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spent all day today doing things in my game that literally no one will notice or care abt but it mattered to me lol im really super close to finishing up floors 1+2, which includes a very major overhaul on floor 2 from the demo! im really excited to replace the old demo with the new one! even tho it only got like 2 downloads idc im having fun making it ❤️

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i lied im working on Edgewood again lol i didnt realize how close i am to being able to post the like...2.0 demo thing lol my partners gonna help me w some writing ive been stuck on but otherwise i think the next "floor" is basically done!

oh yeah im on summer break again! usually i work on this over my break, but the muse is kinda dead rn :/ i have another game ive been sorta working on less than Edgewood that is much shorter and more simple, and I think im gonna work in it instead for now. i upgraded to rpgmaker mv (up from vx ace) but transfering the games isnt exactly easy...i think ill keep Edgewood in vx ace but im remaking what little i had of the other game in mv!

i dont have a name yet for the new game, ive been calling it Hattie House, and its a pretty basic haunted house sort of situation lol im still working out plot stuff but i mostly want to use it to practice some things! for instance i want to create a button mashing event! i also considering having 2 protags but idk if im ready for that yet lol if/when i finish it ill probably share it here (:

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oh yeah im on summer break again! usually i work on this over my break, but the muse is kinda dead rn :/ i have another game ive been sorta working on less than Edgewood that is much shorter and more simple, and I think im gonna work in it instead for now. i upgraded to rpgmaker mv (up from vx ace) but transfering the games isnt exactly easy...i think ill keep Edgewood in vx ace but im remaking what little i had of the other game in mv!

i dont have a name yet for the new game, ive been calling it Hattie House, and its a pretty basic haunted house sort of situation lol im still working out plot stuff but i mostly want to use it to practice some things! for instance i want to create a button mashing event! i also considering having 2 protags but idk if im ready for that yet lol if/when i finish it ill probably share it here (:

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rpgmaker mv is on sale for $5 so i finally upgraded from vxace! im not super comfy with it yet, its mostly the same ig but its gonna take some getting used to. i found a ace to mv converter im gonna Try cuz worst case it does nothing and best case i can continue working on it in a better system! it even has some rtp that is more modern!

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update!

ive been doing a lot of stuff!

i figured out how to use a new script that let me make an npc who checks for certain items or switches to see what "quests" you need to do at that moment and can give you hints! this took basically all day but i did it!

i had a really weird glitch that taught me not to use 2 variable slots that causes strange bugs? both variables were blank and nothing used them, but for whatever reason one would make the textbox only 1 line high instead of 3 or 4 no matter how much was written in it, and the other made the textbox a vertical white line??? i never figured out what was actually wrong, but i set the event up using the exact same variables just in a different slot and they worked perfectly. really weird lol but that also took all day

ive changed the layout of both floors quite a bit, and im glad i did! they look much better now tbh

i was hoping i would be able to finish the second floor before classes start back for the spring...but...

thats literally tomorrow lol

i really dont have that much left to do, but what i do need to do will take time. i have a couple books i want to have found on both the first and second floors. i need to write a couple plot important passages for those books, but for some reason taking the time to actually write them isnt interesting to me right now.

oh well. hopefully the muse strikes me again while its still early in the semester and i can finish them up soon! otherwise this project will most likely go back on hiatus until summer!

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Update!

ive been working on map layout reworks and touch ups for the first floor!

ive had to stop myself from constantly nitpicking my tileset and graphics...i can fix those at a later time when im fully satisfied with the layout, important events, writing, and such!

given that im not focusing on the tilesets as much, the first floor is actually very close to being done! when i finish it, and get a couple friends to play through it, i plan to update the demo to include both floors!

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Well, its up! I'm very anxious about it, but I've spent so much time on it I might as well post it somewhere even if I'm not very confident in it lol But now that it's out I can focus on the next floor!

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progress update!

This project has basically become something I only work on in between semesters, so I've not given up - I just have bigger things to focus on most of the year!

That being said, I am pretty confident the demo is done!

Unfortunately I am pretty anxious about posting it publicly...

Is itch.io the best place to post a demo? Or is it best to put it on a dropbox site or something and post a download link on tumblr?

