11 DEVS Make a GAME without COMMUNICATING! (POKEMON edition)

This first paragraph introduces the game challenge, explaining that 11 developers will create a video game with no communication allowed between them. It then announces that this is the largest edition of the challenge yet with double digit developers participating. The end result is expected to be wild.

The first developer, Thomas, decides to create a first person exploration and battle game where you explore a forest to find and capture powerful creatures to then battle opponents in an arena, similar to Pokemon. He adds basic gameplay elements like throwing capture balls, simple monster models, a battle arena, monster stats and combat.

The second developer, Louis, improves the visuals and gameplay. He upgrades the movement, environment graphics, adds a character model with hands and animations, changes the capture system to require shooting monsters with a slingshot before capturing, and adjusts monster models. He aims to improve the challenge and visuals.

Developer Saturn decides the Safari zone needs more challenge. He makes it more on-rails like Pokemon Snap, requiring you to track one boss monster or lose its trail. This connects the Safari and Arena areas better. He upgrades graphics and tries to build on the Arena but runs out of time.

Developer Cuba disliked the safely boundary so he removed it. He added enemy trainers along the route to block progress instead. He refactored monsters to use scriptable objects for easier comparisons in battle, which he changed to rock paper scissors rules. He also added a day/night cycle to respawn collectible monsters.

Developer Daniel builds out the core game loop for monster battling by allowing the player to control monsters in third person with different attacks during battles. A selection system lets you choose which monster to control. Simple enemy AI chases and attacks. Collision based damage and fainting systems allow monster swapping to make battles work smoothly.

Bob polishes visuals with ambient occlusion, color and lighting tweaks for the day/night cycle. He improves slingshot gameplay with tweaks to the aiming, adds cooldown indicators, creates health bars for trainers, and adds battle area boundaries. He designs amulets to collect from trainers which open the castle gates for a final boss.

Antonio creates a proper health bar UI. He adds more monster types with different special powers, damage, icons and particle effects. The game now has 7 collectible monster types for more variety and challenge.

Alex focuses on polish and new content over new features. He fixed model clipping, UI for battled trainers and monsters, movement bugs, improved performance, added capture effects and arena theming. He created elite monster variants for increased challenge including a final boss.

Irdas fixed fighting issues, ball collisions, limited monster capacity to 6 for more challenge, improved abilities, added visual effects and feedback, and an interactive tutorial. His teammates Ghantas and Megla massively visually upgraded the environments, UI and branding with custom assets.

In the final developer segments, many more minor fixes, audio effects and content additions are covered as they combine efforts to polish the game. They reflect on key improvements made to create a more complete gameplay experience and announce their own games seeking wishlists.