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Karuna and Aurelie were friends. Then Aurelie went off and found the infernal armor of Ellicide and became the Evil Overlord Darkloft. Karuna is the only one who can stop her. But Karuna loves Aurelie, even now.

Luxaren Allure is a medium-sized RPG (12-20 hours) that follows Karuna and her allies as they explore the isles of Luxaren and confront a former friend who now wants nothing but destruction. This is a wlw (women who love women, lesbian romance, yuri, etc) game with an all female playable cast.

Also included are:

  • Title Screen Art, Face Portraits and Illustrations by M-3-1 (http://m-3-1.deviantart.com/)
  • Side View CTB Battles, with animated heroes and (semi)animated enemies!
  • New tilesets and battlers, made just for this game!
  • No random encounters. All enemies are visible on screen, and each triggers a different enemy party.
  • No RTP needed! Most resources are custom, and everything's included with the download.
  • A simple crafting system.
  • A short, character driven story that plays with the standard RPG formula.


Characters:


Karuna has been training with the School of the Unwavering Blade for years, and is considered the best choice for defeating the evil of Darkloft. She's serious, strong-headed, and confident, but her reasons for choosing to be a hero might not exactly be selfless...


Chisa is Karuna's self-proclaimed squire. She's timid but very strong, if a little naive. Her loyalty to Karuna is unquestionable.


A mage from the Naga clan, and one of the few of her kind that does not view humans with suspicion. Carefree and laid-back, she quickly finds herself fascinated with Karuna's quest and even more fascinated with Karuna's squire.


The great-granddaughter of the paladin hero Estes, Lynette is a well-balanced warrior from Rezael who has trained for years to master both the physical and magical arts to make up for the fact that she didn't inherit her family's holy magic powers.


Now known as Overlord Darkloft, the evil one who has placed the isles of Luxaren in dire peril. Karuna has so many questions for her. What will happen when they finally meet again?

Scripts used:
  • Yanfly's Ace Core Engine, Message, Menu, Equipment and Battle systems!
  • Kread-EX's Animated Battlers!
  • Fomar0153's Compatible Customisable ATB/Stamina Based Battle System!
  • Coelocanth's Item Crafting system!
  • NeonBlack's No AutoShadows


And a special thanks to Red Nova, LockeZ, Crystalgate, Archeia_Nessiah, GreatRedSpirit, and everyone else in the Rpgmaker.net forums for their fantastic suggestions, advice, and general help!

Latest Blog

Luxaren Allure is Now on Steam!!!



Click here to go to the Steam page! :DDDDDDD

A huge huge thanks to everyone who retweeted, wishlisted and promoted the game! And just a big thanks to everyone who wanted the game on Steam, you're the real heroes XD Given this game's age I was little hesitant to put it up but enough people contacted me about it after W&U's release that I figured why not ^_^

Now, back to Izrand development XD

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  • RPG Maker VX Ace
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  • 12/27/2013 06:48 PM
  • 09/19/2023 01:13 PM
  • 11/13/2015
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author=unity
Alright, I've added that script to the project and uploaded it. Click the Download Now button and you should now get "Luxaren Allure 2018.zip". Unzip it and move your save files from the old one to that folder, and you should be able to continue from there.

If there are still issues, please let me know. Worst case scenario, I can send you an altered version that skips to the final fight in that series of three battles, or bypasses it completely if we have to.

These crashes are in fact a known issue that I haven't been able to fix. As best I can pin down, they seem to be related to the Animated Battlers script I used, but they, for me at least, usually spring up at Singing Winds Pass. If this latest script fixes them, I'll be really happy because I feel like I've tried everything else XD
You, mate are fuckin' A material!!! i've been testing the updated version with the new script for the past two hours in a number of different areas some of which the game would crush on every second encounter upon launching and am more than just glad to report that the game has NOT crushed once! To think that you responded within just a couple of hours and not only that, but you actually fixed the problem right then and there... You deserve a statue to say the least!
☆*:.。. o(≧▽≦)o .。.:*☆
unity
You're magical to me.
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Wonderful! :DDDDDDDDD I'm so glad to hear that! Thanks very much for the kind words, this game is really special to me and I want everyone to be able to play it. Also, a huge thanks to you, since you brought the script to my attention that fixed the problem! ^_^ If you have any other crashes or issues, please feel free to let me know and I'll see what I can do!
I just finished the game, took me 20 hours or so.
I played it on Hardcore Difficulty until the first encounter with Darkloft (3man where Karuna is stuck charging) then I switched to casual since I wanted to rush ahead and I was worried I had actually missed something.

