RMMV PROJECT: LOVE + CAFE (Release Candidate)

[moonwritertheory]

Project Love and Cafe (Originally titled Love Plus Cafe) (stylized as PROJECT: LOVE + CAFE) is a TOP (Theatrical Overhead Perspective) interactive fiction game made in RPG Maker MV. Every five stories deal with the themes of conversation about food and friendship, as well as the dysfunctional relationship, love, hate, references to popular culture, and suicide.​

Based on Dr. Joem Antonio's quote; it tells about a collection of narratives that hope to spark conversations on love—and by love, we don't simply mean the romantic kind. We believe that, to understand the nature of love, we need to look at its different types and how we, as human beings, express them.

SYNOPSIS​

The plot is almost similar to the stageplay, but the others were less different.

Act NO. 1 - Stay Healthy​

“All things are poison and nothing is without poison,” said Theophrastus von Hohenheim, Father of Toxicology. But why worry about toxins when we’ve got friends?

Main Characters: Will and Sophie

Act NO. 2 - A Very Delicate Night​

Five years ago after the present day. Matt stopped studying so his twin sister, Ari, could graduate. But tonight.

Main Characters: Matt and Ariette (short for Ari)

Act NO. 3 - The Dust in Your Place​

A comic strip artist must tell her writer what’s plaguing his relationships with other girls… even if it may be at the cost of their own friendship.

Main Characters: Rick and Claire

Act NO. 4 - Midnight Storm​

After a couple breaks up only to find themselves, twenty minutes later, stuck in the same waiting shed on stormy midnight.

Main Characters: Ben and Danielle (short for Dani)

Act NO. 5 - Dropout and the Cosplayer (formerly known as Stray Cat)​

A dropout finds a young-adult woman wearing a cosplay who contemplates suicide on the rooftop, later in the park, only himself to ask her to; stop killing herself or befriend her.

Main Characters: Damien and Chisato

CHARACTERS​

1. Will - A 17-year-old "Century Historical and Literature" class-rep high school student.
2. Sophie - A 18-year-old "Visual and Media Arts" honorable high school student. She was reading a newspaper about food's toxicity and nutrition.
3. Matt - A math prodigy who was working on his studio. He's a fraternal twin brother of Ari.
4. Ari - (short for Ariel) A fresh graduate young woman who is a fraternal young twin sister of Matt, which is ten minutes younger than him. Originally intended "Arie" as a boy, was scripted by Antonio.
5. Rick - A comic-strip writer who befriended Claire and tells her about plaguing her relationship with her friends.
6. Claire - A comic-strip illustrator who is distressed about her friends and unable to cope with herself until Rick befriends her.
7. Benedict - (nicknamed Ben) A civilian who is Danielle’s ex-boyfriend.
8. Danielle - Another civilian who is Ben’s ex-girlfriend.
9. Damien - A dropped-out senior college student who attempts to stop Chisato from suicide. Originally named "Dom".
10. Chisato - (real name as Christine) A young woman wearing a gothic schoolgirl as a cosplayer. She tries to contemplate killing herself, but she possibly wanted to befriend Damien. Originally named "China".

More characters will be underway.

SCREENSHOTS






CREDITS​

The game was developed by Moonwriter's Tale (formerly known as Moonwriter Theory; who was founded by Frederick C. Borromeo), and almost all were scripted by Antonio where the play was based on, while I and my writing partner Erika in the studio were fashioning some script in every act including pop-culture references and more scenes in the game. Don't worry, it is already released but still in development and it takes 1 hour to play for the first two acts, and the rest of the subsequent acts were released soon for complete freeware.​

Plugins

• Yanfly​
• SRDude (SumRndmDde)​
• Himeworks​
• Mokusei Penguin​
• Arisu Dollhouse​
• Ossra​
• Triacontane​
• TheUnproPro​
• Mr. Trivel​
• Lunar Guard Azel​
• Krimer​
• Moghunter​
• OcRam​
• Kurambon​
• Galenmereth​
• Terrax​
• MechPen​
• ScSWinter​
• Liquidize​
• MrCopra​

Misc

• Thife - (Emotion Balloons)
• Johan - (Icons)
• ProCraftyNation - (HP Gauge)
• RetroLab - (Windowskin)
• Muti
• Degica

Tilesets

• Degica
• Pandamaru
• Mlogan
• Commu General
• Muti
• Avery
• Bit Orchard
• Hello
• Bougainvillea
• Aliali
• Zyphil
• JapoZero

DOWNLOAD LINKS​

• Downloadable link is currently unavailable due to removal of the game.

