Related Projects

See also Similar Games for completed, proprietary monster catching games.

RavaR

GPL 3.0 licence

Uses a lot of Open Game Art assets. However, the monster art is proprietary.

• Github

Zoonami

By isaiah658.

A Minetest mod that adds monsters and battling. Sounds and textures are under CC0, the code is under MIT License.

• OGA
• Git
• Thread

Floraverse

A Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike open world.

The Floraverse element system has five primary elements. Two primary elements can be combined (including two of the same element) to make the fifteen secondary elements. One primary and one secondary element or two secondary elements can be combined to make 125 tertiary elements (although these are not spelled out).

Primary elements

• Fire
• Water
• Air
• Earth
• Spirit

Secondary elements

• Plasma (Fire x Fire)
• Acid (Fire x Water)
• Light (Fire x Air)
• Lava (Fire x Earth)
• Aura (Fire x Spirit)
• Ice (Water x Water)
• Cloud (Water x Air)
• Clay (Water x Earth)
• Poison (Water x Spirit)
• Storm (Air x Air)
• Sand (Air x Earth)
• Sound (Air x Spirit)
• Crystal (Earth x Earth)
• Magnet (Earth x Spirit)
• Psi (Spirit X Spirit)

Tertiary elements (examples)

• Hail (Ice x Cloud)
• Acid Rain (Acid x Cloud)

Links

• Main site

AndHeGames

Doodles created by an artist on OpenGameArt.

There are 292 monsters so far.

• OGA page
• On the wiki

Megupets

An art project with numbered monsters.

• Main site
• OGA page

Color Monster

Color Monster is a GPL game under development by Tuxemon contributor Dulsi in which you colour the monsters that you catch.

• Main site
• Github page

Catch Challenger

Catch Challenger is a contributor to the Tuxemon project, as we are using some of their open source assets.

Licence: GPL3 (code); GPL3, CC BY, LGPL (datapack)

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• Catch Challenger
• Main site
• Datapack git
• Site git
• Client git

Details

• Catch Challenger has 14 types: Normal, Electric, Bird, Fire, Water, Stone, Ground, Plant, Ice, Fight, Poison, Psy, Spectre, Steal (Steel)

OPMon

OPMon is a contributor to the Tuxemon project, as we use some of their open source assets.

The code is under GNU GPL 3.0 and the art is under CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence details). Original music is also under CC BY-SA 4.0 (see here).

• OPMon
• Main site
• Website Github (CC BY)
• Original Game Github (GPL or CC BY-SA)
• Godot Remake Github (licence not specified)
• Github wiki

Details

• OPMon has 18 types: Bad, Bug, Burning, Cold, Dragon, Electron, Fight, Ghost, Ground, Liquid, Magic, Mental, Metal, Mineral, Neutral, Sky, Toxic, Vegetal
• The game is called OPMon Lazuli
• Similarities and differences with Pokemon
• Some of the sprites are modified versions of proprietary sprites (for example, Team Mystare grunt includes parts from the Team Plasma grunt sprite)
• Some OPMon art and monsters are not yet added to this wiki

Guardian Monsters

See also Guardian Monsters on wiki

Formerly known as Friends with Monsters.

• Georg Eckert
• Art Github page

Friends with Monsters

Friends with Monsters had five types: Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Light (or Energy)

• Bitbucket
• Current monsters page
• Older sprites 1, 2

Monster Trainer RL

A monster catching roguelike with procedurally generated maps. The creator has confirmed that it is under the MIT Licence.

• Play online
• Github

Project Uranium Godot

An MIT-licensed remake of the Pokemon Uranium game in the open source Godot engine.

• Github

Open source JRPGs

While not monster-catching games specifically, these are notable for being open source JRPGs.

• Monster RPG 2
• Valyria Tear
• Godot OpenRPG: A tool and demo for turn-based RPGs in the open source Godot game engine.
• OHRRPGCE

Other uses of Tuxemon assets

CS50's Introduction to Game Development

Harvard's CS50 open course on game design, "CS50's Introduction to Game Development", features Tuxemon sprites.

• Course
• Lecture

Creature Chess

An auto-battler under the MIT License.

• GitHub

Juxemon

Juxemon is a vaporware project that was apparently on Steam at some point. It used Tuxemon assets.

MK Starter Kit

A planned open source Pokemon-style RPG maker.

• GitHub (Kit)
• GitHub (Editor)

Proprietary

PhoenixDex

A collection of fakemon under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial licence.