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What is PokéBox?
PokéBox is a browser-based simulator that revolves around the biomes, ecosystems, relationships, and lifecycles of Pokémon. The basic goal of the simulator is to encounter all the different species and forms of Pokémon using a only single box and a handful of starter Pokémon as seeds. Your starter Pokémon can be used to attract other similar species, and then those can be used to attract even more. Check your Pokédex after playing for a bit to see how many species you've registered so far!
Available Play Modes
- Normal Mode - Complete your Pokédex! Use starter Pokémon to attract new species, then chain to find them all! (default)
- Free Mode - No Limits! Any basic Pokémon can be added to your box, but records are not saved.
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Filters - Use the Normal Mode filters below if you only want to encounter Pokémon up to a certain generation:
Basic Mechanics
Add up to 10 different Pokémon to your box and then press play. Watch as they grow, evolve, multiply, and eventually die leaving their offspring to continue the cycle. The kinds of Pokémon you add to a box can alter its appeal to other species and can greatly affect its resident's growth and breeding behaviours over time. Whenever you're ready, STOP the simulator then try a different combination of starter Pokémon.
The basic goal of the simulator is to encounter all the different species and forms of Pokémon using a single box and only a handful of starter Pokémon as seeds. Your starter Pokémon can be used to attract other similar species, and then those can be used to attract even more. Check your Pokédex after playing for a bit to see how many species you've registered so far!
Advanced Mechanics
Type Appeal
Each species that lives in your box contributes to the global Type Appeal values in some way. Fire types, for example, attract other Fire types... but they also repel Bug, Grass, and Steel types due to their type-advantage over them. Likewise because Fire types are weak to Water attacks themselves, they may inadvertently attract Water type Pokémon to the box as well. All basic Pokémon influence a box's appeal values but fully-evolved and special or legendary Pokémon influence it a bit more.
Type Appeal values affect many things, but the most notable are evolutions and breeding. Some Pokémon may find a certain type more or less appealing, and may either evolve into or produce offspring with a new typing to compensate. If the appeal values are just-right, Pikachu can evolve into Psychic types, Ninetales can give birth to Ice types, and Gloom can decide to shed their Poison type to become pure Grass.
Evolution Mechanics
Most Pokémon grow and eventually evolve on their own, but some require very specific conditions to reach their next stage of development.
- Level-up evolutions trigger naturally when a Pokémon reaches a certain growth level
- Happiness evolutions trigger when a Pokémon's favourite type(s) have high appeal
- Affection evolutions trigger when a Pokémon is surrounded a lot of family
- Type-appeal evolutions trigger when an elemental type has very high appeal
- Burst and Mega evolutions trigger when a Pokémon has reached the end of its life
- Other more obscure methods of evolution may exist as well...
Legacy Save Data
If you used PokéBox before it was upgraded to use SSL and be more secure, your old save data will not be seen by the current version of the app. Please use the dedicated migration page to push your data up into the cloud and then come back here to pull it back down again. Apologies for the inconvenience but thank you for your understanding.
Keyboard Controls
During Starter Selection
- On the starter selection screen, use [TAB] and the [ARROW KEYS] to navigate
- [TAB] shifts focus from one panel to another (starters, gen filters, then type filters)
- Starter Panel: Use all four [ARROW KEYS] to navigate buttons, [SPACEBAR] to select a Pokémon as a starter
- Filter Panels: Use [LEFT ARROW] and [RIGHT ARROW] to navigate filters, [UP ARROW] and [DOWN ARROW] to jump to first/last option
- [S] can be used to bring up the seed / starter prompt (type a name or fragment and hit [ENTER])
- [R] can be used to repeat the most recently used starter seed (assuming one exists)
- [D] can be used to add a Ditto (once unlocked)
- [SHIFT] + [D] can be used to a add Super Ditto (once unlocked)
- [A] can be used to add Arceus (once unlocked)
- [BACKSPACE] removes last-added starter Pokémon, can be used repeatedly
- [ENTER] starts the simulation with the selected starter Pokémon
While Simulation is Running
- [SPACEBAR] or [ENTER] pauses and unpauses the simulation
- [ESC] or [BACKSPACE] stops and then ends the simulation
- [RIGHT ARROW] can be used to speed up the simulation
- [LEFT ARROW] can be used to slow down the simulation
After Simulation has Ended
- [LEFT ARROW] continues to the selection screen w/ same starters
- [RIGHT ARROW] or [BACKSPACE] or [ENTER] continues to selection screen w/ new starters
Other Shortcuts
- [~] key can be used to autoscroll to main overview area
- [SPACEBAR] or [ENTER] can be used to dismiss popup messages
- Pokédex cannot be navigated by keyboard yet (sorry)
Need More Help?
