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This game contains implied suicide and mean characters who encourage suicide. If you are sensitive to those or similar topics, you may want to skip this game. Please never give up hope!
SAD is a placeholder name, but the name it is holding a place for will never arrive. It can stand for "Social Anxiety Disorder", "Sorrow, Anger, and Doubt", "Smile All Day", "Salad? Ask Delilah", or anything you want. It might just be SAD.
I created this game for RPG Maker's 24th birthday Encounters of the Boss Kind contest, and I am honored that it won first place! This is a slightly updated version that mostly just fixes a bunch of obvious mistakes I overlooked because I was rushing.
You can download the current version here. I hope you enjoy it!
Story:
Teresa is a young woman for whom every day is harder than the last. But today will be different, for today is the day she will finally confess her love to her childhood friend, Morihinze!
...Maybe. With all these negative thoughts clouding her mind, Teresa is doomed to failure, just like always...
But as long as she has hope, she will keep on trying!
Features:
- A fairly unique setting.
- Despair.
- Hope.
- A cheesy love story (almost).
- A boss fight that will ideally require strategy to win, but it still needs a lot of refinement.
- Special battle mechanics: Teresa is unable to be harmed directly but panics when her allies fall; skills that become more or less effective the more targets they have; a skill that sets up an attack for a later turn, which may backfire if you put it off for too long; status effects that really work; gardening; TV/VCR repair; and more! (TV/VCR repair not available in all time periods.)
- May contain humor.
- Way too many references to all kinds of other things. I tried to keep them from being obstructive, so if you are not a fan of referential humor, please do not let this point scare you off! (But feel free to complain if they bother you!)
- No custom resources*, even though the contest is over. I think not using custom scripts is an interesting challenge!
*Aside from character generator characters, which I guess could technically be called custom resources. But since the generator is part of RPG Maker VX Ace, they are allowed.
Other images (spoilers):
To-do list (in no particular order):
- Redo the battle system slightly; I want to use the "Show Text" event for battle messages so they will not go away automatically. This will require doing all attack calculations through common events (not difficult, just time-consuming), which also allows a little more freedom for attack effects.
- Rebalance each character's skills as necessary.
- Almost completely redo each enemy's AI and skills.
- Add "effects" to every items. Two items (Equipment and ) have "effects" so far.
- Remove a character's items from your inventory when she is defeated and replace them if she is brought back.- Add a button combination (probably shift+Z) to skip the intro. This will be done last due to the way I plan on implementing it.
- Extend the second bad ending (the one you get from losing the battle and giving up).
-Extend Actually implement the good ending. Please let me know what you think of (spoiler for the current ending)
Known glitches:
- If you go through the intro text fast enough, one of the characters will not move properly. Even if I knew how to fix this, I would probably leave it because I think looks funny (and you get an Agility boost if it happens).
"Try and try, til you succeed or die, but don't forget to laugh along the way!"
SAD is a placeholder name, but the name it is holding a place for will never arrive. It can stand for "Social Anxiety Disorder", "Sorrow, Anger, and Doubt", "Smile All Day", "Salad? Ask Delilah", or anything you want. It might just be SAD.
I created this game for RPG Maker's 24th birthday Encounters of the Boss Kind contest, and I am honored that it won first place! This is a slightly updated version that mostly just fixes a bunch of obvious mistakes I overlooked because I was rushing.
You can download the current version here. I hope you enjoy it!
Story:
Teresa is a young woman for whom every day is harder than the last. But today will be different, for today is the day she will finally confess her love to her childhood friend, Morihinze!
...Maybe. With all these negative thoughts clouding her mind, Teresa is doomed to failure, just like always...
But as long as she has hope, she will keep on trying!
Features:
- A fairly unique setting.
- Despair.
- Hope.
- A cheesy love story (almost).
- A boss fight that will ideally require strategy to win, but it still needs a lot of refinement.
- Special battle mechanics: Teresa is unable to be harmed directly but panics when her allies fall; skills that become more or less effective the more targets they have; a skill that sets up an attack for a later turn, which may backfire if you put it off for too long; status effects that really work; gardening; TV/VCR repair; and more! (TV/VCR repair not available in all time periods.)
- May contain humor.
- Way too many references to all kinds of other things. I tried to keep them from being obstructive, so if you are not a fan of referential humor, please do not let this point scare you off! (But feel free to complain if they bother you!)
- No custom resources*, even though the contest is over. I think not using custom scripts is an interesting challenge!
*Aside from character generator characters, which I guess could technically be called custom resources. But since the generator is part of RPG Maker VX Ace, they are allowed.
Other images (spoilers):
To-do list (in no particular order):
- Redo the battle system slightly; I want to use the "Show Text" event for battle messages so they will not go away automatically. This will require doing all attack calculations through common events (not difficult, just time-consuming), which also allows a little more freedom for attack effects.
- Rebalance each character's skills as necessary.
- Almost completely redo each enemy's AI and skills.
- Add "effects" to every items. Two items (Equipment and ) have "effects" so far.
- Remove a character's items from your inventory when she is defeated and replace them if she is brought back.- Add a button combination (probably shift+Z) to skip the intro. This will be done last due to the way I plan on implementing it.
- Extend the second bad ending (the one you get from losing the battle and giving up).
-
ending the game by crashing it.
Known glitches:
- If you go through the intro text fast enough, one of the characters will not move properly. Even if I knew how to fix this, I would probably leave it because I think looks funny (and you get an Agility boost if it happens).
"Try and try, til you succeed or die, but don't forget to laugh along the way!"
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