Withermoore Castle

[RyuuProductions]

Hi everyone! Today, I present you a little horror/mystery story I pretty much made by myself during last semester break. I mainly used the ACE RTP along with a few other third party resources, but here and there I needed to add a little handcrafted stuff (tiles, sounds, music, animations, movies etc...). Instead of creating loads of content, I tried to keep the story compact and add little details here and there to reward exploration and keep the atmosphere strong
 

Withermoore Castle​

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A horror-themed game set in a medieval castle, inspired by games such as Ib and The Witch's House, as well as the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
You play as Graham, an insomniac trying to find a place where he can finally find some rest. However, he will soon discover that Withermoore Castle is not that place...​

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It should take a little over or under an hour to finish for everyone remotely familiar with this genre of games, depending on if you go for the best of the three endings or not.​

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Even though it was a lot of work to finish the project the way I had in mind, it still was loads of fun to make it. Maybe my next effort will even be a sequel-of-sorts ​

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Screenshots:

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Download(Version 1.0.3, 45,7M:​

http://www.mediafire.com/download/xq1t12dyep811pq/Withermoore+Castle+1.0.3.exe​

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Walkthrough:​

http://ryuuproductions.blogspot.de/2013/12/withermoore-castle-walkthrough.html​

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Sequel:​

http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/38491-thornegrave-manor​

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Credits:

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Title Screen by amethyst, amo and StuKa
Game Over Screen by Fenris
Additional Tilesets by http://vxresource.wordpress.com/
Lighting by Khas Arcthunder: http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/4917-khas-awesome-light-effects/

Music:
"Industrial" by www.reflex-studio.com
"Tears" by www.reflex-studio.com
"Orden" by www.reflex-studio.com
"Unhancy1" by www.reflex-studio.com
"Unhancy2" by www.reflex-studio.com
"Unhancy3" by www.reflex-studio.com
"Cluster Decay" by Tunguska Electronic Music Society
"When The Full Moon Shines" by Tunguska Electronic Music Society
Everything else by StuKa

Beta-Testers:
Fenris
ands
amethyst
EvErSoR
urlittlepwny
feuerZwerk
Vindicorvus
Tobbe
mom
Senior

Developed with RPGMaker VX Ace.
Time spent on the project: ~150hours.
For questions/bug reports, contact me at derryu@gmail.com

 

[ookami_lord]

I played your game and I must say that It was scaring but funny  though...

There were some puzzles that were difficult!

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Especially the arrow ones and the statue ....amazing tough...

And the part at the graveyard...scary!

But it's enjoyable to play!

I liked the way it went and keep going!

It was fun to play!

 

[RyuuProductions]

Thanks for your feedback. Glad to hear you enjoyed it