RMVXA Darkest Mansion

[Guiguimu]

Sinopse
It’s Halloween night. A group of teenagers from the small village of Serradade decided to explore a dark mansion nearby. They agree to meet before nightfall, but our main character arrives late to the meeting and has to go alone into the woods. When he/she arrives, everything seems normal. The group waits until it’s completely dark to enter the mansion, with the purpose of it being more scarier at night. There are rumours that a young girl died in that mansion years before, on the same day.
But when the group enters the deserted house, everything seems usual for an old building. Only the strange burn marks are unsettling… After being separated from the group, the main character finds himself/herself alone in dark rooms without light. He/She has to find a way to find the rest of group and survive the upcoming night…

It’s a small game, it has maybe two to three hours worth of gameplay. It’s one of those cliché games we are all used to. It’s not the best game around too, but I hope you have fun playing it!

WARNING!!!!​

Contains Jumpscares! Right now, it mostly those cheap ones, but I'll try to fix it soon and remove these completely!

Game Genre - RPG and wannabe Horror

Spoiler: Game Features:

Real Time Battle System: Explore the mansion to find powerful weapons to defeat your enemies! With Active Battle System you fight your enemies right on the map! You can also use skills to give you more power or attack enemies at a distance.
Option to either be a boy or a girl: You can chose the gender and name of the character you will be playing the game. Some lines spoke by the characters change, too.
Multiple endings: You have four different endings available. This is going to reflect your choices and your exploration during the game. The endings goes from bad ending, normal ending 1, normal ending 2 and good ending. You have to find 13 shards and make all the good choices to obtain the good ending.
Exploration: There is more to it than it looks. Not only the game already requires exploration for the progression of the story, it also allows you to explore within the darkest mansion. Areas once closed to you may be open later.
Puzzles: Easy to solve puzzles! Decipher these to receive rewards!

Spoiler: Characters

There are four main characters the story follows, with two of them being the possible main character(it depends on who you chose at the beginning).

Peter

Playable male character
Peter is a reserved individual, who prefers study over fun. He wants to become a famous vet like his father. Even if the boy looks a little coward at first, Peter can move mountains to help his friends.

Rose

Playable female character
Rose is young, naive and a loudmouth. Feeling revolt over her parents divorce, the girl discounts her feelings in the ones she loves. She has been Peter's friend and neighbour since baby, and Rose is also the reason the boy joined the explorer's group.

Jake
Non-playable male character
The oldest of the group ---- ah wait this one still needs work!

Gordon

Non-playable male character
Smart boy, even if a little mysterious. He was the one who found the open door on the back of the Mansion, and he was the one who had the idea of exploring it in the first place.​

Spoiler: ScreenShots

I need to fix that wall on Rose's Room...​

And I had to delay all my work. I really had to do it again

GAME DOWNLOAD (but wait, don't do it now---- It is broken, son).
http://www.mediafire.com/file/nvrw9doh3j8ralr/Darkest+Mansion.exe

Credits are in game and in a note block.
I appreciate all types of critiques. I hope you enjoy!

 

[Guiguimu]

Thanks for opening this! Hope that whoever tries the game enjoys it(if someone even tries it XD!

 

[Guiguimu]

I fixed some bugs today.

Spoiler: Bugs I "fixed"

- A switch that was being turned on way too soon, and was screwing the rest of the game.
- Added footsteps to some areas.
- Some events problems

 

[Guiguimu]

Spoiler: Small Changes I Made:

- Added some events to the objects. Now you may receive items from a dresser too. Or flowers. Rare, but may happen.
- Fixed a missing character when the player was fighting a certain enemy.
- Changed some items description.

If anyone has any type of suggestion I appreciate! Don't be shy XD

 

[padr81]

Quite enjoyed it so far. Good fun and I like the battle system. Got to the church and got absolutely murdered also I never found the stuff to get the dining room lights on. I did though find a lantern. Good game and good fun. Dunno how I didn't notice this in the last month.

 

[The Stranger]

I didn't know you had a project thread. >.< I'll be sure to try it out!

Update: I enjoyed what little of the game I could play; ended up getting stuck in a pitch black room which I couldn't illuminate.

