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Really cool game! I've been out of the loop with rpg maker after MV first came out, so I'm honestly kinda blown away that it can make 3D games to this degree now. The aesthetic of this was incredible and you did a great job making some parts feel disorienting (like near the start it's hard to tell if the stairs are heading up or down, it's a minor thing but I think it really adds to the esoteric non-physical vibe of the setting). I'm also a huge sucker for horror games like these that are so cryptic with their narrative and seemingly don't exist in our world at all. Love the design of the main character as well.

Managed to find everything including the contents of the VHS tape, although admittedly I had to use the hints in the jam page comments. Very obtuse puzzles but in a good way, feels very satisfying once you finally get it.

The rpg maker horror game nostalgia was STRONG on this one. Really evocative and unique in the way a lot of the best games in this genre are. Absolutely love the artwork and you made very effective use of the game's relatively short playtime. Hope to see more games from you in the future!

This was so good!! Can't believe how much its flown under the radar for the amount of care and attention you put into it. Some really ambitious puzzle design for Rpg Maker and I imagine the coding for it probably took quite a while. Absolutely love the cute graphical style too. Also shocked by how much content it had for a game I assumed would be much shorter, it really feels like a fully fleshed out project - honestly would have paid money for this if it was on Steam with the amount of both quality and quantity it had. Keeping an eye out for any of your future games, you've got the sauce!

Really loved this! Very atmospheric and sincere. Great characterization for the two leads, Abby's character motivation for entering the forest especially feels very well fleshed out. Also absolutely obsessed with the aesthetic of hand-drawn characters on photorealistic backgrounds which is what made me decide I had to instantly play this. Would honestly kill a man to see a fully animated version of this in that style. Great job! Keeping an eye out for whatever you do next.

This was a very cool game! Despite some minor English errors, the story was entirely understandable and the style of writing was coherent, so you've done a great job with the translation. And I'm glad you did, so that us English speakers could experience it!

I ended up having to play on story mode as I found the game to be a little too challenging, even in this mode. Because it was really dark even with the flashlight and lamps, the entity was very difficult to spot, and sometimes I would get too close to it before I noticed it and would not have the chance to outrun it at all. I think this type of gameplay worked better with being able to save at any time as I felt like I required foresight more than skill sometimes. Despite that, it was a satisfying challenge to overcome, and you integrated turning off the flashlight to spot detection very well, I found that it actually made a big difference with certain encounters. I did manage to get to the end and see the credits.

Other small details like highlighting interactable objects in green were a really nice touch. The story had some interesting folklore behind it that I wasn't familiar with. Also glad you listed your inspirations, I'd heard of some of them but not Zigeunerweisen, and now I have a new movie to watch! I think your cinematic influences came through in the atmosphere, and sometimes I found myself wondering what the game might have looked like as a movie. I would definitely watch it!

Perfect, thank you!

Hello! Is maniac's patch allowed for Rpg Maker 2003 games?

o men, a new chorogaiden expansion, let's gooo

I absolutely love small mood piece games like this. Great job on all the paintings and structures, they all look great and distinct! I didn't realize they were all fictional until I tried googling a few of them.

Really great as a short experience, though I think there's a lot of potential in it as a bigger game too. Would love to see something like this with easyRPG's online capabilities and community submissions. An MMO for the art nerds!

Lumi this was absolute peak lmao

Pretty much every joke landed for me but the highlights have to be walking into the shop for the first time and the ending. Also the fact that you made a whole ass driving section in rpg maker is hilarious too

Amazing job, this is exactly the type of silly shit I love seeing in game jams.

This isn't even 10% of the title

(congrats uni!)

Nice to be reminded now and then that Rpg Maker truly is such a special tool for little personal stories like this. Beautifully made!

Ordered a physical copy of this yesterday as well as Liminal_ and Bilge, somehow completely unaware that you made all three of them. Haven't looked through the latter two yet, but I read through this while waiting for my flight at the airport today and my GOD am I excited to try it out - the mechanics seem so tense and fun, and every single scenario, story prompt, all of the IFs etc, are just so ridiculously good. And it seems like it's really designed to require minimal prep to run which is perfect for someone like me who has been too intimidated by the idea of longer campaigns because of the amount of prep that would have to be involved.

It also seems like it would be really easy to make homebrew campaigns for this, so I'm definitely tempted to give it a try and maybe put up a couple adventures on itch at some point. Very excited thinking about potential different settings it could be adapted to. A UK folk horror adventure? Or a nautical themed one in Bermuda or the Bahamas? Something in the Middle East with horrors inspired by Islamic mythology? Something in Russia with lots of brutalist urban horror? A North European winter themed adventure??? The possibilities just seem endless.

Oh, and very excited to hear you'll be at Games Expo this year, will be dropping by and saying hi for sure, and hopefully picking up even more of your games!

