RPGM Caliross, the Shapeshifter's Legacy [v0.9.20] [mdqp]

[FR140701]

Cow-rustling
If you have the Zanti Brand, talk to Tim and tell him you are busy.

In the afternoon, go to the house South of the Zanti Farm.
Talk to Jenny until she asks you for a cookie.
Go downstairs and examine the cookie jar.
Use ‘Hands of Fire’ on the chandelier next to it, take the cookies (button mashing).
Give the cookie to Jenny.


Please help. I dont have zanti brand, i have try talk to jenny but she didnt ask me for cookie so i cant examine the cookie jar or use hand of fire on the chandelier.

So, do i need the zanti brand? If so, please tell how to get the zanti brand

 

[anubis1970]

Cow-rustling
If you have the Zanti Brand, talk to Tim and tell him you are busy.

In the afternoon, go to the house South of the Zanti Farm.
Talk to Jenny until she asks you for a cookie.
Go downstairs and examine the cookie jar.
Use ‘Hands of Fire’ on the chandelier next to it, take the cookies (button mashing).
Give the cookie to Jenny.


Please help. I dont have zanti brand, i have try talk to jenny but she didnt ask me for cookie so i cant examine the cookie jar or use hand of fire on the chandelier.

So, do i need the zanti brand? If so, please tell how to get the zanti brand

You do need the Zanti brand. To gain it you must follow the Cowgirl path.

Spoiler: From the walkthrough

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[Znorkh]

Is there a list of all the possible fathers ? I kinda like the idea of collecting them all.

 

[Shazz23]

It's wild how fast and often mdqp updates the game. Homie is a workhorse.

 

[naoligopraisso]

Good

 

[Birdnman993]

A question, can the window size be made larger other than Alt+Enter?

 

[Shazz23]

A question, can the window size be made larger other than Alt+Enter?

I think F6 makes it bigger

 

[Birdnman993]

I think F6 makes it bigger

OMG thank you very much, this really makes a difference when playing.

 

[Shazz23]

OMG thank you very much, this really makes a difference when playing.

no problem, bro.

 

[mdqp]

Is there a list of all the possible fathers ? I kinda like the idea of collecting them all.

It's not in the game, but I do have a list myself as a reminder. Here is all the ways you can currently get pregnant:

1. Brothel work;
2. nightly orgy at the bathhouse ;
3. one of the sex scenes at the bakery job ;
4. the drunken guy (random event when fast travelling in Tarkas);
5. Lucas in Solina (must be a bimbo);
6. the other drunken guy outside of the pub ;
7. Chief Neroma;
8. the slimes in the forest;
9. the drunken sailor;
10. Ronald, cheating husband;
11. Mr. Geralt, Secretary job;
12. Jiro, Alpha werewolf;
13. Nelson, Solina pawnshop;
14. Alec, Zanark.

Note that Alec getting you pregnant will be part of the public release starting next month.

It's wild how fast and often mdqp updates the game. Homie is a workhorse.

Ha-ha, thank you! Actually, development has slowed down a bit overall. Partly it's because it's simply harder to keep up the pace as the game grows larger (you need more time to come up with new things, to avoid getting too repetitive), and I have also been having some recurring health issues. Nothing major individually, but I keep getting sick and it's taking its toll on my energy as well as reducing the time I can put into the game.

 

[DKlebba]

Ha-ha, thank you! Actually, development has slowed down a bit overall. Partly it's because it's simply harder to keep up the pace as the game grows larger (you need more time to come up with new things, to avoid getting too repetitive), and I have also been having some recurring health issues. Nothing major individually, but I keep getting sick and it's taking its toll on my energy as well as reducing the time I can put into the game.

Is it possible you're ever gonna overhaul the ending, or add more human shapeshifting quests? Those were the two things making this game not quite perfect to me. That and the faceless male problem, but I that's kind of prohibitive as it would require going back and redrawing half the scenes.

