Neo Malta
A downloadable game
This game was created for the RPG Maker 2025 Game Jam. This is a work in progress! Assist Malta by helping her complete minigames to improve her prospects of successfully dating an alien.
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Development log
- Fixed inaccessible area55 days ago
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This is cute! I love the premise and the worldbuilding and the art style, and I hope to be able to play it to completion in the future. (As of right now it's extremely buggy; as an example, I can't leave the area with the library because trying to talk to the train conductor locks up the action bar.)
Also, some suggestions:
- It'd be nice if I could install this game via the itch.io launcher
- Maybe keep the cursor locked to a grid? I keep overshooting... I imagine it could also simplify the pathfinding some? The game seems to struggle with that.
- Maybe have a way of signifying if "talk" or "look" will do something with a specific object Malta is near, or just the room / her thoughts.
Aaaaaah, how cute Malta-chan is! The sci-fi world where robots have rights and live together with humans feels so amazing!
I try to reach the ending in the current version, but I run out of energy and get game over right away, so I feel a bit discouraged nya.
But when it gets updated, I definitely play to the end and see Malta-chan’s full story! 🐱
my playthrough
this is so cute and charming!! can't wait for a full update! my only problems so far is trying to move malta and sometimes when i try to use the number functions, it gets stuck and the only way to reset is to run to a auto event.
thanks for playing!! yeah, there's a LOT of bugs and other issues... i was down to the wire on my submission and was adding stuff right up until i submitted it, at like 11:30 PM. playtesting would've really caught a lot of this and made it more playable on the day, waugh
Playing a BGM or SE in a parallel process event uncaps the frame rate, for players with higher refresh setups it speeds up the game and makes it difficult to control.
Congrats on the release
thanks for pointing that out!! i don't think i would've known how to fix it otherwise, it's been fixed for the full version. stinks that the jam submission is just gonna be like that though
SO BEAUTIFUL!!!
thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I adore this game's style!
It's a bit tough to navigate but I think that may be due to the frame rate dependency of it? I tried to force it to 30, but the game's speed still runs too fast.
Sweet stuff!
yeah, sorry, apparently that's because i was playing audio through parallel processes which speeds up the game logic on higher refresh rate monitors...... for some reason. it's since been patched and the full game (when it comes out) shouldn't have this issue. thank you very much for your kind words!!
I'm glad to hear !! I'll be sure to play it again, thank you!