FAQ

## Basics

#### **What is Pokéngine?**

Pokéngine is a community focused on the creation of custom content such as Fakemon, Fake dexes, fan regions, and actual games! Our website provides a MMO along with several browser-based tools for building, editing, and blending all of our created content into one

#### **Is the MMO available?**

Check it out here! http://pokengine.org/mmo “Server Status” tells you if it's available or down for maintenance.

#### **The MMO is down! When is it back up?**

The MMO is currently open! If there are any problems accessing it, check the Discord to see if there's an explanation. Usually if the game is down, it's because of short server maintenance.

#### **How do I play?**

See How to Access to learn how to set up your account. You can access the MMO here: https://pokengine.org/play/

#### **Can I play on mobile?**

Yes! You can play in portrait or landscape mode. If you are on a tablet, the game may not automatically detect that you're on a mobile device. If so, open the chat, type `/settings` and then enable the "Force Mobile" setting.

#### **Can I download the game?**

No, you can only play in browser at the moment. A downloadable client is planned.

#### **Which region should I visit first?**

If you're new, check out HUB Island, which was designed as a tutorial area to introduce you to the controls and features of Pokéngine!

#### **My screen is all messy, there are windows everywhere!**

The game works with many widgets! The default setup might look messy on some computers. Drag the widgets to your preference by clicking and holding with the right mouse button. A single right mouse button click lets you close widgets and brings up other options.

#### **If I leave a region, will my progress save?**

Yes, region progress is saved when you leave. When you return, your Mons and items will still be there as you left them. In most regions, you will either be returned to the place where you left from, or given the option to choose which city to return to.

#### **How do I leave this region?**

See the Airport page for how to leave each region.

#### **Can I use my Mons across regions?**

Each region has its own regional PC. However, in many regions you can unlock access to the Global PC, which you can use to move Mons across regions. See the PC page for more info.

#### **How do I change settings?**

Press the ESC key or tap the gears icon (on mobile) to open settings.

#### **How do I restart a region?**

You can "buy" a region reset in the shop for free. First, close the MMO window (you must be offline for this to work). Visit the shop page (https://pokengine.org/shop), and then choose the region you want to reset progress in. If you click to reset without having chosen a region, if will reset all regions, so **be careful**!

#### **How do I change my username?**

You can buy a nickname ticket in the shop (https://pokengine.org/shop), which allows you to change your nickname.

## Common Errors

#### **I have a black screen!**

If your whole screen is black when you log into the MMO, you are in fullscreen mode. Press F6 (or Fn + F6 if you have an Fn button) to close fullscreen mode.

If the screen is still black, or if you can see the widgets as normal but the game screen is black, see below.

#### **The game isn't working!**

Pokéngine works best on Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. If you have any bugs, the first thing you should do is clear your cache! http://pokengine.org/forums?thread=67

Another common issue is interference with plugins or extensions on your browser. Try disabling them and reloading the page.

If you still can't get the game to work, report your problem in the Discord #glitches channel.

#### **The music isn't working!**

Unfortunately music is currently broken, as Soundcloud blocked the method we were using. We are working on a solution.

#### **This move effect isn't working!**

Not all move effects have been coded. You can check which moves work by searching a move at https://pokengine.org/moves. If the move has a check mark on the left, its effects are coded.

#### **I used a rare candy and my Mon leveled to 100.**

This is not a permanent effect, just reload and your Mon will be back to normal.

#### **Every time I win this boss battle, I black screen. What do I do?**

We are still trying to resolve this bug, but so far we think it may be related to Poison-type Mons. Avoid using them on your team, and just keep trying the battle.

#### **I used an evolution item, and my game froze! When I refreshed, it was gone and my Mon did not evolve.**

Let a staff member know through Discord and we will replace the item for you!

#### **In Retro Kanto, I'm stuck on naming my rival.**

You need to type a name in the chat. Open the chat window and type there.

## Gameplay

#### **How do I see which Mons are in which route?**

On the Pokengine website, go to the Dexes tab and then Regions tab. Choose the region you're in, then on the regional map, click the route or area you are interested in checking. You will see all of the Mons obtainable on that route. Mons you have not yet caught will appear as a silhouette, and Mons that you have not encountered at all will appear as a question mark. For example, here is the page for Rica Route R3: https://pokengine.org/regions/Rica?map=226

#### **How do I check in which route I can find a Mon?**

Sadly, this is not possible yet! You can check the Wiki, or ask in the chat or Discord.

