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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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Just completed Chapter 1! Hopefully you will come back and continue this. All the groundwork is already done, so it would just be more dungeons, items, monsters, events, etc...

Anyways, just haven't beaten the boss and the 3 star beholder. I just have a quick question: what does Luck do? Don't know who I should give my lucky sashimi to.
Ronove
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I'm glad you found it! I hope you enjoy yourself!
SORRY!! SORRY!!!
I found the fonts!
I was just being dumb, not looking through the files! Forget about it now!
Hey, listen, I don't know if you can of you want to help anymore, but, I have a problem. There seems to be a difference in the text fonts in my game. I read the manual and compared the fonts, and mine seems different, which cause some text to be cut out.
Do you know what I can do? Is there some way to change text fonts in the game?
I absolutely loved this game, it saddens me that it won't be finished :(
I was completed chapter 1 long ago,really awesome game ....hope chapter 2 released soon
Hey I beat the captain and talked to Zathus. Now what to do next?
-_-
I don't know if this has been reported, But It seemes like at least 1 out of 3 times I change screen, the game freezes for a good 20 or so seconds.
Wuss. Don't stamp it Complete or Cancelled. Just disappear, don't say shit, and work away quietly in the background, even if it's just smidgens of progress here or there. Take 10 years if need be.

Like me :(
Ronove
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I'm gonna level with you guys. Chances are, this is all you get. Yes I know it says Hiatus (I'm gonna change that right now) but we want to do something to wrap it together for you guys so it can officially be called complete. Cause really, it has a beginning and an end. The truth of the matter which I think I've already said is that it just got too big for either of us to finish it to our satisfaction.

We're gonna try to make some time to spruce up what we have so far so it can legit be called complete and please look forward to our plans for RPG Maker MV. Fans of HWS have something to look forward to (and even still something to look forward to for RPG Maker VXAce whenever I get off my ass and work faster).
nhubi
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Yes, unfortunately one of the best games on the site is in limbo. It's just a little bit heartbreaking, but the portion we do have is a great game, so we can at least enjoy that.

author=Arirmind
How is episode 2 coming up?


:(( Unfortunately the game is on hiatus. Let's hope that in the near future it's going to be finished. :)
Ronove
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He's in the mines on the fourth floor! I'm pretty sure that event only happens when you've unlocked it so make sure you're prepared and collect your party members and go rescue him!
where can i can save bertram?? *crying
hi... im new to this game... i want to ask something.. where can i save bertram?
Hi,Rhyme! Your game was so beautiful,I want to translate this game into Chinese.I wanna more and more Chinese RMer know this game.Could I do this ??
I can't play the game, it do nothing after I select New Game or Shut down, has someone encounter this?
I have the weapons equipped and all :/
Some skills require you to equip a certain weapon iirc