 

[Shazz23]

It's not in the game, but I do have a list myself as a reminder. Here is all the ways you can currently get pregnant:

1. Brothel work;
2. nightly orgy at the bathhouse ;
3. one of the sex scenes at the bakery job ;
4. the drunken guy (random event when fast travelling in Tarkas);
5. Lucas in Solina (must be a bimbo);
6. the other drunken guy outside of the pub ;
7. Chief Neroma;
8. the slimes in the forest;
9. the drunken sailor;
10. Ronald, cheating husband;
11. Mr. Geralt, Secretary job;
12. Jiro, Alpha werewolf;
13. Nelson, Solina pawnshop;
14. Alec, Zanark.

Note that Alec getting you pregnant will be part of the public release starting next month.



Ha-ha, thank you! Actually, development has slowed down a bit overall. Partly it's because it's simply harder to keep up the pace as the game grows larger (you need more time to come up with new things, to avoid getting too repetitive), and I have also been having some recurring health issues. Nothing major individually, but I keep getting sick and it's taking its toll on my energy as well as reducing the time I can put into the game.

youre welcome! I feel like I normally wait like a year for updates on games, yet youre very consistent. thanks so much. Sorry about your health, hope you start feeling better soon. Cheers.

 

[mdqp]

Is it possible you're ever gonna overhaul the ending, or add more human shapeshifting quests? Those were the two things making this game not quite perfect to me. That and the faceless male problem, but I that's kind of prohibitive as it would require going back and redrawing half the scenes.

What's the problem with the ending, exactly? I do have a few more characters I'll feature in the ending (assuming you romance them), but I don't have any big changes in mind for it.

I do have plans for a few more quests where you transform into humans/elves and the like, hopefully I can get to those before we all die of old age. XD

Yeah, faceless men are here to stay at this point. There are also the low resolution and awkward aspect ratio of RPG Maker to keep in mind, they tend to make things a bit harder when it comes to framing scenes well without making the characters too small.

 

[baneini]

The many short events and quests don't add value that much, character meets mc and it leads to 5-6 scenes and the next time you see the character is in the end slide. The encounters are self-contained and modular and don't really built towards anything meaningful so they are wasted potential. Stuff like short scene within a quest where you built up some relation to the characters seem more approriate since the main thing you're doing is questing.

Some paths feel random as in they don't fit the setting or mc, overall the mc's characterization is weak. Shes pro historian who lives in a house and does random unmotivated jobs that dont fit her status, or she moonlights as a cheerleader etc.
The game world doesn't react to what you do much.

Then you have the sex scenes themselves where its always the singular static cg and text that works around that. They got kinda formulaic and are limited by how the arts used. The artists change, quality goes from terrible to okay, but theres nothing like sprite animations or 2d animations and they're not very dynamic structure wise. Still the cg's improve otherwise text only scenes.

 

[holyfirer]

I am stuck on the blood ties quest. I already got an audience with Kendar but he keeps telling me that he needs time and not to disturb his mental prowess. When I check the quest log "Talk to Alpharius" and "Speak to Kendar" are green but "Find a way to get an audience with Kendar" and "Tell your parents what you learned" are still white. Shouldnt the audience think be checked off already? What can I do to progress at this point?

 

[DKlebba]

What's the problem with the ending, exactly? I do have a few more characters I'll feature in the ending (assuming you romance them), but I don't have any big changes in mind for it.

I do have plans for a few more quests where you transform into humans/elves and the like, hopefully I can get to those before we all die of old age. XD

Yeah, faceless men are here to stay at this point. There are also the low resolution and awkward aspect ratio of RPG Maker to keep in mind, they tend to make things a bit harder when it comes to framing scenes well without making the characters too small.

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On the subject of the cg's... it depends on how long term you wanna keep working on this project. The thing is, if you have good artists and good creative energy in your writing, the sky is the limit with this game. You're on of the few people to attempt an H rpg and actually take it seriously, so I think if you wanted to you could do an overhaul of the existing content and take it to another level of quality, you could make it happen. It's just a matter of do you wanna keep at this thing or move onto something else. I would recommend the former just because you've proven you have a good formula. Seriously though, with just you and an artist working on it, the profit margins for an overhauled and expanded Caliross could be insane. Think about it.

