Dæmonic Affright

**Dæmonic Affright** is the first game in the Claire: Chronicles of the Carmine Blood series, created using the RPG Maker MV engine, and is the first game using the engine.

### Release Date

December 22, 2020 (Devlog publish, Game Jolt)TBA 2021 (demo publish, Game Jolt (scheduled))

## Story

It was a normal day in the Town, a town located in the south of a region called Avalegione. One day, a blanket of mist suddenly appeared over the Town, making its residents see the world around as their greatest fears. One day, an Angel of God, Megumi Kiyono, decided to find the cause of this peculiar event. They descended to Earth and arrives at the residence of one of the Town's residents, Nanami Tenjou, who is a faithful believer in God. After they asked Nanami where did the incident started, Nanami said that her basement are haunted by strange figures during the night, and so they decided to investigate more... But once they arrived the basement, a strange void of darkness appears and teleported them to a weird place.

## Concept

See Dæmonic Affright/Characters

After playing a "crack" version of *Undertale*, the first chapter of *Deltarune*, and exposure to *Touhou*, CaraPrincess decided to make a game incorporated elements from these games. She uses the RPG Maker MZ engine to build the game, but later she moved all of the main games' production, including this game's production, into RPG Maker MV. She states that it will be released on Game Jolt.

Initially, she wants to make a game whose plot is a fairy-tale parody of *Sleeping Beauty*, which the plot centers around a group of teenagers explore a world inhabited by "Beasts of the Stars", defeat them, and free a Hermit from her seal. But after thinking that this plot, when combining with psychological horror elements, is too complex, she decided to find another inspiration for the plot, with psychological horror elements.

She then discovered *The Doraemons Special* volume 9, which has a plot of the titular characters set out to Greece, and embarks on an adventure to save everyone from Medusa's terrifying power of turning people to stone, and several of their allies have been turned to stone during the journey. She allegedly suffered from nightmares the night she discovered the comic, where the comic's version of Medusa chased after her and turned the people of her city to stone, leaving her as the only survivor. She then think that the comic's story is fit for the psychological horror genre, and decided to keep up with it. But then after realizing that the story has few elements that associated with psychological horror, but many of the elements are associated with survival horror instead, she decided to scrapped that idea. But after she bought some other volumes of the comic series as a "physical Christmas gift", she noticed volume 7, which the plot centers around a creature that feeds on the fears of the people on the historical ship *Titanic* upon the time of its sinking, she noticed that many instances in the story has scenes with elements that is psychologically frightening, which suits one of the themes in the story: fear. She then decided to change the plot, and centers on a new plot influenced by the plot of this volume.

Some parts of the elements in the story is influenced by Dante’s *Divine Comedy*, which about the story of the author Dante himself (albeit possibly fictionalized) travelling through Hell (underworld), then purgatory, and then ultimately Heaven, which somewhat resembles the story of the game, which involving the main characters traversing through the Abaddon (the underworld realm of Kishinmaru, deserved for the Beings of Fear, as a punishment for their acts of inciting fear and paranoia on humanity), then to the Purging Abyss (where the penultimate stage of the game take place), and then to Elysium (the abode of Kishinmaru and the divine beings), which in turn a reference to the Divine Comedy’s order: *Inferno* (Hell), *Purgatorio* (Purgatory), and *Paradiso* (Paradise).

However, the game is languished in development hell for an indefinite period due to CaraPrincess' PC, running on Windows, is having technical problems. CaraPrincess hope that her PC will be fixed as soon as possible, and she will resume game production as soon as the PC is fixed. Meanwhile, she is also looking on some plugins that she could use to improve her MV games.

## Music

See also: Dæmonic Affright/Music

The game contains tracks all composed by CaraPrincess, compose in a style reminiscent of ZUN, her idol.

## External Links

Game's site on Game Jolt

Game's site on itch.io