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Hi, thank you so much for making these updates so quickly! It looks like the issue of the players not showing up on each other's screens and the parallax backgrounds displaying as black are both resolved and working now for me! That makes a lot more sense now. Thank you for that additional context and for including the demo project file too. That's been super helpful to really understand how it's working a lot better.

I'm still having a couple of plugin conflict issues on my end, though, unfortunately. I made a fresh new project file to test and added just these plugins:

And this is the error message I'm still receiving:

It seems to only happen when the PluginCommonBase plugin is turned on, even though the error itself mentions VisuStella's EventsMoveCore plugin.

I did notice some weirdness in my original project with the VisuStella plugin, though, so it's possible they're both conflicting in their own ways. I'm using the Events Move plugin in my project primarily for spawning events on the map, so I did notice those are still only showing up on player 1's screen instead of player 2's, so I'm not sure why that is either. I know plugin conflicts like VisuStella can be tough to decode with the obfuscated code, but I really appreciate your help with this!

Thank you for updating and adding features to the plugin so quickly! I just downloaded the plugin, and I have a few questions! I'm also curious if you have a demo project available with it working so I can reference it to make sure I'm setting everything up correctly.

In my current project, I use the "PluginCommonBase" plugin by triacontane that comes with MZ for the "ExtraWindow" plugin. Upon running the game while that's enabled, I receive the console error "TypeError: Cannot read property 'forEach' of undefined", so I think there might be a conflict somewhere. If possible, it'd be great to see if there's a way to resolve this!

And then in a fresh project with no plugins, these were a couple of areas I wasn't sure if I was doing correctly, but issues I ran into:

• When player 1 and player 2 are spawned onto the same map, they're unable to see each other's sprites in their respective cameras. It looks like they still collide with each other, but the sprites aren't visible. 
  • I also tried using the VisuStella Events Move Core plugin in my other project and realized those events only spawned on player 1's view and not player 2's, so I'm wondering if that could be related.
• When using a parallax background, it only displays in player 1's view and not in player 2's view. Player 2's view shows it as a black background instead.

Awesome, I'm looking forward to it!

Hi, this looks like a really cool plugin! I see that there's support for 2 players sharing the same keyboard. Is there controller support so that the 2 players can plug in 2 controllers and play with those as well?

Thank you for sharing. I'm glad you had fun taking it! Hillary also got Piko when she took the quiz. It's fun seeing who you all got!

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it!

There's just that 1 secret ending in this game. I had other ideas for secret characters and items in the game, but I ran out of time, so I was only able to include that one for this game.

This was a fun detective game! The analyzing and collecting clue mechanics were engaging and I enjoyed the overall game progression. The hallways were a bit long, so I liked that you blocked off certain areas to really help hint at where to go, especially since I wasn't familiar with the layout of the school.

Great job with this game!

I played your original build for your game during the midterms and it's impressive how many updates and improvements you've made since then! I really loved the basement scene; it captured the mood perfectly with the special effects and immersion. The font and overall visuals fit into it really great too. I really liked the overall narrative and the illustrations that really helped tell that story.

You did a really great job with this project! I'm looking forward to playing more of your games in the future.

I played the demo during the midterm playtesting, and the updates you've made to the game since then have been really impressive! I love the overall theme and aesthetics you have going here.

The tutorial helps a lot to explain where everything is and how the game plays. I wasn't able to fully figure out the trading mechanic, but I do like the option to dock at different areas that you find along the way. The ship is also much easier to control now and the overall level design works well, giving it a very open world feeling. Great job on this!

Thank you for playing and streaming my game, I appreciate it! I just watched the VOD, thank you for sharing.

It was definitely challenging to balance the difficulty level with this game. I had an initial fear that without telling the player what to do, they might not realize the meta mechanics of switching between the folder/finding files; I'm glad to see that you and the others I've seen stream it didn't have any issues with that though. I maybe leaned a bit much on making it easier rather than difficult in that regard to make sure it wasn't too hard to figure out, but that's something I'll definitely work on going forward.