I really enjoyed all the little details you included: the footsteps (the sound for the tall grass was whacky, though) and the little Halloween decorations around town. I also enjoyed the naturally flowing dialogue; though there were a few spelling mistakes.

I liked the whole haunted house thing you were going for, but I felt the mansion was a bit too dark. Like I said, I got trapped in a large room which I found almost impossible to navigate because of how dark it was. I loved the lighting effects in some of the halls, though.

Spelling mistakes and the strange metallic grass sounds aside, the only other bugs\glitches I found were: the male bust displaying when interacting with Brett's\Bratt's house (I chose to play as the girl) and the footfall sounds not playing in a random patch of tall grass near some water in the forest.

I'll play it again, and try to find the other resources, in addition to the flint, needed to illuminate that dark room.

 

[padr81]

@The Stranger -

Spoiler: Spoiler

Is it the first one where you climb through the whole in the wall?
If so, theres flint on the floor but I can't find what goes with it. Either way there are doors to the left and to the right. If you look carefully beside the huge table before the stairs and you notice the 3 whiteish looking blacks for the wall. I thought they were a couch and first. To the left is a kitchen/pantry and to the right opens the game right up.
I still haven't got that room lit up, or any of those torches.

 

[The Stranger]

@padr81 Yeah, it is. I found the flint, but it didn't work with anything in the room. Oh! There are doors? Thanks for that. As I said, the room is so dark it's difficult to navigate; I kept getting stuck on things I couldn't see.

 

[Guiguimu]

Oh I'm glad you guys are liking it! Thank you so much for giving it a try!
Yeah, I need to work my english a little more XD
That's exactly what I want, people going against walls until they find the lantern XD I'm a bad person I know XD But, to be honest I wanted it to look as much realistic as possible, and since it's a really dark room without windows, I wanted to make it hard. You need to go to the kitchen, pick up the knife, and break some jars, where is dry leafs. Then use those dry leafs and the flint in torches or others like it, to get light.
Soon after you find the lantern too, in a small room. I'll add an explanation then, to make it more easy.
Hum, I'll take a closer look at that bust thing, I don't know how I didn't notice that since I played with the girl too... The forest sounds are messed up because I accidently deleted the other map, and had to redo the whole thing. Will work on sounds too.
Thank you both, really!!!

 

[The Stranger]

@Guiguimu The jars did stand out to me, so I thought they might be important.

Your English isn't bad. Like I said, it's just the odd spelling mistake here and there. The actual dialogue is pretty good, and feels very natural: I like how you are not afraid of including swearing\cursing, too.

Yeah, the bust thing is weird. It doesn't happen on any other house in the town, just that one. The girl bust appears first, then the boy bust; It made me think I had a new party member. xD

 

[Guiguimu]

@The Stranger Yeah, I really need to give a little more detail about breaking stuff, because not everything can be broken and without light crucial stuff may be lost.
My english needs work XD I tried to make it as good as I could, but the story was written while I was doing the game, so if things turn really confusing, do tell.
The swearing/cursing was bigger before releasing it XD Compared to that version, this one is a saint ahah
Ups, I'm really going to take a closer look at it, should be simple to fix. I really can't understand how it happen


EDIT!!!
Okay, I fixed some bugs here and there:

Spoiler: Little pesty bugs I think I fixed

Corrected some dialogue (not really a bug but it was done)
Added a little more detail to the explanation about battle (not really a bug but it was done)
Added more light in the dining room so players can actually see where they are (not really a bug but yadda yadda XD)
Fixed and issue with a event, where the game would freeze
Corrected a part where the wrong bust would appear
Added a better sound to the grass and tall grass, changed the sound for stone floors Corrected the Region ID that was making a sound that it shouldn't

New version is available! Thank you all for your help! You Rock!!!

 

[The Stranger]

It's great to see you're still working on\improving this.

 

[Guiguimu]

Well, trying at least XD I have to practice my skills somewhere before heading into the real battle

 

[Guiguimu]

Doing a makeover on the game xD This is just to pass time when my head hurts from doing my commissions.

of course, the little lady still needs work. I'm just not good yet to make her better now ahah but considering I made it in less than half a hour, I'm kinda of pleased.
I'll try to remove rtp stuff from the game completely, at least, vx ace rtp resources. All custom resources edited or made by me, so (and this is me repeating a status update I saw the other day) it doesn't feel like just another bad rpg maker game (even tho it is xD)
I also wanted to add more content to make it more interesting, but so far, I had no idea. Any suggestions on what I should add? Maybe puzzles or I don't know... a better interface?
If anyone has already completed the game, could you please tell me in a spoiler what you think about the end?
Okau, back to work.


