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Avarice is an action roleplaying game created in two weeks for the 2009 Game Chill Competition. The contest's theme of Opposing Forces is represented by the forces of Magic and Technology in the world of Arvera, where the scattered remains of an ancient civilization have left the people with an abundance of both but an understanding of neither. The game's projected playtime is around two to three hours, but it was designed to have a considerable amount of replayability.

What is it about?

Avarice is the story of an arrogant sorcerer, Vandeli, who is searching for something, and he will do whatever it takes to to find it. Drawn into his affairs is a girl named Lexi, a savvy young scavenger who seems to bring trouble with her wherever she goes.

Game Features

-The Seraph Shooting System by Anaryu, for unique real-time combat.
-A very wide variety of attacks and abilities including melee weapons, firearms, magical spells, and traps.
-Enemies that can detect your presence by both sight and by sound. Or, catch an enemy off guard for extra damage!
-Supports both mouse and keyboard play.

-Two playable characters with unique weapons, abilities, and talents.

-Customizable Character Talents : Use your earned experience to improve your characters' ability to attack, use items, activate objects, or overcome obstacles such as locked doors.

-Nonlinear Story and Gameplay: Explore the dungeons of the world in whatever order you wish, depending on your actions certain story sequences may be different.

-Variable Difficulty Levels to suit any level of challenge. At higher difficulty, some enemies even gain new attack patterns.

-Randomly generated treasure and loot. Find a huge variety of weapons, armor, spells, accessories and more!

-Two possible endings.

Latest Blog

Inglorious Glory

Most people have probably noticed by now, but Avarice is back on RMN after a brief hiatus.

It's been over a year since this game was completed, but it is still very much a product of its very short development cycle. There are a number of graphical glitches throughout the game, the occasional typo (my typing skills are the stuff of legends) and certainly still some balance issues. I would have liked to have fixed some of these issues, but no longer have access to RMVX. I had never used VX before this project, so, due to the two week development cycle of the Game Chill Competition, I did all of my work for this using only the 30 day VX trial! So unfortunately these issues are likely to remain.

Though the game is kind of old news around here, Avarice still manages to get bursts of activity from time to time. It was mentioned in last year's Hyper magazine article, and both YDS and Deckiller have done a "Let's Try" for the game. YDS' videos are unfortunately no longer available, but Deckiller's can be viewed here.

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Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
For what it's worth, the last time I saw Anaryu post was in the Trials of MZ event, and had previous posts in 2018. Solitayre seems to pop up every so often, maybe posting once or twice a year. If any of those two see these comments, I feel it will likely be Solitayre that sees it first. It is of note that it looks like it was Anaryu's site that hosted the game download.

Also, for what it's worth, I have, in my own small archive, a copy of the game that I downloaded back in March of 2011. This version requires the RTP, but, I'm not 100% sure if it's the Standard version or the Game Chill version. Probably the Standard version, given the download stats? If either of the devs read this, and are willing, I can donate this file to the archive topic.
it'd be alot better if the final boss was fixed so they dont kill u with shots that dont even touch u, but its been a long time
why the download not getting fixed?

still cannot download
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
I just explained in my last post on this gamepage that the developers of this game might not come here often enough to see these comments, much less find the time to fix the download! Who knows, maybe even they lost the game, after twelve years?
author=Marrend
For what it's worth, the last time I saw Anaryu post was in the Trials of MZ event, and had previous posts in 2018. Solitayre seems to pop up every so often, maybe posting once or twice a year. If any of those two see these comments, I feel it will likely be Solitayre that sees it first. It is of note that it looks like it was Anaryu's site that hosted the game download.

Also, for what it's worth, I have, in my own small archive, a copy of the game that I downloaded back in March of 2011. This version requires the RTP, but, I'm not 100% sure if it's the Standard version or the Game Chill version. Probably the Standard version, given the download stats? If either of the devs read this, and are willing, I can donate this file to the archive topic.


Well, can you donate it or make a dropbox link possibly?
Solitayre
Circumstance penalty for being the bard.
18257
My guess is that Anaryu's host site is down and I have no way of knowing when/if it will be back. Always back up your projects, kids!

https://rpgmaker.net/users/Solitayre/locker/AvariceFull.exe
https://rpgmaker.net/users/Solitayre/locker/Aetherion.exe

Both Avarice and Aetherion are backed up in my locker, so as long as RMN exists, neither project can be lost forever. Adding a new download link to the page as well. I'll also add a new download for Aetherion. Unfortunately I do not have any of their other projects.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
Solitayre, saving the day, one review game at a time!
Solitayre
Circumstance penalty for being the bard.
18257
author=Solitayre
My guess is that Anaryu's host site is down and I have no way of knowing when/if it will be back. Always back up your projects, kids!

https://rpgmaker.net/users/Solitayre/locker/AvariceFull.exe
https://rpgmaker.net/users/Solitayre/locker/Aetherion.exe

Both Avarice and Aetherion are backed up in my locker, so as long as RMN exists, neither project can be lost forever. Adding a new download link to the page as well. I'll also add a new download for Aetherion. Unfortunately I do not have any of their other projects.


Thanks homey!
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