Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed my little game! <3
Yes it did take quite a lot of work. I'm not sure if I would've manged if RPG maker wasn't such an easy engine to work with lol
It was also my very first game, as you can imagine. It was originally a novel I wrote at 18 as some sort of "lessons I wish I had learned when I was 15". It went through a few iterations and, after failing to publish it in my country, I decided to turn it into a game back in 2021. It almost became a visual novel, but I thought the RPG inspired setting would fit RPG maker well and... I guess it did xD
My next game is gonna be a metroidvania with Shida as the protagonist, and also have more focus on the gameplay part. Learning actual coding from scratch is being really painful but hopefully a playable demo will be out in a few months.
I'm 23 right now btw! I think it's normal for older artists to write stories with younger characters, especially if your target audience is young too, but I get what you mean. It does start feeling a little weird if you think too much about it lol