#gatchapedia

Earlier today, it was confirmed that the 3DS line of systems would be put out of production and discontinued.

This meant a lot to me. As, I had a lot of fond memories of the 3DS while growing up.

From my stepsister breaking my original 3DS, drawing with Flipnote Studio 3D and Comic Workshop 2, reinvigorating my love for Pokémon, and the countless people that I’ve connected with over the years, it’s no surprise that it was a pretty cool console with some great features.

To honor it, I drew Toranya looking down in the dumps. With the old Gatchapedia design in the background. (That design was based off of the 2DS. The Gatchapedia in the sequels would’ve been based off of the New 2DS XL.)

A design I made for a device called the Gatchapedia for Gatchawatch (Which is a game that I'll make when I get older). It's a device that functions a lot like the Pokédex from Pokémon. It includes information on all 200 species of Gatchamon including their locations, size and weight, and a full view of each monster. You can also use it to scan for invisible Gatchamon (mostly ghost based ones) and receive new information on them in the Gatchapedia. The main way to gain new Gatchamon data is to befriend one through battle, or through trades with friends. I'm keeping the total of Gatchamon at 200 for now, but I might scale them down if I feel like it's too high of a number.

(Another thing about the Gatchapedia, is that I loosely based it's design off of the Nintendo 2DS. I did that because, I love the design of the system, and the way that it's held.)

A redesign for the Gatchapedia.

It still records Gatchamon data. But, lacks the fancy extras of the original design. (and, it now records only 160 species of Gatchamon since I dropped the number due to space concerns and balancing)

I had to redesign the device after the game sort of switched from the Nintendo 3DS to the Nintendo Switch. I tried to base the design off of the regular Switch system. But, nothing that I tried worked out...