Automatic Messiah

Content warning: features profanity, violence, and sometimes touches dark themes (fascism, sadism, slavery, etc.) due to post-apocalyptic setting.

You are an ambassador from a distant solar system. Your mission is to establish diplomatic relations with a primitive planet called "Earth." After your hundred-year journey you arrive to find that the world has been destroyed.

Now you must explore this wasteland and try to finish the job... one way or the other.

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Features:

• Strategic turn-based combat with different player builds.
• Fight using either lethal, non-lethal, or diplomatic methods and change how the world perceives your character as well as unlocking different skills based on your path.
• The benefits of both party-based and single member RPG's as you are a single synthezoid but have turns for your built-in computer and onboard fabricator.
• A large, interconnected map with non-linear exploration (current available content not reflective of this).
• 3 difficulty settings to allow the player to choose their experience.
• An objective system that both guides the player on the main path and provides side quest distractions.
• Generous auto-save that prevents progress loss but also protects against save-scumming to encourage players to live by their choices

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CURRENT STATE: v0.2.4

Early pre-alpha! Only two areas with two dungeons currently.

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Known issues:

• Some placeholder AI art still in use.
• Equipment UI does not show appropriate info.
• Player names can be longer than UI allows (UI will be updated to allow these long names).
• Controller supported but is not recommended due to missing functions.

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If so inclined, I have made a feedback form for players who wish to give their thoughts!

https://forms.gle/YLJy3VJSC2W7A66y6

You can also go straight to the comments if you like; all feedback is welcome!

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RPG Maker forum thread here: https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/automatic-messiah-demo-availabl...

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I can also be reached directly via email: ebaskingames@gmail.com

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Changelog:

v0.2.4

• Ammo and Chemicals now show on world map to help player keep track without having to open their inventory
  • Fixed issue where on screen UI elements would flick on and off during cutscenes
• Enemies now Withdraw immediately if defeated with Diplomacy skills
• Added Chem Box item to vendor
• Replaced Solve skill with Appease.
  • Solve will come back at a later level, Appease should be more useful for early game combat
• Fixed issue where players could buy crafting recipes more than once
• Reduced cost of Scrap Chunk items
• More little fixes

v0.2.3

• New zone: Line of Crawling Dead
• New dungeon: Crab Mound
• New mini-game: Hacking
• Lots of Skill/Weapon tuning
• Lots of new Weapons
• Programs added
• Vendor added
• Crafting added
• Many skills now have randomized animations
• Reduced amount of player attacks that have Knockdown/Stun and introduced new statuses for better build synergy and variety
• Fixed "x/100" showing on items
• Some adjustments to UI in combat
• Updated many skill descriptions to have icons to inform the player on key functions
• Fixed frame rate loss issue
• Cleaned out unused files to reduce project size
• Lots of fixes I can't even remember

v0.1.6

• Added fade in/out during enemy attacks to highlight which one is attacking
• Added extra animation effects for enemy attacks when they cause a status
• Modified Radiation damage animation and SFX to make it stand out
• Increased damage of enemies on Normal difficulty across the board
• Increased difficulty of enemies in Police Station to ramp up to the boss fight at the end
• Increased damage of guns, Destabilizer, and Nullifier
• Doubled damage of Barbs of Light, and drastically increased Energy cost
• Reduced effectiveness of Predict
• Adjusted Grenade skill damage, descriptions, and animation size
• Corrected skill descriptions of Slam and Deadly Strike to clarify that they are "Melee Attacks"
• Made blinking of interact-able objects slightly brighter

v0.1.5

• Fixed issue with game playing at higher speeds on higher refresh rate monitors
  • This has made the frame loss issue more rare, but not fully fixed
• Fixed crash in options menu when players had a controller plugged in
• Fixed some objects that would blink when clicked on (even though they had no function)
• Added extra info to "Equip your guns" tip screen
• Added extra hint to first Tough Mutadog fight
  • Increased Tough Mutadog health
• Added failsafe to make sure Radioactive Zombie stays dead 
• Added "PH" note to a few pieces of placeholder art that needed it
• Removed a stray RTP music stinger