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IMPORTANT NOTE: This game uses heavily a customized RGSS system and is still in development, so any current release may contain game-crashing bugs.

Features

100% Custom Interface: Players command the party using a targetting dial that identifies important features of a room and the ways to interact with them.

Randomly-generated Game World - The layout of areas and the locations of key items are determined randomly at the beginning of each new game.

Customizable Characters: Spend experience points to improve your character using an intuitive, user-directed training interface.

Original Graphics: Original characters, creatures, items and splash art.

A Chilling Sci-fi Horror Setting - A setting and storyline influenced by sources as diverse as System Shock 2, Freelancer, Dead Space, John Carpenter's The Thing, and Dante's Inferno.



Story

According to one theory, Earth's moon was formed by collision with another planetoid early in our solar system's history. This theoretical planetoid is known as Theia, the mother of Selene (the moon) in early Hellene mythology.

The theory states that Theia would have been completely consumed in the collision, its mass integrated with Earth's.

Why, then, in the outer reaches of the Oort cloud, where astronomers expect to find only comets and isolated bodies of ice, has a planet been found whose composition exactly compliments planet Theia of the Giant Impact theory? Almost a light-year away from the Sun, it hangs on by a mere slip of a gravitational tether, and would certainly have been long lost to the system were its orbit not almost immeasurably slow.

Wherever it came from, it was the last beacon of hope for White Horse Enterprises, a sluggish corporation whose dewy-eyed business ethics made it uncompetitive in the corrupt, overpopulated world of 2072. They established a mining facility on Planet Theia as a showcase for their progressive, philanthropic business practices. In the words of White Horse's CEO: "This venture will go forward, and it will establish a precedent that only an act of God can supersede."

The venture seemed doomed for bankruptcy until a survey drone uncovered what appeared to be an alien artifact, deep under the planet's surface. Desperately needing to capitalize on the discovery, the admins have planned an investor's gala in the P. Lowell Executive Chalet, a small luxury resort with a stunning view of the mining installation, where the artifact will be unveiled to the public.

... And now, for some reason, you've just woken up on the floor of your sleep quarters. You have no recollection of the last week, and your co-workers have turned into monsters. Your only guidance is a droning automated announcement system and the clues your colleagues left behind before losing their minds.

Welcome to Planet Theia. It's always dark out.

Latest Blog

My god we're going back for this one

Two days ago I finally started using Rogaine, even though I'm about 15 years too late for it to make a difference!

Well we all know how it goes, I still want to shake the usual farts out of the bedsheets and say that sOmEdAy ThIs PrOjEcT wIlL bE dOnE i PrOmIsE but it looks to be something that I'll have to be toying with on and off for years and maybe finish it when I'm 50. Because I was visited by that terrible spectre of Another Idea For A Game That Seems Like It Will Be Less Work And More Likely To Pay Off Than The Current Idea (AIFAGTSLIWBLWAMLTPOTTCI). I've actually been working on the AIFAGTSLIWBLWAMLTPOTTCI for the last year. I don't want to be an idiot who strings along projects for years and then never finishes anything because of yet another AIFAGTSLIWBLWAMLTPOTTCI, with the old tune of i'Ll GeT bAcK tO tHiS pRoJeCt OnCe ThE nEw OtHeR iDeA iS dOnE. Every time I do this I lose more and more confidence in myself. But the AIFAGTSLIWBLWAMLTPOTTCI can be very seductive.

The latest AIFAGTSLIWBLWAMLTPOTTCI is a furry-themed building management sim made in Game Maker, and the building that you're managing is a public bathroom. You place facilities like toilets and sinks and make money by selling different types of septic effluent. It leans heavily on the vulgar subject matter, because furries like that sort of thing. But it's not really an RPG so I don't want to make a project page here. Does anyone know of another website where I might make a project page for that sort of game?

Posts

Oh that's good to know re: flak shells.

@Gibmaker: Speaking of aptitude and weapon upgrade bugs.. I complained about some of those too (along with a bunch of other stuff)... Did you ever get around to reviewing my huge lists of junk? :x
BUG: End of round death triggers not changed for barricades. Or at least not for the barricade at the start of chapter three. I put lethal damage on it, and then it waited patiently until the end of the round to disassemble.
BUG: Found a schematic that was computers mental 3, or mental 5. Read it. A dialog box popped up that said 'investigate', and that was it.

edit: there are lots of these, and at no point does the schematic ever become interpreted. Also, they come in stacks of like six, and picking up and reading one causes the stack to vanish.
Gibmaker
I hate RPG Maker because of what it has done to me
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author=NewBlack
@Gibmaker:Speaking of aptitude and weapon upgrade bugs.. I complained about some of those too (along with a bunch of other stuff)... Did you ever get around to reviewing my huge lists of junk? :x
@NooBlack Yes I saw your junk. That's what she said. I guess it's just still not perfect. 8|

I have fixed the barricade thing though and it will be fixed @ the next release.
Gibmaker
I hate RPG Maker because of what it has done to me
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author=kumada
BUG: Found a schematic that was computers mental 3, or mental 5. Read it. A dialog box popped up that said 'investigate', and that was it.