First of all, I want to thank you for the free hours of enjoyment you have given me.
Second, I want to say that, for the most part, the game's balance and gameplay is truly well done (with few exceptions here and there like the Chisa solo in her dream or Darkloft with Karuna doing nothing) so I must commend you on that.
I wasn't expecting much when I started this game, but the gameplay and the fact that all characters are all diverse and useful and well balanced really kept me sucked in, so well done!

Now the parts where I nitpick:

1) I didn't like the fact that Karuna's final weapon is a missable item (if you don't collect all the shards of hope, I didn't miss it, I got them all), but in the end it doesn't really make that much of a difference I suppose.

2) The game crashed for me after a while when I accessed the save menu. I save often, this seems to be a sort of "memory leak" problem. Probably nothing you can do about, but after 1 hour or so of gameplay, accessing the save screen made my game crash. Another crash occurred when I hit with Nebula Siege (Chisa Impulse) a Force Ghost (those absorb physical damage), I got a message that a "class" was missing, presumably because the engine did not know how to handle "negative" absorb events.

My Score: 9+/10
unity
You're magical to me.
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Thanks very much! :DDDD

Sorry about the crashes. They've been plaguing the game for a long time, possibly due to the sideview animated battlers, but I'm not sure. I found a script that eliminated some of them, but it still really annoying when they happen.

And yeah, I probably won't do a final weapon like that again. Glad you enjoyed the game ^_^
Oh! Oh! I played this one a long while ago, or at least the demo I think? Absolutely adored the art. and what little I played of it. Once things calm down around here I should definitely get it again even though it's pretty old now~

Good Yuri is rare~ I still can't get it entirely right myself~
Sooz
They told me I was mad when I said I was going to create a spidertable. Who’s laughing now!!!
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An oldie but a goodie, surely!
unity
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author=KayakoAmaya
Oh! Oh! I played this one a long while ago, or at least the demo I think? Absolutely adored the art. and what little I played of it. Once things calm down around here I should definitely get it again even though it's pretty old now~

Good Yuri is rare~ I still can't get it entirely right myself~


Thanks very much! :DDDD Yeah not sure how well it's aged and I definitely want to make new, more polished yuri games in the future! I'd be super happy if you decided to give it a play ^_^
unity’s yuri is still best yuri...e-er...that I’ve played thus far, of course.

Yes..."thus far"...
unity
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Heh ^_^ Thanks Addit!
I must say... I am enjoying this so far. I am IN LOVE with the custom artwork. Did you do that yourself? If so... wow. Or, whoever did it... wow :-)

The music is amazing. When I entered the first cave I was like... whoa! Did I just walk into a RAVE?! And the item system feels very rewarding. I love how you get loot after every battle. That's something I need to learn to do better.

And that first boss battle was a blast. I really enjoyed it. I had to think about what spells and impulse skills to use. Love the Lockdown skill to help with crowd control. That impulse saved my butt a couple times. Overall-it was fun and challenging.

I'm going to definitely continue playing! Loving it so far.
unity
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Thanks so much! :DDDDDD I'm so glad you're enjoying it!

The art was done by M-3-1 who does such pretty work. I was originally going to do it all myself but I'm not quite at a professional level yet. (Here's an example of what my drawings of some of the characters look like):



I really liked putting in types of music I like even if they aren't what people usually think of as standard fantasy music! Super glad it's to your liking ^_^

If I have any regrets it's in some of the pacing of the game and that some of the dungeons are a bit too long (and that I'm slightly better at writing romance than I waS XD). All in all I'm pretty happy with the game despite that.
So, um. Almost exactly three years ago I said I would write the first Luxaren fanfic. I am an absurdly slow writer. But, at last, it is done. Woo!

