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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
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
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.
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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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Closeauthor=Kormanireauthor=ChyllneOn Flutes: yes they have abilities but you have to find the person to sell them to you. Both of the available abilities are really nice but are also really expensive. Also Reniat seems to be the only one that can use them =\
So I was playing this game for 14 hours straight and forgot to eat lunch three times. I'm currently on day 42, level 10, fourth floor.
IT WORTH IT.
CCan I ask what's the flute for? I know it raise many stats, HP, MP, Mag, Luk, almost everything, and plus 3 attack each turn, but what else does it for? Will there be any skill for it in the future? What about the bards you met? Um, um, and one more questions! Does everytime your friendship level evolve, will there be a cutscene for it? (because Meracon wouldn't give a cutscene when I leveled his friendship to two :( ) (And Eagen on lvl 3) (Xebec lvl 3 too) I have some glitches I'd like to report, but I'm playing the 10j version, so I think it's all gone now. Thank you for this wonderful game, I especially love the 'no game over' concept, because I just hate seeing that screen, sometimes I think I have a game over phobia. And plus that SSP reference the merchant gave on the Colorus Cave. I gave a fangirl squeal. PEACE.
On NPC levels: the dev team is finishing up a couple more events but almost everyone has events up to 3 stars as of version 1.0L, however some events are more subtle than others and require certain locations to trigger. Meracon's events are both weapon training for instance so check to see if you have had those. Xebec's 3 star isnt ready yet and Eagen's 3 star you must sleep in your bed before it will trigger.
On SSP: There is another SSP reference if you get a certain red haired girl's bond level to 3 stars "wink wink"
Red haired girl?!! :O *instantly click People button* ...I have no idea who... *sulk sulk*
I need to go to sleep? Eh, but I already did and nothing happened... Should've found this forum sooner, I'm already 86/240 points. *sulk sulk*
Now, if anyone can post a walkthrough for the 5th floor, I'll be forever grateful. The Groundshaker Bell isn't quite helping :( still fell into the traps no matter what... I'd like to report a glitch by the way (but maybe it's just me?), when you go to a workshop, and craft a shortbow, it'll only show 'Oak Log: 1' and an empty spot beneath it. I don't know if it's just me...
author=Chyllne
Now, if anyone can post a walkthrough for the 5th floor, I'll be forever grateful. The Groundshaker Bell isn't quite helping :( still fell into the traps no matter what... I'd like to report a glitch by the way (but maybe it's just me?), when you go to a workshop, and craft a shortbow, it'll only show 'Oak Log: 1' and an empty spot beneath it. I don't know if it's just me...
That should be fixed by the patches in the latest version. If it's not, you can PM me your savefile and I will fix it manually.
Kormanire
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author=Chyllne
Red haired girl?!! :O *instantly click People button* ...I have no idea who... *sulk sulk*
I need to go to sleep? Eh, but I already did and nothing happened... Should've found this forum sooner, I'm already 86/240 points. *sulk sulk*
Now, if anyone can post a walkthrough for the 5th floor, I'll be forever grateful. The Groundshaker Bell isn't quite helping :( still fell into the traps no matter what... I'd like to report a glitch by the way (but maybe it's just me?), when you go to a workshop, and craft a shortbow, it'll only show 'Oak Log: 1' and an empty spot beneath it. I don't know if it's just me...
-Orange-red hair. You know like real-life redhead.
-Do you have the maid yet? You need her for the Eagen trigger I think. If you dont then you might want to PM Diedrupo about it and see if it is a bug.
-Ill explain how the bell works. The bell makes a ping sound when you are adjacent to a pitfall in square around you (north/south/east/left, NOT diagonals). When you hear the ping you pretty much have to use trial and error to navigate through there so make sure you dont try it at low AP. When you hear that ping stop and look at your current directions for a moment. You want to head east in the first room then head south eventually winding your path to the far north-east corner of the room. Always assume that you should take the most awkward path possible (the short paths are always pitfalls). Do keep in mind that there are some goodies in the room below the pitfalls if you have the patience to find them but most of them are on ledges so you have to fall in certain places to get them.
BTW guys I started the wikia for Homework Salesman but sadly have not gotten around to adding any actual content to it, however I wouldn't mind if any of you wanted to start adding your notes/infos to it:
http://homeworksalesman.wikia.com/wiki/Homework_Salesman_Wiki
http://homeworksalesman.wikia.com/wiki/Homework_Salesman_Wiki
Kormanire
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I might look into adding skills and item info in the near future to the wiki. It would make this game even more impressive if RMN found out this game has a fully functioning wikia.
author=Diedrupo
BTW guys I started the wikia for Homework Salesman but sadly have not gotten around to adding any actual content to it, however I wouldn't mind if any of you wanted to start adding your notes/infos to it:
http://homeworksalesman.wikia.com/wiki/Homework_Salesman_Wiki
A wikia sounds like a good idea. I'm definitely contributing!
