Diminishment v0.15b RPG Maker, Free version (Can be found on my blog now!)

Update: 0.15b

• You can now hide messages with the "Ctrl" key
• Added a .txt file in the root directory, that has instructions on how to get each ending
• Previous version is available, in case the hide message feature screwed up something else

A couple people reported that their anti-virus is flagging this as a trojan. This was deployed with RPG Maker MV 1.6.1 which is a pretty new update, and still gets flagged by some AV software. A good way to be sure that something is a false positive is to scan the file with virustotal. If only a few AV programs classify the file as threat, it's extremely likely it's not actually harmful (of course this isn't 100% foolproof, so I recommend some healthy caution, if you're downloading something clearly suspicious). Here's a virustotal scan of the game.exe file in case you are suspicious.

Unfortunately there's nothing I can do about this, as whatever these few AV programs think is malicious, is directly tied in to RPG Maker MV 1.6.1. So if your AV program is flagging this, you'll either need to set the file as safe, or use another AV program to play the game, or wait until I have the Unity version out.

Hey!

Here's the "free" version of the prologue! Public release will be in a couple days, after making sure there's no game stopping bugs in there. There shouldn't be anything, at least none have been reported, and other than the videos, not much has changed here since the last version. Well anything that can be fixed in RPG Maker that is.

Current differences between the free version & 10$ tier version:
Free: 720p 30fps videos, small watermark in the upper left corner
10$ tier: 720p 60fps (Unity version will be 1080p), no watermark

MEGA Public version download link

Previous version

Controls:

• CTRL - Hide messages
• Z/Enter - Confirm
• X/Esc - Cancel
• Arrow keys - Minigame prompts/selections
• F4 - Fullscreen/Windowed
• Mouse clicks won't work on quick time events, only arrow keys (or numpad) on the keyboard.
• You need to press & release the indicated arrow key during the minigames, if you keep the key pressed, it might not get accepted.

For that extra polish, you can wait for the Unity version, but I'd estimate it'll take at least a couple weeks for it to be ready. I'd rather not give a date, as there's a lot of unknowns related to that still.

Unity version will be more of a VN, but it'll still have the mini games during the CG events. It'll also have some more internal moans, which would have been a bit of a pain to time with the video in rpg maker.

Troubleshooting:

If you're experiencing crashes: Avoid using the Replay function, and instead restart the whole game. There was a memory leak issue, that should be mostly fixed, but at least one user reported issues that sounded like it could still be partly there. You can resume the game from the start of each part through the main menu.

If the performance is so bad, that it's pretty much unplayable: Try turning off the Sync option in the options. This improves performance for some PCs, but will also cause a bunch of visual issues.

Please vote on the poll, to let me know how good/bad it's running for you. Also, your thoughts on the watermark.

Recordings are coming later, after the Unity version is done, as I mentioned on the suggestions post.

You are of course free to do your own recordings, but if you release them publicly, I'd request that you either use the free version, or add the same watermark (www.patreon.com/Eskoz) manually to your own recording, or at the very least, link to my patreon somewhere in your post/comment. Not that I can do anything, if you choose to ignore this, but you'd make me happy!

Let me know what you think!

Have a nice weekend!