Malise and the Machine V0.01 Release
Added 2015-03-30 02:17:23 +0000 UTCIt’s about time for the first release of Malise and the Machine! This post will lock in your pledges so that when Patreon processes payments at the beginning of April (hopefully on the 1st), I can begin sending out emails with download links for the test version of the game. The last thing you should have to do is make sure that your Patreon payment information in the ‘Payment Settings’ menu is correct and up to date! Remember, your payment must be successful for you to be eligible for pledge rewards. For details on how rewards are being distributed and for recommended system requirements please see this post from March 21: https://www.patreon.com/creation?hid=1938924 Again, I want to ask that once you receive it you please don’t share your test version of the game or any files related to the test version of the game, as you will forfeit your rewards and access to future rewards by doing so. The public will get to see a demo of the game down the road when it is ready to be seen, but these releases are for you guys! Now for some information about the release! PLEASE READ! Malise and the Machine utilizes the RPG Maker VX Ace engine. To play, you must install the RPG Maker VX ACE RTP (run time package), which you can download and install for free from http://www.rpgmakerweb.com/download/additional/run-time-packages (click the blue button at the bottom of the page to download). It’s highly recommended that the first time you start the game you make a critical adjustment to the RPG Maker VX Ace settings to vastly improve performance of the game. To do this, press F1 after launching the game, then in the window that appears uncheck ‘Reduce Screen Flickering’, then select OK. Additional tips for improving performance if you find the game runs slow for you: • Play in windowed mode! I plan on coding a new fullscreen mode for the game in the future, as RPG Maker’s is very inefficient. • Toggle weather off. This can be done by pressing W during the map scenes. Things you will see in the test version of this release: • Dynamic character portrait system for battle, menu, and map scenes • A playable section of the story with events, dialog, and H scenes • Functioning active time combat and H system • Functioning ‘Lust System’ featuring evolving artwork • A customized user interface to support the above systems Known issues for this test release (V0.01): • During the map scenes, enemy sprites will sometimes update abnormally at the bottom of the screen. • Player/camera can move at some points during some cutscenes when movement should be restricted. This can lead to additional errors if abused. • Low memory PCs may sometimes receive a 'Failed to load bitmap' error on start-up. • Enemies occasionally will not act even when they have a turn. They will proceed to act after the player characters have taken turns. • Weather is currently highly resource intensive. Press W during the map scene to toggle it off to improve performance. • Characters may lose turns when certain tutorials popup or a finishing move occurs. • Enemies will sometimes not release a character from a hold even though the character has successfully broken free of the enemy's grasp via struggling. Issue is resolved post-battle. • The background gradient for the struggle window will sometimes not appear correctly. • Some text artifacts occur where line breaks exist in the 'Help' window. • A few battle skill selection and enemy/character targeting order inconsistencies can make quickly choosing a skill/target annoying. Lastly, I want to thank you for your support! In short, this project simply wouldn’t be able to happen without the financial support you’re giving. Please be sure to let me know if you have any questions!
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I apparently changed my donation after the cut off date. Let's fix this!
2015-11-02 16:40:04 +0000 UTCHello! Please check your messages. I sent you one regarding that.
2015-07-09 14:23:27 +0000 UTCExcuse me, I‘m late. But I really hope to play test version of the game. So...Dear, Could you send download links to me :-)
2015-07-09 14:06:14 +0000 UTCcan i get the v0.01 one?
2015-06-05 14:19:26 +0000 UTCHey Kevin! It looks like you pledged after the cutoff for the first release. I'll message you details how you can get in on it though!
2015-04-17 11:11:28 +0000 UTCIs it weird if I haven't received the emails yet?
2015-04-17 10:47:18 +0000 UTCSo, we'll get the latest version, each time you release one ?
Faithel
2015-04-06 17:51:18 +0000 UTCYou should be able to change to some other payment type and it will automatically retry. Some people are actually reporting success with Paypal.
2015-04-06 07:24:56 +0000 UTCUh, my credit card is such ass.
2015-04-06 04:46:09 +0000 UTCWhile playing, I will suggest you everything I see If it can help you get more satisfied players. <3 First, put color on Item name, when looting. Thanks
Faithel
2015-04-04 07:45:58 +0000 UTCI'm actually seeing a lot of peoples' pages showing they aren't patrons of anything, which I know to be incorrect. There must be a database issue or something. Regarding the payment pending, I've been told by some other creators that for some reason it can take up to a few days for some payments to clear, which I really hope is improved upon in the future.
2015-04-03 06:28:23 +0000 UTCHmm. Following on from my last post, my payment settings seem to have righted itself, and is showing $15 to be collected again. Your project still shows me as having a $15 pledge too, so it must've been a temporary glitch in the machine... apologies for the false alarm. And looking forward to testing your game out.
