DHR-107 gave me permission to post this like 3 months ago so hopefully he hasn't forgotten and locks the thread lol
Anyway I am in the beginning stages of planning a Pokémon website! I know that's like saying I'm going to dump a bucket of water in the ocean, Pokémon sites are one of the most overdone things out there, and something something competing standards, but I've come to realize there's a dire need for MUCH INFORMATION collected in ONE PLACE about certain Pokémon things - keep reading.
The main focus of the site and if my early development is going to be on making a comprehensive resource for Pokémon spin-off games. In the process of doing some completionist runs of games such as Mystery Dungeon and New Snap, I find an awful dearth of useful information being collected in one place that I can use. For Mystery Dungeon, a lot of that information has in fact been compiled or mined by myself and a few close friends, but still lives in Gamefaqs guides and Google documents, neither of which I absolutely have trust for in the long term for availability (in Gamefaqs' case) or visibility (in Google Docs'). For New Snap, I mean, if you want information about where to find Pokémon in courses, your best bet is to flip around to a bunch of those clickbait sites uploaded shortly after the games' release and hope that they're accurate in spite of not being updated.
Bulbapedia exists, but you're not getting information about how to 100% a game from them. Serebii exists, but with spin-offs especially you're highly likely to get inaccurate, un-localized, or incomplete information that other, more dedicated players have access to, and Serebii is never going to update with that information. So what's left but taking matters into my own hands?
I also would like to do some main series work as well. Most Pokémon websites have the basics covered, so really what I'd want to do is more comprehensive information on locations and location spawn rates, various & sundry approaches to completing the Pokedex in an age where access to the right hardware & software for trading can be difficult to come by, and some compiled data about various side objectives like Battle facilities, Pokestar Studios, etc. But my primary focus is on the side game stuff, since that's where my "niche" so to speak is.
I have already purchased hosting and a virtual server. I am financially stable enough to pay for hosting on this site for a while.
I'm posting here because I want to send out a call to action for any interested parties. I'm not going to have time to begin work on this project in earnest until after the near year, but I'm recruiting best I can into a Discord server ahead of time. If you are interested in assisting in any of the following, please post in this thread or PM me and I can send a link to the Discord server:
Please let me know if interested.
Thanks.
Anyway I am in the beginning stages of planning a Pokémon website! I know that's like saying I'm going to dump a bucket of water in the ocean, Pokémon sites are one of the most overdone things out there, and something something competing standards, but I've come to realize there's a dire need for MUCH INFORMATION collected in ONE PLACE about certain Pokémon things - keep reading.
The main focus of the site and if my early development is going to be on making a comprehensive resource for Pokémon spin-off games. In the process of doing some completionist runs of games such as Mystery Dungeon and New Snap, I find an awful dearth of useful information being collected in one place that I can use. For Mystery Dungeon, a lot of that information has in fact been compiled or mined by myself and a few close friends, but still lives in Gamefaqs guides and Google documents, neither of which I absolutely have trust for in the long term for availability (in Gamefaqs' case) or visibility (in Google Docs'). For New Snap, I mean, if you want information about where to find Pokémon in courses, your best bet is to flip around to a bunch of those clickbait sites uploaded shortly after the games' release and hope that they're accurate in spite of not being updated.
Bulbapedia exists, but you're not getting information about how to 100% a game from them. Serebii exists, but with spin-offs especially you're highly likely to get inaccurate, un-localized, or incomplete information that other, more dedicated players have access to, and Serebii is never going to update with that information. So what's left but taking matters into my own hands?
I also would like to do some main series work as well. Most Pokémon websites have the basics covered, so really what I'd want to do is more comprehensive information on locations and location spawn rates, various & sundry approaches to completing the Pokedex in an age where access to the right hardware & software for trading can be difficult to come by, and some compiled data about various side objectives like Battle facilities, Pokestar Studios, etc. But my primary focus is on the side game stuff, since that's where my "niche" so to speak is.
I have already purchased hosting and a virtual server. I am financially stable enough to pay for hosting on this site for a while.
I'm posting here because I want to send out a call to action for any interested parties. I'm not going to have time to begin work on this project in earnest until after the near year, but I'm recruiting best I can into a Discord server ahead of time. If you are interested in assisting in any of the following, please post in this thread or PM me and I can send a link to the Discord server:
- You know much about web development, database development, or back-end development. I am currently employed as a junior software developer where I can do all of these things myself if no one steps up, so I'm not asking this to be an "idea guy", but anyone who has more experience than I do is of course appreciated.
- You know how to interpret hex files and can assist with potentially pulling various bits of data from a game - for example, spawn rates in the original Pokémon Pinball. I have successfully pulled info from the Wii Mystery Dungeon games in the past, so again this is not something I'm incapable of doing, but I am VERY inexperienced (since I only ever did it for that game) so anyone with a little more knowledge is, of course, appreciated.
- If dumps of data like this already exist, I'll take links to it instead. Some of the information can be difficult to find... hence the desire to compile it all in one place. But, I would also want to be able to gain permission from dumpers to use their work if there isn't an explicit notice about it being free-to-use attached, so we may need to reinvent the wheel anyway if we can't secure that permission.
- You know a lot about Pokémon side games, especially the Stadium series, Conquest, and Legends Arceus (which I'm counting as a side game simply because the mechanics make it worth writing about imo).
- You would be willing to write guides, take screenshots, or otherwise contribute information in such a format that it would eventually be posted up on the website. Of course you'd get credit for your contributions.
- You have strong opinions about how such a website should be best formatted for accessibility, mobile devices, etc. I'm still struggling with my mental model of the site.
Please let me know if interested.
Thanks.