I really like the idea of the encryption key or combining a lot of the mechanics to make more challenging puzzles though. If I had more time to work on the game, I would definitely expand upon the puzzles to add a lot more of that. Thanks for the feedback as well, I'll definitely take this with me into my future games that I develop!

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Haha, I should've added my username as an Easter egg. 😂 I had a few in there but didn't think of that one!

Thank you! Yeah I ended up spending a lot of time getting some of the more simple puzzles working to focus on the core mechanics, but with more time I definitely would've loved to add some more complex puzzles.

This was a really fun game! It was very unique and not really like anything I've seen before, so definitely fit well with the theme of the game jam. This has been my favorite entry I played so far!

It was a bit of a steep learning curve at first and I was a little overwhelmed by the tutorials, but after a few tries of it, I was able to figure it out and it was fun and kept me engaged! In a full version of the game outside of the game jam, I'd love to see more of an interactive tutorial rather than a lot of text up front, but I appreciate it being there to teach the core concepts for the purpose of the game jam.

I also would've really liked to see the player's health. It was clear when the box was in danger by its red indicators, but usually, I would lose because the player character lost health, and I wasn't entirely sure how many hits I could take before that happened. But other than that, I had a lot of fun playing it! It was really challenging and I didn't end up beating it, but I did play it a bunch and noticed I was getting better at it on each run.

This was a cool collection of puzzles! I really like the idea of making an escape room and you did a great job creating the point-and-click mechanics. The snapshot feature was a really useful mechanic to help with remembering what some of the hints were!

Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out how to solve any of the puzzles though. Maybe if there was a way to ask for a hint and it would just give you a not-as-good ending or something, that might be helpful.

I really liked the concept here though and great work with the custom art and tying everything together!

This was a fun short platformer game! I liked the theme you were going with inside the computer. The file transfer bar and windows helped add to this. I liked how in the last level you had to go outside of the window space to complete the level. I didn't realize it was somewhere I could go until one of the collectibles appeared there, so that was a cool surprise!

I had a little bit of an issue starting the game at first since I didn't have my controller plugged in and wasn't sure what the start button translated to, but once I plugged in my controller, it all worked well! The start button ended up being a different button though. And the window size (I'm not sure if this was intended) was set to the left half of the screen and I wasn't able to resize it.

Other than those few little bugs, this was a fun platformer with an interesting theme!

This was a really fun puzzle game and definitely unique for an RPG Maker game! It was challenging, but fun. I really liked the art style and overall retro feel of the game, ranging from the character "voices" to the custom art. The character drawings were well done and have a lot of personality to them. I loved the VHS-like filter effects that you added; they really added a lot to the retro feel you're going for!

That Easter egg you put in the shop of the RPG Maker 2000 poster was a nice touch that I wasn't expecting to see too :)

Thank you so much, that means a lot to me! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. In version 03, I added an optional kick assist feature that you can turn on in the options menu to hopefully make that level a bit easier and more fun too.

Thank you, I'm glad that mechanic was fun from a player perspective! I always have a lot of fun with pushing the limits of RPG Maker with custom JavaScript code. :)

Thank you so much! I'm really happy that you had fun with it. I really enjoyed making a game to fit into this theme and I learned so much while making it!

My beta tester also had some feedback on improving the kick mechanic, so I made a new update to add a "kick assist" feature to make that puzzle a little easier to get through and hopefully more fun!

Thank you! Yeah, it was a fun way to try and tell the story in a different way while keeping within the strict limitations of the jam.

Haha, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for playing my game, I had a lot of fun making it :)

This was a really fun game! I love the details you put into the building and repairing of electronics. It was very nostalgic. And very cool to learn about the inner workings of them!

The instruction notebook was also a very cool touch to make it feel more immersive. It was helpful to follow along with too.

I'm looking forward to seeing more! Great job with this project!

This was a fun game, I liked all of the various mini-games that you tied in! The background art and world it's set in is also very cool. The twist at the end was fun and not expected. Great work!

