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Content Warning: As all my games, this one's rated Teen / PG-13. However, it also contains transphobia, used by not-so-nice people. Player discretion is advised.
Before she was Raziya, she was Ashur.
Born and raised as a boy, Ashur was an ex-thief, given a job by a manipulative mother, who lived in a broken home.
Inspired by the heroics of her late father, Ashur couldn't find a means to be the person she was meant to be.
With only her best friend Jengo at her side, Raziya believed that she would only ever be seen as a he.
However, encouraged by those who would listen and bolster her inner self, Raziya would cease be a child called Ash...
A Child Called Ash is a prologue to my WIP RPG, "A Lion in Scarlet", taking place further back in Raziya's young adult life. For the themes of Fifty Days of Representation, a game jam on RPG Maker Network, I'd decided to cover Raziya's status as a transgender woman. Y'know, like I had in that no-longer-100%-canon prologue the year before, called "A Maned Lioness". However, I hope that other themes of representation might be covered.
Features include...
- A playtime of ~25 minutes if you do everything; a short adventure as always from me
- JRPG battles to put the player in the (lack of) shoes of the protagonist... because VX Ace
- Probably the best cutscene eventing and sound mixing I've done thus far (I sure hope so, most of the game is cutscenes >_>)
- A cameo to an RMN user who helped me in the early stages of this project; I hope he likes the references ;3
- Perhaps the darkest story I've told thus far in a game
- A story that conveys Raziya's identity, beyond even her gender
- CREDITS: ASSETS -
- The Mighty Pack -- The Mighty Palm
- Lucky Bestiary --LuckyCassette
- RTP Animations from RPG Maker 2000 by ASCII / Enterbrain / Kadokawa / Whoever owns RPG Maker these days
- Equinox Font -- Soulrain
- 512 Sound Effects (8-Bit Style) -- SubSpaceAudio
- 8-Bit Perfect Collection by Bitter Sweet Entertainment
- "Teeth and Ambitions", a commissioned chiptune song -- Avee
- 8-Bit Free Game Music Loops -- Wingless-Seraph
- CREDITS: SCRIPTS -
- Victor Engine - Basic Module and Element Reflect -- Victor Sant
- Simple Non-RPG Menu -- Zeon013
- Character's Name Window -- Diamondandplatinum3
- Better Autoshadow Removal -- NeonBlack; preserved by Archeia
- Window Color Opacity -- Melkino
- Junk Font Removal Scriplet -- Lone Wolf