Lawmage Academy

***Lawmage Academy*** is an upcoming role-playing video game created by Jin Arabejo, under his pseudonym **Verinius**. The story features a silent protagonist, who has been invited to enter Lawmage Academy, a prestigious magic school.

The full version of the game is scheduled for release in 2023.

## Gameplay

Players can choose either a male or female before customizing each item will be pick randomly into the four houses depending on player's choice. Spending your days in a style of immersive simulation such as attending classes and learning new abilities, and also wander around campus, meet a variety of characters, craft items using ingredients you’ve gathered, and even leave the safety of the school to explore diverse locations filled with monsters, mystery, and danger.

## Premise

> Set in the 11th century, a country full of wonders called Magusgaia, a main setting that takes place for a prestigious magic school known as "Lawmage Academy", allows to train students to learn magic and become one of the superiors as **Lawmages**. The player must accomplish the main quest as long as you uncover the dark secrets.
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## Development

Lawmage Academy was conceived by Gian Miko “Jin” Arabejo, known as under his pseudonym "Verinius", after he concepts the idea about "a certain magic school game with a linear story and magical elements" once he wanted to make a fantasy game with story-driven elements. The franchises *Harry Potter* and *Black Clover* series, and the video games *Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis* and *Octopath Traveler*, served as main inspirations. From that moment, it was given the official name "Lawmage Academy".

In March 2018, he started using the RPG Maker MV program and practicing his idea as a prototype after watching tutorials, in which he counts “one hour a day for one year” commitment. As a part of human rights lawyer, he is currently working as a part-time indie dev for studying level design, as well as writing dialogue, world-building, meaningful choices, interior design, day-and-night cycle for doing activities, and magical skills, but he gives practice for programming.

### Battle mechanics

Like most of RPG Maker games were used for turn-based role-playing genre, Lawmage Academy was used for *Octopath Traveler* combat style using one of third-party MV Javascript plugins.

### Composers

Tyler Cline, who serves as a composer the new main theme and battle music, and the other composers will also serve in the game including Will Geraint Drake, Lewmoth, Philemon Holmes, Peter Jones, and Dibur. Some updates would release the following year.

### Versions

The first alpha version was the initial release as a prototype to introduce the story and core mechanics at first. It keeps updating with bug fixes in the next three versions. Since its summer 2019 release on itch.io, the fifth alpha version of Lawmage Academy was released. Debuting on Steam in October 2020, the sixth alpha version of Lawmage Academy featured a graphics improvement, rebalanced gameplay, and some rework of the core mechanics. The seventh alpha version is updated for storylines and more improved visuals. The eighth and latest alpha version known as Soloist Update, a refined version for the solo route along with new battle backgrounds, balance changes, some added features, and bug fixes.

As of June 2022, the core mechanics and character development were greatly improved.

The current release date was postponed to 2024 when he's ready.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 'Lawmage Academy': The indie role-playing game made by a Filipino human rights lawyer (en-US) (2021-09-06).
2. ↑ Plans & Schedule for Lawmage Academy - Lawmage Academy v0.5 by Verinius (en).
3. ↑ Year 1: The First Step - Lawmage Academy v0.5 by Verinius (en).
4. ↑ Plans & Schedule for Lawmage Academy - Lawmage Academy v0.5 by Verinius (en).
5. ↑ Announcement: Lawmage Academy demo now available! - Lawmage Academy by Verinius (en).
6. ↑ Lawmage Academy News: Postponed Release and Progress Update by Verinius