Secrets of Gaia IV
A downloadable game for Windows
Welcome to my first dip into game development. Written in RPG Maker MZ, Project Gaia is a survival adventure. You play as Sora Starchaser, a surveyor on an exploration mission ambushed by pirates in deep space. Now the sole survivor and stranded in orbit over a strange planet, you must brave the mysteries of the surface below if you are to find the materials to fix your ship and get home.
This is the free version. It contains content that is one or two releases behind the latest and up to date version for patreon supporters.
Feel free to join the Discord server for updates, bug reporting, and community chat. If the invite link has gone stale, please leave a comment here. I try to refresh a new one every week.
This game has adult themes. You must be 18+ to download, play, and participate in the discord server.
Meanwhile, talks with illustrators are starting to speed up. That and the project is leaving alpha stage and is nearly content complete on both Act I and II. To keep development really going and unhindered, I've started a patreon page. Come check it out!
https://www.patreon.com/Rule34ExpansionGames
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Development log
- Dev Log - December 2022Dec 05, 2022
- New Name and Quick UpdateNov 21, 2022
- Release StrategyNov 02, 2022
- Dev Log - November 2022Nov 02, 2022
- v0.9.6 ChangelogOct 26, 2022
- v0.8.3Oct 26, 2022
- Dev Log - October 2022Oct 01, 2022
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When do you think the next update will be? *Edit* Found the preg option.
Great game. Where can I go to support it ?
There has already been a lot of great people that have supported significantly to this project, and I'm just trying to get it finished at this point. I've moved to a "support if you can" model with itchio. I'm glad that you enjoyed it and I hope the ending matches the rest of your experience!
could you make this available for mac?
When I get the next version out there, I can definitely do a mac release as well. RPGMMZ has a mac deployment out of the box. I don't know if it's compatible for Mac/Intel or apple silicon as well though.
Can you make this available on android it looks like an awesome game plsssss
Use joiplay
It seems there is a bug where you give birth, and yet your sprite still keeps the pregnancy and its speed debuff. Bit of an annoyance when trying to gather ores. The speed debuff also affects the global map.
Edit: seems your character only updates after exploring a different section of the map. This is the cause and solution.
Is there any permanent weight gain? I'm confused by how to progress
I'm sorry, I was just showing you which channels still had the bogus discord link in them, you didn't have to ban me ;-;
The desert area says it still has '2 large anomalies detected', even if I have looked- and walked on- Every. Single. TILE! in that area... That's a bug, right ? All the other areas on that planet are at 0, so ?
Can there be voice acting? Please.
I am currently stuck at the laser puzzle of the moon base. what do I need to do, exactly?
Is there preg and are there more characters
no only 1 playable character, and as for pregnancy you need to choose the "its kinda lonely" not the "am hungry" option cuz for the second option its inflation/belly stuff fetish
Quick questioon will there be vore like she eats slime and other stuff just asking
no.... each time she eat something, just walk around, or fight some enemies her belly will inflate but no vore just belly inflation stuff :(
Oh but its okay
Where do I get these options, exactly?
talk to the robot thingy in the upper left last room i think?
Any questions where to find anomalies on A043?Can you tell me, I can 't find it, I ran through the whole location and didn 't see it , there are 2 pieces left , only there are no more compartments there
Can you really get this big as on screenshot? Because my charakter doesn't have even a smaller bump
The main character can take steps in the Medical Bay to increase their threshold, allowing them to get bigger in later acts of the game.
Okay, thanks
When are you going to update this game
Where to get rare earth metal?
cuz it beens like roughly 3 hours
From brown ore deposits if I remember correctly the grey just give you basic ones and the last metal is crafted
Brown ore is the uncommon ore. Every ore deposit drops some of the ore of same rarity, more of the rarity underneath it, and maybe a few of the rarity above it.
There are some rare ore deposits in caves. I'm working on adding more nodes across the maps for less materials grinding
where are the items for the WP
its the mushroom thingy in items
oh yea btw where to get rare earth metals, ive been playing it for hours
thanks for telling me and i don't know what are the rare earth metals or where they are if i did
Ok, can anyone explain to me how to get past the Berry Vine? No matter what achievable combination of WP and Dist I have when I try it, it always results in failure. What tactic is necessary to get past it? I already have maxed out my medical upgrades for this area and am using the highest level gear I can craft with only rare ore.
I believe that's bugged and can't be completed regardless. I have had no success in getting past that as well.
I believe you have to be Hungry in order to proceed past the Berry Vine.
i spent 3 hours of my life grinding in this game
way too much grinding, please balance it
(probably making the crafting and the scanner prices cheaper would make it better)
(or more rare metal spawns)
otherwise good game
(also combat lacks diversity)
"this is the free version" . . . *clicks download* -Name your own price-. . .
When it says name your own price there is a button to take you to the download screen anyway. The version is free it just promptS you for a donation if you so choose.
what do the crystal shards do?
