It's all good, I mostly found it a funny reminder of my small time status lol. I get the security reasons, I've had to swat away unauthorized plagiarism and reuploads of my games before and appreciate the effort to discourage that. Keep doing what you're doing B)

*hobbyist. I am stupid until the coffee kicks in I guess

I am but a humble solo hobbiest dev best I can do is dedicated gmail account and a bluesky where I shitpost about my own games

this will allow for each "encounter" to be more in depth and thematically relevant than a bunch of the same kind of encounters that can happen anywhere. but yeah just rubber ducking this shit somewhere lol

so I'm probably going to scrap it and go with scripted encounters that happen at predictable times but play out very differently as you progress. Maybe even shake things up with New Game + (which you can do in MV - thanks Yanfly lmao) to catch players off guard lol

leaning towards the latter because the prototype encounter system I came up with has VERY easily exploitable loopholes that involve waiting on the map screen until it ends (which is an evented menu rather than a true menu scene) and too many factors for it to work consistently across the entire game

(And yes, setting it in a school will help when I work on Prom Dreams' remake because I'll already have the tilesets shhhh)

It's not going into any uncharted territory with its gameplay and themes, but I'm hoping to tell a story from a perspective I personally haven't seen shown in a game before (that isn't to say it hasn't been done, I can play every game ever lmao). Hope y'all look forward to it :)

Goals for this project:

-Short in duration, no more than 3-4 hours of gameplay
-Requiring only minimum custom assets from 3rd parties (just title and ending cards)
-Experimenting with different musical techniques (think Drakengard's sampling meets Silent Hill vibes)
-Return to my RPG Horror roots

I know it looks like ass atm but I'm mostly playing around until I familiarize myself with how MV operates and what plugins this project will need

shadows in particular I should study up on making look good 🤔

ignore the default RTP man he controls the spooky lighting ™️

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE GRUNGY SCRATCH MARK OVERLAY THAT SHOWS WHEN YOU GO TO THE MENU THIS IS NOT A SCARY GAME EVERYTHING IS FINE :)))))))

may these 5 extra pixels help you reach the top shelf while experiencing The Horrors ™️

Turovero's remastered OST is also 50% off btw :) itch.io/s/170048/bla...