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Engine: RPG Maker 2003
Creator: Relux the Relux (a.k.a. Reluxtrue)
Genre: Adventure Horror
Expected Release: March 2024

Plot: You, a 10-year-old Japanese girl, and your family are going to celebrate the holidays in the house of your grandfather, the nicknamed "House Of The Seven Arts". However, as everyone goes to sleep, strange things begin to happen and none of your family is to be found.

Can you find your parents before you drown in madness?

General Gameplay information:

The game is completely puzzle-oriented, meaning that there are no battles.
There is also a friendship system between the main character and Inicky, Pandora and Catherine.

~~~Controls~~~

Arrow Keys Move Character
Escape Key or X Key Cancel
Enter Key Or Z Key Talk, Check, Confirm
Shift Key Return to Title
F12 Key Reset (Forcibly return to title)
F4 Key or Alt+Enter Toggle Windowed/Fullscreen Mode
F5 Key Change Window Size

~~Saving~~

You can save progress between the Chapters or by checking Clocks after a certain plot event occurs.
Be always aware because there will be different types of clocks so you may not notice a save point.

~~Health and Healing~~

Your Health is represented by the picture of a red orb on the top left corner of the screen.
Every time that you get damaged your orb will get cracks if it gets too much damaged it will shatter and it will lead to Game Over.
Healing occurs between the chapters.


Characters bios:


Name:
Age: 10 years old

"..."

Details: The silent and nameable main character of the game.


Name: Inicky
Age: 26 years old

" By the way, my name is... ermm... Inicky.
And who are you?"

Details: A German scientist(?) that you met while searching for your parents.


Name: Catherine (Kate)
Age: 17 years old

" I'm Catherine, mate.
But you can call me Kate."

Details: An Australian painter that got trapped in a dungeon.

Name: Pandora
Age: 7 years old

" Who am I? I'm your cousin Pandora!
Why don't you remember me?"

Details: Your cousin that got lost and is also searching for her parents.

Graphics:

Relux the Relux
Charas
Duke Serkol
Enterbrain
Face Maker

Music

Carlos A. Frank(Tulikbo von Chanteckler)

Sound Effects

Freesound.org
Enterbrain

Beta Testing

Renan Szanto
Nachokäse
Duke Serkol
NocturnalMagician(Shelby930)

Current Progress:

Prologue: 100%
Chapter 1:100%
Chapter 2:100%
Chapter 3:100%
Chapter 4:99%
Chapter 5:71%
Chapter 6:1%
Chapter 7:0%
Chapter 8:0%
Epilogue:0%
Inspired by "Alan Wake", "Ib" and the musical "Autokriptografia"

Latest Blog

It lives.

So I am once again working on The House Of The Seven Arts.

So I have ported the game to the Steam release of RM2k3 and together with Duke Serkol have been working on the game since the beginning of the year.

As an apology for the long hiatus, there is now also a longer demo.

Also, we're seeking more beta testers if any of you are interested.

Here is also a new trailer:

Posts

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Well... I tried that game, and not so bad. Well, the mapping should be a little more better, but it's still good. The beginning of the game really like Ib, but for me it's new :) But... To be honest, you should give more hints to the players :/ For example i don't know what to do now, i put the wedding pic on the Grim Reaper's pic, but i can't do anything, and Mr. Death is killing me :(
I have to say, I'm really impressed by this game! I am already loving it and I cannot wait to see more of this. I loved the puzzles I've seen so far. My only problem is during the cutscenes, sometimes the characters seem to move a little too slow. Despite this, I can live with it.
I really love this and I can't wait to see the finished product!
Awesome game you did great. Though I would work on your text if I was you.
Beside that it was a great demo. Can't wait to play the real game!!!
Current Progress is not Updated Game is Dead ?
I just finished demo and I enjoyed it. I really look forward to the full version.:)
I don't know Alan Wake, but that's exactly like Ib. You can even give the same answers.
The power shortage, the nightmare even the moments when you can talk with Inicky are same as in Ib.
And the cutscene are too long.

And btw is Inicky not a German name :D
Wow I really loved IB very much! I might aswell give this one a try if it is similar to IB. Let's hope the puzzles will be just as amazing!
Glad to see you back :)

EDIT: Game isn't running even though I just installed the RTP. =/
How do I fix the DirectDraw Error?

EDIT 2: Never mind. I managed to fix it. ^_^ If anyone else is encountering the same problem, just follow Cherry's instructions on the link below.
http://rpgmaker.net/forums/topics/10204/

EDIT 3: When I tried to grab the knife during the chase, the game exited. ):
A pop-up appeared and stated: "Event script referenced an event that does not exist."
author=StormTorn
Glad to see you back :)

EDIT 3: When I tried to grab the knife during the chase, the game exited. ):
A pop-up appeared and stated: "Event script referenced an event that does not exist."

Have no idea how this happened, but it seems that I deleted an event and forgot to replace it.

Fixed now. I'm sorry that I didn't see before.

However, you should wait 2 or 3 minutes before downloading it again as I am reuploading it right now.
author=Relux_the_Relux
author=StormTorn
Glad to see you back :)

EDIT 3: When I tried to grab the knife during the chase, the game exited. ):
A pop-up appeared and stated: "Event script referenced an event that does not exist."
Have no idea how this happened, but it seems that I deleted an event and forgot to replace it.

Fixed now. I'm sorry that I didn't see before.

However, you should wait 2 or 3 minutes before downloading it again as I am reuploading it right now.


Alright will do. Loving the art and its similarities to Ib :)
When I tried to enter the maze, it said Map 0034 cannot be opened. This is probably like the previous pop-up.
author=StormTorn
When I tried to enter the maze, it said Map 0034 cannot be opened. This is probably like the previous pop-up.

LOL, this time WinRAR did, for some reason, forget to zip these this map with the others. uploading right now, in few minutes should be ready.
Does that mean you'll upload the game again with the missing maps? I did notice some maps from 1-44 were gone.

EDIT: Ah OK.

Edit 2: I tried entering the maze again and this shows up instead.
LOL! I was searching for the orb and I accidentally froze that running sprite. XD

Then when I reloaded the screen she went to her original spawn point.
I will be taking the download down.

I will reupload when I fix the bugs.

Don't know all this is happening now, the last time I tested the maps they were working.

P.S. the maze entering is the end of the Demo, after that it goes tot the credits.(it was trying to teleport to the map where the game continues which I removed from the demo)

fixed now. uploading.

Sorry that you had to experience all those bugs. But thanks to report them here.
When I try to do the mirror part and move the book case, for some reason the mirror
Person can go through the wall but also my character can also move through the wall and also I can't continue the game because I die every time the mirror people come through the wall and kill me.
I just finished the demo,
I liked how it referred to ib and it was a great game
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