Hello All!



If you’ve been paying attention, you probably didn’t think you’d be hearing from us for a while. But for us, August 20th is a special day. It was on this day two years ago that we released the Pokemon Ethereal Gates demo! We know you’re all clamoring for more, and honestly, your loyalty to this project means the world to us.

Some general news about production: we’re chugging along, and are excited to announce that we’ve expanded our team with a few more designers and a new coder. We’ve also taken your feedback from the demo version to heart, and are using it to make some changes in the full game we think you’re really going to love.

While we are committed to the fact that we won’t be doing any more Demos until the full game is released, we decided that to commemorate this day we would show you just the tiniest bit of the stuff that Perihelion Productions has been working on since then:

Right off the bat we’re going to show you two new Pokémon, who coincide with the next segment of the region that players have yet to see: Sittella Town! Sittella Town is home to the third gym, and we’re happy to unveil that the third gym is GHOST type. Here are the two new Pokémon:

Dustowl, a Psychic/Ground Pokemon, can be found in the dusty areas surrounding Sittella town. It keeps a stick balanced on its head so it can concentrate its psychic abilities, but can sometimes be seen drawing circles in dust with the same stick, absentmindedly. Dustowl was designed by one of our new Pokemon designers, Lucky Trident.

Declay, a Ground/Ghost Pokemon, is an interesting sort. People don’t know if it is animated clay or reanimated flesh, but this Pokemon drags itself around Sittella’s graveyard and surrounding areas looking for companionship. It is not very intelligent, but it has a lot of heart…despite probably not having one. Declay was designed by another one of our new designers, JWNutz.

And here is the theme for Sittella town, courtesy of our composer Sean Petersen.

In addition to many new things, we’ve been going back to old areas and improving on them. For instance, the player’s good pal April has gotten herself a redesign!



And she’s gotten a new music theme, which will appear any time April appears in the game!

That’s all for now, we know you’re all still patiently looking forward to the full game as we work on it, and we’re sure it’s going to be an absolutely amazing time! Your support means the world to us, and we can’t wait to show you what we have in store.

All the best,

Perihelion Productions