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Hey everyone. Pokemon Universe is not being worked on anymore. It has not been worked on for quite a while, now. There have been surges of activity, hype, and production throughout this project, but overall, the ambitious project has come to an end.

Joining this forum as a teen and now making a career off the skills I learnt from this forum has been an amazing progression to reflect on. I thought i'd open this thread as a sort of "obituary"-- the Dutch hosts of this website are being forced to pay for the domain and bandwidth for a closed project.

Now, the definite future of this forum has not been collectively decided upon just yet, so this isn't an announcement of its closing. However, to make it clear-- the game is not in development, and most likely never will be.

Reminisce away, friends. It's been a hell of a journey, and we thank you for being a part of it!


For some fun facts:

• From the start, it was known this project would struggle, and perhaps may never come to fruition, as it was done completely through volunteer work.
  
  
• Most of the work got done in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
  
  
• The project was pretty much dead by 2013. Although it did see a surge in activity and development by some very talented mappers and artists, its future as a website and "company" started

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Pokémon Universe Original Soundtrack!

Given the current state of things, I figured I'd release an album with most of the music I've composed for the game during the last years.

Yes 30 tracks of pokeyman goodness. Something to come out of this whole ordeal.

You can download it for free at: http://hiteryan.bandcamp.com/

If you've got a Last.fm account, the album is scrobbleable as well!

Enjoy!

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Website Offline / Server Crash
Last Thursday one of the hard disks in my server failed which caused the website to load very slowly or not at all. Unfortunately I was away for the weekend and was unable to fix it, but now (as you can see) the website is back online.

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Future of Pokemon Universe
Since almost nobody is working on the game anymore, I'm open to suggestions on what to do with the website. If you have a nice idea for a (Pokemon related) website which fits our name (Pokemon Universe), feel free to post it in this topic or send me an e-mail.

As it stands now, the website is just a waste of money and bandwidth.

- On average the website still gets about 100 unique visitors each day
- The website still ranks high in search results related to "Pokemon"
- I'll be willing to "sponsor" the domain and website hosting, so you'll only be in charge of the website itself.
- The new website can be a reformat of the site we currently have or something completely new

Let me know if you have any questions or if something is not clear.

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I tried to do this before, for various reasons. This time it's different. I am resigning from the PU writing team. I have changed my focus in life. I'm going for a career in video production and editing and looking into going back to school so I can hone my skills. I enjoyed my time here and have met a lot of amazing people. I might return sometime in the future and wish you guys the best of luck with the game. If any of you have me on Steam or Skype and want to stay in contact, feel free. My Skype name is Tickles Ticklesword. Also, feel free to look into my channel, as I will be posting some gameplay vids here.

We'll see what the future holds

Yours Truly

cortexjs
Cortex J.
Xetroc
Tickles.