'Pokémon Essentials' that created numerous fansome and Pokemon games closed due to Nintendo's copyright infringement claim

Nintendo is known for strongly protecting its own intellectual property rights, but against " Pokémon Essentials " which provided a tool to create a new fan game of Pocket Monsters (Pokemon) and a commentary wiki etc. It was revealed that alarm of copyright infringement was issued. "Pokémon Essentials" has decided to close as a warning.

Nintendo shuts down the tool behind your favorite Pokémon fan games - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/29/17793044/pokemon-essentials-nintendo-takedown-fandom-wiki

For Pokemon who is worldwide popular, a lot of informal games (fan games) that fans made themselves have been produced, and have been played by Pokemon fans all over the world through downloads. Among them, a tool that can easily create RPG with tile sets and sound sources that can be mapped to canvases by drag and drop, etc. "Pokémon Essentials", which has transmitted game kits and information on RPG Maker XP (RPG Maker XP) It is supported by creators all over the world who love Pokemon, popular fan games such as " Pokémon Uranium " were created from Pokémon Essentials and played by many Pokemon game fans.

Pokemon Uranium Part 1 LET'S GO! (Pokemon Fan Game) Walkthrough Gameplay - YouTube


The Pokémon Essentials game kit, wiki, tutorial, etc. were closed and it became unusable.

Maruno, the last owner and developer of Pokémon Essentials, said, "Pokémon Essentials download page and all of the wikis have been deleted in response to copyright infringement claims from Nintendo's lawyers," Pokémon Essentials closed The reasons for revealing that it was requested to remove from Nintendo. In addition, The Verge said from Fandom, who presided over the Pokémon Essentials Wiki, "Following the warning of copyright infringement from Nintendo, we carefully assessed the piracy of the Pokémon Essentials Wiki and decided to close the wiki I confirmed that "I did."

Even now the performance of the game machine has improved and the main battlefield of the game has shifted from 2D to 3D even now even a user who loves retro games is not few, and voices sparing closing of Pokémon Essentials are raised from fan game creators and game enthusiasts . A member of the Pokémon Essentials community said, "We knew that this day would come someday. Some people are surprised to have lasted so long, but regardless of whether they have a wiki or support, I am trying to keep making games. "