A Child Called Ash

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