Notices by After Midnight Games (aftermidnight@gameliberty.club)

-Made sure to include the JS folder in the update this time. Whoops. This will fix the new Story added to Tamiko's house.
-Added a timeskip message in the intro before the battle scene.
-Kazuhiko's body now has text if interacted with.
-Altered text in the battle scene of the intro.
-Decreased amount of necessary EXP to level up for Rogues.
-Increased starting amount of SP for Mages.
-The bottom middle house in Kusa Town now has text for its useless door when interacted with.
-Kusa Town's weapon shop will no longer teleport you to Carivor Village.

The beta for God's Disdain is ready! I'm going to be collecting user info for testing now, so please sound off in the comments or send a DM if you'd like to participate!

Requirements:
1. Steam account
2. Windows PC (OS version 7+)

Expectations:
1. Bug reports
2. Combat balance feedback
3. General feedback
4. (Optional) Game session journals

You will be able to make content about the game (streams, videos, screenshots) as long as you clarify in a place that is clearly visible that the game is still in beta testing.

Testing will primarily occur in the RPG Maker Web forums topic for the game. If you have an RPG Maker Web account, that is the preferred method of reporting. However, if you're on the fediverse then simply tagging this account (@aftermidnight) or sending a DM will suffice. Patch notes will be posted and maintained on RPG Maker Web: https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/gods-disdain.168032/

You will receive your Steam key for the game within the next couple of weeks. Please keep in mind that as the game is free, I cannot promise much in the way of incentive for testing and I understand that it might be a lot to ask. However, your name will appear in the credits if you provide any feedback at all!

If there are any more questions you have, feel free to reach out!

Testing has been going very well! Since starting the insider beta, 7 versions have been released containing a total of 68 bug fixes, upgrades, and balance patches.

Of note, the game now has a slightly reduced horizontal resolution to avoid some visual errors, a results screen at the end of the game, tighter balance overall, fixed soft locks and quest tracking, and other general QOL fixes!

Only a little bit more time and a couple more assets are needed to get a much wider beta going than just the dev team and our friends. I'm looking forward to seeing the feedback!

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Quick update! All the voice recordings for the game have now been finished and are in game! The ones that have been re-recorded still need to have their volume levels adjusted, and that is being worked on now.

Testing is going well, and I'll have more information on the next testing phase within the next couple of months, so stay tuned if you're interested in that!

Here's a quick look at a re-recorded voice line from Kenshin!

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God's Disdain will be DRM-free and will also be completely unencrypted. While the game doesn't directly support mods, you will be able to modify/replace any of the files, including everything in-engine if you own RPG Maker MV. I only ask that you don't steal anything for your own projects without prior permission :)

Already have received the very first piece of fan art, featuring Avadel and drawn by @canvasesbymaya on Instagram!

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The first insider testing build for God's Disdain has been submitted to Steam for review! It will go into testing as soon as it has been accepted and from there, we will be planning on how to expand the testing to those outside of the development team.

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You can now wishlist God's Disdain, a free old-school JRPG about a plague coming in 2025, on Steam. Please check it out!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3057330/Gods_Disdain

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It is with great happiness that I'm finally able to share the reveal trailer with you all! After nearly nine years, development is finally coming to an end and the game will be in all of your hands very soon. I can't wait!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raDv4aYw-x0

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There is a dungeon in God's Disdain that has a game of "Slides & Ladders!" It is quite well-hidden. Do you think you'll be able to find it and get all of the treasures inside?

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We're getting closer to beta! There may or may not be a demo coming out before then as well, so keep your eyes peeled!

It's been decided that God's Disdain will not be receiving the tileset swap and will be sticking with the original RPG Maker assets.

The main downside to this is obviously that it will look very similar to other RPG Maker games. However, almost every other piece of artwork outside of the tileset graphics is completely original, or at the very least non-standard. Hopefully that will be enough to really give the game its own identity.

That being said, the decision comes with the massive upside of the game coming out a lot sooner. I won't be taking any extra time off just because this isn't happening anymore. Starting tomorrow, I'll begin my playthrough of the game to test everything I possibly can before getting the beta ready.

Just as a little treat, here are some screenshots from the game that can, for all intents and purposes, be considered (mostly) final! I've been very protective over showing this sort of thing so far, so if you're seeing this you're one of the first handful to do so. Congratulations?

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The voice acting for the game has been completely implemented (with very minor caveats that are still in the works)!

I have been absolutely crushing my goals for the roadmap so far. The tileset swap is up next, and to be honest, I still don't even really know how it will turn out. There is the chance that I decide on sticking with modified default assets after all. We'll see soon enough.

Either way, the game will likely be going into beta much sooner than anticipated. Pretty soon here, I'm going to be putting up a thread for its development on the RPG Maker Web forums and other such places, which is something I've honestly been a little scared of doing for quite some time. With how close the game is though, I think it is time. Even if the screenshots end up changing because of the tileset swap, we're so close that I think now is the time to start drumming up interest.

Before long, the game will be in your hands, and hopefully soon after that it will be well out of mine. This past nearly 9 years has been absolutely insane and I'm loving the progress I'm making, but I definitely need to move on to something else! Which is something else that has been weighing on the decision to continue with the tileset swap or not, especially if it ends up not looking as good or being as functional as I'd like.

Until next time!

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@xianc78 I've never seen or played this game, but it is quite funny how it starts out with an intro cutscene just like God's Disdain does! I also discovered years into development that one of the characters, Locke, has the same name as a Final Fantasy 6 character! Fancy that.

Do you mean to say that the characters should have lip-syncing (even if rudimentary)? While this could be done pretty easily, it wasn't quite the style I wanted to go for as most classic RPGs just have static faces. There was also a bit of a budget constraint in having different facial expressions, so unfortunately they remain at their normal faces all the time. In a way, I think talking faces would draw even more attention to that in certain scenes, which is another reason I decided on leaving it out.

I've been hard at work getting the voice acting all cleaned up and ready to go. Guess what? It is finally in the stage of being put in the game!

Here is the intro cutscene with voice acting! Thanks for checking it out. Voice acting will be for select main story cutscenes and is an option you can toggle off if you do not wish to listen to it.

I also tweaked the title screen a little bit from before, lowering the amount of movement and instead adding a small flash to the logo. Let me know what you think!

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I don't have too much to share at the moment, but I have started finalizing the voice tracks. It's coming along swimmingly.

Here is a little appetizer of what you'll be hearing during the game's main story cutscenes! What could be emitting these strange energy waves?

Cleaned up all of the current things possible to clean up on the To Do List already, meaning one of two tasks for February is already complete!

This included finishing up the credits scene and adding a mechanic for learning about your current karmic standing. An interesting event will occur if you have the right item!

(Graphics not final)

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Update! January's work is now officially done. Only about halfway through the month, too!

Work on February has already begun.

Happy New Year everyone! Here's to making 2024 the best it can be.

The 2024 Roadmap has been finished! This is the rough outline for how long things should take and when they will be worked on. You can expect progress to continue throughout the year following pretty closely to this outline.

As you can see, voice acting and tileset swapping are notable parts of next year's development. When the beta releases, that is when things such as forum threads and the game page on itch.io will go up. After that, it's all bug fixes and balance adjustments until it's all finished and can be set for a release date, hopefully some time in 2025!

I'm looking forward to sharing this game that I've worked on for so long with you, and this year will certainly be full steam ahead to get that to happen as soon as possible!

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14 NPCs left to program! Here's another little sneak peak at the latest one I created. He's the leader of Komura and resides in the capital city of Sodai. Give it up for Emperor Youta!

(graphics not final)

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