#### **How do I check what a move does?**

Move descriptions don't exist in-game yet, so you will have to look up the move on the website. Just type the move name into the search bar!

#### **How do I get through Crystal Cave in Rica?**

Crystal Cave is a one-entrance dungeon with no exit! If you want to reach the dungeon boss, head left, but you may encounter a dead end. If you are trying to leave, head right and use the entrance, or use an Escape Rope.

#### **I'm lost! How do I figure out where to go?**

This wiki is still a work in progress, but some regions have walkthroughs! Search the region on here to find the walkthrough. You can also ask in the in-game chat or Discord.

#### **How do I increase my Mon's happiness/friendship?**

Currently, you can only increase your Mon's happiness/friendship slowly in your adventure. You can raise a Mon's happiness by sending it outside of its Poke Ball and walk around a lot. You can also do it by levelling up that Mon.

#### **How do I check my Mon's happiness/friendship?**

First, make sure to have that Mon in your current Party. Go to the main Pokengine website, look for a button with your username written on it (at the upper left side of the screen, below the search bar), and click on it to access your profile page. At the **Party** section of your profile, click on the icon of your Mon to open up that Mon's summary. Look for the **Happiness** bar and hover over the bar to see the exact value of the Mon's happiness/friendship. Hovering to see the exact value is only available in Desktop but you can still see the bar to gauge its happiness.

## Features

#### **What regions can I play?**

The Regions page contains a list of available regions.

#### **Can I play the MMO offline?**

No! A downloadable version of Pokéngine is planned, but not a priority at the moment.

#### **What features are still missing?**

Trading between players, PVP battling, abilities, held items, breeding, and certain move effects. You can check which moves work by searching a move at https://pokengine.org/moves. If the move has a check mark on the left, its effects are coded.

#### **What are the delayed flights?**

They are regions on the site that have descriptions, but that are unavailable to play. Some are being worked on and should come out in the future.

#### **Which region is the most complete?**

In terms of typical Pokemon formula regions, **Retro Kanto** is a (mostly) faithful recreation of Red and Blue and is complete. **Rica** is the most complete traditional region with Fakemon, and is about halfway complete with at least 8 hours of content. Complete mini regions with lots of content include **Borovia**, **Easter Island**, and **Cloudia**.

#### **Why are some of the region names blue?**

Those are event regions. They're smaller, do not follow the typical Pokemon formula, and were featured as an event at one point.

#### **When is Atlas or Aristos (or any other project) becoming available?**

We don’t know! They are passion projects of their respective devs. Watch out for any mentions of it, but avoid pressuring creators with questions.

## Website

#### **What else is there to do on the website?**

You can check our large database of Dexes (Mons, Trainers, Items, Moves and Abilities) and favorite♡ or rate☆ mon designs. You can also use the forums, create maps in the tilefuser http://pokengine.org/tilefuser and play minigames http://pokengine.org/games to get PPP.

#### **What is PPP?**

PPP is the site’s player point system. You get PPP by being active on the site (logging in daily) and by winning on the site’s games. Currently their only use is on the shop http://pokengine.org/shop

#### **I lost my site password, what do I do?**

On the Pokéngine discord server, once you have authenticated your account to gain access to the MMO beta, simply run the /password bot command to update your password.

#### **Who is Jext?**

Jext is Pokéngine’s developer! He’s a great guy (although a bit of a troll) and he would rather not deal with menial stuff... so only bother him when strictly necessary! Resort to @Moderators instead for most things.

#### **Can I add my own Fakemon to the game?**

You can create your own dex (see below), but you need at least 50 Mons with sprites. If you only want to submit one evolution line, we have a community dex called Enjin which sometimes accepts applications. Applications are closed at the moment.

#### **How do I make my own region/dex?**

Anyone can create their own dex or region on Pokengine, you just need to meet the minimum requirements! You can read through the requirements and application process on the request page, https://pokengine.org/request