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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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whenever i try to run with shift i often get stuck going to the left,and it takes several button mashing tries to make it stop and let me move freely again
I'm loving this game, but the skills don't work in some battles, even though i have the right weapon equipped.. is this a bug of some sort?
game is gorgeous (although star-stealing prince was absolutely breath-taking. this is more "Cute" than "stabbed in stomach in a good way")
horton has joined the adventurer's guild but i can't for the life of me find him. where is he hiding? upstairs past the barricade?
i have a whole lot of cooking stuff to deliver to him, plus i'm really curious if naming weapons has any effect whatsoever.
Finally beat captain in the cave. The pillow guy is way harder than him. I am looking forward for the next chapter. Thanks for sharing this game.
nhubi
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
11099
author=Nabakaron
Any bonus from using the bathroom?


A sense of relief? It's just a cute little reality extra, no bonus that I ever experienced.
author=Nabakaron
Is Jelly Buns and Fruit Parfait going to be fixed? Haven't had a new map version in almost half a year


Will be fixed in chapter 2
Is Jelly Buns and Fruit Parfait going to be fixed? Haven't had a new map version in almost half a year
I subbed to the game and may download it ASAP
author=Embyrr922
Here's a copy of the quicksave, the rope ladder is in the party storage.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/iqwnqsjyfnb4uav/QuickSave.rvdata2


Okay I tried your save and I was able to use the rope ladder just fine (all you do is look up/north at the spot and press the action button once to place the ladder then press it again to use the ladder).

If that still doesn't work, try redownloading and reinstalling the game?
author=Embyrr922
I've beaten both the bosses on level 3 of Colorous Cave, but I can't figure out how to use the rope ladder. I've found the spot with the little sparkle where it says "This looks like a spot where you could use a rope ladder." but I can't use the rope ladder there. I've tried interacting with the spot with the ladder in Reniat's inventory, I've tried interacting with the spot with the ladder in the party storage, I've tried standing on the spot and attempting to use the ladder from the inventory and nothing seems to work. Am I missing something obvious, or is my game bugged?


Can you upload your save file somewhere so I can take a look?
I've beaten both the bosses on level 3 of Colorous Cave, but I can't figure out how to use the rope ladder. I've found the spot with the little sparkle where it says "This looks like a spot where you could use a rope ladder." but I can't use the rope ladder there. I've tried interacting with the spot with the ladder in Reniat's inventory, I've tried interacting with the spot with the ladder in the party storage, I've tried standing on the spot and attempting to use the ladder from the inventory and nothing seems to work. Am I missing something obvious, or is my game bugged?
nhubi
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
11099
author=rebircbus
Hi,

I've spent about an hour but I can't find out what Connie like in the "Welcome the Westerlys" quest! Please help.


Go into the back room of the Westerley's shop and talk to Connie, you'll get your answer there.

Hi,

I've spent about an hour but I can't find out what Connie like in the "Welcome the Westerlys" quest! Please help.
author=Diedrupo
author=Aurora_Paradox
Any news on when the next chapter will be released?
I'll have a blog post in a couple weeks on overall progress of Chapter 2.


Thanks for the quick response Diedrupo.

You can make an upgrade stone at level 0. So...I should be able to craft one. And as I mentioned - I have all the materials. Elunium and iron ore. My recipe says to craft it at the anvil. Except I can't. I can only upgrade and repair there. Thanks!

edit: Just figured it out. I have to make the upgrade stone in the tailor's workshop, although my recipe says I can make it at the anvil. Wow, that tripped me up for a while.
author=Aurora_Paradox
Any news on when the next chapter will be released?


I'll have a blog post in a couple weeks on overall progress of Chapter 2.
yes but its marked as optional thats why i thought its not that important. anyway thanks for the support :D