About

An Essay on Insipidity, also known as Essay I, is a purposely bad RTP-made game that aims to be a quick character study and observation of a poverty-living Honduran child named Ernesto, who uses RPG Maker to make a game to try and cope with the harsh reality he lives in.

The dialogue is a mishmash of broken to unintelligible English and Spanish.

I made this in one week in RPG Maker MZ Trial Version to test the engine and subsequently gave the game some updates with time.

The game received its last update (v1.1.0) on October 13, 2021.



Features

• Bad grammar;
• Bad tileset placement/map design;
  
• Bad story, pacing, and narrative;
  
• Easy battles with enemies that have large pools of HP;
  
• 1+ hours of gameplay;
  
• It's a RTP-made game.

Controls

Arrow Keys - Character movement / Navigate through menus
ESC/X - Open, Close Menu / Back / Cancel / Delete characters on the name selection screen
Enter/Z - Character interaction / Confirm menu choices

You can also use the mouse to move your character around and to click on the menu options.



Disclaimer

This game address invented records on domestic abuse, child famine, bullying, and mentions of suicide.
All the names and situations presented here are for narrative purposes only and don't refer to any people in real life, alive or dead.



Credits

Game Design and Writing - Carlos Davilla ernesto
Plugins - Casper Gaming and Atreyo Ray