Chapters will go up Wednesdays and Saturdays for around the next six weeks (except Dragoncon weekend, which I might miss). Everything is finished and polished, so it's not going to disappear into the ether.

...now I'm going to go do something else and try to forget to be nervous about it.
unity
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author=Error
So, um. Almost exactly three years ago I said I would write the first Luxaren fanfic. I am an absurdly slow writer. But, at last, it is done. Woo!

Chapters will go up Wednesdays and Saturdays for around the next six weeks (except Dragoncon weekend, which I might miss). Everything is finished and polished, so it's not going to disappear into the ether.

...now I'm going to go do something else and try to forget to be nervous about it.


Wow, thank you so much! :DDD This is amazing! I'll take my time and read it all over and let you know what I think ^_^
Woot! I was afraid that after so long I'd just be sending it into a void. :-)
And chapter 2 is up!

...and it occurs to me that I'm not sure if I should spam the thread with chapter announcements. Let me know if it's a problem.
unity
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author=Error
And chapter 2 is up!

...and it occurs to me that I'm not sure if I should spam the thread with chapter announcements. Let me know if it's a problem.


As long as they're at least a day apart, I think it's fine?

Sorry, I still haven't finished Chapter 1 XD;; This week has been crazy. I'll finish it tomorrow.
Chapter 3 is up. :-P I can cut back the schedule if it's likely to outrun you. I dunno what your life is like, but I figure this is the only opportunity I'll ever have to have a fic read by the source material's creator, so I'll accommodate whatever you need.
unity
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I'm really sorry at taking so long to read these chapters. To be honest, when I started, just reading my own characters talking and behaving through the lens of an outsider made me really embarrassed for some weird reason, and for a while made me wanna hide my face in my pillow XDXD;;;

But now that I've calmed down and read the chapters, they are all very well done, and I'm extremely pleased to see how well you've captured these characters voices, down to, like, minor NPCs! It is very impressive and super flattering.

I look forward to more and again, thank you so much for writing this! :DDDDD
Oh, oops. I have a similar reaction to a different set of circumstances (certain movie and TV scenes, mostly), so I think I understand. Thanks for pushing through that to read it anyway. :-)

Turning minor characters into major ones is kind of my thing, so I'm glad you like that. I actually found Zeri and Davis fairly easy to write (compared to Merel and especially Chisa). I had less material to work off, but that also meant less worry about contradicting canon.

There's something I've been wanting to say ever since I went back to rewrite the opening, and now that you've seen it I can say it. My thought process at the time went something like this:

"Okay, this scene needs to establish some context for non-players...better mention Darkloft and show a bit of how Merel thinks...maybe I can have Merel compare this throne room to others; that would set the scene, introduce some Luxaren geography, and show that Merel's somewhat well-traveled; three birds with one stone is good...okay, running with that, let's look at the throne rooms in RPGMaker...hey, wait a minute...

...wait a minute...

What you did there....I SEE IT!
unity
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author=Error
Oh, oops. I have a similar reaction to a different set of circumstances (certain movie and TV scenes, mostly), so I think I understand. Thanks for pushing through that to read it anyway. :-)


No problem! I'm just sorry I made you wait so long before I read it >.<;;;

author=Error
Turning minor characters into major ones is kind of my thing, so I'm glad you like that. I actually found Zeri and Davis fairly easy to write (compared to Merel and especially Chisa). I had less material to work off, but that also meant less worry about contradicting canon.


I'm glad! I'm looking forward to more ^_^

author=Error
There's something I've been wanting to say ever since I went back to rewrite the opening, and now that you've seen it I can say it. My thought process at the time went something like this:

"Okay, this scene needs to establish some context for non-players...better mention Darkloft and show a bit of how Merel thinks...maybe I can have Merel compare this throne room to others; that would set the scene, introduce some Luxaren geography, and show that Merel's somewhat well-traveled; three birds with one stone is good...okay, running with that, let's look at the throne rooms in RPGMaker...hey, wait a minute...

...wait a minute...

What you did there....I SEE IT!


Haha, you got me! XD