[Neolithic]To the End Windows game

[Neolithic]To the End

orochi2k | Early Access 2021

TL:DR

Congratulations! You've discovered this secret game on steam.

It's just one old RPG from 2004 that still receives updates today by one solo developer.

More detailed information can be found on the fandom wiki. (It's also working in progress.)

Neolithia.fandom.com

Latest updates:

Store.steampowered.com

Some Features:

Everything in a classical RPG plus...

Bizarre adventures. Neolithia.fandom.com
Full Text-to-Speech Support. (Don't want to read walls of text in an RPG? No problem. Press "S" in dialogs, and your system reads it for you!)
Character Export/Import freely to customize your entire group: Neolithia.fandom.com
First-person gunfight during battle.
Convert supernatural (or not-so-supernatural) enemies to be your pets. Neolithia.fandom.com
Deployable traps, barricades, and furniture to decorate your home.
Create your own faith with all kinds of strange tenets. Neolithia.fandom.com
Your very own home with a map editor. ALL MAPS in the game can be edited during the gameplay. Support import/export map to RMXP.
Magical items and anomalies with their own mechanisms.
Crafting items from 3D printers. Neolithia.fandom.com
Plant and harvest food and...something else. Neolithia.fandom.com
Endless procedurally generated quests from mission boards.
A powerful cheat console that can run Ruby script.
Minigames! The awesome part of an open-world RPG is, that you can get all those minigames for free!
Frequent updates. Who knows what you can find in the future.
DRM-Free!
Highly customizable playing experience.

Risks: (I will be totally honest with you. Thus, I put it here)

1, The game is made with a very old game engine. (For memories' sake)

2, There is only one developer.

3, I am terrible at 2D art.

4, I am not a native speaker of English.

Thus, I provide an honest demo for you. The demo version will update all the way till a certain story is finished.

It reflects the current stage of game development in almost real-time.

If you find the game stopped updating for more than 14 days without any explanation, it's safe to assume I'm dead.

In that case, do not buy the game.

As the game is one of the first and last RMXP games that's ever been developed, I'm not exactly aiming to make it something great. (or even sane.)

Instead, it needs to be unique and fun in a way that people can rarely see nowadays, to make people laugh maniacally even in a grimdark world where both the in-game world and the life circle of RMXP are coming to an end.

Story

Welcome to our secret society of [redacted]. We are among the most ancient ones in our line of work.

For a long time, we have witnessed the rise and fall of many others.

The situation is grim, the world almost ended in 2008, 2012, 2015, and 2020.

Some people predict it will keep ending this year, next year, and the year after.

But, well, even if that's true, even if the ending is inevitable, it is tragic, we are still alive.

So, cheer up! We shall carry on.

As long as we stand, the world shall never fall!

To the end...

Features:

Unbalanced and Unfair

Beneath the facet of the beautiful life people called "normal", lurks the truth that this secret struggle is never fair.

There are things that can hardly be killed. They may come in great numbers to overwhelm us.

Even when not facing such a supernatural entity, a well-trained Kung Fu master can still be killed by just a bullet.

But, We Fight on With All We Have!

We have guns and our own magic. We even learned to bind supernatural entities to our wills.

We have tools and artifacts, we have skills ranging from combat to conversation.

If there is a lock that can hardly be picked, try blowing it.

There are always solutions.

If not, may the butterflies preserve us.

You Are Different.

Your arrival was not expected. You were not on any lists. We know little about you.

Show us, who you are and who you will become with all the perks/skills/proficiency you may develop.

We may still stand a chance against all odds with your help.

Lead us...

In This Vast World

Your loyal companions will follow you from ancient ruins to modern metropolis, from east to west.

You will meet common folks we swear to protect, watching them live their "normal" life.

You will discover mysteries, and solve them when combating evil forces lurking in the dark.

The Secret History

The story behind this game:

Store.steampowered.com

It's the first Neolithic game with English localization that comes to Steam since 2004 when the first game of Neolithic was published in a dark corner of China.

Compared to a commercial game, this is more like a memento to the old golden age of RPG Maker XP (when indie games are really indie; when updates are free instead of being paid DLCs; when developers update games for years, even decades instead of abandon projects as soon as it's no longer profitable; when games are made with passion instead of money-hunger; And, when RPG Maker was not used to just make those cheap adult-only games.)

This is NEOLITHIC!

There are many games out there, made with modern tools and more than 1 developer. They are supposed to be better than mine.

But, they are not. Why?

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We also have cats! They are cute. :3

Something Silly: :P

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DD# 173 A Love Story of an Infatuated Bandit, Part 1

May 24 2024 News

Hi, everyone. Welcome to another week's developer's diary.

This week, the main focus is on a story quest from an ancient time. By ancient, I mean even more ancient than this game from 2004. The story was from Stone Age Online. In that game, there was a bandit known as Genzo, guarding a bridge between Samujier and Hottle. He was a nightmare to many low-level players back then as only by defeating them, they can progress to another area. Even the Stone Age Online has been shut down long ago. He continues to live on in every iteration of our game.