edit: there are lots of these, and at no point does the schematic ever become interpreted. Also, they come in stacks of like six, and picking up and reading one causes the stack to vanish.
Yes. Schematics are ludicrously broken.
BUG: Defense Rigs still use old end of round death triggers.
Gibmaker
I hate RPG Maker because of what it has done to me
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author=kumada
BUG: Defense Rigs still use old end of round death triggers.
Thank you.
I just uploaded a new vershun and you will find this bug fixed as well as schematics working properly hopefully.
Okay, if I'm switching to a new version mid-playthrough, which files do I need to move?
Gibmaker
I hate RPG Maker because of what it has done to me
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Jyust your save file. :)
Grenade launcher is a trap.

Script 'Z - Zap_Data (Weapons2)' line 931: NoMethodError occurred

undefined method '' for nil:NilClass


This happened on pickup.

Also, parasitic synthesis doesn't give the player any signs that it's doing anything. Just a quick 'hooray, you did it', or a 'nope, doesn't work on turrets', or even a 'it sorta worked, but you get the feeling there's more here' would be a very welcome change in what is currently a kind of frustrating talent.

Edit: Herp derp. This bug corresponds to v1104. Will retest on current.

2nd edit: Nope. Both these issues are definitely still extant in v1105
I have a grenade launcher that says you can pick it up somehow.

Maybe something's changed since I picked it up or it's a combination of factors.
You've been able to pick up the grenade launcher without a game crash in v1105?

Well, here's some other factors. Dunno if these would in any way influence things.

-Used parasitic synthesis a few battles ago.

-Grenade launcher is being picked up into last inventory slot on main character.
Couldn't really tell you which version it was when I picked it up, but I've had it for a while now. It's unlikely to be v1105, it may be 4 or 3 or even earlier for all I know :<
Gibmaker
I hate RPG Maker because of what it has done to me
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Damn.
It is because the random "upgrade" requirements for the Launcher are built if you port in a game from v1.0, but not if you start a new game in v1.1.

Download the latest version to fix D:

oh yeah and in a future version there will be "active status" indicators that will make it more obvious that Parasitic Synthesis is doing something.
I'm finding Part 2 to be incredibly unstable. The Cheryl Ming fight crashed. The fight against a turret crashed. I was able to get through on the next playthrough, but had it crash in the very next fight I got into. I also ran into a script crash just exiting one of the rooms.

I was planning on writing a review (my notes for which, aside from some skill and combat frustration were almost entirely positive up to this point) but as it sits now, it seems impossible for me to progress any further in the game.

Extremely frustrating.
Okay. I'm definitely stuck. Someone who's cleared chapter four, what do I do after meeting with columbine and fighting the mimic? I went to cryo and unlocked it, and I know from my logs that somewhere there's a note about how to unfreeze the person in the tube, but I don't have that password, and I don't know where to find it. I've been everywhere in the areas I can access that aren't cut off by spiderwebs, vacuum, or the inaccessible dormitory bulkhead.
Gibmaker
I hate RPG Maker because of what it has done to me
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author=Killer Wolf
I'm finding Part 2 to be incredibly unstable. The Cheryl Ming fight crashed. The fight against a turret crashed. I was able to get through on the next playthrough, but had it crash in the very next fight I got into. I also ran into a script crash just exiting one of the rooms.

I was planning on writing a review (my notes for which, aside from some skill and combat frustration were almost entirely positive up to this point) but as it sits now, it seems impossible for me to progress any further in the game.

Extremely frustrating.

I'm sorry to hear it. :( Can you send me your save file so I can fiddle?

author=kumada
Okay. I'm definitely stuck. Someone who's cleared chapter four, what do I do after meeting with columbine and fighting the mimic? I went to cryo and unlocked it, and I know from my logs that somewhere there's a note about how to unfreeze the person in the tube, but I don't have that password, and I don't know where to find it. I've been everywhere in the areas I can access that aren't cut off by spiderwebs, vacuum, or the inaccessible dormitory bulkhead.

You must learn the Parasitic Synthesis skill and use it on the man in cryo.

Max McGee
with sorrow down past the fence
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author=kumada
Same error and same solution here.

Fonts=>Adventure Subtitles=>Right click and install


Weird, you mean you independently found the font "Adventure Subtitles" and used it in your game?

There are so many fonts on the internet that's just bizarre. (I actually had that font on my computer already, but I'll try installing it from the game folder.)
File sent.

Besides moving forward with the story, the only other major difference between when your game was working perfectly and now is that I have been dropping a lot of items around to make room in my inventory.
author=Gibmaker
You must learn the Parasitic Synthesis skill and use it on the man in cryo.

Something tells me you're going to have a lot of people get stuck here. I thought the answer might be anomaly detection, since I keep getting alerts about that. I don't know if it's going to occur to people that they need an optional skill to progress without some kind of a pointer, but then again I tend to err too much on the side of hand-holding.

And Max, it's there in the set discrepancy folder. I didn't have to go hunting for it.