Seems after I did some content in the cave, I'm stuck in a constant slow walk after a non-medical-bay pregnancy. How do I fix this?
That has been a bug that was tough to fix without a rewrite. I'm currently in progress for a fix for this.
Patreon Link is outdated.
Although the text for the link shows the correct URL clicking on the link still tries to take you to https://www.patreon.com/majesticbluefalcon
Thanks for the heads up, link should be updated
how do I fix Alice?
Not today, spammers. Not today!
Still alive and well, just trying to code as much as I can.
is there a way to try the other fetish content that in it like all of the other options are greyed out and the weight gain and pregnancy is all there is right now any way to beta test the other options for testing purposes and to help find bugs?
I do have a bug-reporting channel on my discord where I'm able to track all of the bugs the community has found in one place. Drop on by if you did find something. Meanwhile if you would like to help in some way, feel free to reach out. This is a single person effort, so I am trying to juggle everything.
Meanwhile, I went with the decision to enhance the individual story for each expansion theme instead of having them all just run on the main story alone. I disabled switching for this reason, so that the player can progress through the side quest for their own chosen theme.
The new NPCs and encounter system will have the main character facing enemies from all expansion themes and there will be a strength and weakness strategy coming in.
I'm curious about what "I'm really thirsty" would add up to
Thirsty is going to be the blueberry story
Where do you see the options for fetish content?
there is a menu when you talk to the robot for the first time the options are white where work in progress ones are greyed out
Okay, I'll bite
Where's SOG 1, 2 & 3?
I think it's supposed to mean that the planet is named Gaia IV, like how the scientific name for Europa is Jupiter II.
Oh okay
Now I'm wondering what the other themes could possibly be. Tingly? Itchy? Strange?
The current implementation of the theme select came from when Pregnancy artwork and dialog was just completed, and there were artists lined up for Blueberry and Breast/hourglass expansion. At the time it seemed like I was lining up a lot of artists to add more themes, so I stubbed out some other possibilities to help plug them in later.
I made the game itself to be modular, so that as long as I got artwork for any kind of expansion or transformation theme, I could add in the artwork and story for it.
For my plans for release, I couldn't be happier that I have not one but three themes in the game. Although I planned for it in code, I wasn't expecting it. For now I'm releasing this game with Weight Gain, Pregnancy, and Blueberry for the expansion themes and stories so that I can keep to my already amended schedule for 1st Quarter, 2023.
I do have plans to learn Unity, probably with RPG Maker Unite, and with that I will probably see about remastering SoGIV. If that comes around and I can acquire more assets from artists, then I'll look to adding more themes that are requested.
how do you play the pregnancy gameplay?
When ALPHA 6 asks if you're experiencing any symptoms, select "I'm feeling a little flushed
Is there any way to swap between Preg and WG after that?
I went in favor of setting the theme choice early so that I can write a side story specific to each expansion theme.
That does mean that a separate gameplay is needed for each theme, but that there will be personal story elements for that theme that can give a different experience.
The new NPCs that can be encountered can be from any theme, and there are some upcoming combat elements that allow for some more strategy. For the main character, she can only be affected by one expansion type at a time.
Fair enough
will this game have a mac version please
Yes. Once I move to a single release with v0.10 I'll bring out a windows and mac release.
I'll try to get better spec requirements for Joiplay with RPGM Mz. I've had some players have trouble on older phones and android. There's not much I can do but I can try to find some specific requirements.
is their a way to get the gaia grapes and gaia syrup
Looks like they're not showing up because of a bug. Syrup is supposed to drop in some other gatherable nodes like nectar does. The grapes are supposed to be their own nodes that are not showing up.
Hey everyone! Version 9 is out!
The main changelog is on the discord server. I'll copy it over here and on the Weight Gaming forum tomorrow. Enjoy!
Changelog for v0.9 is up in the development log
is there a way to make it as the blue meter goes up the MC spite changes?
You mean the walking sprite? While there are cutscene art for each of the 10 stages, there are only about 5 stages of walking sprites. Plus, some of those walking sprites are reserved for the later game where med bay procedures can increase the MC's max on the blue meter even further. The sprites between WG and P are a little different. If you're still having trouble, let me know on the discord server. I have bug reporting channels dedicated to tracking issues there.
The puzzle in the ship with the fuses seems to be bugged out. I can get infinite red fuses and only one blue fuse and no green fuses. Meaning there is only one solution, which is the 40v undervoltage. There's no way to get a solution that won't result in frying the circuits and not getting the parts. Meaning a true solution is impossible.
Also I can literally spam this thing for infinite GP.
There is way too much grinding. For one the deep scan ability should have a much lower chance of missing or none at all in order to keep the fights balanced, as missing two deep scans in a row is basically a guaranteedlost.
Second of all converting GP into XP doesn't give you enough, so that's bad design.
