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Development blog for what's been made of an old Vocaloid horror RPG. Released! Play here! Please check links!! @ or use #AfterSchoolVocaRPG tag to show me things! Note: This is a sideblog!

[afterschoolvocaloidrpg]

[After School-A Vocaloid RPG is Released]

After School-A Vocaloid RPG is a survival-horror Vocaloid RPG experience created using RPG MAKER VX ACE. Playing as Oliver, you find yourself in a "Spirit World," an alternate dimension hosted by a single corrupted spirit. You meet new characters, and help spirits along the way while keeping an eye out for the corrupted host spirit. The player must help Oliver escape this world safely, while navigating the dangers it throws his way.

Features:

45-90 minutes of gameplay

Original soundtrack

Original art assets

Original story and characterization

At least 1 chase scene

Extra in-game content (the Scrap Room)

Itch.io Download

Please be sure to review the warnings and read all bolded important notes! This is, at its heart, a horror experience. If you have any questions or concerns, please direct them to one of the forms of contacts listed on the Itch.io page! If you can’t experience the game yourself but are still interested, I have a let’s play linked to the itch.io page!

[afterschoolvocaloidrpg]

hey, do you have any tips on video game design?

(forgot everything game-design related but I'll try)

Well, it really depends on the kind of game you're making and what aspects you're talking about! Gameplay, how to construct a story, how to map, etc etc.

I only have random advice like: If making a horror game, be careful of just placing too many little jumpscares for no reason, like random sounds. The novelty wears off real quick. I specifically remember a certain game where they overused things like that to where things got Really predictable, like when I was inspecting some dolls and I already knew that the eyes were gonna look at me. Sometimes it's scarier if nothing happens at all, since it makes it less predictable when something will.

Also, when making maps, make it smaller than you think you need it to be! You should've seen how big the maps for this game used to be, and looking back at the current version of the game, I STILL think I could've made the maps even smaller.

Also, try not to make puzzles too convoluted for no reason, like going overboard with cryptic riddles or adding too many steps to it just for the sake of it. I still don't know what makes a good puzzle though

[afterschoolvocaloidrpg]

hello! so sorry to bother you. is there any way to get this on mac without wine? because for the life of me i don't understand wine

(in case you don't know which i'm sure you do but yk wine is a program that lets you run PC games on mac.)

I really really wish I could help but I also couldn't understand Wine when I tried to help a friend, and I'm not sure of any other methods ;_; I'll reblog this onto my main and see if anyone else can help gimme a sec

[afterschoolvocaloidrpg]

Hey! Just wanted to say thank you for putting all these assets around! I found them to be very useful references for my own project's art~

Oh, I'm glad to hear that!! I felt a little bit silly doing it originally since it's not in the official RPG Maker style, but if it could help even one person then I'm happy!! I hope your project turns out great !!!

[afterschoolvocaloidrpg]

this is canon to my game

[eddiegamedev]

Heya! I am still trying to get set up here, but this is Eddie! This blog isn't for a specific project but it's just a place where I can freely post about any game dev endeavors I do!

it won't update very frequently (probably) but if you don't want any spoilers at all for potential future projects (not even about sprites I might be working on), it's probably best not to follow!

[afterschoolvocaloidrpg]

I made a general game dev blog a while ago. Due to my ongoing medical issues, it won't be very active for a while until my condition stabilizes more but it's There and will probably still focus on Vocaloid fangames

[afterschoolvocaloidrpg]

Odd question: do you happen to have any character designs of Kaai Yuki corrupted? If not, that’s fine! The pixel art will be fine too!

I'm not entirely sure what you mean ? Like concept art? Because it's a design based off of the Yuki from "Crushed Mary" by Mondaiji-P, I don't really have any concept art

if you want a not-pixel art drawing of her even if it's not necessarily concept art, she's just barely there at the far left of this very old image . i do not have any other images of her

[afterschoolvocaloidrpg]

What does Oliver do once he gets out? If he gets out? I know the game will be forever unfinished— but did you ever plan for the end? Does Oliver just return to society, and his sad life?

I did plan an ending but it focused mostly on Mary and Yuki and the spirit world being gotten rid of, I don't remember if I ever planned an ending for Oliver besides that he would safely get out . wouldn't be surprised if I didn't because my disinterest in him as a character was what caused me to not finish this game in the first place RIP the poor kid

[afterschoolvocaloidrpg]

Question I thought of while playing! Even if it’s been months since I’ve asked anything: I know Fukase probably doesn’t have the best memory, so how long would it take him to no longer feel guilty about Ryuto?

it doesn't ever stop feeling guilty about those kinds of things, it just manages to repress it until something causes it to come back to the surface--so as for how long it'll take for it to repress it and bounce back, I'd say a few days after helping Yuki and getting rid of her spirit world especially since I doubt it spent enough time with him to really get attached, but things like that will probably get it in its dreams at least

[afterschoolvocaloidrpg]

all icons I used in my Vocaloid fan game experience (formatted for rpg maker vx ace)

idk if these are useful to anyone but here they are anyway if anyone wants these available for personal and noncommercial use . the miku is kinda too specific to my game since they’re my own design but everyone else looks pretty generic. minor edits to expressions and resizing are ok but not much more beyond that please. dont use for anything offensive or inappropriate.