His functionality is the same. He is a bandit (or toll collector, depending on if you believe his self-claim). He guards a bridge that is essential to go to Hottle from Samujier. You will need to either pay him money or defeat him to pass through. Seems just like a normal bandit and cartoonish villain you can see every day, right?

Not so, he has been guarding this bridge for more than 20 years. (Both in the game and in real life as I mentioned above, he has been there even before this game's 2004 launch.) Even if he may sometimes get defeated by players, he always comes back to guard that bridge. What is so important about that bridge? What's his motivation behind this seemingly impossible mission he is carrying out?

Those questions were just as interesting back then as they are right now. The developers of the Stone Age Online didn't leave many useful clues. But, back then, players, myself included, used whatever details we could find and made a theory. Behind everything, there must be a much deeper story. There were even fan-made comic books and novels about this story back then.

For 20 years, even such a beautiful story faded away. Maybe not many people still remember what's this all about. Then, I think it's a good time to retell this story. Maybe it's because if even I do not tell this story again, it will be lost forever. This is also one of the reasons that I have been keeping this ancient game alive for so many years.

Now, I'm trying to avoid spoiling too much in this developer's diary.
So, let's just cover some setups and how this side quest is going to be.
First, Genzo now has a tent near the bridge he is guarding. There you can find a lot of things about his past. However, if Genzo is nearby and he can see you, he will stop you from entering. You have multiple ways to bypass this. There is also a new NPC in Samujier who is a big fan of Genzo, fascinated by Genzo's stubbornness and wishes to hire you to investigate. The funny thing is, if your speech skill is high enough, you can keep asking him to give you a higher reward until you cannot push it further. At the end of the current story, Genzo can be recruited as a teammate. And, we are not going to stop just here. It's another thing we will continue when we reach the Jiru Island. Based on your choices, the story will end differently.

The multiple-ending part is the main difference between this retold version of Genzo's story in our game and the story 20 years ago. 20 years ago, in that original story, Genzo died. Now, you may have a chance to give him a happy ending.

We all have chances to make our lives differently. But, many times, we are stopped for various reasons. But, we shall also consider the price we pay if we do not do.

Maybe, it's still not too late.

But, who is the girl that loves the moonlight flowers?

You will find out in the story.
You can also use her appearance to customize your main character or customized teammates.

May this memory live on. To the end.

Meanwhile, we also have another character's art assets added to the game.

I don't think I need to introduce a Russian mad monk too much.
He will appear in Siberia in that village full of meat cubes and orcs. But, because of the priority issues during this week's development. That part is still currently pending. But, you can also use his appearance to customize your characters.

That's for this week.
"To the world that was. Mankind shall never see its like again." --- <<A Toast>> from Fallout 4
But, maybe I can still tell you some stories about the history I lived through. :)

The full update log of this week:
20240518
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[Character Customization]Added 1 new playable male character variation.
[Liu]Improved the battle background near the Confucian Temple.

20240519
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[Genzo's Tent]Genzo now has a tent near the location he is guarding.
[Genzo's Tent]You can only enter the tent if Genzo is not nearby.
[Genzo's Tent]When you come out of the tent, if Genzo is nearby, his relationship with you will reduce.
[Genzo's Tent]Added a new BGM.
[Genzo's Tent]Added a bed, a campfire, and a boombox in the tent.
[Item]New item: Moonlight Flower. (Functionalities to be added soon.)

20240520
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[Moonlight Flower]Moonlight Flowers can now be used as gift items.
[Moonlight Flower]Moonlight Flowers can now be used for alchemy.
[Shopping]Various alchemy ingredient vendors in Nise now sell Moonlight Flower.
[Gardening]New Seeds: Moonlight Flower Seeds.
[Shopping]Random gardening vendors now sell Moonlight Flower Seeds.
[Hottle]Junk Merchants may now appear in Hottle.

20240521
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[Genzo's Bridge]Added some moonlight flowers near Genzo.
[Genzo's Tent]Added a locked chest.
[Genzo's Tent]Added a new document <<Genzo's Diary>>, some moonlight flowers and some moonlight flower seeds in the chest.

20240522
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[Character Customization]Added 1 new playable female character variation.
[Genzo's Tent]Added a photo that you can inspect.

20240523
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[Genzo's Tent]You can now use a smoke bomb to enter Genzo's tent without being detected even if Genzo is nearby. Thus, it's no longer necessary to directly confront Genzo.
[Samujier]Added a new story-related NPC.
[Genzo]Added a new quest: Genzo. (The first part is done. You can use your persuasion skills to increase the mission rewards repeatedly.)
[Wiki]Added a new page about this quest: Neolithia.fandom.com(Quest)

20240524
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[Genzo]His story mission continues, at the end of the current story, you can now recruit him as a new teammate.
[Genzo]When you are doing something related to slavery and Genzo is in your group, his relationship value with you will reduce.