Likely Story RPG – A Lesson in Async

This RPG maker game was developed in 2017 by myself and my brother. It was briefly available on the Windows Store and Google Play until 2019 when it was removed. Now you can try it here for free. We made it as an experiment to see if we could build a whole game in a few weeks. It ended up taking months due to a Javascript bug in RPG Maker MV’s engine.

I discovered the bug and reported it, but nobody could determine a fix. One day I stumbled on the answer, the engine was expecting calls asynchronously but the actual Async flag was set to “off.” Once I flipped that boolean value, the app ran in Windows Store and Android deployments flawlessly.

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