Video games can run on just about anything these days, including a source. Yes, why choose Calibri when you can choose a fully playable version of Pokémon? We don’t know why anyone decided to do this, but the results are wonderful and very, very strange.
Fontemon is available to play for free in your browser, but you can also install it in your computer’s word processor, in an image editor, in a code editor and basically anywhere else that allows fonts. From the version of the web font player, all you have to do is start typing and the introduction sequence will begin. If you want to go back, you can delete the text you wrote and skip to a previous point. Keeping the space bar pressed also helps to keep the game moving.
Just like at the beginning of each Pokémon game, you can select an initial monster, requiring you to press a specific key, and then you are automatically sent to the first gym and a battle against the leader begins. Again, you use specific keys here to give commands to your monster, but, at least in our game, things started to get really weird at this point. We don’t want to spoil anything, but Fontemon is not what it seems at first. Check out a video demonstrating the River’s Educational Channel game below.
You can find a list of the artists and creators who worked on Fontemon through Github. CodeRelay, where the game is hosted, was created by Michael Mulet.
Fontemon is the latest in a list of impressive web-based games that honor Nintendo and its games. Another classic, The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo, is a piece of the classic line that every child has heard on the playground. This game is also not what it seems at first sight and is best experienced by knowing as little as possible beforehand.