If you have any questions or feedback about the simulator at all, please join us on Discord and let us know your thoughts. We look forward to hearing from you!
Credits
Pokémon is the property of Game Freak / Nintendo and this simulator is not official, endorsed, or otherwise affiliated with either company in any way.
This simulator was programmed by myself (Adrian Marceau) and was started in January of 2018.
You can check out my other website PlutoLighthouse.NET for more of my work,
my fangame Mega Man RPG Prototype for something more goal-oriented,
or my profiles on Twitter
/ GitHub to see what else I'm up to.
Feel free to send me a message and let me know what you think. :)
Sprites for all official Pokémon were collected from Veekun's download page:
https://veekun.com/dex/downloads
Base stats and attributes for all official Pokémon were collected from Zarel's Pokémon Showdown repo:
https://github.com/Zarel/Pokémon-Showdown/blob/master/data/pokedex.js
Box-sized sprites for Gen 8 Pokémon (because the official one are too big for the app) are credited to:
The Gen8 Sprite Project
via the Smogon Forums community
and compiled by leparagon
Custom sprites for any new forms and/or unofficial Pokémon were created by the artists below and provided with permission to use in PokéBox:
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Ageman20XX / Adrian Marceau
http://plutolighthouse.net/
Kangaby, Meowzy (x2), Oozby (x2), Kalfling, Elemonk, Rhydoll, Pterabite, Succulite, Estrus Nidoqueen, Burst Machamp, Mega Girafarig, Frilled Heliolisk, Zenith Marshadow, Snow Burmy, Snow Wormadam, Bubble Burmy, Bubble Wormadam, Cloudy Castform, Rocky Castform, Pumpkaboo Sizes (x4), Gourgeist Sizes (x4), Spinda Patterns (x6), Kecleon Colours (x11), Genesect Drives (x5), Silvally Types (x18), Ms. Mime, Hippopotas (F), Hippowdon (F), Proto Ambipom, Proto Weavile, Beta Ekans, Beta Arbok, Beta Munchlax, Beta Snorlax, Shadow Entei, Shadow Celebi, Shadow Latios, Gold Ho-oh, Silver Suicine, Cystal Onix,Shiny Ditto,Meltan,Proto Politoed -
Corvos / C. Tyler Corbett
https://ctcorbett.tumblr.com/
Unicolt, Embark, Tungzel, Twintied, Meandrabel, Buzzqwill, Mega Politoed, Meltan, Melmetal, Super Ditto, Zygarde Cell, Zygarde Core* Minor edits and collaboration with Ageman20XX, originals can be found on Tyler's Dribbble Portfolio
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PTGigi
http://ptgigi.com/
Tanglet, Dododo, Heirfry, Kittri (x2), Primal Dialga, Primal Palkia, Proto Hoppip, Proto Skiploom, Proto Jumpluff, Proto Aipom, Proto Sneasel, Proto Remoraid, Proto Octillery, Cloakless Burmy, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Mega Mewtwo (x2), Shadow Lugia* Minor edits by Ageman20XX, originals can be found on Gigi's Art Dump
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MBM / MegaBossMan
Paramite* Minor edits by Ageman20XX
Dependencies
The front-end code is fully custom but makes heavy use of the ever-popular jQuery library
http://jquery.com/
The back-end script and stylesheet compression uses the minify classes by Mattias Mullie
https://github.com/matthiasmullie/minify
Privacy Policy
Pokébox collects anonymous usage data via Google Analytics but does not otherwise access or store any kind of personal information on its individual users. The usage data that is collected via Google Analytics is completely private and will not be shared with any other user or with any third parties. Any other data generated through the standard use of this application is stored locally, on the user's browser, and is inaccessible to the game creator, developer, or any other related parties. The developer - Ageman20XX / Adrian Marceau - respects user privacy, and will not under any condition attempt to access this data, distribute this data, or use this data in any fashion without the express permission of the user, and only to assist the user with application related issues. If such data were to be collected in the process of assisting a user, said data would be destroyed promptly following a successful resolution of the issues.