 

[rpgLord69]

Played the demo. You should get some native English speaker to proofread the text. Right now it has grammatical errors. Also some sentences maybe feel like they were imagined/formulated in a different language and then directly translated to English. Having a native speaker have a look at them would help with that too.

With the demo still early in development and having those grammatical mistakes and lacking music, it's difficult to get a good grasp of what the final mood will be like. One suggestion I have is that I'd personally make their table narrower (like the tables below). Now they feel like they are sitting quite far apart and it looks a bit strange when they have to jump up and walk a bit to interact with each other. I'd also remove the "bliiiing" sound effect when selecting a conversation choice.

Good luck with the project!

 

[moonwritertheory]

Thanks for playing my game! This is a pre-alpha edition and I know someone who can help me with proofreading, also I'm from the Philippines and clearly not a native English because I'd ended up writing with issues and errors. I know the sound effect is outdated too.

 

[moonwritertheory]

The Game Jam Edition is a post-alpha version of LOVE + CAFE, which both the HTML and Windows Edition are now updated. However, some updates in the game follow the list below;

• All of the scripts in the game were almost unchanged, but additional including a demo of the second act.
• Add two kinds of music, which were composed by Eric Matyas.
• Added camera controls to make it more cinematic.
• Some SFX were added and replaced.
• The intro was downgraded (both HTML and Windows Edition) due to some unknown reasons about controls.

 

[moonwritertheory]

Closed Alpha on itch.io is now available to play it online! So I can't upload my game because of the voting submission for a game jam. However, some updates in the game follow the list below;

• All of the script's issues are now fixed on two acts.
• Added opening scene.
• Same as the post-alpha version.
• The second act is now almost completed except; for the prologue and some scenes will be added soon.

 

[moonwritertheory]

Post-Beta on itch.io is now available to play on Windows, Linux, macOS, and HTML which you can play it online! Almost finished every act, but some writings need to improve soon due to stress lately, though I'm not ready to fix it now or later. Here's the list below;

• All of the script's issues are now almost fixed on two acts.
• Add the opening scene and end credits.
• Same as the post-alpha and closed-alpha versions.
• The second act is now almost completed except; for the prologue and some scenes will be added soon.
• Added the demo of the last three acts, but some writings need to improve soon.
• The Male's character faces are now lifted to right on the first two acts, and the rest too.
• You can press ESC to the menu and be able to save the game during messages.\
• Fix issues including missing sprite and looping BGS
• Added some scenes in the fourth act
• Added some script in some acts
• Updated to Post-Beta v2; in the fourth act, there's a scene where Anywnn said: "a few dialogues going out of the textbox on the right so we cannot see it just like this screenshot after "you" I believe there is something like "don't know"? but we cannot see it and then below the dialogues continue, with this same screenshot after this dialogue text the game goes back to when she speaks about waiting for the taxi again and again so the game does not proceed forward to the next act."
• Updated to Post-Beta v3; reduced the age 15+ to 12+ due to strong language, like the F-words throughout the game. For the sake of the streamers and Dr. Antonio, this will appeal to teenage and adult viewers.
• Updated to Post-Beta v4; removed one F-word, some dialogues were cut off is now fixed, few of the same dialogues are changed, Claire's wrong position and time-limited gauge that I forgot to remove is now fixed again. If there are some issues, I'll fix them again!

So sorry for being lazy at updates and developments, and I can't decide to play my game myself because of school or getting gamingsick. If you wanna play the game, it's your choice.

 

[moonwritertheory]

ALRIGHT! The "Release Candidate" is a completed and final version of the game that improves it better than the previous versions;

• (Almost) All of the grammar issues are now fixed!
• Every longer dialogue who were cut off is now fixed.
• Added more music for all acts of this game.
• There are four different cinematic borders in this game, while the two were inspired by Gaspar Noe's upcoming movie, Vortex.
• Every character's movements are now arranged and fixed.
• Several F-words are now removed.
• "COUNTER" from the first game, was renamed as "MISS CHAVEZ", who serves as a school cafeteria lunch lady.
• The end credit is now improved, with images of all acts throughout the game, but the song didn't change.
• "SOPHIE" eyes are changed due to similar to "DANIELLE" from the fourth act.
• Some references to popular culture were added or changed.
• Some dialogues from the first act were added.
• Thanks to Galv, I added a plugin called "Balloon Sound Effect".

If there is something about an issue or you have an issue about my game, just post your feedback on this discussion board.