Captain Cabbage
2015-04-03 06:23:26 +0000 UTCWeird. I've been a patron to Malise for a few months now, and was pledged in for $15 all this time. A day ago, patreon said a $15 payment was pending. All this time I was receiving updates in my email. I log in today, and patreon tells me I'm not a patron for any project, and my payment settings are wiped clean. What's going on, and is it too late to get a copy of the demo? I'm quite eager to shovel cash your direction!
Captain Cabbage
2015-04-03 06:15:18 +0000 UTCdamn, that game is really cool! finally something else and not a classic rpg game. am curious to further content. in this sense: "shut up and take my money" :-)
2015-04-02 19:16:23 +0000 UTCPatreon's FAQ says the payments may take up to 72 hours to process, btw.
2015-04-02 15:37:22 +0000 UTCHeya guys! Just a heads up, emails are stillllllll going out. Thanks for being patient if you haven't received yours yet! I'm pretty much figuring this thing out at the same time most of you are. If you're having issues with the payment system hang tight and I'll try to help you out as soon as I get some time.
2015-04-02 15:17:13 +0000 UTCGot mine at about 2am EST, paid via CC. Thank you Ero :)
HalcyonAndOn
2015-04-02 14:47:49 +0000 UTCGrats. I'm still pending with a CC :/
John Smith
2015-04-02 12:03:51 +0000 UTCYes, mine went trough and i used PayPal, so apearently it worked this tinme around.
2015-04-02 11:54:57 +0000 UTCAnyone at the 10$ level have their payment processed yet?
John Smith
2015-04-02 11:33:48 +0000 UTCGot an email confirming payment went through, but no download link. :C
2015-04-02 09:14:32 +0000 UTCJust wondering, but have any emails for the 15 tier been sent out yet? Keep up the good work!
2015-04-02 09:01:45 +0000 UTCawwright my payment's been processed, the waiting game's almost over.
2015-04-02 08:38:05 +0000 UTCHey Mancer. I had a problem with my pledge sadly. Just sent you a private message to explain it. Hope we can find a solution. In anycase, congrats for the release of the first version of tha game!
2015-04-02 07:45:24 +0000 UTCNo turn based mode, however there are a few things planned you may like. The first is that there will be an auto-struggle mode implemented eventually. Guard won't be useless. I'd also like for there to be a faster way to select an interrupt skill as opposed to having to go to it in the Skills menu (plus it's hard to accurately choose an enemy quickly due to the inconsistencies with where the targeting cursor first shows up). For now, a good strategy is to quickly focus fire a single enemy down until there aren't enough to mob you. Use Neon's Distracting Shot to keep them off you once you are down to 2 or fewer enemies.
2015-04-02 07:24:59 +0000 UTCIm having such a hard time with even getting past the first couple of fights, is there a way to enable turn-based fighting? Is that a plan in the future, or am i just going to have to be a master of split second button mashes...?
2015-04-02 07:13:38 +0000 UTCIt's actually still going (surprisingly slow, I know). Yours is still pending~
2015-04-02 07:04:06 +0000 UTCSent!
2015-04-02 07:02:06 +0000 UTCNope, I don't plan on sleeping until all the emails are out! Just sent yours out~
2015-04-02 07:00:27 +0000 UTCTested the demo, this rocks! But I'm lost, I don't know what to do with the switches x)
dudman
2015-04-02 06:30:35 +0000 UTCi hope he didnt go to bed yet XD
Froggie Friends
2015-04-02 06:16:37 +0000 UTCIm waiting expectantly :D
2015-04-02 06:00:44 +0000 UTCYES FINALLY IT WENT THROUGH!!! Its game time baby!
Froggie Friends
2015-04-02 05:30:35 +0000 UTCIs the payment processing complete yet?
2015-04-02 05:18:30 +0000 UTCSeconding this. Hope it's a matter of order of operations and not a matter of blocked progression! Looks great so far, though. There will probably be a number of kinks to work out, though.
PhatsM
2015-04-02 04:56:19 +0000 UTCIssue with an event (i'm assuming). When you walk up to the first laser door, game crashes with an audio error regarding a file called "kneedeep"
2015-04-02 04:55:14 +0000 UTCGuess I'll have to go to sleep and wait for Patreon to meander it's way to my $35 pledge.
MadKingMidas
2015-04-02 04:49:35 +0000 UTCGuess mine is one of the slow ones as well, dying to dl it and play.
Froggie Friends
2015-04-02 04:26:25 +0000 UTCAwesome! Downloading now, there's the rest of my night gone!
2015-04-02 04:24:24 +0000 UTCIt told me my payment went through hours ago though, but yeah I'm below that tier.
