GAMMA EMERALD - EARLY ACCESS

First third of Hoenn, built from scratch, available as Early Access. Built in Unreal Engine 5.

Gamma Emerald (Early Access) is a free fan-game remake of Pokémon Emerald. It has the same story, characters and events, but spruced up a bit. This has Day/Night cycles, Berry system, egg breeding, move tutoring, real-time lighting, and more!

What is available in the Early Access?

This version of the game is the Early Access. That means its the content of the game that is finished but not the full game. To be specific, the length is from Littleroot to Mauville City. It has 3-6 Hours of gameplay and 3 gyms to get through!

If you feel like you went through the Early Access too fast, there is the rematch feature in the second floor of the Pokémon center in every town! Simply ask the nice lady at the counter and you can rematch anyone. But there is a catch, you need the Stone Badge, Knuckle Badge and the Dynamo badge in order to unlock it.

I also built peer-to-peer trading, so you and your friends can shiny hunt together and complete a shiny dex OR you can do it solo!

Everything past Mauville City is in development, you will notice a roadblock. The roads and buildings are not yet ready for you quick trainers so you will have to bear with me on that!

What to expect

In the Overworld, there is

• The entire path from Littleroot to Mauville (including every interior) built tile by tile.
• Your LEAD/Ace Pokémon can follow you around outside its ball.
• Day/Night system, encounters may adjust with the time.
• Berry System/Planting works with the IRL clock. It takes IRL 8 hours to grow new berries.
• HMs are now automatic, you no longer need to teach them to your Pokémon, once obtained, simply interact with a tree, rock, boulder, etc etc and your party will take care of the rest. Ignore the contradictions with that at the time.
• Hidden Items around the map, Hand drawn town map

In the battles you can expect

• Turn based system built from scratch accurately representing battle logic
• Battles are influenced with Abilities, Held Items and weather, with status and more.
• TMs are taught from the Change Move screen, not the bag.
• Trainers can be rematched (after beating the early access)
• ONLY single battles, in the early access, I did not have time to make double battles.
• Physical/Special SPLIT in battles, gen 6 formula and rules

Systems in game

• PC and Box storage are right on you at all times, for convenience
• Daycare system has full implementation
• The Game Corner has been added (some Pokémon listed are out of stock)
• P2P trading
• Controller support, it is highly recommended you commit to a single peripheral. Switching between controller, keyboard and mouse and clog the UI system and you may experience unexpected bugs.

Controls

Action	Keyboard	Controller
Move	WASD	Left stick / D-pad
Fish	F	X
Interact / Confirm	Space / Enter	A
Cancel / Back	Tab / Escape	B
Menu	Escape / Tab	Start
Run	Left Shift	B Held Down
Menu next/Previous	Q / E	Left/Right shoulder
Register / Bike	R	Select

System requirements

• OS: Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit)
• RAM: 16 GB recommended (8 minimum for best performance)
• GPU: GTX 1060 / RX 580 or better
• Storage: 5 GB
• First launch takes several minutes while shaders compile. This is normal as the game is storing memory to run efficiently.
  
  These requirements are based on solid performance, lower end specs can probably run this just as well.

Known issues

• Lower end systems experience very slow ASYNC (routes/towns/take a while to load in
• Some users with low storage or ram May experience hitching or pauses during integral battle events. Such as swapping pokemon, starting the battle, gaining exp or attacking.
• No mobile builds, the minimum memory already exceeds what an android or IOS device can handle.
• Save often.

Found a bug?

• Join the discord:  https://discord.com/invite/JFtPDmy59u

• What you were doing when it happened
• Your Saved/Logs/ file if the game crashed (in the game's install folder)

What's next

• Releasing the next chunk of the game past Mauville when I'm ready
• More mons and national dex
• Localization

Follow the page to get a notification when the next build drops.

Credits

UndreamedPanic: Programmer, Artist, Musician, Designer, 3D Modeler, UI Designer, everything

Special thanks for the help to https://x.com/sewally3 for assisting on some trainer sprites and https://x.com/MrShyGuyBuddy for assisting with rustboro models

Everything was built with Unreal Engine 5, Visual Studio, Blender and Aseprite.

Disclaimer

Gamma Emerald is a free, non-commercial fan project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures Inc., or The Pokémon Company. Pokémon and all related names and characters are trademarks of their respective owners. No money is accepted for this project in any form.

If you enjoy this, please buy the official games.