Hello! I've been playing this game pretty much nonstop for the past two days, I adore it. There's so much to do, and the graphics are lovely! The bosses are very funny, I really enjoy beating them. Also, the dialog in this game is very entertaining, I'm starting to feel like some of these NPCs are my actual friends which... probably means I need to get out more.
That said, I think I've run into a glitch; Bertram's been kidnapped and I'm trying to rescue him, and I've made it to the dragon statue (the one that Ankaba says has something to do with cooking) and triggered the Earth dragon appearing. However, when I triggered the statue initially I ran away and warped home because my weapons were broken and my HP was really low. Now when I return to the cave to fight the Earth dragon, it's stuck on top of a wall and I can't get to it. I've tried going to the dungeon again on a different day, with and without Ankaba in the party, and the dragon is still stuck at the top of the wall and won't fight me.
That said, I think I've run into a glitch; Bertram's been kidnapped and I'm trying to rescue him, and I've made it to the dragon statue (the one that Ankaba says has something to do with cooking) and triggered the Earth dragon appearing. However, when I triggered the statue initially I ran away and warped home because my weapons were broken and my HP was really low. Now when I return to the cave to fight the Earth dragon, it's stuck on top of a wall and I can't get to it. I've tried going to the dungeon again on a different day, with and without Ankaba in the party, and the dragon is still stuck at the top of the wall and won't fight me.
author=Alohilani
Hello! I've been playing this game pretty much nonstop for the past two days, I adore it. There's so much to do, and the graphics are lovely! The bosses are very funny, I really enjoy beating them. Also, the dialog in this game is very entertaining, I'm starting to feel like some of these NPCs are my actual friends which... probably means I need to get out more.
That said, I think I've run into a glitch; Bertram's been kidnapped and I'm trying to rescue him, and I've made it to the dragon statue (the one that Ankaba says has something to do with cooking) and triggered the Earth dragon appearing. However, when I triggered the statue initially I ran away and warped home because my weapons were broken and my HP was really low. Now when I return to the cave to fight the Earth dragon, it's stuck on top of a wall and I can't get to it. I've tried going to the dungeon again on a different day, with and without Ankaba in the party, and the dragon is still stuck at the top of the wall and won't fight me.
Ouch, that is indeed a bug.
Luckily, you can still keep going. That dragon is optional and just drops a recipe. We'll fix it for chapter 2 so you can backtrack to get him again.
Chyllne
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-Do you have the maid yet? You need her for the Eagen trigger I think. If you dont then you might want to PM Diedrupo about it and see if it is a bug.
-Ill explain how the bell works. The bell makes a ping sound when you are adjacent to a pitfall in square around you (north/south/east/left, NOT diagonals). When you hear the ping you pretty much have to use trial and error to navigate through there so make sure you dont try it at low AP. When you hear that ping stop and look at your current directions for a moment. You want to head east in the first room then head south eventually winding your path to the far north-east corner of the room. Always assume that you should take the most awkward path possible (the short paths are always pitfalls). Do keep in mind that there are some goodies in the room below the pitfalls if you have the patience to find them but most of them are on ledges so you have to fall in certain places to get them.
-Nevermind, I already found it.
-Yeah, I know that, but I still fell and fell and fell. Because the bell only make sound when you're realllyyyy close. But I finally made it to Captain Colorus' room or whatever his name is and died. Damn that Falcon. Damn them. :(
-I can't get Meracon's second friendship scene, instead, I leveled him up to level 3, and I get a scene, and more skills, but what about the level 2 skills? Will the 2nd skills be there, too, even after I skipped it? :( Please help!
-I just realized both Zathus and Ankaba have green hair and red eyes.
Edit: and the armor 'Shiny Steelplate's Icon was a sword, not an armor. I thought it was kinda weird.
You get Meracon's second friendship scene automatically even if you haven't gotten him to 2 stars, so you probably already saw it (it unlocks him offering training).
Kormanire
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By the way the pitfalls are permanent so when you come back on following days they will already be visible. Also its very unlikely to beat colorous on your first time through simply because of all the falling, poison and fighting. Its usually best to give the later bosses test fights because they employ a lot of advanced tactics and abilities.
author=DekuKnight24
there's a bug where the text does not show!
Try uninstalling or disabling any non-english language packs you might have.
The "0 reviews" part should suffer a slight change next time one of the developers checks their notifications!
Hey all, I've started adding some stuff to the wiki! Check it out here:
http://homeworksalesman.wikia.com/wiki/Homework_Salesman_Wiki
http://homeworksalesman.wikia.com/wiki/Homework_Salesman_Wiki
i have a problem i beat captain colorous but it says the mission for zathus is complete and it still says i need to talk to him. is the game just stuck at this point for now or what do i have to do. btw fantastic game. love it im 58 days in.
