LITTLE WING GUY'S PROFILE

My guess is the upper secondary layer. I bet you have a different transparent tile covering the entire map (or at least a portion of it). Try making all tiles walkable that have no sprite on them.

Alternatively, is the player teleporting onto the four events on the left hand side? If so they might be set to same layer as hero. Those would be my two guesses.

Welcome back, I remember Runic Cipher very well. Looking forward to seeing it pop up again.

Thanks so much for this Frogge! I'm really grateful you took the time to not only play the game, but leave such a detailed and thoughtful review as well. Villnoire is a game I'm immensely proud of, because it achieves everything that I set out to do. I really don't think I can disagree with any of the nitpicks or criticisms you did raise. I think no matter how hard any of us try to please everyone, we all end up making our own perfect RPG - that's what Villnoire is to me, an embodiment of what I look for in other games.

There is a huge amount of things I could address and make excuses for but I'll just touch upon a couple of ones:

You can rest assured, though, I don't get the impression that Villnoire is trying to make a political statement on racism, even though it largely plays into the theme. Rather, Villnoire is about peace, and how anger and revenge can let you achieve your goals, but peace can permanently fix the problem and put an end to the cycle of hate.

I'm so glad this came across, because this is exactly what I was going for! I didn't want to be heavy handed, or try to beat people over the head with it. I'm a total pacifist but I made sure to try and explore the story from all angles. The main two themes of Villnoire are two things really close to my heart: discrimination and grief. This game draws a lot of my own real life experience put into a fantasy setting. Some dialogue from NPCs are things people have actually said to me, but with the word gay exchanged for Druid (a girl once asked me if I had tried not being gay and that just always stayed me with). I think the reason why you liked the characters is because all characters core personality represents a different stage of grief. Losing family members over the years means I've sort of been all these characters at some point in my life, so I relate and write dialogue from their perspective. Even though it's a simple story on paper, it's so personal to me that I wanted to do it justice (I hope I did).

Hell, even right after an attack on the druid base, the NPCs just say the exact same things. Guess all those deaths just didn't phase you guys at all.

I 100% agree that I could have changed up the dialogue more. However, I'd say at least half of the NPCs at Branca change their dialogue after this section. This was the only place where I knew I had to do it. Perhaps you just missed those guys, or I didn't vary it enough.

In fact, there are only three elements in this game, Light, Dark and Neutral. Liberty wasn't a fan of this, but I personally really liked this minimalist approach to the elements.

When I was designing the game initially, I had every element under the sun, you name it and it was in here. It was overwhelming, and I realised that everything is either weak or resistance to something - even if I only had two elements, that core principle would still be true. Doing so little elements was an experiment, but I think it worked considering the size of the game. If this was some 40 hour RPG, then no way would I have gone for that approach, but I think I just about manage get away with it for a game of this size.

Then again, the answer is "Tunnels of Doom" and there is a game on rmn called "Tunnels of Doom RM2K" so maybe it was a reference and I'm just being dumb.

One of my original testers was a chap called Waxius, and his game is Tunnels of Doom so it was a reference to his game! I don't really have any answer for why this one is sightly different, but some of the other answers can be obtained from talking to NPCs as well as books (Evoker and Vermilion).

Though, kind of weird how the final boss doesn't have his own seperate music? That's a shame, the final boss song is usually my favorite in almost every game, so sad it's just the normal boss theme

I actually paid for someone to make this original soundtrack for me. He was a lovely guy, with very reasonable prices, so it didn't cost a bomb. As the soundtrack grew and grew, I had to carefully consider how many tracks I needed, and I just couldn't bring myself to pay for a song that would be used once. I totally get the expectation, so I hope it's not too much of a let down!

Thanks again. I'm more chuffed than you could ever believe. I always said to myself, as long as this games gets around 3.5 or higher then it's worth someone's time to play it, and it was worth my time to make it.

Thank you for all these kind words, it's been a lot of hard work so it's such a huge relief to hear people being excited to play it. It sort of feels like a moment I'm sharing with you all. I really hope it doesn't disappoint.

No one needs to re-download it, but I have just updated the download as there was a couple of graphical glitches and a broken save point that I've just discovered (I'm pretty sure players will as well). Nothing game breaking I promise. Of course, any problems or bugs I'd still love to know - I'm going to be like a machine fixing these things!

I don't always comment on these, but I do always read them. This one was especially interesting to me, as Theia is a game I idolise, and could only dream of making. Great stuff.