Konae's Investigations

Welcome to the commencement ceremony of Matsumori High's class of 2010! It is, admittedly, somewhat surreal to stand here before you like this. It has been a long road, these past few years; a road filled with obstacles that were overcome. Regardless of whether these obstacles were curricular, extracurricular, or something not related to school at all, let us not forget the assistance of our friends, family, and faculty on overcoming those obstacles.

I suppose what I will miss most of all from leaving Matusmori High are the extracurricular activities. In my two years as a member of the debate club, it seems I have built a reputation that will last long after this ceremony. To speak nothing of my stint as student council president, and the services rendered to the honorable, but sadly absent, Principal Ogyu. From these sources, I have developed a method to use my instincts as a means of protection against harm.

Let us look to the future now, seeing the doors of possibility thrown wide by having spent our time here. However, let us not forget those that allowed those doors to be open to us. Nor the place where we met them. Let us never forget Matsumori High, where it all began!

A lot of things were cut from this game for being too overambitious for it's own good. Then there's the Case Notes. Here was an item that served as reference material for players either as a refresher or to help along players completely new to the series. The Release Something version of this game has it mostly working (if I recall, at least one entry had an error in it), but, obviously, it didn't make it into the (currently?) final version. Why was it cut? It's one thing if I said that I would fill it out later, once things are actually written in-game. Which I'm almost certain that I did, at one point. However, but to cut it entirely?


I remember wanting to include some kind of side-mission structure. This, too, never happened. I won't claim to be able to create good side-stuffs for players to do, but, I probably should have at least tried to make something. The question of "why" props it's ugly head yet again.


Perhaps the whole "Do the game in the style of a Kolchak, the Night Stalked episode" idea was held too highly for the game's own good? Like, if you play this game to an ending (to be fair, the differences between the two are minimal), the reasoning why the story would never be able to be printed is the same as Kolchak. The influence drifted into game-progression as well: Kolchak was a TV show, and could afford downtime only for brief moments.


To be fair, I need to update this anyway, if only to fix the errors that Red_Nova PMed to me before his review went live. So, if I'm going to make significant changes, the next update should have them. I guess the biggest question in my mind is what I need to do to send off this series with the semi-traditional rainbow-colored "Complete!" text a smile.

So, the things left to do involve mapping Vatma's Tower (I'm thinking two floors), and writing the cut-scenes between the time players fight Shirai (He's going to be a bit different this time around) and the end of the game. Not to mention playtesting like crazy.

Of course, part of the reasoning behind the promise to have this done before the end of the month was, in part, to give me some drive/motivation to actually work on this in a reasonable time. Not that progress has not been hampered by some degree of derping, but, it would probably be in greater degree were it not for having that goal.

There's probably a motivational message to be had here, but, there's still quite a bit of work to be done, and, if I want to make it earlier than the "due-date" (and I almost always do)...

I've gotta work even harder!

As promised...

...I've updated the download with content up to the events at Shima Place! YAAAAAAY! I still kinda think the EXP to gold ratio could still be a bit off, but, for the most part, I'm pretty comfortable with this test-build.

Some might have noticed an increase in file-size. This is because this build, and any builds made after this one, intends to be free of RTP reliance. Tsukihime's resource-checker can catch a good chuck of resources, but not necessarily all of them. I used the text file produced by said script as a base, and added file-names (and locations) as necessary. Of course, if there are any lingering errors about missing files, I would like to hear of them!

In any case...

...please investigate the "Download now" button. Or if visiting the "Downloads" tab, the link labeled "Konae's Investigations"!

I am so bad at this game.

Bad puns aside, I've uploaded a new demo for your enjoyment! Well, that's the hope, anyway. As promised, the content of this particular demo has been reduced to Chapter 1, though, there have been some added story segments, not to mention the conversion to Yanfly's message system.

Note that this demo is encrypted. Forgive how absolutely slow (and idiotic) I've been in this regard, but, I do use resources that were purchased (though the RMN Store, no less) in this project. Note, also, that this build requires the VX Ace RTP, nor are there any particular plans to make this demo RTP-dependent, as I have done with other demos in the recent past.

Though, on the bright side, I'm a bit more confident with this build. At least until I get feedback that tells me how awful it actually is assuming I ever get any at all. At any rate, I want to take a break from game-making for a small while before I pick up... whatever it is I'm going to pick up next.