And yeah I just get annoyed by faceless males in scenes. I know it's standard fare, but look, if I'm playing a female protagonist game, I'm probably bi or a girl, in either case seeing dude's faces isn't going to be a problem. I was loving a lot of the male scenes, like the femdom one with the sleazy green haired guy. But it's just missing that little bit of emotional content there that you get from being able to see a face.

 

[mdqp]

I am stuck on the blood ties quest. I already got an audience with Kendar but he keeps telling me that he needs time and not to disturb his mental prowess. When I check the quest log "Talk to Alpharius" and "Speak to Kendar" are green but "Find a way to get an audience with Kendar" and "Tell your parents what you learned" are still white. Shouldnt the audience think be checked off already? What can I do to progress at this point?

Are you a student at the academy? If I had to guess, this is probably a minor oversight from the days when you couldn't be one. Before the academy was properly added, all you had available were alternative methods, and so there was a need to point it out in the quest log. It's just a visual issue, and as long as you talk to your parents and Alpharius (again) you should still be able to complete the quest.

I'll make sure to mark that entry as complete when you speak to Kendar in the future, at the very least.

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On the subject of the cg's... it depends on how long term you wanna keep working on this project. The thing is, if you have good artists and good creative energy in your writing, the sky is the limit with this game. You're on of the few people to attempt an H rpg and actually take it seriously, so I think if you wanted to you could do an overhaul of the existing content and take it to another level of quality, you could make it happen. It's just a matter of do you wanna keep at this thing or move onto something else. I would recommend the former just because you've proven you have a good formula. Seriously though, with just you and an artist working on it, the profit margins for an overhauled and expanded Caliross could be insane. Think about it.

And yeah I just get annoyed by faceless males in scenes. I know it's standard fare, but look, if I'm playing a female protagonist game, I'm probably bi or a girl, in either case seeing dude's faces isn't going to be a problem. I was loving a lot of the male scenes, like the femdom one with the sleazy green haired guy. But it's just missing that little bit of emotional content there that you get from being able to see a face.

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I worked for several years on Caliross and I am already a few years behind schedule for a 1.0 release at this point. While this means I got the chance to add way more than I previously planned, it also meant that some of the original ideas I had never made it in the game. While I like the game, I'd probably burn-out on the project if I kept at it for another year or two.

Also, you'd be surprised, but long projects tend to lose support over time, so the more I work on Caliross, the more I stand to lower how much I make. Perhaps a new update a few years down the line could be different, but I wouldn't count on it. I have the next game lined up anyway, and that's a sequel to a previous game which can't really wait much longer either.

I get not loving the faceless males, totally understandable. I think I'll probably avoid that in the future, for the most part (although for random encounters with minor characters it still makes sense, and sometimes the framing is what it is).
The vast majority of the audience is still heterosexual males, though, so this is more of a "I think it's an improvement" than a "I think my audience really wants this".

 

[Xxcvt]

So you mean is pressing from top left bottom left right bottom right top then middle like that?

Yes.

On the "rebellion should be impossible" front,

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[andersenryu]

What the hell? I tried saving in Golden Leaf where the entrance guard is, and it deleted my save, and I can't save anymore (the error sound when trying to save)

edit: this was on v0.998a

I had the exactly the same problem happened today, my save has been gone into thin air and I had to start from the very beginning plz fix this problem fast dev

btw, this happened on v0.9.14

 

[mdqp]

I had the exactly the same problem happened today, my save has been gone into thin air and I had to start from the very beginning plz fix this problem fast dev

btw, this happened on v0.9.14

Was the game folder set to read-only, or was in some unusual folder (like "programs")? Those can cause issues.

No weird problems with the anti-virus either, right? Sadly, to the best of my knowledge, this isn't a problem with the game itself, but it's something on the user side interfering with the game, so I can't fix it myself.