I know there are some blogs on here that you can submit your demo to but if I remember correctly you have to be active for a certain period of time to show the game isnt abandoned and since I only work on it between semesters I don't think I can submit it there.

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progress update!

The demo is basically done! I finished rewriting much of the dialogue, found an incredible musician with free music for games, and made a few other little tweaks! I have a couple friends playing through it for me to make sure I didnt miss anything major like typos or "sign on a wall you can walk on for some reason" things lmao

Once those are done, I'm gonna post the demo! I will be honest I dont expect many players haha but this game is more of a labor of love anyway! I know the story isnt really largely appealing, but it means a lot to me and if even one person enjoys it thats one person more than I need to feel happy with this project (:

The demo only features one of three floors. I have quite a bit of rewriting for the other floors at this point so who knows when I will finish it all...I think once I finish the next floor I'll post a sort of revised demo before I finish the last floor which should finish the game!

Anyway this is a long post to say very little lol

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I promised I would be back!

I finished writing the introduction scene for my game! <3 Its a little rough, but considering its my first game I'm really proud of it! Note: There is a scene with a car crash that has a couple short flashes. I tried to space them out enough that it would not be an issue.

Character busts are from this picrew: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/407340 I'm in the process of rewriting a lot of dialogue and plot points, but the vast majority of the maps and events are done at this point!

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Hello hello

Sorry for going quiet, i probably could have made an actual post, but i took some time away from this to focus on classes! With the summer break now underway, Ive come back to this! Im in the process of overhauling a lot of the dialogue, and reshaping some plot points! ive realized that in some previous edits ive strayed from the story i actually want to tell, and it made me lose some of my muse for this, but im hoping that by resetting my writing back towards the parts of the story im most interested in that i can enjoy creating this again!

the game is in kind of a weird spot where so much of the actual eventing is done, and that was the hard part, now im able to focus on the story and its a bit overwhelming. this story has lived in my brain since about 2012ish and its important to me that i tell it how i want to tell it, even if like three people play it and none of them enjoy it. i think thats why i keep coming back to this... ill try to update againwhen i make some more progress! 💕

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Another post!

Meet our protagonist's best friend, Shelly!

While this is an updated map in use, I recently learned how to do paralax mapping! I didn't know what it meant before yesterday lol I don't think I will be doing it for this project, as it is my first and I already have like 15 maps complete lol but I will definitely try it for my next project!

I am also in the process of tweaking the story a little! I have gotten to the climax, and am very close to beginning eventing for the endings, but I ran into a little issue...

...the climax/twist I wrote for the story about 10 years ago kind of sucks and is super boring to write lmao so I am working on rewriting some stuff. I'm trying to change it in such a way that the majority of the events/writing does not need to change! I don't think this will effect the specific part I was planning to use for the demo but just in case I don't want to release that until I have totally pinned down the ending, at least in writing anyway!

In the meantime I'll keep posting little snips of conversations with other patients! <3

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Hello hello!

I bring you the first real post from this project!

heres a small gif of the very beginning, featuring our player character, Kai!

All of the character portraits were made on Picrew because I am not an artist at all but wanted more visuals! Its possible these pictures will just be a placeholder until I can afford to commission original artwork, but in the meantime I'm okay with picrews as I never considered charging for the game in the first place

They all use this maker: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/407340/

Additionally, heres a little peak of an old map and an updated map!

I'm still looking at tilesets and theres a good chance they'll change many more times before its done...

I'm fixing up the maps now, then I'll be working on getting enough music and sfx together for the demo!

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New-Old RPG Maker Game in progress!

Hello! This is a long overdue post on a blog that I also should have made a long time ago.

I started this project in 2019, gave up on it for a while, then jumped back in a couple months ago and it is surprisingly close to wrapping up!

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Project Edgewood is a horror game that takes place in a children's psychiatric hospital that isn't what it appears to be. You play as Eloise as she sneaks out of her ward and explores the facility to uncover the secrets and attempt to escape!

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It will feature multiple endings and estimated 45 minutes - 1 hour playtime to reach at least one ending.

It is my very first project and I hope to have a demo out soon, and will be posting more progress shots as well!

Edit May 2024: I took a break from this for school but I'm back for the summer! We'll see how much I can get out before classes start back in the Fall <3 My goal is to have the demo out in the next couple months!

Edit January 2025: The demo is complete!