BazookaDre
2015-04-02 03:53:25 +0000 UTCNot sure! Yours is currently pending though.
2015-04-02 03:45:00 +0000 UTCSo I dont have a Credit card, so I'll stick with PayPal, just to see if it works. Does anybody know if PayPal/Patreon informs the Patrons, if their payment could not be processed?
2015-04-02 03:42:52 +0000 UTCThe first round of emails have gone out for the $35 and up backers (if your payment processed within the past hour or so). Only about 30% of the payments have processed so far, so don't be surprised if you haven't received an email yet!
2015-04-02 03:39:48 +0000 UTCIm checking my email excited to see the transaction go though. Hope your feeling proud of yourself Eromancer! :D
2015-04-02 03:33:51 +0000 UTCSo when do they start going out? Just curious, not impatient.
BazookaDre
2015-04-02 02:59:22 +0000 UTCSuper excited to play. Weird to think it's already been 150 days since I started keeping an eye on this page.
PhatsM
2015-04-02 02:42:18 +0000 UTCYours is currently pending. That's all I really know. I'll let you know if it gets declined for some reason, but otherwise I wouldn't worry about it yet.
2015-04-02 01:37:43 +0000 UTCSo I forgot to change my payment info for you, I did change it when I was reminded. Should I be concerned if I was late because of it?
Raven
2015-04-02 01:33:24 +0000 UTCGah. Disregard that. >_> Realizing I should give it some more time.
Aryn
2015-04-02 01:29:20 +0000 UTCAnd by first i meant second of course, figure i'd mess up the most important part.
2015-04-02 01:26:00 +0000 UTCLol payments are never fully processed until the first, y'all getting hyped up 15 hours too early.
2015-04-02 01:24:15 +0000 UTCI got email saying payment was processed, just waiting on eromancer now
2015-04-02 01:18:33 +0000 UTCI've gotten NO emails, worryingly enough. I used a credit card and all.
Aryn
2015-04-02 01:07:58 +0000 UTCwhat happens if i just discovered all of this today and became a patron about 8 hours ago?
Stran
2015-04-02 00:05:55 +0000 UTCI'll start sending emails out to those whose pledges have processed within the next few hours hopefully!
2015-04-01 23:56:53 +0000 UTCHey ZeroExa! I just sent you a message.
2015-04-01 23:54:44 +0000 UTCI've got no email and I'm still on Pending Pledges... well, I've waited, but I need sleep. It's 12:29am here. >_< Hopefully tomorrow.
InsaneBrain
2015-04-01 23:28:40 +0000 UTCdo we still get the metal print if we live in Canada
ZeroExa
2015-04-01 21:59:18 +0000 UTCYep!
2015-04-01 21:44:52 +0000 UTCQuestion: It says 2 successful payments for the uncensored version. Can you pay for the first one, then stop for a couple then pay again, and still receive the uncensored version of the game?
spaceballs
2015-04-01 21:35:00 +0000 UTCAwesome, keep up the good work and congratulations on your first set of incoming pledges!
InsaneBrain
2015-04-01 19:59:51 +0000 UTCGood news! Looks like they are beginning to process payments... very slowly, heh. Also good news: I am finishing up the PDF currently. I have a few hours of work left to do on it, but I will be able to send that out with the game for the $15 and up patrons.
2015-04-01 19:29:13 +0000 UTCI know what you mean Mirkel, I keep thinking my card has blocked it or something. Though I'm sure that isn't the case, just me being impatient haha.
InsaneBrain
2015-04-01 19:17:28 +0000 UTCI wish I could just push a button to pay the pledge already, but the only two options seem to be wait and delete.
2015-04-01 18:17:08 +0000 UTCAwsome to see this post after a rather shitty day! The heads up for known issues in this release was a nice surprise too. I sincerely hope everyone listens and DOES NOT distribute the release,it's sad how often that sort of thing happens to games and music of any kind T_T Looking forward to it nonetheless!
Criss Cyanide
2015-04-01 09:51:03 +0000 UTCAwesome information, thanks for the heads up!
Horizon
2015-03-31 16:27:49 +0000 UTCAaaaaaaaaaah!!!! V.01!!!! So excited. Can't wait for the pledges to go through. :)
MadKingMidas
2015-03-30 13:12:00 +0000 UTCThis has made my day. Looking forward to this soooo much!
Paul Rendell
2015-03-30 09:09:15 +0000 UTC!!!!!! i love you dude!!! hahahahaha
Yo
2015-03-30 09:00:43 +0000 UTCAwww yiisssssssssssss!!!!!!!! Today, some good news was released. made my day bruh.
Zodiark69
2015-03-30 02:27:55 +0000 UTC
