Hunter 1.0.1

Seems to work just fine. Runs a little poorly, but my machine is a pile of junk anyway.

@Captain L RPG-maker is really expensive. I wouldn't recommend picking up any of the newer ones (MV or VX Ace) unless it's on a sale. At ~70$, you're really not getting your money's worth, and these prices can go down for quite a lot. I picked up VX Ace for around 75% off, I believe. I don't know if big sales happens often, but I'm pretty sure they all go on sale for the Steam seasonal sales.

7 hours ago, TempadoOmo5 said:

First, I did come across the bell sound a couple of times, but I couldn't get my finger off the arrow keys in time to then press down before taking another step. Granted, this is me playing for at least 20 or so minutes, but I do think to hear the bell, only for the opportunity to go away one step later seems a bit off for me. Lastly, for the cross, I once kept trying to escape a battle, but poor Christie took enough damage that she ran out of health, and the cross did not revive her. That's just a minor thing, though.

As for the "Wet" status, I wasn't sure if there was a specific side effect or debuff that it caused if a character went into battle while afflicted with such.

Both of your bugs have been noted and fixed, with the new version uploaded.

Wet status does have a debuff, it reduces speed by 50%. For someone like Kiyoko, that'll be killer, once there are enemies and skills.

2 hours ago, DerivativeWings said:

@Captain L RPG-maker is really expensive. I wouldn't recommend picking up any of the newer ones (MV or VX Ace) unless it's on a sale. At ~70$, you're really not getting your money's worth, and these prices can go down for quite a lot. I picked up VX Ace for around 75% off, I believe. I don't know if big sales happens often, but I'm pretty sure they all go on sale for the Steam seasonal sales.

I know I'm not that big a PC gamer, but I'm enough of one to know not to buy anything unless it's on a Steam sale.

Nice Timing...

7 hours ago, MasterXploder said:

Is it bad that I immediately recognized the battle theme was taken from the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure game on Super Famicom? Also, when I read that Tahn was a dragon who only wears a metal bra and underwear, I was totally expecting Nowi to be used for the placeholder art.

I'd leave more insightful comments, but I need to get to bed soon, and I've yet to encounter a skit. Would those be triggered by defeating the slime enemies, or such?

You know, I'm impressed. I was expecting that song to go totally unknown. If you can recognize the Game Over music too, I'll be floored.

You're actually not far off on the placeholder portrait, but I was planning to use Tiki. I didn't go through with it since, even though she's a dragon, she doesn't have the expressions to properly convey Tahn's personality,

The one skit in the demo is activated by steps taken, so it can happen anytime. It's just a 0.1% chance.

16 hours ago, daveshuyi said:

do you have to walk around outside to get the skit or can you see it inside as well?

It can be accessed anywhere, since I imagine most players will spend a majority of their time running back and forth inside, with maybe quick excursions outdoors. Which I think makes it a metaphor for life.

7 hours ago, rangatan said:

Oh yeah, the omo scenes go by really fast. I'd love it so that the scene lingers on the CG picture until you press a button to continue, if that's doable.

If you trigger the omo scene yourself, the image will stay until after the text box disappears. That's why the images appear so small, so they can remain fully visible even with the text boxes.

1 hour ago, AlmightyIdiot said:

I enjoy the dialogue between Nami and Laine. Its nice banter and tells how intimate they were, thought its a shame that we only get to know them for so little time. Hoping that we learn more about them in the future. I was only able to find the skit when Laine 1st wets herself. I tried a multitude of things like getting to Undine without killing for extra dialogue, grinding outside the town, talking to everyone with no avail to the 2nd skit.

I'll give you a tip for the future so you don't waste time like that: aside from skits that appear in your path, most other skits are just activated randomly. The most you'll need to worry about that I've programmed thus far are ones that appear when certain characters are desperate, nothing more complex than that.

I think reducing the encounter rates significantly would be a pretty good idea. In an omorashi game the player has incentives to wander around aimlessly, so having too low encounter rates is hardly a problem. Here I'm running into ~3-4 enemies between the town and water dungeon where it should probably be more like 1 I think.

1 hour ago, DerivativeWings said:

I think reducing the encounter rates significantly would be a pretty good idea. In an omorashi game the player has incentives to wander around aimlessly, so having too low encounter rates is hardly a problem. Here I'm running into ~3-4 enemies between the town and water dungeon where it should probably be more like 1 I think.

Imma keep it real with you, chief: the encounter rate is to disguise how small the maps are on pure area. It's about the same number of encounters you'd see in a typical RPG going from one major area to another, just condensed into a smaller space. The quick solution would be to lower the encounter rate while increasing experience drops, so the player still reaches Level 2 right when they reach the Water Dungeon, but then the level up doesn't feel earned.

The solution on the player end would be to not wander around just to build up the bladder, or at least only do that in safe towns. Play it like a real RPG.

1 hour ago, Unbeknownst said:

I have this bug where the game auto ends messages so it looks like text flashes across the bottom of the screen and then disappears. Also the game froze after I alt-tabbed. 

I'll try turning the message speed all the way down and see if that makes it at least readable.

The alt-tabbing thing isn't a deal breaker, just something to keep in mind.

On the dialogue, are you sure no buttons on your keyboard or controller are being pressed? Cutscenes and dialogue fast-forward if the confirm button is held down, though I would imagine this would also cause rapid confirmations in menus, so if you didn’t notice anything there, I don’t know what to tell you.

On Alt-Tab, that would be an issue with RPG Maker itself, and is out of my control. If I can replicate it, I’ll be sure to add it to the bug list.

41 minutes ago, Unbeknownst said:

I am certain. I figured that might be the case and tried troubleshooting various combinations of pressing, holding, and pressing at specific times all combinations of buttons on my keyboard mapped to the relevant key functions. I don't have the issue with other games or with the projects I work on, so I think it might be one of the scripts. Not sure though.

 

Well then, I don't know what to tell you. No one else has reported either of your issues, and neither manifests for me, so I have no leads.