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Dreams of Adventure

Open world, Choice Maters, Real-life like, RPG, RPGMaker, Simulator, second life, adventure · By Cookies Need Love

Anything you want to ask:

A topic by Cookies Need Love created Apr 15, 2018 Views: 645 Replies: 19
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Developer (2 edits)

Just type here I will reply in  8-12 hours of you posting it (unless Rupture happens and I don't get left behind).

Is there a way to change the controls. They're a little unorthodox.

Developer

Well, the controls are as default arrow keys with X and Z being A and B as RPG Maker games are set to that. 
I did made a WASD script, but it collides with 3 other scripts so I had to give it up. 
You should be able also to play with a mouse, if I haven't forgotten to put it in. (cursor with a small sword)

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Hello, I just found this game and the description seems very promising. The life sim + open world RPG combination is very interesting and it is something which I have been looking for. Can't wait to play it!

How much work is left until the full game can be released?

Also, I think that you should change the font of the dialogues into a more readable (and clean) one. Just a suggestion.

Developer

I hope you will have fun playing it!

Work that is left is, well, a lot! The current game that you can play is about 20% of whole game (map) that is in plan *currently around 7-8h game play according to players). I plan first to finish the current map and fill it up, then expand it to accommodate the main quest and lore that I'm setting up. All that is left to say, there is a lot to do and there is no release date since the game itself is just  huge thing I plan to do and unless I gather 100$ for STEAM, well, until it is finished it's going to be work in progress, but right now can be described as early access.

As for the font, yeah I will change it to default when I remember to do  it. But will changed probably to default.


Hope for some feedback. Have fun!

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That was good to know!

As much as I want to play the game right now, I'm not able to download it at the moment because currently I'm at an area with a bad internet connection. I will download it as soon as I get to an area with a decent connection.

Why don't you start a Kickstarter campaign to get your game on Steam? Since your game world is huge, you can reward the backers by letting them create their own NPCs, side quests or areas. I think that would be great and there will be a significant amount of interested people who would love to play a sandbox life-sim RPG with a huge open world and tons of content!

Developer

Well, hope you get to download it soon, it's 700mb( if not mistaken).


Actually I did think about it, but since I live in a backwards country, I can't create a payment method since it's not unavailable.  

I have 2 dreams since I was a kid: 

1) To make a game and let people play it

2) Travel around world


Hopefully 1 will come true. I have 10$ as a donations towards the STEAM but still miss 90$ which is very big money here, like month and half of bills and food, so it's huge amount for me. And game will be f2p forever so there is no monetary gain and I'm already 150$ in red. So only way for me to gather money for STEAM is via donations on twitch or via sites like these (but not a single one gave :D But, it's ok, as long people play it).

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I'm from a third world country myself (India) and I understand.

I would have loved to donate but at present I'm a student with no source of income.  I think that the best bet for you would be to find a good job and work on the game as a hobby and devote as much time as you can.

Which country do you live in? I think PayPal is available in most countries.

I think that you should post about your game on Reddit (on a proper subreddit). It should help you to get your game the attention it deserves from the gaming community.

I hope both of your dreams come true! It's really inspiring to see someone working so hard on a game not for monetary gain but so that people can enjoy playing it.

Developer

I live in Bosnia. Yeah PayPal is available, but there are no people, well, paying :D 

Well, it's hard to find job here, people only hire families or get payed to hire someone, for most jobs, and the jobs that are available, are usually for women. I do work part time jobs to pay bills, but I can't take out money out of it to pay for STEAM fee. 
As for reddit, I don't use it, so I have no idea where to post it or how to find proper subforums. 

Again, thanks for your wish to play my game, I'm always happy and a little hyped when I get messages and bug/suggestions lists from players. Currently, I have game on facebook, gamejolt, itch.io, indiexpo, roast my game, rpgmaker forum. Together almost 1000 downloads (excluding facebook since it's not keeping track of that).

PS: I'm a student myself, well, student on hold, I don't have money to finish last 4 exams to get my law degree. :D 

Your game looks like it will be amazing, but I can't get past the tutorial.  I think I'm missing something.  For magic in the tutorial and the spell that they give you I can't figure out how to cast.  I keep getting and sound suggestion what I did was wrong.   I don't undersand what DW stand for to do the spell.   No idea what I'm to press.  It dont' like d and w.  I still get it wong.  It's not the timer,  I just don't know how to use the buttons within the timer period.  I'm used to rpgs have played the rpg maker ones for years.   But for the life of me I can't figure out what to do.  Some help please.

