Welcome to Crumbs, a 20-25 minute short simulation game where you inhabit an inaccurate facsimile of my very anxious life.

The 12th of May 2022 was the day that development began. For all of the first 3-4 days of development, I sincerely thought I could finish a game of this complexity in two weeks. Haw haw, past me - it took 6 months.

It took far too long to finish my goodbye to this engine.

In a lot of ways, this was the final test of my abilities. "Can I make a game with a relatively believable day/night cycle in RPG Maker 2003"? The answer to this question is up to those who play this, really - my own opinion is "Yes, but not a good one".

Can you make a game with a relatively believable day/night cycle in RPG Maker 2003? Feel free to leave a comment below if you can! :)

Or just.. make your own version of this game. It'd be nice to see this attempted again.

For context of why I'm this exasperated: 

• I've been using RM2k3 to do things since 2011, more than a decade
• I was always too anxious to try learning a proper programming language. Since 2009. Which is when I started wanting to make games
• Having started  to learn one now (GML), I realized, painfully, that it was really easy all along, and that I was biding my time for nothing other than to appease a sense of inferiority planted in me by cruel people
• This is the third game I finish this year.

Hope that explains it. I will be hibernating for the entirety of December, now.

Please enjoy the 12th of May - and I hope that the way this short little thing ends will bring you some comfort, like it did for me.

-Quinn