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Edit1: Wait hold on I need to pack it as a zip instead of rar, you can try the following after if it doesn't work. 

Edit 2: Okay now that it's a zip it should open properly and if it still won't run you can try following below. Hopefully the game is worth the like 8 months it took for me to compress it as a zip instead of a rar. smh

Alright, let me know if this works. 

extract the file to wherever you want the game

go into /Levania [MacOS]/game.app/Contents/MacOS/NWJS

Open up MacOS console and type this; ' chmod +x  ' (without the  apostrophes) and then drag and drop the nwjs file to the terminal window to get the right location of the file and then run it.

And then try running the nwjs file.

If it works, let me know and I'll update the instructions on how to run it on the game page.

Alternatively, I believe there are free programs that will run RPG maker games for MacOS, like this https://github.com/m5kro/RPG-Maker-MacOS-Launcher/blob/main/main.p

Looks like I need to buff some of the TP modes then and maybe add some. At one point at least there was a TP mode where you would start with 80 TP but I guess I removed it or changed it cause it was too strong. There are some classes that can get more TP regen as passives or innately have some, it's different for each class. Each 1% increase to TP regen is 1 extra TP regenerated passively each turn. There's also TP charge rate, which I don't remember if I use anywhere, but that affects how much TP you get from basic attacks.  So for an example, a pyromancer gets 6 TP for each attack plus whatever TP mode they have.

 I'll also buff each of the Diviners (the  ___mancer's) special buffs since they look underwhelming. As far as the variety of spells, most of what you mentioned are in the game, it's just that the variety is spread out across all the classes. The only thing that I didn't use is having abilities with hit rates that depend on damage. Might be something I use but it would be something that I'd add to a specific class as a quirk/gimmick.

I'll enable the buttons to show up for the quest journal and that should fix it. Glad you're enjoying the game, I'll have an update out later today.

Hmmm, yeah, I don't want people to savescum it just to try and maximize. Maybe every 4th coin you could choose a stimulant then. Or maybe I'll just change what you get from him entirely and have the tonics and stimulants be special rewards elsewhere. 

For TP are you trying out different TP modes and still finding it to be underwhelming? Or have you not met with the TP dealer? I feel like there's definitely some TP modes that shouldn't be making it feel underwhelming. Like starting with max TP or having TP carry over between battles. I can also buff the damage of the skills as well, but I don't want to make them too overpowered.

As far as many spells feeling samey, yeah I get you on that. There's only so much I can do to make them different and I tried to do what I could but inevitably some are going to feel similar. I'm going to edit the skills and balance eventually, i just haven't messed with it much since I finally got it to a place that's decent. I'm also not trying to make it so every class is equally good, there's going to be some that are plain better or worse. When I do edit it all I'll try and see about having the skills within a class at least feel like they have different purposes.

Welcome back, glad you're still coming back to the game to see how things are. 

Thanks for reporting the bugs, I believe I got them fixed for the next update. The one where you exit and get put in the middle of the water I just fixed not even an hour ago coincidentally. Still appreciate the reports cause they're things I almost missed.

The feature to turn the followers on/off was implemented too far into development to where I now need to go back to every event that changes the followers and edit it to account for whatever choice you have it on. There's probably some other ways I could get around it sort of, but for it to be implemented properly I'll have to fix all the events. I might have to start doing it a little at a time. 

For the tonics and stimulants, I just remembered that I never did add the random element to them cause it was gonna require making a script or plugin for it. The idea was gonna be, for example, that the attack tonic would give +1-2 and the stimulant would give 3-4 or something like that. So the stimulants requiring 3 coins would guarantee getting higher but the tonic would  be more cost effective if you got lucky enough. I'll need to re-examine that later on for the next required reset but I forgot about that until you mentioned it.

Yeah, if you can provide a screenshot of what the error was, that would help. Also,  which option did you choose that caused the crash? Was it immediate after choosing the option?

Fixed 2 more critical bugs that were reported.

Fixed a bug that would cause the game to freeze on some maps when you had a guild hunt quest.

I mean, I don't think this one is ever going to be done with how much I want to add. But, I do plan on taking a break from it once I get Aquanis (the main world map) finished so I can work on another game. I've got ideas for 2 other games that I really want to make that would both be much different. One is a more story focused RPG and the other is a DnD 'ish roguelike. Both of them I should be able to finish in a 1-3 year time frame each since they have a much smaller scope but we'll see when I get to that point.

I've thought about it but it's not a priority right now. I'd need to look into how to even add something like that in. It would have to be machine translated and there's a ton of text that would need to be translated. I'm pretty sure most of the nuance and wordplay would be lost but I still think it'll be worth adding at some point just to reach a wider audience.