Edit: T.T

 

[Guiguimu]

Here it is, a little show of how the game will change! Since I am using half-kaizer sprites, I'm doing the resources all brand new. The only references I am using are Ace and XP stuff, but only to know where to place the pixels xD

Spoiler: Before

Spoiler: After (stillworkingonittho!!!)

This is only the start, I haven't been able to advance more here because I have responsibilities to attend first, but I am working on it!
Will add deco to the whole room, after all, it is a girl's room xD
What do you guys think? Better, worse? Let me know please!!!

 

[Susan]

Hi, I tried your game for a bit. A crash near the beginning apparently disallows me from continuing the game.
I played as a girl, and got the following "issues". Played as a boy for a little while to the point the game crashed as a girl and there wasn't any issues there.

Spoiler

Typo: "An what is your name?"
Small issue: Both characters appear in the black screen before fading out to the actual start of the game. (looks a bit odd to me)
Typo: "An the passage is through the forest"
Small issue: Butterflies could be set to "above character" so that they won't block the player's advancement.
Personal issue: Disabled dash in the town is a pain.
Fatal issue: Crashes with error message stating Khas Awesome Light Effects upon entering the "Halloween Party" mansion as a girl.

Only managed to play for a bit, but seems interesting. Looking forward to seeing more the game. I'll play as the girl, as others seem to have played as the boy and given feedback about that part.

 

[Guiguimu]

@Susan Thank you so much for giving it a shot! Currently I am working on it, thanks for letting me know!
Those are the small details I hope to have fixed by the time the new demo will be released, hopefully with the new assets already too.
I have a lot of grammar to fix it seems xD
Hm... Seems like I forgot to add dash back... Sorry about that. Yeah, I agree, it is a pain xD The butterflies will be fixed soon, as well the lack of living things in that are besides in the show xD
That... Never happened to me... Khas script is giving me a lot of trouble, is one of those things I'll need to be sure if it is necessary to the game or not... It's a great script, I love it, but it crashes a lot.
Again, thanks a lot for trying it! I hope to have a better demo available soon and your feedback has helped me a lot!



Edit: Hm... Sorry to bother with this question, but where exactly did it crashed? I tried to play as a girl and enter the party, but everything played well... Everything else you mentioned is fixed, but I can't find the source to that crash...
Oh and that area is optional, the party is just where I credit people in game. I forgot to mention it, so sorry! ^^''

 

[Susan]

I tried it 4 times from both doors, but the crash keeps happening. I think it might have been something you have fixed since you last uploaded your file. Attached an image of the error when I enter the Halloween party.

I thought the party is needed to advance in the game, since I can't seem to go anywhere else except here (I had seen what was in the mansion playing as a boy). I'll give it another try later.

Thanks for looking into it.

 

[Guiguimu]

Thank you so much for the trouble of giving me a screenshot and for helping me! Yeah, I'll try to upload a new version this week, maybe that will fix whatever is causing it. I wanted my next version to be with the renewed stuff but if this one isn't good to play...
No xD I actually only added that place in the last version before the one available now. The way is to the woods right in the beginning, to the left.
I have to find a way to make it more clear...
No, really, thank you! I'll try to fix it asap, thank you so much for your help!!!

 

[Guiguimu]

Okau, so a little update.
I haven't figure out where the problem with the crash is, I tested the demo(the released version) and test played the project multiple times, but still no luck... Sorry @Susan...
I'll upload a new demo with the old graphics this weekend, hope that fixes whatever is wrong with the demo(I just don't do it today because I have to put all the old graphics back xD).
Regarding the new assets to the game, Rose's room is now complete and I'll be moving on to Peter's.
I'm doing the sprites along the way, so the only one I have finished is Rose as well, next will be Peter.
I did a fast version bust, again, this is not what will end up in the game, but I hope you can see where I am going with it:

Yes, it was made in 20 mins that's why the lines are terrible xD
But that's Rose new look. What do you think?