We created the single most popular Pokémon Fangame – ever. And in truth, I’m very proud of what JV, myself, and the Uranium Team have achieved. If you, like me, enjoy graphs and stats, then check out the Google Trends. Over the course of less than a week, Pokémon Uranium went from a relatively unknown indie project to one whose sudden explosive popularity eclipsed even the upcoming official games: It was ready-made clickbait, with headlines containing the words “Pokémon”, “Free to Play” & “9 Years in Development”. A couple of days later, the gaming news media picked it up, and soon articles got written about it in just about ever major gaming news source on the Internet – from Kotaku to Polygon to IGN to Verge to Wired and everything in between. On the first day we dropped the game, it skyrocketed to the top of r/Pokemon, and even reached the front page of r/All. People speculated that we did it on purpose in truth, we had no idea that Pokémon GO was going to come out that July when we set our goals for a late summer release.
Hundreds of thousands of people were being introduced to the series for the first time, and many of them were looking for a way to experience the “classic” Pokémon feel.Īll of these factors contributed to a perfect storm of viral fame. The upcoming official games, Pokémon Sun and Moon, were still months away. It even includes online trading and battling with other players.Īt the time of Uranium’s release, Pokémon GO had recently come out the previous month, so the excitement over Pokémon was higher than even the peak of Poké-Mania in the 1990s. Besides the 9-year-long development cycle, it includes a massive amount of content, including 150 all-new Pokemon (most of which were designed & sprited by me), a sprawling region to explore, a pixelated graphical style reminiscent of the 4th Generation DS games, and more than 30 hours of playable content. Fan Games, in general, rarely see completion but Uranium 1.0 is a finished experience, playable from start to credits. On August 6, 2016, after months of work on testing, refining, and fixing the game, the Uranium Team published the full version of Pokémon Uranium, a fan-made Pokémon game, for free to the internet. What followed was an unprecedented series of events, which we could have never truly prepared for, that would change all our lives, affect thousands of people – and perhaps even reach the creators of Pokémon itself.įirst, some context: Pokémon Uranium Version is not like other Fan Games. This is a long story, so let’s start with the obvious.
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