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Premise
Reniat returns to her home village after years away at boarding school to find that the village is nearly deserted. The mine that the village depended on heavily for boosting its economy and tourism has been overrun by monsters and no one has bothered doing anything about it. Having trained as an adventurer, she decides to see what she can do about reviving the town and making a name for herself in the world.

Homework Salesman is a life simulation game with an emphasis on dungeon exploration, completing quests, crafting new equipment and items, and befriending the people in town. The game takes inspiration from the Rune Factory and Atelier series.

Features
  • Befriend each villager by talking to them every day and giving them gifts. Higher friendship levels allow you to learn each NPC's personal story and can also gain you access to new shop items, skills, hidden goodies, and more.

  • Unique items means that each item in the game is treated as a separate object. You can rename equipment, find rare versions of them, upgrade and repair them (weapons have durability), and even enchant them. You can have several iron swords each with different enchantments on them.

  • Six unique crafts: Cooking, Smithing, Tailoring, Enchanting, Alchemy, and Construction.

  • Quests are divided into two categories: story quests that propel your adventure forward, and side quests that are procedurally generated.

  • Features a world encounter system where you can find random events in field maps or dungeons, such as traveling merchants or a bandit who'll offer to spare you for money (or you can kill him)

  • Enemy encounters and (most) treasure chests are randomly placed on maps. You typically won't find the same monster encounter in the same dungeon spot every time. Treasure chest contents are randomly drawn from a pool of items appropriate for the zone you're in. You can also find unique weapons with randomized names, stats, and enchantments.



Check out the official website for the game manual, credits, and more.

Check out the wiki here! http://homeworksalesman.wikia.com/wiki/Homework_Salesman_Wiki

Update Log:
1/27/14 - v1.2
- The last two bosses in the game will now put up an anti-frazzle shield if they get hit successfully by frazzle three times. This shield will dissipate after 2 turns. Note that it doesn't count just frazzling the boss, it will count if you frazzle any boss minions in the fight.
- The Treasure Hunter couple will now appear in the ending cut-scene if you saw their world event.
- Fixed bugs related to Liffely's cooking delivery service.
- Fixed bugs related to the 2nd Colorous Cave quest.
- Fixed a bug where if you somehow manage to defeat the 3rd floor bosses on the same day as defeating Plutonus, the magic shop NPCs would not move into town.
- Added several easter eggs, most of which are references to early testers and other people in the community.
- You now get a quest telling you what to do next if you defeat a certain field boss after defeating the last boss of the Caves for the first time.
- Fixed cut-scene bugs related to the Westerlys move in quest.
- Fixed the Beer recipe so that it tells you that you learned how to make Beer instead of Cheese.
- Fixed the case where using L/R would cause the game to crash when browsing recipes in the library.
- Other miscellaneous bug fixes that I don't recall at the moment.

1/25/14 - v1.1d
- Fixed treasure maps that would have a blank name
- Fixed situation where you were not able to trigger the event with Zathus to turn in the 2nd Colorous Cave quest.
- Fixed Manaleech.
- Fixed several spelling errors in the database.
- Updated the manual to include all equipment and skills.
1/12/14 - v1.1c
- Added Xebec's 2 star event
- Added Treasure Hunters world event
- Added post-chapter 1 optional boss (this boss will be refined/tweaked in the next update as well)
- Nerfed Captain Colorous and Robert slightly
- Fixed the cooking delivery quest bug where turning the quest into Qwilte would cause it to be stuck in the quest log
- Fixed weapon renaming
- Fixed a rare case where Autorevive would cause the game to crash
- Fixed a whole bunch of other bugs

6/18 - v1.0l Fixed the patch system so that it does not rerun patches. Fixed one hole in Colorous Cave F5 that could drop you into a dead end.
6/07 - v1.0k Massive balancing patch. Tweaks to crafting, skills, and more.
5/20 - v1.0j Fixed a bug that would cause Raimur to disappear if you ran away or died.
5/16 - v1.0i Fixed the Monster Hunt: Robert quest so that it can be turned in. Also, fixed the quest so that Robert spawns on save files that were created in version 1.0a. Fixed an issue that could cause the party to spawn with you if you respawn from running out of AP. Fixed an issue that could cause Zathus's character event to not be turned off after completion. Added Battle4 bgm file to the Audio\BGM folder. Life Essence and Ressurect now have animations when used on party members.
5/14 - v1.0h Fixed the Super Grind quest so that it can be turned in now.
5/12 - v1.0g Adjusted the difficulty of the last two bosses and fixed an issue where you could get stuck if you fell down certain holes on the 5th floor.
5/11 - v1.0f Fixed a passability issue on the 4th floor of the cave that occurred after defeating Langian. Fixed an issue that could cause Warp to stop working after seeing a world event on the 3rd floor of the cave.
5/08 - v1.0e Added all RTP audio SEs and a couple other files that the resource checker did not pick up. Fixed an issue that could cause a chapter 2 event to appear.
5/07 - v1.0d Fixed an issue where an npc could be stuck in cave walls. Fixed the skill Templar Strike so that it attacks enemies instead of the party. Added the sound effect Cat.ogg for non-rtp users.
5/06 - v1.0c Fixed an issue where Zathus would stop talking to you during the Plutonus quest.
5/06 - v1.0b Fixed an issue that would cause a boss to appear too early in the game
5/05 - v1.0a Initial Release

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author=estriole
after i restart window it works fine... strange...
but then the text all missing (i already test installing all font in the folder to my window).

maybe my window got virus >.<...


