Ghost Child and the Raven
A downloadable game
The Ghost Child has been trapped in this dying forest for a long enough time. Maybe some kind soul will help her get out?
Psychological horror RPG. 2 ends - you get to choose which one. Takes about 20-40 minutes to play through.
Game made with RPG Maker VX Ace. Original assets and music.
This game contains themes that may be disturbing to a certain audience (death, suicide ideation, implied bullying, implied abuse, mild flashing lights, visual snow effects).
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Development log
- Bug fixes 2May 29, 2023
- Bug fixesMay 29, 2023
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this game is wonderful! It has charming weirdness and atmosphere and color palette is very fitting. Also it's rare opportunity to make a crow happy<3
but I can't proceed cos of this bug:(((
Thank youuuu for your nice comment I really appreciate it!!!
I've reuploaded a new file for the game.
Normally your save should still be compatible with the new version- what you want to do is take your save out of the game folder before deleting the folder and then reinstalling it. Then, put your savefile back in the main folder (where Game.exe is).
Please let me know if that fixes it- and thank you for playing my game <3
I think it happens automatically on my PC. MAybe if you rename the file with Latin letters only, it might help?..
Ok I finished it and I love it - sweet ending with Raven and cool shamisen soundtrack:3
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this girl is Jane, right? and she's a ghost? I might play it rushly and didn't really get the coffin ending
(btw i had to find this ÿ letter and rename the file to play:) )
Oh!!!!!!!! That makes so much sense yeah... I just thought it got corrupted when uploading... Thank you so much for letting me know this it's so helpful <3
I'm rlly glad you liked it~
Yes the game is confusing on purpose! I love to make things that are like intended for a certain audience to get. But I will clear some things up below-
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Yes, the girl is Jane. It is left confusing on purpose, but is supposed to be cleared up by the two "grave" locations (the stele says "Jane") and Jun- guy with greyish hair calling out "Jane?" in the home scene.
Jane is a ghost indeed. Jane perceives herself as dead/a ghost due to the way she feels.
The game is about suicide ideation and loved ones around attempting to reach out to a loved one dealing with suicidal thoughts.
Jun and Raven are attempting to help her feel more alive. The resolution is found by letting go of the dead forest (metaphor for feelings of despair) instead of trying to heal it, since it's already too late for it- bad events happened and cannot be undone- so Jane is helped by feelings of kinship and being given a secure environment.
wow that's so deep, I'd probably never guess myself. But now that I know you like symbolism it will help to understand better your future games:> I'm sure they'll be great:D
Aw thank you that means a lot <3