Marshadow Distribution Simulator

As a kid, I was fascinated by the secret islands in Pokémon games where Mythical Pokémon could be found. I was never able to reach most of them, because you needed items distributed via events in order to access them. Nintendo also no longer includes these event islands in Pokémon games, instead opting to distribute the Pokémon directly.

My solution to this was to make a short fangame with the intent of communicating the experience of these old event distributions. I crafted an event island for a Pokémon from one of the more recent games: Marshadow. In this game, you can explore a small area of Akala Island, and use Mystery Gift to receive a special item that will allow you to reach and catch Marshadow. What else you do is up to you.

Check out my blog post for more about the creation of this game!

There are two modes: Normal and Hard. Normal is for if you just want the experience of the event distribution. In Hard Mode, your Pokémon are underleveled, Trainers and Wild Pokémon are stronger, and there are additional challenges available, including the Battle Arena from Pokémon Emerald. There is no reason for any of that stuff to be in this game other than the fact that I like it.

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Pokémon Essentials: Poccil, Maruno, AvatarMonkeyKirby, Boushy, Brother1440, FL., Genzai Kawakami, Golisopod User, help-14, IceGod64, Jacob O. Wobbrock, KitsuneKouta, Lisa Anthony, Luka S.J., Marin, MiDas Mike, Near Fantastica, PinkMan, Popper, Rataime, Savordez, SoundSpawn, the__end, Venom12, Wachunga
mkxp-z: Roza, Ancurio
RPG Maker XP: Enterbrain
Various assets: beliot419, BlackstarG5, Chocosrawloid, Cynda, Dewitty, Droid779, Ekat, ENLS, goranthegreat, hamsterskull, HeXeR, Jet10985, kaboose102, KingTapir, Kymontonian, leParagon, Megax Rocker, milomilotic11, MrDollSteak, Neo-Spriteman, Nordk, PokéSprite, SeethingCumBucket, Sparta, Tetra, Wobblebuns, Z-nogyroP

This project wouldn't have been possible without the work of all of these people whose tools, assets, and scripts made it much easier for me to take my idea and implement it. The game download includes a Resources.txt file which has links to all of the assets and plugins used.

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Mystery Gift can be unlocked by reading the paper on the counter in the Poké Mart.

https://other.fourisland.com/event_island/