I'm using RPG Maker MZ.

I've never had anyone say that the Mac version does or doesn't work so I'm not sure if this is a new issue or always been the case. I don't have a mac or know anyone with one so I've never tested it. Have other RPG Maker games worked for you before? Also, the downloaded file just opens as words? like there aren't any folders in the file? 

No, once a companion has been recruited you can't get rid of them. The most you can do is to not have them in the active party, the 4 primary spots that are used for combat.

In SeaSide, on the left side of the town where the other shops are is a building with a hammer sign, in there is a spot marked with a pulsing yellow light that you can interact with. There's also another building in Aquamarine City that has a hammer sign with the same indicator inside. 

Did you craft the Bag of Alchemical Supplies at a crafting station? I went ahead and changed that dialogue so that he reminds you to do that. For the quest board, I'll try to fix that. It's just still like that because that specifically is a bit complicated behind the scenes. Thanks for letting me know

Hey, if you see this and still care to try out my game, I believe I've finally fixed the issue that was causing the black lines on the map. Only took 302 days, lol.

Well first off, Thanks you for taking the time to write such a long and detailed review. I appreciate it.

The story and idea is pretty bare right now since I'm trying to focus on adding areas and refining that content. I want to have more areas for story moments to take place in. I'll think about making the story sort of more religion focused, or at least having religious aspects. One thing I want in the story is for either good or evil to not be so black and white. Like not just the embodiment of good and evil but characters that are more mixed.

The Class balance is totally unbalanced, but I didn't have much time to test it out before releasing it either. Even while making the damage calculations I knew I'd need to go back and fix some things. I've already lowered the basic attack damage for almost every class since they just seemed too strong generally. The Cryomancer is supposed to be the weakest of the Diviners in terms of damage but yeah the skills could use some work in terms of variety or progression. I think in some cases I made some of the basic spells for the starting classes a bit strong, I'll look into making them feel more like a stepping stone into the real spells/skills. 

The spells/skills are already structured so that once you fully learn a spell it unlocks a new stronger spell. I wanted to add a visual skill tree so you could see that but I couldn't find any plugin that worked the way I wanted. I might have to add an image showing the progression or something. But I agree, having a visual skill tree would be very helpful.

I can add a exclamation mark to quest important NPC's, though I don't know if there are that many. 'Quests' that Vic in the bar gives hints for aren't meant to be obvious or well known so stuff like that would still be unmarked but I should mark him. Followers should probably also be marked but I don't want it to be so obvious with an exclamation mark above them. I'll have to think about that.

The well quest I had to check because I forgot but you're supposed to stand on the water bubbles that blast water upwards. There should be a lightbulb icon over the bubbles that disappears when it forms the geyser and returns when it goes back to the bubbles. This is in the lowest level with all the lava by the way.  So if that doesn't work then let me know, it used to at least.

I'll look into the no encounter/half encounter spells not working. 

I'm also a fan of not having random encounters and instead encounters you can see. I do use encounters you can see in several areas but I think I should make it more consistent like dungeons and forest hideaways being where you can see the encounters but overworld type areas having random encounters. I'm not really sure what the percentage of people who like one over the other is. Maybe if I can't get the no/half encounter spells to work I'll just make it a toggle in the settings. 

Thanks again for the suggestions and trying out the game, it gave me some things to think about, look into, and fix.

Ahh, I got it fixed. Wrong building, (she's in the accessory shop) but I found another bug because of it. I'll add a spot in the tutorial area in the next update so that you can fixed the locked direction, as well as the other bug.

 'Preciate it.

I don't know why the hyperlink won't work but if you copy and paste the code it does: https://discord.gg/GXHucC4HHC

You can get 5 levels easily by going to the basement of the Adventurer's Guild (the building you start in) and fighting a guy there a few times. There's also a guy in the SeaSide farm that will give 1 XP for every time you press a action button within 10 sec. Enemies in the forests close to SeaSide only scale up to level 10 - 15. Also if you can survive the encounters (which would be difficult as a rogue but maybe you get lucky with dodges), demons give much more XP. The easiest spot to get to I think would be the lowest level of the SeaSide mine, definitely go with a full party early. Hope that helps and thanks for letting me know about the discord link.

Just uploaded a new version fixing an issue with the Guardian equipment slot crashing the game on some of the classes. Also fixed Jesili softlocking the game when talking to her with another member in your party. The Maximizer TP mode now preserves TP like it says. Thanks to Casual on Discord for letting me know.

After you beat the head priest, he said the same line as before like he just repeated the exact same thing he had before fighting him? Was his sprite still there after beating him? 

