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Ever wanted to become a Knight or a Black Mage? Come to Adventure Academy, where you'll train to become the Hero you've always wanted to be.

-Manage Eric and Natalie's schedules in their growth from grasshoppers to heroes - in the best raising-simulator fashion!
-Meet friendly townsfolk and spend two years in the village - with the funniest random events ever!
-See how the village changes with the seasons and the villagers change their schedules!
-Raise your stats to become a skillful fighter or a wondrous mage by doing jobs or going to classes!
-Enjoy the village's festivals and try to win all of them!
-Explore a couple of perilous dungeons and discover the secret of the village!
-Experience the nostalgia of old-school RPGs and laugh out loud with the eccentric humor of the game!

Thanks to Yanfly, Victor and Yami for their wonderful scripts.

Updated bug-free version available!!!

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Expanding upon the game

So yeah, I've been thinking about how to expand on the game, as I really want to round up the experience, and extend it for maybe an hour.

I'd like to know how the game feels, and how people feel about it. Play experience? What's fun? What's annoying? What would you like me to add?

Thanks for the comments people!
Gamer Seb.

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Nice one! Found a bug though - at a festival, I went to visit the prince and when I came back out, the entire festival disappeared, returning to the normal 'explore/town' scene. Might want to disable castle visits during festivals or send 'em back to it.
Also, the random events seem a bit too random - I got the water sapphire before I even found out I was supposed to get it, and then the last mention of 'stones' to fix Error's next problem... well, I have no idea what it is, what it's for, or where to find it, etc. Also, I got all 3 of Error's scenes with Eric in the same month, going from 'hello', to 'goodbye' before I could do a thing. The earth ruby / restored Error scene did come along later, but for a while there, I thought I'd never see her again.
Still, I liked the game. ^^
Thanks, wolfhoundv! I'll make sure of that.

Regarding the random event scenes... yeah, I tried a lot of things with the random event engine, but still haven't gotten a really good result. Right now, there's a 20% chance of getting an event after every job. I think I may change the system to add certain number (between 1 and 5) to a variable, and whenever it reaches 20, trigger the event. That may help in fighting the "various sequential random events" problem.

I won the cooking festival and didnt seem to get a reward. Wasnt sure if you were supposed to. Also just failed on year 3. About 2 points short of strength for getting Sage I believe.Time to get back at it! Can you win the fight vs that demon guy in the palace?
For now, the rewards... are just Congratulations :D
The first demon guy at the palace, you can't win (at least in the flashback sequence). In the ending, you obviously can :D

The next release will definitely add festival rewards! What do you think? I think of some things... equipment, gold... maybe some image that appears in the selection screen for jobs, or in a menu! Or a secret skill related to the contest!
Depending on what you ever do with the game, maybe furniture for your house. If you add one. :) Secret skills and equipment all sound good.
I got stuck during the game. It happened in July of Year Two, when I got the option to go on a summer vacation. Choosing that or working makes the events go on as normal, but the game doesn't get to the next month and just shows the background. You can open the menu as if you were on the map, though. Choosing to go into town and explore doesn't cause this bug and lets the game go into August normally. It's a decent workaround now, but you should look into it, as most players will want to go on vacation.

I've also got some other minor things to talk about, but since none of them breaks the game, I'll save them for when I beat the game once.
Hmm intriguing... I'll look into it!! Thx!
A bit of an update on that bug. Turns out it's permanent. The end of July is when it first happens, but if you go around the problem by going into town as I said, from then on, choosing to work or go to classes at any time after that also freezes the game.
Hmm how strange. With past saves I can do it with no problem. I'll start a new game and try it.

Is there sth strange that you have done? Have you gone through the dungeons? Did you manage to change into classes for the first time? Was there a particular event before the month?
I have gone through the two dungeons and the flashback sequence. The characters already promoted the first time, Eric into a Warrior and Natalie into a Mage, and they currently meet the requirements for Spellblade and White Mage respectively. I don't recall any particular event having happened immediately before I encountered this bug.
Is this project still being worked on? I hope so. I want MORE!
author=bigtime
author=strelles
Were you people able to find the Earth Ruby to save Error?
I just found it by total accident. Yay me!
where is the gem its in a chest or floor, does the switch change things?
The gem is in the forest to the left I believe. If you go to the middle very top, click on the walls.
On the downloads page, you have two downloads. One says No RTP while the other doesn't, but both require it. You should probably fix the name to avoid confusion.

When controlling Mrs. Cat, many NPCs react as if you were there with Eric and Natalie. Also, after saving and loading in the chapel (I wanted to make sure I talked to everyone before accidentally finishing the quest) and talking to the old man the game crashed. When instead leaving and reentering, the cutscene replays but the first old man blocks the path of the newly generated one, so the cut-scene never ends.

During the cooking competition, when I got second place I was told that I was both low and stats and had made mistakes during the questions, but it was only low stats that caused me to lose. I brute forced the possibilities afterwords just to make sure my knowledge of cooking wasn't wrong, and every combination would tell me I had made some mistakes.

When I had a character do the same work twice in one month, I received a single low boost to that stat. I suppose it is possible I rolled minimum gain both times, but I'm guessing it was a waste of time. Even if it is working properly, modifying the message to let us know we are getting double growth would be nice.

After you get the Earth Ruby, returning to butterfly!error gives the same message wondering where she is as before. Combined with the Earth Ruby not showing up under Key Items, this left me worrying that it had glitched. Changing the message to indicate that you need to end the adventure to restore her would be nice.

author=strelles
The first demon guy at the palace, you can't win (at least in the flashback sequence). In the ending, you obviously can :D
I was able to beat him, you just need to heal proactively since the demon will always get his turn (twice) between your decision and the actual heal. However, afterwords there was no way to continue the game. You should probably just make the cut-scene unfold the same as if you had lost. Ignoring the actual results of the battle is understandable for such a major event, and the battle rewards (boosted me from level 20 all the way to level 32) should still make anyone who wins feel their effort was worthwhile.


EDIT: Also, in the ice-cave, the snowball monsters could be blocked by your party caterpillar. That seemed really weird.
EDIT2: Reading wolfhoundv's comment reminded that I had the same problem simply visiting the prince during a normal explore in the fall - the grass regrew outside and the trees got their leaves back. Disabling the visits for the entire season doesn't sound like a good idea, so you may have figure out what is actually causing the problem.
Looks cool... Download? Yes.
Download did not work. Oh well...
What has happened, wildwes? The download doesn't seem broken. Which version did you download?
I love the game!GREATjob! Are you working in another game?
Haha thanks DoggyBuddie! Not expanding this game right now, but we've been working in a browser puzzle game: Way to the Promised Land. You can try it out here:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/strelles/the-way-to-the-promised-land
Not sure if bug or not, but in the flashback I can't seem to trigger anything. I've been in every room multiple times and just don't know what to do....
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