Someone built a 60-hour 'Pokémon' game into 'Minecraft' and it's beautiful
There's a Pokémon game on PC now. Sort of.
For all the ways that Minecraft has been twisted and transformed over the years, Pokémon: Cobalt and Amethyst is something new. It's a full-blown game built inside of Minecraft, with what developer Phoenix Projects says is "60 to 80 hours" of gameplay.
At its heart, Cobalt and Amethyst is meant to recreate the original Pokémon RPG in a new format. According to the official description, it includes "battling, capturing, and training Pokémon, fighting trainers, and challenging Gym Leaders and, ultimately, the Pokémon League."
The game is the product of an almost three-year development process. Getting it set up and running smoothly is a little tricky -- since this is Minecraft and not an actual Pokémon game -- but the video above provides step-by-step instructions.
We haven't tested the game ourselves yet, so it's hard to say how it runs or plays. But on the face of things, this is an impressive twisting of the Minecraft foundation into something completely different.
If you're interested in the technical side of things, Phoenix chronicled Cobalt and Amethyst's development in a 139-episode YouTube playlist.
You can download the game for free right here and check out more stuff on Phoenix Projects' website. You might want to act quickly, however; Nintendo is diligent about protecting its intellectual property and has a history of shutting down Pokémon fan projects.
Adam Rosenberg is a Senior Games Reporter for Mashable, where he plays all the games. Every single one. From AAA blockbusters to indie darlings to mobile favorites and browser-based oddities, he consumes as much as he can, whenever he can.Adam brings more than a decade of experience working in the space to the Mashable Games team. He previously headed up all games coverage at Digital Trends, and prior to that was a long-time, full-time freelancer, writing for a diverse lineup of outlets that includes Rolling Stone, MTV, G4, Joystiq, IGN, Official Xbox Magazine, EGM, 1UP, UGO and others.Born and raised in the beautiful suburbs of New York, Adam has spent his life in and around the city. He's a New York University graduate with a double major in Journalism and Cinema Studios. He's also a certified audio engineer. Currently, Adam resides in Crown Heights with his dog and his partner's two cats. He's a lover of fine food, adorable animals, video games, all things geeky and shiny gadgets.