Went back and managed to find the GenoCoins™. The text was indeed pretty hard to read but managed to make out what it said in the end! Never would have spotted the hint otherwise, though. Does finding all the roblox splat sound effects spawn Goglumbo by any chance? He's in my world now but no idea how I made him appear XD

Thanks for making such a fun game. Will be keeping an eye out for whatever you do next!

My pal Riggy played this on stream yesterday, loved it so much I had to play through it myself. For a shitpost, you've unironically made a game I enjoyed playing just as much as most official Mario titles - this was so fun and the humor was 100% my brand of thing.

I noticed some of my tiles in the library warehouse that I made for Yoshi Goes to Tesco, if you've happened to play that game and I potentially inspired this in any way then I'm incredibly proud lmao

Also curious: Is there a secret for finding every object that makes a fart noise? I managed to find three in total I think. Also curious if there's any way to get genocoins™ for the scroll in his shop. I saw the Hong Kong 97 theme in the credits but didn't hear it in the game so I assume I haven't found everything.

More importantly, when can we expect Mario Quest 3? 

Gonna buy this just as soon as I can - your pixel art is crazy good and I can't wait to see more from this set!

This was super cute! Very chill game, had a great time with it. I would honestly love to see it expanded with more content or even into a series with other places throughout the world, but even as it is, it's really enjoyable. Very nice graphics.

The only minor thing I would point out that not being able to tell clearly where the map edges were made navigation a little difficult, and the menus could be a bit more polished. For the notebook, my instinct to close it was to press ESC instead of N, but that brought up the menu on top of the notebook. Would be nice if both ESC and N worked, I think the former feels a bit more natural.

Thanks for making and sharing this!

Run "RPG_RT.exe" in the game folder :)

Riggy is a good friend and it was super sweet of him to mention the game on that video! I'm glad you and and your brother had fun, if you do end up making something similar, I would love to see it.

Ayyy I'm really happy to hear this! I played a fair few rpg maker games on my 3ds as well, so it's cool to hear it came full circle in a way. And if the game didn't teach you all about the wonders of Tesco, I'm not sure anything else can :P

I'm really happy to hear this, it's exactly what I wanted to achieve with the project. Thank you very much!

I'm not sure. If it doesn't run by default it should definitely run with the EasyRPG emulator though!

Welp, there you go. The without rtp version only runs if you already have the rtp.

Is it because you don't have the rpg maker 2003 rtp installed by any chance

The graphical style reminds me a lot of Flash room escape games I used to play. Which is to say this looks awesome and I'm super excited to give it a try soon!

I think it's called "I Love Beijing Tiananmen," I used the short loop version from Hong Kong 97

I had Gettin Weird with It on in the background while developing most of the game and the games featured there were a big influence on how this came together. It was an honor to be on there and give back to the community o7 

Rpg maker games have a tendency to get flagged falsely as viruses. It's probably because there's an .exe file in the folder, and it's safe to ignore the warning, don't worry 👍

You can change the resolution by pressing F5 and toggle fullscreen with F4 :)

Stories like this are super special to me, I'm happy it gave y'all something to do together and glad you had fun!

This was kind of a prototype and it was my first time experimenting with the feature so it's not really perfect. Sorry about any frustration caused ^^;

It might run on mobile if you play it on EasyRPG emulator, but there's no official port planned.

Which version did you download? The default or the one without rtp?

In any case, the easy solution would be to download EasyRPG emulator and run it through there, it troubleshoots most issues for you :)

This looks so cool, I hope you decide to do an English translation, would love to play it!

This was such a cool experience!! My friend riggy played it on stream yesterday and I just had to check it out myself. Tons of cool ideas, art styles and secrets (managed to find four by the end). Looking at the comments and from stream yesterday I know some people found it hard to know what to do, but that's kind of what I loved about it. Feels like one big puzzle to solve. My only word of advice would have been to replace the default MV message box and font, but that's obviously a tiny nitpick.

Looking forward to whatever you end up making next - will definitely be checking it out! 

Wow, loved this! Pretty much amazing in every aspect. Loved the characters, loved the artstyle, loved the horror bits and overall just loved the experience. I hope you decide to submit this on rpgmakernet aswell, I'd love to put in a good word for the other mods and feature it on the front page!

Sup nerds, let's get this bread!

I can’t imagine how terrifying it must be to put something like this out there, let alone live through it. Thank you for telling your story.

Thank you! I always try to make my shitposts at least a little entertaining and high quality so I'm glad that came through!

There's different versions of the 2k3 rtp (it's stupid like that), you might need the japanese one, and the ones for the pirated version of 2k3 and legal version of 2k3 are also different. If you're asking about re:in though I'm not sure I can be much more help than that as I had nothing to do with its development nor have I played it?