A few others had this problem and it turned out it was due to the language packs they were using.
I can't finiksh a liffely delivery quest a made 3 soup based and delivered them to Qwinte, its says "these have been delivered" than nothing happens it just stays there no reward and talking to lilly or qwite does nothing.

Also is there any way to combie gathering ingreidents ie instead of 50 x 1 mahogony logs could i i ahve a single mahogony log x 50 or casn only loot be compressed.
author=failedlegend
I can't finiksh a liffely delivery quest a made 3 soup based and delivered them to Qwinte, its says "these have been delivered" than nothing happens it just stays there no reward and talking to lilly or qwite does nothing.

Also is there any way to combie gathering ingreidents ie instead of 50 x 1 mahogony logs could i i ahve a single mahogony log x 50 or casn only loot be compressed.


Can you upload your save file somewhere? So i can try to create an update to fix the quest.

We'll look into item stacking in the future, but it won't be in chapter 1.
edchuy
You the practice of self-promotion
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Only loot can be compressed. Regarding the logs, you should probably sell most of them, since the money can be put immediately to good use, plus you can free up inventory space for other things. For the logs to be useful, you would have to find a recipe to craft something with them.

Regarding the delivery quest, you should have gotten some reward from Qwilte when delivering the soups, unless there's some problem in the version you're playing.
Finally going to give this game a try. Downloaded in less than 5 mins. Am very happy. XD
Oh and just to let you know i'm LOVING the game so far and I loathe games like harvest moon and animal crossing. This is what those should have been :)

I'll try to upload the save file next time it happens I abandoned it.

Oh and actually alot of the times in the caves i will see the "!" symbol monsters make and theres nothing there...is this something?
So addictive... Must... stop... playing. 0_o
but...cant...just one more iron!!!! (actually logs seem the rarest imo)
And this is just 1 of 4 so when its finished I believe that you'll have a few fine folks sleep deprived ;D
meisam
meisam your not using semicolon properly, and that's a laughing matter.
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hmm any news about the second chapter?
It's being delayed til first quarter next year.
If this game was for sell it would be sold out I mean its really fun to play I don't know what else I can say but good luck!!
Ok am I missing something I'm trying to get Tailoring to Lvl 16 to make steel arrows but the highest level crafting thing I have (under 16) is 10 the acolytes robe or a bunch of lvl 5 things (ie. port anvil) the exp im getting is miniscule did i miss a recipe or something (all the recipe books say Ive learned everything)


BTW storywise im at the point im fighting the captain colorus


Hopefully I can be finished in time for chapter 2
meisam
meisam your not using semicolon properly, and that's a laughing matter.
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remember you can befriend the villagers
Hello, I've recently started to play this game, and I must thank you for making such a great game. I also found some minor errors, and wondering if I have the latest version of the game, or it's not fixed yet? One small issue I found is iron plate is displaying the wrong stats it gives:
http://i.imgur.com/cryRxcZ.gif
Also, I got Qwilte to 4 star in affection, Boss at 2 star, but no event plays for them, is the event not programed into the game yet, or I didn't trigger them through a certain requirement? Also, the latest patch notes I've seen is 8/01, I've download the game recently, so I think I have the latest version of the game, but I'm not sure. Storywise, I've only recently started exploring the 4th floor of the mines, and I'm already level 9, I'm assuming that's the max level for chapter 1?
Thanks for the bug report on ironplate, I'll look into it. Do you remember where you got the recipe for it?

As for friendship events, the max event is 3 for everyone except 4 characters currently. Boss's event should trigger if you go into the blacksmith shop.

And there's no max level.
I think I got the recipe from boss' friend event, or his errand quests, I don't remember exactly. I also accidentally stumble on another bug:
if you press Q in the game, this will will happen:
http://i.imgur.com/yMeJAgu.gif
if you then press Z, it'll crash the game:
http://i.imgur.com/lPIa5YG.gif
As for boss' events, I got the first event to help him finished the order, but I've never gotten the second event afterwards, I currently have his friendship at 2 star too, maybe I need to finish the mines first?
His second event is at 3 stars.
Hi! I really love the game and I have been playing for a couple of hours, really nice work! the game looks really profesional and well done.

I'm playing v1.1a1 and I ran into the 2 following bugs:

1)Delivery quests: I can't finish ANY cooking deliver quest. I take the quest I cook whatever they ask me to cook but I don't have the option to give the items to the person so I can't finish them

2)Dojo first event bug: I finally managed to unlock the dojo and my friendship with Linus is two stars. When I enter the dojo for the first time I get the Linus event where he tells me he will learn every skill from the dojo. After the cutscene the first entrance event kicks in but the game get stucks (I think because the Linus event advances you 1 square instead of dropping you in the door, causing the game to try to advance 1 more square, but being unable to do because of the table)

Really good game! Can't wait to finish this and see other chapters!
shayoko
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ive not tried it yet but i recommend people check this out
ive tried other games rhymes worked on and they were amazing!
i dont recall if i had posted here b4 so any case subbed! looking 4ward to it :D



wish brought me to wonder why you cant add contacts on this site/sub to developers :(
or use attachments :( :( :(