Developer (2 edits)

Hello Selexa. Thanks for your question. I checked the tutorial area for both Spell and Technique and both work on two different PC's which have different kboards and one lap top. 

It looks like you didn't manage to type it in time. All spells and techniques that are typed correctly during the period have 100% chance of hitting 0% miss, so you probably didn't managed to type it in time or miss-clicked, hence the fail sound.

X > D W means you need to press X, right arrow, D, W in that order.

You can just skip the tutorial area, it isn't important to finish it, it gives you few fast mechanics to check out before you start the game. To leave it, go to the dock where you spawned in. 

If you still have the problem in game (after tutorial area), do send me a message, since this is first time I saw anyone complaining about spells. Or if you have any other issue.


(this is how it should look like but with training dummy and other things behind)


Thank you for your reply.  I will try again.  Maybe I was too slow.  Does it have to be in capital letters?

Developer

No, you just need to push the correct sequence that's it

Is the Developer still active 

I hope you didn't Abandon this amazing game

Developer

Yeah, I'm still around and kicking.

I've had issues past few months, mainly my pc had a power surge and everything got fried and I've lost a lot of development progress. I had to save money for two and half months to buy new second hand pc for 120$ (around that). Thanks to that I had to work a lot on two jobs to be able to keep up with bill's and parents medications so I didn't have free time at all, it was basically 1job, sleep, 2job, 1job sleep and so on for two and half months and some additional time. I don't monetize the game so I can't afford to work on game and two jobs just to pay bills and medications. 

I'm actually working on the game as I write this since my 2nd job does allow me in between time when i do nothing so ive dedicated it to the game, I've managed to get back around 80% of the lost development progress And I hope the update will be done soon. Ive got a new area and two reworks done of old locations that where placeholders for a long time I just need a bit time to finish quests, events and npc conversation around them and change outcome of old location based on palyer choices. Ive also got to finish steam trailer and two week wait time for approval.


Thank you for showing interest, i hope i gave you info you needed, if got other questions visit previous posts or write here.

im glad you're still active 

Cant wait for updates games really great

So uhh whens the new update?

Developer

soon. I'm working on it. I have a lot of events and quests to finish in new and edited areas first. Took me a lot of time to rework lost progress, im finally progressing 

why did i lost my water magic skill was it do to the ashen temple or whatever it is called but quest i took  to kill the water elemental  even though i did not do the quest completely or was it because i lost exp the game is tough for any class but never thought i would go down a level there should be a quest skill or something that prevents exp from being taken cause i had to flee a few battles had hardly no health being low level fleeing i got all the way down to level 1 again was not fun being level back up again i was so close to level 7 well i think houses should have some feature where if u pay daily your food and water wont drop and would be a passive gain and the worst thing is that sleeping bags and cushions dont restore hp or mp even by a little bit cause i bet a few people would survive a bit more if that was the case there is and you really need to go through and do a bug check before doing a new release cause i bet there is quit a few but in truth this is probably one of the best games i played 

Developer

Hello. Thank you for playing my game, I apprciate your time.

First off, the level dropping after you flee too many battles and losing XP, I'm a solo guy making a game so I didn't think of it at all. I'll see how to fix that soon as possible.

Second off, You can buy a house if you go in west part of map in Empire, you can also customize it to certain extent. There you can use all sort of proffesions and a storage. For passive food and water buff, I can think of few ways to implement it like if you buy house and put 10 food items you get a buff for certain time. It would be hard to implement since there is no way to make buff last on time only battles or turns, but I could try to make it, It's going on my TO-DO list on trello.

Third off, sleeping restoring health I never consideret it working that way, since wounds don't heal by just sleeping, like you get stabbed leet's sleep it of. I might put like a 3% HP restore or  something if I get a good reason why it would sleeping heal you. I always disliked eating food restoring your health that's why it's not in my game except 1 item as an omage to it.

As for bug checks, as I said I'm working alone on this huge project and doing between two jobs or when I have free time at first job and not too many people. That's why it's EA on STEAM to help out with bugs, suggestions and at the end people to play and enjoy the game. 
Hope you understand that I can't do it all alone.
If you have any other suggestions or bugs do write them, I read everything people post. 

Thank you again.