Eastern Medicine
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is an interactive visual novel, taking place in Eastern Europe, Hungary, Budapest or rathe rin its fictitious version according to the World of Darkness, Vampire: The Masquerade. It was made for the 2021, November, Vampire game jam. It is not canon content. It was made by a couple, Fruzsina Zsólyomi and Bence Levente Bodó with love and a bit of darkness :). It is our first game.
The world of VTM and playing this tabletop RPG with friends or just the two of us during the difficult times of lockdowns brought us so much joy and connection.
Eastern Medicine uses character sheets, rolls according to the 5th edition of the core book, meaningful choices, two playable characters (Toreador and Malkavian - our favourite clans) and different endings (4 defeats and 2 victories).
Enjoy!
Fruzsi and Bence
*** Developers' note: ***
The difficulty of the game needs to be further adjusted, we didn't finish completely fine-tuning it. - planned to be adjusted in a bugfix -
Wanted to add a heal option, but did not have the time.
A lot of players get defetead at the Heaven scene, to get through follow the guide below:
*** SPOILER ***
- Cayanne (the Malkavian) character is a bit more customized and difficult
- Almos (the Toreador) character is easier and a bit more generic
- The best strategy to advance in the Heeaven scene is to be offensive.
- When describing your apprtment choose "it was full of gear" - to have a weapon advantage
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Install instructions
Download -> unzip -> eastern_medicine_project (execute)
Comments
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I loved the art style and the writing. The pictures felt so unique and alive. Though I'm not too sure you can survive as Malkavian? The one time I got through the initial attack on one healthpoint, I would die at the start of the next scene without fail.
Thank you so much for playing it and the nice words! :)
We appriciate it a lot !!! - following your channel it felt very good to see ours comming up!
Thank you for the feedback on the difficulty, halfway through the game it gets too hard - to quickfix it we put up a note in the description, but we will address it in the future
SPOILER
For now to advance you need to say that the appartment was full of gear - and attack the agents at every opportunity.
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VERY COOL VN GAME DEV
Thank you very much!
Such a cool game guys! Amazing visuals, and fun narration and dialogue (even though I didn't manage to get to the end yet - I keep dying after recounting the breach). Also as a former Budapestian I always love to see it as a character in a game (the dig at the beauty of hospitals really landed with me :D).
Thank you so much for playing it and the kind words!
Yes, even though we actually adjusted the difficulty after some palytesting, kinda feel like it is still a bit too difficult. :)
When I saw this setting was Budapest I screamed cause we picked the same city! What are the chances right? I had a lot of fun with this, the sheriff was interesting (he killed me lol) and I liked the Malkavian protagonist a lot.
Haha, yes we didn't think either that anyone would pick Budapest :) To us the choice was pretty evident, because we live here and also play our some of our tabletop games in the Budapest setting.
Checkout your game, it is truly beautiful (left a comment there)
And thank you for playing through ours !