PokéStar Studios
Like the flavorful side of ASB? Want a break from the constant grind? Interested in beta testing upcoming attractions? Welcome to PokéStar Studios, a showcase of all great projects in entertainment and flavor. I'll be your tour guide today. Let's start off with a brief recap of what this facility is for.
PokéStar Studios is unique in that there is no way to beat it; in fact, there is no regular challenge mode to it at all! Even the rules and events change regularly. Instead, the Studios are a place for ambitious refs and role players to meet up and play a style of ASB that better matches what they want out of the game.
Simply put, flavor usually doesn't pay in ASB since a flavor-less match and one with 5000 words per action will get the same amount of compensation for the ref. Due to this flavorful and complex matches are rather rare. Long match type such as enormous melees are also hard to justify joining since they take up a match slot. The studios are designed to fix these problems by allowing for flavorful, complex, and large match types or experimental role plays with adequate compensation.
RP Functions, Format
The Studio Events are largely driven by referees. If you want to host something that meets our criteria, send a Private Message to the RP committee (Engineer Pikachu, Frosty, Rediamond) detailing what you would like to host and possibly proposing the amount of UC you would like as compensation. It will be reviewed by the committee and, if approved, will be sponsored through the studios. This means that usual rules on payment are supplanted by the agreed plan, the Studios will help advertise the match, and it will not take up a battle slot for users who enter.
Multiple referees can team up to work an exceptionally large or complex project.
In the future, it may be possible to simply pick up and do a repeat of a type of match that the Studios has previously sponsored. But, for now, you will have to submit your own proposal. To be considered it must fulfill one of the following niches:
1) Be Experimental.
The proposed game must be like nothing else in ASB that players can currently and regularly do. Examples would include a mainly exploration based RP (such as the old LouisCypher RPs), POSSIBLY a limited journey RP (these will be heavily scrutinized if proposed), or a beta-run for a possible new RP that isn't quite whole enough to be proposed or the ref does not want to repeat.
2) Be Flavorful.
If you intend to use enough flavor in a match that the time put in would make the payment of a normal Battle Tower match a dramatic misrepresentation of the work you put in, you may appeal to host a flavor-heavy match to the RP committee. Submitting an example of your writing or (ideally) flavor you've done for another match would be preferable.
3) Be Complex.
If you can make a case that the proposed concept is so complicated that it would require dramatically more effort to ref and play than a normal tower match or battle-based RP, it can be handled through the Studios. Must be more complex than "the arena has a few new factors that might come up from time to time." If you have a Rotation Battle in an ever-shifting arena where RSE contest effects are the primary means of doing damage, then you have yourself a complex battle.
Incredibly large brawls and melees can also be handled through the studios, but those should either be absolutely enormous (Ultimate Showdown big) or also fulfill at least one of the above requirements. This is not a place for facilitating brawls that will be over and done with in one morning, however big they might be.
Questions? Feel free to PM the Gym Committee or post them in the thread.
Like the flavorful side of ASB? Want a break from the constant grind? Interested in beta testing upcoming attractions? Welcome to PokéStar Studios, a showcase of all great projects in entertainment and flavor. I'll be your tour guide today. Let's start off with a brief recap of what this facility is for.
PokéStar Studios is unique in that there is no way to beat it; in fact, there is no regular challenge mode to it at all! Even the rules and events change regularly. Instead, the Studios are a place for ambitious refs and role players to meet up and play a style of ASB that better matches what they want out of the game.
Simply put, flavor usually doesn't pay in ASB since a flavor-less match and one with 5000 words per action will get the same amount of compensation for the ref. Due to this flavorful and complex matches are rather rare. Long match type such as enormous melees are also hard to justify joining since they take up a match slot. The studios are designed to fix these problems by allowing for flavorful, complex, and large match types or experimental role plays with adequate compensation.
RP Functions, Format
The Studio Events are largely driven by referees. If you want to host something that meets our criteria, send a Private Message to the RP committee (Engineer Pikachu, Frosty, Rediamond) detailing what you would like to host and possibly proposing the amount of UC you would like as compensation. It will be reviewed by the committee and, if approved, will be sponsored through the studios. This means that usual rules on payment are supplanted by the agreed plan, the Studios will help advertise the match, and it will not take up a battle slot for users who enter.
Multiple referees can team up to work an exceptionally large or complex project.
In the future, it may be possible to simply pick up and do a repeat of a type of match that the Studios has previously sponsored. But, for now, you will have to submit your own proposal. To be considered it must fulfill one of the following niches:
1) Be Experimental.
The proposed game must be like nothing else in ASB that players can currently and regularly do. Examples would include a mainly exploration based RP (such as the old LouisCypher RPs), POSSIBLY a limited journey RP (these will be heavily scrutinized if proposed), or a beta-run for a possible new RP that isn't quite whole enough to be proposed or the ref does not want to repeat.
2) Be Flavorful.
If you intend to use enough flavor in a match that the time put in would make the payment of a normal Battle Tower match a dramatic misrepresentation of the work you put in, you may appeal to host a flavor-heavy match to the RP committee. Submitting an example of your writing or (ideally) flavor you've done for another match would be preferable.
3) Be Complex.
If you can make a case that the proposed concept is so complicated that it would require dramatically more effort to ref and play than a normal tower match or battle-based RP, it can be handled through the Studios. Must be more complex than "the arena has a few new factors that might come up from time to time." If you have a Rotation Battle in an ever-shifting arena where RSE contest effects are the primary means of doing damage, then you have yourself a complex battle.
Incredibly large brawls and melees can also be handled through the studios, but those should either be absolutely enormous (Ultimate Showdown big) or also fulfill at least one of the above requirements. This is not a place for facilitating brawls that will be over and done with in one morning, however big they might be.
Questions? Feel free to PM the Gym Committee or post them in the thread.
