RPG Maker Themed Game Jam #4: Academy of Magic

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Kica's Story: Tears to TidesView game page

A short story focused RPG that follows Kica on her first weekend at witch academy

Submitted by Fava Beans (@FavaBeansArt) — 3 hours, 16 minutes before the deadline

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Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Story	#1	4.500	4.500
Overall	#2	4.200	4.200
Theme	#2	4.750	4.750
Presentation	#2	4.000	4.000
Creativity	#3	4.250	4.250
Gameplay	#3	3.500	3.500

Ranked from 4 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How did you choose to implement the Theme: Academy of Magic in your game?
The protagonist is a new student and the story takes place over the weekend that students are moving in.

Did you implement any of the optional Bonus Challenges, and if so, which ones?
The player is a student

Comments

spiritcorgiSubmitted151 days ago

This is really cute. I liked the whimsy the music gave the entire time and the portraits and images do give a really cute atmosphere.

Some of the tilesets are a little mismatched with modern boards and cones being in a fantasy world, but those are minor little details to get into.

There's a couple of mapping errors with being able to walk through things. I thought it might be a magic secret at first, but probably just some doodad errors.

All in all, any more development to this game would help with an already solid project!

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Stealing Time

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Fava BeansDeveloper151 days ago

Thanks for the feedback! I was hoping it'd look like a sorta urban fantasy setting by mixing in modern objects. And also I didn't have time to draw custom tiles that fit a strictly fantasy theme ::>_<:: Building the world is definitely somewhere I fell short both in graphically and in writing. I never even stated the academy's name in the story or that it's meant to train witches specifically. Maybe some day I will further development to at least revise the world along with some of the character writing

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pianotmSubmitted165 days ago(+1)

- A goblin protagonist! Why didn't I think of a monster girl protagonist!

- Yeah, cannibals are, indeed, less intimidating if they're not the same species as you.

- Can't be a school without a bully...

- OMG!!! Emotional Support Familiar! I can't even...I love it!

- Aww...Kica really is working through some trauma, huh?

- Encounter rate's a little on the annoying side, but it's not nearly as bad as it could be.

- Aargh! I just realized you rebound the keys for a gaming setup! I thought keyboard controls just weren't working for some reason.

- There are so many interesting and neat characters! I'm really loving this!

- I haven't been able to use any of Bugaboo's special abilities once since the Carnivore Gourd. His TP just doesn't go up enough in regular combat.

- Ah! Yes! Just immediately tell her all about it! Instead of saying, you know, literally anything else! "Yo, I'm in the sewer 'cause Cordelia cramps my style!" How hard is that? Villains too stupid to succeed...

- The sink and mirror is set to O passability.

- School windows are set to O passability.

- Finally got a chance to use Powered Claws.

- Oh...Gourd trauma!

Well, I don't have time to finish this today, but I have to say, this is shaping up to be an easy favorite.

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Lions of Zaria

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Fava BeansDeveloper163 days ago(+2)

Thanks for all this feedback! It's fun reading your reactions to the content.

I'll address the things you brought up if I ever update this

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