Not being able to talk to anyone after beating him is more of an oversight (except his two 'henchmen' can still be talked to if you don't kill them), I'll have to add that. Good thinking.

With the dark areas, do you not like them because the obstructing view is annoying to navigate with, is it too dark like the screen gets tinted too dark, anything specific or you just didn't care for those sections?

Some of the art is different because for the case of the human male player character and Headass, those were drawn by my cousin (as well as the title image), and the others my friend had generated with AI over a year ago so they wouldn't be the default character creator generated ones. But, he never did anymore for the others to make it consistent. I think I've changed some of them back to their default ones for this next update, for sure Cephe, cause they don't fit the character. Plus, yeah it doesn't look great when there's different art styles on some characters. 

I'm glad you had fun anyway, I appreciate you giving the game a try.

I just fixed the issue with the Forest Cleanup quest. The Pushy Protestant one I may have fixed?  The issue was that after finishing the quest and getting the objective to turn it in, it just doesn't mark the first one as complete, right? Cause I think I found a scenario where that happens and just changed it.  Or was it something else?

I did fix the Brainless Ring and some collision in areas. 

Thanks for letting me know.

Ah I see, the blank item is where a shield was but I moved it. 

The Druid training ground dungeon is supposed to always leave you as the only party member in there. If it's not then that's an issue but I already changed the way it works earlier so it should leave you as the only one for sure now. 

Yeah, Cephe is great, I want to add more interactions between followers but I've just been wanting to add more things to do before doing it. Other than some interactions during some quests and everyone hanging out when you get the monster house property, there's not much in terms of the followers saying or acknowledging anything. The player speaking was something I wanted to add because when  in other RPGs that have the PC never talk or react to anything, it feels more, I don't know, lifeless? Like when a NPC is talking to you for several minutes and the PC never says or acknowledges anything and the NPC never acts like it's weird that the person they are talking to isn't saying anything, to me is just odd. I definitely get where you're coming from though, if the PC doesn't ever interject or say anything then it allows you to fill in the blanks with how you would want them to have reacted.  Maybe I'll try to have a middle ground and have dialogue options that affect the outcome of a chat. I'll have to have a poll or something later when the game is more popular to see what others would want to see. Believe me, if I didn't have to worry about how the player reacted and what they say it would be easier on me, so I'm all for it if that's what the audience wants.

I can change party members just inserting themselves into your party, I just left it so that some do because from a gameplay perspective there's no downside to having them, it's really just for roleplay. I was wanting to add a yandere character at some point, so they'll definitely just add themselves but that'll make it more impactful if it's the only time a follower does that. The next update is gonna have level requirements for most to have the option to recruit them. Some that also have starting classes will be obtainable from the start, but those that already have vocations, like Cephe being a Pyromancer, will require you to be level 10 before having the option to recruit them. 

I'm sure you are among the minority of wanting to have a way to make notes in game, but a quick search did give a plugin that can be used for taking notes on an in game note pad. I don't know if there's a way to add a note to a characters bio directly with other plugins though, I feel like it could be done with VisuStella plugins but I don't know. There would need to be some way to bring up the text entry without it being for a characters name or entering a code. 

I'm not finding any lack of collision by that underground lake, is it like a walking on top of the walls kind of no collision? 

I also found another softlock in there from interacting with one of the minecarts, so don't do that.

Well I fixed the areas with no collision in the tutorial area, church, and castle prison, but I can't replicate the softlock in the church. Entering and exiting in different ways all seem to be fine. I remember it being a problem brought up before but I thought it was fixed in a previous update and not the current version I'm working on. Is it that there's just nothing happening when you touch the back area of the door? Also with the prison, other than the walls not having collision and a random invisible wall where the cell door would be in the top left, I don't notice any weird pathing or problems with the entrance/exit. Was there something else wrong?

Thanks for letting me know about the issues. 

I appreciate it, I'll do what I can to ensure the quality and keep everyone updated. You'll be happy to know that there will be 3 more female followers in the next update as well (and 1 male).  I'll definitely add some sort of romance system at some point but I'm not sure when, maybe later next year. 

Thank you for your patience and interest in the game, it always puts a smile on my face. 

Yeah, it was a bug. 'Preciate it.

It only happens when your class curves plugin is on. I tried to see if I could find which Visustella plugin is the problem but the only one I can turn off that the error relates to is the EquipSetBonus one. When I turn that one off it gives the same error but with a different error log.

I tried changing the max stat limit in the CoreEngine back to the defaults but it's the same error. Also after disabling and re-enabling the EquipSetCore it no longer comes up in the error log and it's the same error log as the picture above.

