New Neighbors Project

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Synopsis


The narrator begins his story of a family that moves in to a home. The Conway Family. The Heiress, Claire Richelieu, a beautiful woman with skin as pure as the moonlight, born of a wealthy family, is seen with a young man, known as Max Conway. The couple talk at a local restaurant, and as time progresses, are seen sitting along a lakeside. They confess their love for each other and Max asks Claire to be his beloved. [Transition to a hospital] where the Conway’s are adding one more to the family tree. Claire has a baby girl and, at the time, seems healthy and full of life. The only problem is that she is much paler than any of the other babies. [Transition a few months later], there is a problem with the baby’s health, she is dying of an unknown disease, many doctors are brought to the house. None can diagnose the problem. And the worst comes, the baby passes away. The mother becomes depressed and unresponsive, the father cannot understand why she is acting this way and tries his best to comfort her, but she rejects him. After a year, Claire begins witchcraft, praying to demons beyond her knowledge to control, and the father becomes scared for his safety and leaves. Claire takes this betrayal and begins delving deeper into dark magic, she begins sacrifices. Small tokens, sentimental items at first, then live creatures. Missing cats and dogs posters begin to pop up like wildfire. The townsfolk begin to wonder about the woman who lives alone in the giant mansion. The children begin calling her the ‘Witch of Waxberry’. After 6 teens go missing in the woods near her home, the town becomes enraged and blames Claire. With torch in hand they burn the majestic Conway Mansion to the ground, fully knowing Mrs. Conway was still inside. Rumor has it a mother and a baby’s wail could be heard from the flame, and whispers in the wind: cautioning any trespassers from thereon out would be cursed and driven to madness.
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Characters


You are the main protagonist in the game.You have the choice of name and gender.

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Gameplay


Adventure RPG: Text and puzzled based gameplay. There will be MANY puzzles requiring cunning problem-solving skills to overcome the forces of the Witch of Waxberry. While playing you will uncover the truth of the death of the baby Conway, what happened to the teens in the forest, and the truth of the
Richelieu fortune.
Demo


[Date Released: 6/25/2015]***Please Read The Project Goals before giving feedback***
Version 1.0[Date Released: 7/23/2015]Version 1.1

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Project Goals


-Complete the game by the end of August
-Complete Storyline

-Introduce more puzzles

-Alternative endings

-Introduce background music

-Complete actor graphics

-Review the game based on feedback

Credits


Miss Nile: Check this girl out, she has some great games. Plus she is helping with most of the development of the game. She is awesome!THERE MANY MANY MANY credits, mostly scripts. Primarily MOGhunter, Vlue, and FenixFyreX.

Proper documentation will be in the official release.

Contact Information:

Tralse14@gmail.com

This game is in VERY early stages so please excuse the 5 mins or so of gameplay. I am simply starting the feedback page and would like to hear from everyone else what they think!
 
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Creepy! I think it's a good idea for an RPG.  ;)
 

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Going to try the demo and tell you what I think.
 

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I tried out the demo and overall, I liked it. It very atmospheric and it had great lighting from Khas' Awesome Light Effects! I think that this game has some potential. However I do want to point out a few things though. It feels like my character is sprinting half the time I walk, perhaps you can slow the character down a tad? Another thing, there's a bug that when I pick up the note from the dead guy in the beginning, it turned me into the woman. Is it supposed to or what? One last thing, I noticed the odd transition to darkness in the start. My recommendation to fix this, is to fade the screen to black after the character generator, then do the lighting change, then fade out. Again though, great demo, I am interested in how it will turn out.  :D
 

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I like the game so far. I was killed by the wolves three or four times, before getting to the mansion, but it was fun playing chicken when them. The major problem was, I tested both the man and the woman characters. The man pc used the woman sprite, so you might want to figure out why that is happening.
 

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Thanks for the feedback so far guys! I really appreciate the support and the recommendations! 

Unfortunately I did not have the time to mention the graphic change when picking up the lantern!

1. The graphic change is not a glitch I just haven't made a male version yet :)

2. And the wolves were at first just for the people who go behind the fence! But they found a way in and I don't know where or how! :guffaw:

Do you think I should make this a feature?

And yea I'm really stressing the Khas Lighting Effect, I love it! I just don't know if I'm going overboard. Do you think I should turn off the effect once you get inside or leave it slightly dark inside the house too?

And that odd transition is the tint being created by the event and I've been trying to figure out how to change that. I'll try the fade in command? That may work. Plus I'm going to add another cutscene before the player can start playing, the story is still being worked out!!!

Again I really appreciate the feedback and it's nice no one is complaining about the short demo :D
 

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I went back to where I remember the wolves getting through the fence and to a shot of it.







Went along the east fence and found about four or five holes.
 
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Wow thank you for taking the time to find them all!

And you also unintentionally showed me a mistake I made with the save menu icons. When you save the book should open. Not close.

I don't know why there is a collision error. I noticed it when I played and redid ALL of the fences, it may be the trees passibility interfering with the fences. I'll look into it!
 
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And yea I'm really stressing the Khas Lighting Effect, I love it! I just don't know if I'm going overboard. Do you think I should turn off the effect once you get inside or leave it slightly dark inside the house too?
No I think it's perfect with Khas' Lighting. It is PERFECT for games in my opinion. The ability of having dynamic lighting in my opinion is the best! Keep it in the houses, it will be great for numerous reason!  :p
 

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Hey guys! It's been awhile and I haven't had much feedback!

I've updated the demo and the link to download it!

But don't be afraid to be harsh! I want to know what you think so I can change it up!

This Update:

Journals

Bigger and Badder! (The maps have been WAY upscaled)

Title Menu (If you played the original demo you won't even recognize this new title screen, I've spent lots of time on it)

First jump scare (Okay, tbh, IF you find it, you won't be that scared, but I got too excited and posted the update early :p )

Tutorial (I really like it so please test it and let me know what you think)

Started Background Music and Background Sounds (let me know what you think about the title music!)

News:

I haven't added much story to the game yet (I'm currently writing and rewriting, but it's gonna be juicy!)

I finally got support with character modelling.

I'm working on the ambiance of the game (tints, sounds, music)

Next update goals:

Inside of the house

Story introduction 

[This seems like not much but holy cow, it is!]
 
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I thought I'd give this a quick look as I have a tiny bit of free time just now - but sadly when I went to run the game I got the error message

Unable to find file

Data/variables.rvdata2
 

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Yea a friend of mine just got the same error and I can't figure out how to fix it. I tried using a variable store script but I get a stacklevel too deep error...I'll keep trying to fix it  :|
 

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Okay I did alittle magic and I believe this should work. Wait about 10 minutes before trying the link.

Sorry for the inconvenience :kiss:
 
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You know what's coming up now, don't you!

Tralse, please avoid double posting, as it is against the forum rules. You can review our forum rules here. Thank you.

Please, just edit your previous post.
 

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Just trying to get your attention ;)

Just kidding, I'll remember that rule
 

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