Third of all the GP grinding is absurd. The resource grinding while extremely annoying is somewhat balanced fairly. The economy of the GP is just broken, I mean you need 2 thousand to upgrade the med machine then you need another 2 grand to actually USE IT. What part of I upgraded it which took 10-15 minutes of my life, therefore I shouldn't need to pay more, do you not get? And then if that isn't bad enough you have to keep doing it over and over again to get treshold up just like with the leveling. This is boarderline EA design only there's no credit card involved so I can't understand the logic behind making the grind cycle this bad.
Also converting signals into GP is a joke. 30 GP per scan, that's not acceptable. you need literally thousands. And the major scan only gives you 200 when it should give closer to 500 or more. The minor scan should be about 100 roughly speaking.
Overall the first hour or so is literally just grinding to repair the AI and repair enough of the ship to get to the second area, defeat the pheonix and then grind for the next while on even more resources you need.
After awhile you realize that the over powered random enemies are not even worth fighting so you just flee from everything that isn't a boss full of GP and actual useful resources which is not really how a game should be played.
I'm at the point now of being softlocked, there's only one rock in a cave left from the areas I have unlocked which has ONE of the purple ore, which I need 20. I could keep grinding for it for hours but honestly. I'm done.
Anyone who reviews this piece of shit game higher then one stare should get into hobbies like staring at paint dry on a wall, because that's basically the same exciting experience this game has to offer. Not only is it a terrible game that bores you to death, it's erotic content runs out within the first 10 minutes. I hope the developer quits and does some other project because this game sucks. Easily the worse NSFW game I have ever played. I've literally played 5 minute demos with zero erotic content that were less of a waste of my time as a player. The only way someone could make a worse game is by actually injecting malware into your computer.
@PaddedStreamer, I appreciate the feedback. After looking at your commenting history, it's a proud badge of honor to get three comments on my game to show the depth to which you've played it compared to some of your other reviews. It is a work in progress, and I've got some good notes to work on here. If you could remind your one follower about that, I promise to work to improve the game. Thanks!
OH，good game，I love it！
😀
Thanks! It is a work in progress. If there is anything that you see that needs to be changed, I'm tracking bug reporting and requests on my Discord server. Enjoy!
Thank you for your update. In fact, it was reported that when unzipping after downloading, McAfee LiveSafe isolated the virus-infected file, although it is unknown whether it was a misdiagnosis. Sorry to trouble you, but could you please confirm?
There may be a combination of things that I haven't been able to single out. I had bought the entire Yanfly MZ plugin library, which is dozens and dozens of extra plugins. There are some that are still unused. I'm guessing that anti-virus is mad that these are extra javascript files that aren't being used at this time. I've had other reports that a certain unused plugin file can't be loaded, in which I just remove from the project completely. If you do see any logs that specify a certain filename, please let me know and I will trim it out in the next update.
Otherwise, it's a false positive from the antivirus.
Hey everyone, I have a few more notes for the v0.8, since it was such a big update. Namely, bringing in a major goal of the game which was to have multiple expansion "themes" that the player can pick from. That being said, bringing in the second theme did have a lot of bugs that were squashed through the several patch versions. Here's a list of a couple known bugs that are getting or already have been addressed in working on v0.9:
- There was a typo in the code. So the MC will always get pregnant when they give into their urges.
- Also, the med bay hasn't been able to understand the anomaly's effects so pregnancy may not be completely cleared after a recovery. (That has been fixed)
- Shields are not equipable, yet. That also has been fixed for the new theme.
- Some of the later maps puzzles also need to be reworked to be better suited to the MC's psychic powers instead
Thanks for everyone patience. Meanwhile, come in and check out the Discord server! A friendly reminder that I've had the best success with bug reporting and answering questions there.
Hey there, Really enjoying the theme of the game but I have a question. Am I supposed to be just re-doing the same thing over and over. I've spent about 2 hours going back and forth between the ship and the same area? I've repaired the Research Lab, the Computer Core and the Support room. And the only thing I can think to do is get GB to scan and level up but I get 17-22 per orb guy and I need over a thousand for another scan. Is there something else I'm supposed to be able to do ?
Edit: Ok, so it seems there was a relatively easy way to farm GB as the mob always seems to spawn as your first encounter. Though, I now have another question with the new area unlocked. Am I meant to move at a permanent snails pace even after the character has given birth ?
That is a bug. There were a few of those that came in from having split functionality between expansion themes. The intent is to slow the character when they're in the higher stages of expansion, but to have all of that cleared when going through the med bay for recovery. Same thing for in caves, but just not able to beam out from underground. The best bet is to get to the surface and then you can reach the ship again.
This bug has been addressed, as well as adding more options for encounters and story that helps with the grind. But they are currently in the v0.9.0 which is in supporter early access. For now, the early access version is delayed from hitting the free general release by a version. v0.9 will hit general release once supporters get v0.10