RPG Maker

Mm-hmm.

Um, eventually, when I was a bit older, like- ... 13, 14, I got RPG Maker.

I think the newest one at the time was RPG Maker MV.

Uh, and I started-

Oh, yes.

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I, I started, I started, like, making up little things in that.

I never released any games in RPG Maker, but I did spend a lot of time in it.

Um, I think that idea was super powerful, and I had to scrap it because I didn't have the skills or time to learn how...

Uh, you know, I was working in RPG Maker for the very first time-

Yeah

... with this project, and I didn't know how the combat system worked.

Yeah, it is pretty sweet.

This is kind of considering continuing the long history of people using... rpg maker to make genres that aren't exactly rpgs yeah so in this case um they have used rpg maker to basically make a harvest moon style game however um the kind of the twist is that this takes place uh basically in like legally distinct Night Vale.

Uh, so, you know, just tons of, uh, you know, Lovecraftian horrors and cultists running around, um, you know, that sort of thing.

They even have like a, uh, one of the kind of collectibles is short little, like, I don't know, three to five minute episodes of kind of basically like a nightmare style, uh, radio, uh, program.

But at least so far, I'm about five in-game days into the game.

And at least so far, it seems to hold together.

It does pull on its RPG maker roots in that turn-based combat is actually a significant portion of the game.

That's what I was going to ask about.

So it kinda seems like either there are limits to what you can do in a Super Nintendo-esque framework, or they don't have that many ideas left.

I, I, I don't want to sound pithy when I say this, but it does feel a little bit like an RPG Maker version of FFIV, where the person programming it doesn't quite understand how to make scenes happen as well.

Mm.

Like, that, that's not meant to be pithy or dismissive 'cause I do really, um, appreciate what's going on here.

Almost Cronenberg.

Like it's, it's an, it's an RPG maker game, like, uh, like Hunger or like Funger or like Look Outside or s- that stuff.

Okay.

And it is just super slick and super cool and super weird.

Um, so Look Outside is a survival horror RPG.

Um, and it is built in RPG Maker so there's...

You can...

You, you know, it's a very like 2D RPG but like all custom art, you know, custom interfaces, custom systems.

It's not...

It doesn't...

It, it feels like an RPG Maker game in that it, yeah, it's a 2D RPG but other than that, like it doesn't feel like your typical RPG Maker game.

Um, but it is...