Finally I tried updating all the Visustella Plugins with the most up-to-date ones and the same max call stack size error comes up but with a new error log. 

I don't even know what the problem could be now based on what the error is referring to. Now it just seems unrelated to me. Regardless of if you can actually do anything I just wanted it to be known that there's a compatibility issue.  I appreciate you getting back with me and looking into it. 

BTW, your Mobile Controls plugin was a life saver. Best of it's kind. 

Hey, I'm not even sure you'll be able to help with this but whenever I try to start a new game it gives me a RangeError that says 'Maximum Call Stack Size Exceeded' and the DevTool shows a few of the VisuStella plugins as being the issue. I don't code so I can really only take a guess when it comes to this kind of stuff based on what the error says but I really don't know where to begin with this one. I mean I can see it has something to do with the actors parameters but I don't know why or what's causing an overflow. Is it just that your plugin isn't compatible with the VisuStella ones? Seems weird that it would be the ItemEquipsCore and EquipSetBonuses causing problems. 

I'm not even sure I'll be able to do what I'd like to do with this plugin but it's the only one that's close to what I want. No worries if you can't help, I understand if it's not something you'd know since it's related to VisuStella.

That's weird, I'm not sure what would be causing that. The game launches fine for me and I don't even know if it would prompt you to update even if you did have a previous version installed, but I don't know if that's actually the case since I don't have an Android Phone. Is your phone an older model? Have you tried using other means to launch the game like JoiPlay? Are you able to launch and play it without hitting update?

Ahhhh shit,  it never updated me that you added edits (and I just finished uploading the new versions), At least it's easy stuff to fix. Next time if I already responded just make a new reply so I'll know. Thanks for letting me know about the bugs though, that Aqyl bug is so overpowered, that may be the most overpowered bug to get through. 

Ahh, I see the invite for the server keeps changing, I updated the invite codes but I'll try to keep the one on the main page up to date. 

I thought I Fixed that bug but after checking again I found what the problem was. I'll upload the newest version here pretty soon.

You can disable the on-screen controls by tapping the icon in the top left. If it's causing problems then let me know and I can upload a separate version that disables it entirely. 

Thanks for letting me know, I think there were only 3 guild quests at the time when I made the reward box and I just never changed it, whoops. It's an easy fix at least and the ring will be obtainable when the next update comes out. I fixed the blacksmith not giving a Stellar Fire Essence as well. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying the game, you're one of only a few people to have said  that so I appreciate it.

Hmm, the Spellblade should only be hitting twice per attack. When I test it out that's the case. The way that being able to attack multiple times with the same character is balanced is that special attacks and magic prevent that character from acting again. I know you could just basic attack 3 times and finish with a skill to get around it. I think I'll look into limiting the amount of times someone can basic attack to 2, but I'm not sure  if I'll actually be able to implement it. The point really of the Free Turn Battle system is to allow you to choose who attacks first or at all and to give freedom  for how you play the combat. Also, who goes first in battle is based on the combined agility of each party, the higher one goes first. 

Ahh, my bad. I just updated all the downloads to fix the issue. Thanks for letting me know.

Damn, yeah I really don't know what else to try then. Sorry I can't be of more assistance, I'm really not sure why it's happening no matter what you try. I appreciate you at least working with me to try and resolve the issue. For me, it's worth all the effort if it means one more person can try my game out. Maybe eventually a solution will be found. Thanks for trying to give it a try.

Do you have a lot of apps installed, as in most of the memory is taken up or have apps running in the background? Does your phone run slow on other apps? 12-16 FPS seems awfully low even for mobile. I'm not even sure if any of that would help but I'm at a loss of what else to try since I can't recreate it myself.  Sorry I can't do more to help, I added one final version of the game that has everything up to date to see if that helps. 

Huh, that's... weird. Have you modified your screen resolution or modified the hardware/software of it at all? You said other RPG Maker games ran on it before, do you know if they were made in RPGMZ or RPGMV? It may just be that if your phone is old then compatibility hasn't been maintained with the plugins in the game. 

You could also try installing JoiPlay and see if that fixes it. I've never used it but someone did mention to me before that the game ran fine for them using that (It was before I released a working Mobile version). I believe it uses the Windows version of the game but I'm not sure.

If JoiPlay ends up working then I can upload a version of the game that has mobile controls for the windows version, assuming that's the version it uses.

I'm gonna make the old version of the game available to download again and let me know if it does the same thing because I know for sure that that one didn't have that problem. At least that way I can know whether it's something to do with the game or your phone. I'll try updating everything in the game later when I get the time.