>>40854443I made a Pokemon fangame and no one played it. The one guy who did play it just complained about the sprites.
I got pissed off and rereleased it but I replaced every sprite with a hasty MSPaint scribble that I made in under five seconds for each frame of animation with no regard to making it seamless or whatever. More people played and commented on that version than on the one I put actual effort into.
The moral of the story is that Pokemon fans are fucking brainless lemming-people and no one is gonna play your Kindergarten game if it doesn't have Pokemon in the title, but it's not a bad idea overall because most people have shit for taste.