>>53823821Yeah. I have multiple ideas for "teams/groups" for the game. The player character would begin his/her adventure by joining Professor Cypress's exploration team (at the moment called Ruins Society).
But you also have the "Order of Scribes" which is an ancient Order that dedicates their lives to the preservation of ancient Helsosian knowledge. Obviously this is all very barebones but it's the idea I have.
The gym challenges will be the same in concept but different in meaning. The gym leaders will be titles "torchbearers" and an ancient tradition that goes back centuries. Torchbearers used to be temple keepers for the diety Pokemon and trainers would battle all around the region to participate in the Torchbearing, as a way to please the diety pokemon.
But overtime the practice became more of a sport and torchbearers more of an honorarium, many of the temples became ruined and mimic the cities they reside in.
As for the ruins. I wanted them to be their own dungeons, something you can actually get excited about while exploring. I imagined each ruins would have their own sort of mini-puzzles but also obstacles that you would need the help of Pokemon to bash through.
Its work in progress since it demands the player to have a pokemon able to break a stone wall or be small enough to squeeze through a crevice, rental mon provided by the ruins society is probably the best middle ground.
But yeah its the idea. Although I don't know about controlling the mon. I would rather have the Pokemon simply help the player get passed barriers
