As a free mod for the paid RPG Maker software, Pokémon Essentials offers all the graphics, music, maps, and tilesets a fan game maker needs to craft their own Poké-adventure.įans of the tool congregated around the PokeCommunity forums and a dedicated Pokémon Essentials wiki to download files, share creations, and discuss the scene. Since 2007, Pokémon Essentials has been a crucial part of the Pokémon fan game community. Now the company is taking aim at one of the tools used to build some of those fan games. Further Reading Mod that adds online play to Super Mario 64 draws Nintendo’s ireNintendo has a long history of using legal action to take down fan games based on its popular copyrighted franchises.
