Pokemon Showdown (original announcement)

[Honus]

Great job with this, looking forward to a release.

[Xaqwais]

Repeating the sentiments of this being awesome. I'm curious how you are doing the ladder/points system? Perhaps the return of the system Shoddy used?

[Eos]

This is incredible.
The road to getting it released to the public is almost at an end!

[Fire Blast]

Originally Posted by Fat aesoft

Truly cross-platform: In addition to Windows, Mac OS X, and Android, PS also supports Linux, iOS, and pretty much any other platform you can think of. Its mobile client is the real thing, too - not watered-down like PO's Android client.

Best part

aeosoft, you are awesome!

[kmuffinman]

Looks great, can't wait for it to come out! I've always disliked how there aren't any animations in PO(though it still is good)
Just to ask-
1. How will you promote this? PO has a large following, while smogon users will know about it and play Showdown, there are many others who won't know about it
2. Will there be a ladder like in PO?

[Destiny Warrior]

An additional reason why people feel PO's RNG is weird compared to the games is because it uses a completey different system of RNG to the games. In PO, you use the rand function, while ingame, you basically start on a particular seed, advance it based on what move you use(I can elaborate if you want), and the seed you use the move on determines if you get "hax" or not.

If I somehow managed to convince you to take this approach for programming and you want further details(unlikely because rand functions is generally enough), be aware that you will need to have a 400 different seeds(or more, I haven't done the math to determine how many seeds you need if you want to have perfect probability for events like Scald burning + critting etc.) . Each player should technically be able to pick a seed as part of their team(this is theroetically possible ingame, stress on theoretically), with the starting seed used for the battle being RNG'd between the two, or you could just rng a number from 1 - 400 to start the battle.

Just throwing that out if you're interesting in a different rng system.

[whitefag]

Originally Posted by Fat Destiny Warrior

An additional reason why people feel PO's RNG is weird compared to the games is because it uses a completey different system of RNG to the games. In PO, you use the rand function, while ingame, you basically start on a particular seed, advance it based on what move you use(I can elaborate if you want)

That rand() function you refer to uses the same seed mechanism.
My friend made a research and proved that pokemon RNG produces discrete uniform distribution of numbers, which means it's equivalent to any other pseudo-RNG.
To make it clear, imagine throwing a coin and rolling a dice: Despite methods are different, you have equal chances of getting heads/tails with coin and even/odd number with dice.

[The Silent Storm]

Thank god I can't wait, those damn windows will stop closing

[Unreality]

looks great :D can't wait until doubles support!

[Blue_Star]

Another excellent work. Where's your programmer badge?

[Pwnemon]

I too am wondering how the ladder will function - please tell me it will be like shoddy and not PO

[NatGeo]

I'm really looking forward to it, having pretty much seen it develop all the way from IS. aesoft, this is amazing as always!

[NixHex]

Originally Posted by Fat Blue_Star

Another excellent work. Where's your programmer badge?

Underneath his custom title =0

[Munhojun]

This is amazing. I love how the sim is also "newb-friendly" in a sense. This sim would definitely help me since I get disconnected often. :(

[pi face]

this is the best thing ever

[pkmn-taicho321]

Good god this looks amazing, any ETA? PO's text is too small from were I sit in comparison to my computer, this looks perfect!

[Manxer]

Originally Posted by Fat aesoft

Here's a partial list: (which I've also appended to the first post)

• Animations: You've seen my replay viewer. Those are the animations in PS. Enough said.
• Reconnect: If you get disconnected from battle, PS allows you to reconnect easily.
• Adaptive UI: Resize the window to be as big or as small as you want, and the UI will adjust itself to fit it.
• Truly cross-platform: In addition to Windows, Mac OS X, and Android, PS also supports Linux, iOS, and pretty much any other platform you can think of. Its mobile client is the real thing, too - not watered-down like PO's Android client.
• Better teambuilder: PS's teambuilder is designed to make teambuilding as fast as possible, whether you prefer keyboard or mouse. The screenshots should show how it does what it does.
• Easy moddability: PS's mod format makes it easy to implement your own moves, abilities, items, and pokemon. CAP and streetmons are already implemented.
• Better UI: PS won't close the battle window just because another player closed it. Spectating a battle gives you the full log, not just from the point you started watching. Its team chooser is built into the challenge window. Its teambuilder is sized so you can chat in the lobby and build a team at the same time. Its move description tooltips stay out of the way of the move buttons.
• Accuracy: PS is designed from the ground up to have an event model and graphics system as close to the games as possible. Examples of things PS gets right that PO doesn't include: Zoroark's Illusion ability, gen 5 Custap Berry effect.

I might be forgetting a few things, and I have a lot more improvements planned, but these are the ones I thought of that I have done so far.

these things, they are all what I truly love, much better than PO atm, especially reconnecting and won't automatically close, so annoying when I forget to save log, wonder why coyotte hasn't changed that

and will you add some colors to log, or just leave it black and white like it was in Shoddy ?

[WormGuy]

Great Job. I can't wait xD

[San_Pellegrino]

how many people can it handle/server?

[Zarel*]

Originally Posted by Fat Manxer

and will you add some colors to log, or just leave it black and white like it was in Shoddy ?

I'll probably add some color eventually. There are a lot of things that are higher priority right now, though. :/

Originally Posted by Fat San_Pellegrino

how many people can it handle/server?

It's too early to say; I haven't done much load testing yet.

[Umbreon Dan]

under what software license are you releasing pokemon showdown?

[Zarel*]

Originally Posted by Fat Umbreon Dan

under what software license are you releasing pokemon showdown?

My current plans are for the server to be CC-0 and the client to be CC-BY-NC-3.0.

The client's current license is because I haven't yet decided what I'm going to do with it. I will most likely change the license to a triple-license of GPLv2/GPLv3/CC-BY-SA-3.0.

[Lady Kitty]

Incredible simulator and PO bye bye!!! Thanks man. <3

[Chieliee]

On the First Day, He created a Pokémon replay viewer.
On the Second Day, He created a Warstory generator
On the Third Day, He created THIS
On the Fourth Day, He created .....
On the Fifth Day, He created ......
On the Sixth Day, He created ........
On the Seventh Day, He created ......

seriously, I'm looking forward to more of your projects. Great job.

[Zack Drake]

I can't wait ! =(