A downloadable papiertheater for Windows

Once upon a time, in a kingdom blessed by the faeries, lived two princes.

All his life, Second Prince Snow has been considered inferior to his older brother, the true heir to the throne. That is alright with him; he's never had designs on the crown.

Crown Prince's Valens' coronation is scheduled for tomorrow, and Snow has faith that his brother will find in him the heart to be a good king. He must - for if he does not believe in him, it would be as good as admitting the ugly truth he does not wish to face.

Unveil the curtains and dim the lights. The papiertheater's actors have a script to enact.

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THIS PROJECT IS A MESS! this is all i got after crunching my brain out and you can tell that battles were given little priority compared to maps and eventing and such. i'll clean it up when i'm less burnt out

Please note that this game contains mild blood and the usual casual approach to violence. You know, the usual.

also i tried to upload a web version but i have like 114 files too many. im eepy please let me live

Features:

  • Turn based RPG battle system that mostly hinges on balancing cooldowns (needs heavy rebalancing)
  • Currently one silly puzzle that my peers have tried to throttle me by the neck for. I thought it was funny so I'm keeping it as is until I get public judgement on it
  • Side scroller parallax maps and original visual assets (currently roughs, currently using some RTP placeholders). The intention for the final product is for everything to be 100% original assets drawn by me! (I may or may not rescind this because RTP emote balloons are kinda already peak, but that'd be it).
  • The current version is pretty barebones about identifying speakers (it's done via text colour) but I'll do portraits and expressions I swear
  • Four (currently two) idiot fairytale expies who get into stupid adventures, play stupid games and win stupid prizes
  • Will have alternate endings and ways to skew the story into something else entirely
  • At least like. Five obvious Project Moon references. spot 'em all

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This game is an entry to the RPG Maker Themed Game Jam #10: Heir to the Throne, but wasn't finished due to time constraints (yes, yes, tale as old as time for me). Again, I am unable to release a full game for the deadline - for now, what is available is a beta that consists of rough assets and the first area. The next update should still use rough assets (hopefully phasing out the RTP), but come with the full story. After that should be the full polished version.

Plugins: 

  • Caethyril
  • DKPlugins
  • Fallen Angel Olivia
  • Galv
  • HimeWorks
  • MechPen
  • MNKR (ムノクラ)
  • Quxios
  • ShadowDragon
  • Yanfly
  • Zalerinian

Sound: 

  • (C) Bitter Sweet Entertainment  
  • (C) F.Takumi  
  • (C) RPG Maker - 2015 KADOKAWA CORPORATION./YOJI OJIMA 
  • (C) Hiroki Kikuta’s Music Pack: The Calm -2017 Hiroki Kikuta.

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ad libelo (jam version) v0.1.zip 346 MB
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ad libelo (jam version) v0.2.zip 319 MB

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