The branching dialogue and item collecting mechanic you made for this game was really interesting and unique! The overall look and style fit with the mood of the game really well too. I liked how many choices I could make while interacting with the passengers in the car and how it would affect the story and outcomes of their rides. Great work!

This was a fun story and and overall game idea! The streaming aspects were a fun addition with the chat feature; it really helped bring the theme together. Great work!

Hey, thanks for the offer, but I'm not interested in selling physical cartridges of my game. I plan to keep this game free on my itch.io page only.

Thank you so much, Ethan! I'm so glad their personalities all came through! And thanks for letting me know about the Perk Tree bug that you ran into. Do you remember which perk you clicked when they disappeared? I'll look into that and see if I can recreate it so I can push an update to fix that!

Wow that was quick! Awesome thank you! I have some clips of my old games on my YouTube channel right now but I'll have to see how compatible they are to even play anymore since most of them were made in RPG Maker 2003, haha.

I love this idea, it feels very nostalgic and makes me want to dig up some of my old games too, haha! These were fun to play to see your game dev origins. The Memedom one was my favorite; the shark fight was really challenging but I had fun and did manage to beat it on my last life!

That's cool that you were able to launch them all from Godot (I really like the PS1 themed cases too)! The one issue I did have though is that because there's music playing on the hub screen in the Godot game, it did clash with the Unity games once they were launched so I ended up having to close the Godot launcher between each. So if it's possible to make the music turn off once a Unity project is launched that might help!

These early games really do show how much your game dev skills have grown too, so like you said, remembering your roots is important, I agree!

Thank you for the feedback, Drifty, I really appreciate it! You brought up some really good points here and I'll definitely be thinking about those kinds of things more in my future games for sure. 

One of the things I'm noticing a lot as more people play through it is that a lot more people are choosing Pamchan's route than I originally anticipated, so I do definitely see now with what you're saying that I really could have incorporated some of the overall core story elements that you find out in other routes to make the story make more sense regardless of who you choose (like the theme that Heidi is overworking herself so much that it leads to her downfall—I realize through Pamchan's story that might not have been as strongly hinted at as other routes for sure, so it makes sense why it may seem to come out of nowhere).

I appreciate the honest and detailed feedback here for sure. With this, I have a better sense of where I should improve and what to prioritize for future projects. One of those will definitely be finding inconsistencies with those branching paths, as I see that's been something that was definitely a challenge to fully test on a short deadline.

Thank you so much!! That's so cool about how you were able to connect with Pamchan in that way.

Additionally, your font and picture plugins were a huge help in making some of the parts of this game easier to program. So thank you for that as well! :)

Thank you for playing even if it wasn't a style of game you're interested in! I'm sorry you weren't able to finish it, but I appreciate the feedback and that you gave it a chance either way. I understand your point of how bringing the connections to the lore earlier in the game could've helped though. If you're interested in skipping ahead to see where it all connects, feel free to check out my playthrough here:

It's around 22-23 minutes into the game (in my video above) where it all starts to make more sense and the impact of your choices is a lot more evident. Thanks again for playing and streaming it on your channel!

Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it :)

Thank you so much for playing my game and streaming it, I'm so glad you liked it! :D

I loved watching you play through it and seeing the choices that you made throughout. It's so fun making games with different outcomes because I love seeing how differently people end up playing through them.

I'm glad to hear that you liked all of the characters too. Pamchan was the only character from this game that I already had established before developing this game, since she's from my bigger series, The Nays. So I'm happy you enjoyed the characters and story that I developed in just the month for this game too!

Thanks for the additional information! That's an unfortunate bug, sorry about that. I'll be sure to remove the Mac version next month once the contest's over since it's not working, and I'll see if I can find a friend with a Mac that can help me export that version out in the future!

Aww, I'm glad you had an emotional connection with my story!  Thank you so much!! :)

Thank you! :)

I'd love to see you stream Spirits of Combination Village, and would be interested to hear what you think of my game!

I saw Spirits of Combination Village on your list of games you're interested in playing, so I'm looking forward to hearing what you think about it! Thanks so much for putting this list together and doing this, I've loved watching your playthroughs of games so far. :)