Welcome to Elderfield

no romance but you can friend characters?

Hi, thanks for playing the game! There is kind of a lot going on there, so I'll just say a few things. Nothing is traced, I have just spent over a decade practicing and learning to draw traditional horror manga. Ito is my largest influence (and certainly most recognizable to folks in the west), but other influences are artists like Umezz, Hino, Kago, Koga, Maruo, Nori, Masaaki, Yamazaki and Inuki to name a few. There are videos of me illustrating character artwork for the game from scratch on my YouTube channel, where I post devlogs for the game. In response to the claim that there are "stolen assets", this just isn't true. You mentioned rocks from Stardew Valley specifically. That isn't true - the rock sprites in this game are either modified sprites from a tileset named Mana Seed, or completely original.  The game is still early in development, and there is about a year and half to go at least, so hopefully it will shape up into something less clunky and more consistent. Even the artwork is always being tweaked and re-worked as I listen to feedback and try to find the right balance. 

The Steam version is the same as this one. Usually the playrequest() crash means the game is not installed properly. Please try completely deleting the files and re-installing. Lag may be a result of your system, I would need to know your specs to tell if it is out of the ordinary.

There is no AI. I've spent more than a decade studying and practicing traditional horror manga illustration (Ito, Umezz, Kago, Hino, Koga, Masaaki, Kago, Maruo, Nori, etc.). Ito is the most prominent influence and certainly the most recognizable to most folks in the west, but I have a lot of influences across all of traditional horror manga. 

The current plan is to have the full game professionally localized into many languages (likely including Portuguese) for the full release.

That said, the game can already be fan-translated without the need for mods, as all of the localization tools are already implemented. There is a game-messages.csv file in the main directory. This has  several columns - one for raw text (Original) and one for the English displayed text (en). Replacing the text in the "en" column will change what text is displayed in-game by default. Translating that column will mean all of that text will appear translated in-game for anyone who replaces their game-messages.csv file.

If a special font is needed, renaming any font to "VCR.woff" and replacing the file of the same name in the fonts folder will change the default font.

There is some text which is not included in the "Original" column of the csv file. You can add any text to a new cell there, and any translated text to the eng column to change any text in-game which matches (ie. if the words "You found" are not in the csv file and not being translated in game, you can just add that and its translation to a new cell in the original and en columns, and then they will appear translated in-game). 

Since it is just the csv and a font that need to be replaced for someone to get the translation, you can easily make a drag-and-drop patch for any language.

I am also open to including any fan translations languages in future builds of the demo until the official translation is created.

Do you have specific examples?

This is not true. I have over a decade of experience drawing in a traditional horror manga style. There are even videos on my Youtube channel showing me illustrating character artwork for the game from  blank page all the way to inked/colored/implemented artwork in-game. 

My art style is very inspired by traditional horror manga, with Junji Ito being the most prominent influence but also artists like Umezz, Koga, Hino, Masaaki, and others. These are all penciled and inked from scratch by hand. There is nothing referenced from any existing material, I just have over a decade of experience illustrating in this style, and my influences are very recognizeable. The reason there is no mention of Ito or any other influence is that no other artists are involved in this project, so referencing/crediting them would be inappropriate.

Thanks for the report!

This happens when a new version was uploaded and the old one was disabled while you were trying to download it. Refreshing the page and getting the latest version will fix it

I'm glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for making a video!

If you mean date monsters, there is already a skeleton in the free demo and a "creature" in the Patreon version which you can increase friendship with. There are plenty of townsfolk which you can increase friendship with. There will eventually be some kind of partner system implemented.