wagers can be placed on battles also)
 * Trading (Items/Pokémon/Money)
 * NPC Battles (including Gym Leaders)
 * Private Chat

Project Revived: Version 1.3
Over 2 years after Pokenet was shut down, a group of developers decided to revive the project in the form of Pokemonium. The new version of the game includes the updates that would have been in the next release of Pokenet added with new features


 * The Kanto region
 * Victory Road
 * An advanced Gym Leader system where the Gym Leaders' teams would grow to match the player.
 * Working TMs
 * A trainer level system that grants the trainers themselves exp when they battle NPC's, battle other players, or level up their Pokémon.
 * HMs that are unlocked by raising the trainer level
 * An item mall that allows players to buy in-game items accessible on the Pokemonium site
 * The ability to give Pokémon items to hold
 * Many Pokémon not native to Kanto or Johto
 * Many bug fixes

Version 1.4
The next release was made public on September 22, 2012.


 * Mt. Silver
 * The first boss battle: Red
 * The Safari Zone with imported Pokémon from the Sinnoh region
 * An in-game Pokédex
 * The Effort Value system
 * Auto-saving system
 * Many bug fixes

Version 1.4.1
A patch of 1.4.1 was released September 29, 2012 to add further updates and fixes to 1.4.

Vresion 1.5
After a setback, Version 1.5 was released February 10, 2013. Because of the extra time, many more features were implemented.


 * The Sinnoh region
 * The Hoenn region
 * Tournament and PvP arenas
 * PvP enforced area where players are unable to decline battle requests
 * Auto-updating system
 * Kanto Elite Four
 * An entire graphical update to make the game match HeartGold and SoulSilver graphics.
 * Over 100 new sprite characters for players to choose