The House Of The Seven Arts - New Trailer and Demo out

[Relux the Relux]

Engine: RPG Maker 2003
Creator: Relux the Relux
Genre: Adventure Horror
Expected Release: March 2024

Plot: You, a 10-year-old Japanese girl, and your family are going to celebrate the holidays in the house of your grandfather, the nicknamed "House Of The Seven Arts". However, as everyone goes to sleep, strange things begin to happen and no one in your family is to be found.

Can you find your parents before you drown in madness?

General Gameplay information:

The game is completely puzzle-oriented, meaning that there are no battles.
There is also a friendship system between the main character and Inicky, Pandora and Catherine.

~~Saving~~

You can save progress between the Chapters or by checking Clocks after a certain plot event occurs.
Be always attentive because there will be different types of clocks so you may not notice a save point.

~~Health and Healing~~

Your Health is represented by the picture of a red orb on the top left corner of the screen.
Every time that you get damaged your orb will get cracks if it gets too much damaged it will shatter and It is Game Over.
Healing occurs between the chapters.


Demo Download Link:

https://rpgmaker.net/games/5539/downloads/7376/

Trailer:
The House Of The Seven Arts - Trailer

more and demo link in:
http://rpgmaker.net/games/5539/
https://relux-the-relux.itch.io/the-house-of-the-seven-arts



Characters bios:

Name:
Age: 10 years old

"..."

Details: The silent and nameable main character of the game.


Name: Inicky
Age: 26 years old

"[...] By the way, my name is... ermm... Inicky.
And who are you?[...]"

Details: A German scientist(?) that you met while searching for your parents.


Name: Catherine (Kate)
Age: 17 years old

"[...] I'm Catherine, mate.
But you can call me Kate.[...]"

Details: An Australian painter that got trapped in a dungeon.

Name: Pandora
Age: 7 years old

"[...] Who am I? I'm you cousin Pandora!
Why don't you remember me?[...]"

Details: Your cousin that got lost and is also searching for her parents.

Graphics:

Relux the Relux
Charas
Duke Serkol
Enterbrain
Face Maker

Music

Carlos A. Frank(Tulikbo von Chanteckler)

Sound Effects

Freesound.org
Enterbrain

Beta Testing

Renan Szanto
Nachokäse
Duke Serkol
NocturnalMagician(Shelby930)

Current Progress:

Prologue: 100%
Chapter 1:100%
Chapter 2:100%
Chapter 3:100%
Chapter 4:99%
Chapter 5:71%
Chapter 6:1%
Chapter 7:0%
Chapter 8:0%
Epilogue:0%
Inspired by "Alan Wake","Ib" and the musical "Autokriptografia"

[Meiscool]

Yup, definitely looks like Ib. Hope you can make it as atmospheric.   

[lonewolf]

any Download DATE yet

[Relux the Relux]

Now there is one!

[lonewolf]

good if you need any japan town maps let me know
i got some charasets that you add to maps for town's

i be making more thing's when i done getting fishersons  thing's made for his game

[Relux the Relux]

Added a Link to download the DEMO.

[Relux the Relux]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ct2QCdSWk


Just a quick update to say that I'm not dead...

[Meiscool]

Interesting scene. Makes me want to watch someone do a let's play of it.

[Relux the Relux]

Interesting scene. Makes me want to watch someone do a let's play of it.

Thanks that you liked it.

I chose this scene because it was one of the scenes with the least spoilers.

[Relux the Relux]

Just a quick update to tell that the project is not dead and a trailer for the game will be going up soon.

[Fisherson]

Good for you Relux! Keep up the good work. I have a soft spot for projects that refuse to die. ^_^...even if HOME is the only horror RPG I've ever enjoyed.

[Relux the Relux]

Good for you Relux! Keep up the good work. I have a soft spot for projects that refuse to die. ^_^...even if HOME is the only horror RPG I've ever enjoyed.

I don't even think Duke Serkol would let me abandon the project. The time that I took a year long break and almost threw the project I checked my e-mail and saw that he e-mailed me for one entire year at least once a week hoping for the project to not die. XD

Also, tHotSA would be the first game that ever included all 7 arts as part of the gameplay, ambiance AND plot, which is one of the reasons I decided to make this game. Also, if I finish it this year, this will be the first project that I ever managed to bring to an end.

Lastly, on lesser note, I will be finally able to change my title from "Bloody Beginner" to "Master of the Seven Arts". XD

[Relux the Relux]

Oh wow. Re-reading my last post made me cringe in the depths of my soul.

Anyway, the project is now alive again. I have also ported it now to the Steam version of RM2k3. There is now is a trailer: https://youtu.be/XqeC1QPqyjs.

And a new longer longer demo as an apology: https://rpgmaker.net/games/5539/downloads/13267/

[Momeka]

Nice, it's impressive you manage to stick with a project for so long. I usually gets bored and move on to something else within a month or two.

Haven't had time to check the demo out yet. But I watched the trailer, I really like the part with the scribbled over faces.

[Relux the Relux]

Nice, it's impressive you manage to stick with a project for so long. I usually gets bored and move on to something else within a month or two.

Haven't had time to check the demo out yet. But I watched the trailer, I really like the part with the scribbled over faces.

Haha,  I wouldn't say I really stuck to it since before the start of this year there wasn't really much work being done on it. And to be honest I am the kind guy who never really let's a project die but just goes on hiatus because leaving something forever unfinished would just consume me from the inside. This was always in the back of my mind in the years I didn't work on it. So as I finished my master's this year I am using the extra free time I have now to finish it and some of my other projects.

But I have been working on other stuff too, like a deep-dive series on the entirety of the Digimon Franchise, fanfiction, doing some VA stuff and even began to stream a little bit(mostly just working the aforementioned digimon deep-dive series, since I found to be more productive while streaming due to the feeling of being watched, even if no one is watching). So this helps avoiding getting bored on working on just the same thing all the time.