[afterschoolvocaloidrpg]

    I know it’s kinda sudden to just start posting these. I recently got RPG Maker 2000 and 2003 so I’ve been spending time looking into the files of games like Ib and it’s been really helpful to study, though I wished I could more easily look into the graphic assets (though it’s understandable why not). while I’m not confident in my own game programming and such to where I feel comfortable sharing an unencrypted version of it, I don’t really have issues with sharing assets so . might as well

[afterschoolvocaloidrpg]

part 2 of all the tilesets I used in my game. I’d rather these not be used commercially+would think credit is nice but otherwise I’m not picky on how these are used if anyone wants to

[afterschoolvocaloidrpg]

messily arranged tilesets from my game...(mostly wall and floor tilesets) a lot of these are pretty simple but if they can help anyone I’ll put them out here anyway

Would like to be credited+not have these be used commercially but otherwise I’m not picky about how these are used

[afterschoolvocaloidrpg]

I realized I’m never going to use these assets again since I probably won’t be returning to using RPG Maker VX Ace, and I don’t mind other people using these. Feel free to use these for personal and noncommercial use. Just some notes:

1. These are optimized for RPG Maker VX Ace. I don’t mind them being imported into other programs but I can’t guarantee they’ll be a good size

2. While I don’t mind edits, I still want the people sprites to be recognizable (AKA I want my Miku sprite to still be recognized as a Miku instead of being recolored into an entirely separate character) idrc about the clocks and eye sprites and stuff tho

3. Credit would be very nice

4. If you want to mess around with the last sprite set, you’ll probably need to add a $ in front of the file name for RPG Maker to recognize it.

5. Please don’t use for anything offensive or inappropriate.

[afterschoolvocaloidrpg]

[After School-A Vocaloid RPG is Released]

After School-A Vocaloid RPG is a survival-horror Vocaloid RPG experience created using RPG MAKER VX ACE. Playing as Oliver, you find yourself in a “Spirit World,” an alternate dimension hosted by a single corrupted spirit. You meet new characters, and help spirits along the way while keeping an eye out for the corrupted host spirit. The player must help Oliver escape this world safely, while navigating the dangers it throws his way.

Features:

45-90 minutes of gameplay

Original soundtrack

Original art assets

Original story and characterization

At least 1 chase scene

Extra in-game content (the Scrap Room)

Itch.io Download

Please be sure to review the warnings and read all bolded important notes! This is, at its heart, a horror experience. If you have any questions or concerns, please direct them to one of the forms of contacts listed on the Itch.io page! If you can’t experience the game yourself but are still interested, I have a let’s play linked to the itch.io page!

[afterschoolvocaloidrpg]

Made one last update! Fixes include:

*Edited minor errors like missing name tags and incorrect dialogue box types

*Added a character with who you can speak to to check your progress on lighting fireplaces

*Adjusted music volumes

*Added a few new lines of minor dialogue

*All notes in the scrap room actually say something now

The dialogue in the game shouldn’t change from this point on, so if anyone was interested in translating it, I actually have a script that can extract all the text in the game so I can hand those files over if I’m contacted privately. Otherwise, that’s all I have for this game :) (unless I do a Japanese translation of my own but that’d take a while no matter what)

[afterschoolvocaloidrpg]

    I’ve been pretty quiet here even though I’ve been talking about this game a decent bit on my Twitters so I figured I’d give an update! We reached 1K downloads which is super exciting since I didn’t think this game would reach that far in such a short period of time!

    I don’t have anything in particular planned? After watching a let’s play or two of this game, I started noticing a lot of things I wanted to fix + some common issues I noticed people are having with the puzzles, so when I get my school finals done, I’m hoping to prepare one last update with quality of life fixes + an in-depth walkthrough where I note different endings and pathways!

    One last thing, I don’t know if anyone’s been interested in translating this game but doesn’t know how to go about it, but I found a script that automatically exports all of the game’s dialogue and puts them into separate files, so if you’re interested, contact me privately and I can send them over! I recommend waiting until after I get the last update released though since I’m probably gonna have to add some new bits of dialogue

[afterschoolvocaloidrpg]

Will there ever be merch? Or do you have a merch store for your general account? (My New Years resolution for 2021 is gonna be: become top fan of After School Vocaloid Rpg)

Oh my god I don’t think this technically incomplete game has nearly enough of an audience for that ahaha If I ever make a bigger Vocaloid-related game in the future, maybe????? But Fukase in particular might have some issues if I tried something like that ... Also the Yuki, Oliver, and Ryuto in this game will definitely not appear in the future :(

Working with merch companies and dealing with money like that sounds a little complicated though so I don’t even have a general merch store, the most I can do is handmake badges privately and contribute to zines