Project Red
A downloadable demo for Windows and macOS
Game contains a 17+ mode as well as an optional 18+ mode with adult content. Intended for a mature audience.
Please consider supporting the game on Patreon! Every bit of support helps to include more music and voice acting. The Valentine's update (Version 1.7) is available now! Carrying over save data may lead to unexpected errors.
Summary
After a violent encounter with a wolf, Red awakens in the unfamiliar woods of Wonderland. Cursed to lose her life at sunrise, unless she can deliver a basket to a woman known only as "Grandma." Whether she lives or dies, is entirely up to you. I'm looking forward to seeing what path you send her down.
Features
- Turn based combat focused around a single playable character. Use a variety of skills and abilities to exploit enemy weaknesses and gain extra turns in combat.
- Use the Major Arcana to make key decisions in the story. Then use those same cards in battle for a variety of buffs. But be wary of drawing a card in the Reverse position.
- Manage Health, Stamina and Armor to survive in combat. Enemies can destroy your clothes and leave you with severe debuffs, and every attack costs stamina.
- Explore a world inspired by Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz and Little Red Riding Hood featuring a variety of characters such as the Cheshire Cat and the Scarecrow as well as original characters.
- Beautiful voice acting and music.
- Optional R18 content and side quests.
- Save your progress by resting at camp fires, or lighting candles at the Goddess statue.
- Challenge the Battle Trial and experience party members like Scarecrow and Hati for the first time.
What's New in Version 1.7?
- A complete overhaul of the Skill system
- Redesigned mechanics for status effects and armors
- Additional voice acting
- Brand new events
- An overhaul of the SFW mode that should eliminate all 18+ imagery
- Additional playable characters
- A complete redesign of the Mirror World
- Brand new Battle Trial where you can take on waves of enemies and gain access to party members like Scarecrow and Hati.
- A reworking of the fishing mini game with 2 play styles, more fish, and actual difficulty levels depending on fish rarity
- Introduces the Divine Scale to replace the prior Morality System
- And more!
Featuring the talents of
- SultryLamp as Red
- PixieWillow as The Witch
- PleasedbyViolet as The Forgotten Maiden
- AdrianBaker as Hati
- Shaykifullalove as Skoll
- CinderDryad as The Singular Voice
- Original Music by Hikari Kami
- Additional Music by AtelierMagicae
Download
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Development log
- March Progress Report4 days ago
- Chapter 1 and 2 Progress - April Demo?22 days ago
- February Progress Report36 days ago
- What's new in the latest build?45 days ago
- Changelog - February 14th Update46 days ago
- The Divine Scale, Skill Trees, Statuses and More...62 days ago
- January Progress Report76 days ago
- Known Issues and What's Next for Project Red?83 days ago
Comments
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I don't know why, but the game uses only a small part of the computer's resources (up to 15% of the CPU and up to 10% of the video card), and the game itself runs at 12 fps. There is no such problem in the menu and everything is at 60 fps.
And another thing I noticed is that if the game window is not selected, the use of computer resources increases, especially the video card (jumps from 0 to 42%).
Huh, that's definitely strange. Unfortunately I can't come up with any reason why that should be happening. Nor have I seen anyone else report a similar issue from what I can recall so I don't even know what to suggest.
Ok, maybe my pc is too weak. I had experience playing with lower FPS, so I'll be able to play anyway. It's just unexpected that the game on RPG Maker can slow down.
Yeah I wouldn't expect it to run so sluggishly on account of being RPG Maker. Do let me know if anything changes though. If it's just certain maps or areas maybe I can pinpoint what the core issue is.
As I understand it, you were inspired by Undertale and Oneshot (in battles you can interact with monsters to end the fight without killing them, and the player also acts as a voice guiding Red). I also noticed that in the leveling menu, when moving between items vertically, the cursor moves quickly and moves while the up or down keys are held down, which makes it difficult to get to the desired one. skill. When moving horizontally, everything is fine.
Yeah the menu issues are on my list of things to fix for the upcoming update. Appreciate the report though.
Undertale was definitely an influence for me but I wouldn't say that shows up in the battle system too much. You CAN interact with enemies but you'll be disappointed if you're expecting to be able to non violently end most encounters lol. That just isn't really a mechanic here.
Oneshot however I'm only really vaguely aware of so I can't say I really know much about it.
Hey just thought I'd report a bug, although I'm not too sure on how to replicate it, on occasion when I buy stuff at a store or acquire a piece of armor from the skill tree it doesn't get added to my inventory meaning I have to buy it again or in the case of armor I can't get it at all.
Hmm, that's interesting. I'll look into that and see what I can find. Appreciate the report!
Will there be a completely naked skin? Will there be an animation of sex after defeat?
The only version of a naked skin is when your armor gets destroyed. And no, I'm not a competent animator of any kind so I wouldn't expect any sorts of animations at any point lol.
Why only when the armor gets destroyed?
I mean you CAN take Red's clothes off. She'll simply refuse to let you progress the game until she's wearing clothes. That's just the way I made it.
i've been experiencing something that i at least think is a bug or at least if isn't is rather hard to tell isn't a bug- sometimes randomly i believe possible triggered after a battle something that i think is auto battle happens? what i mean by that is after that point i'll get an aliment that looks like the paralysis or stun one but never goes away and forces all battles to go into a "autobattle" thing(i only call it that since it just randomly doing whatever the hell it wants and i haven't used the actual auto battle option so i don't know if it is exactly auto battle or if its something else) where i physically can't do anything no options at all. if this isn't a bug i would love for at least a hint as to how to get rid of it- only way i've been able too is reloading a previous save before i got it and as you could probable tell thats not exactly easy to do without losing a lot of progress...
also since i forgot to mention it yes i have tried using items to get rid of it but nothing i tried worked be it ointment, mixed herb, or even using a ritual candle at the goddess statue since it at least to my knowledge clears all aliments and completely recovers you.
It sounds like your bloodlust meter is too high. Any other states that take control away like that will wear off after a battle, if not within that battle. But the bloodlust ones will linger until you reduce that gauge. The easiest way is simply bathing or using cleansing water which the standard item shop at the camp sells.
Do let me know if that DOESN'T fix it though as then it's definitely a bug of some kind that I'll have to look into.
ah thank you! that would make sense i am rather... aggressive to say when it comes to hunting down things- if it doesn't fix it i'll tell yah!
it worked thank you!
Glad to hear it!
Is there a button to hide the chat box during talking or cg scenes? I've practically pushed every button on my keyboard. Are there any plans to add this?
Yeah it's unfortunately not a default feature in RPGM. It's something I intend to have included before the final release however.
Where can I play all chapters?
Nowhere unfortunately lol. I'm still developing the game. What's present in the current demo is pretty much all there is right now. Current plans are to add chapter 2 by April.
Aw, okay. I just feel a bit confused that it begins from chapter 3, so wanna know if there any versions that has chapter 1 and 2 that's it.
Yeah it's a bit of an unconventional place to start so I understand that. But since the first 2 chapters didn't really reflect the core gameplay experience and lacked voiced acting until recently, it didn't make sense to work on them for me. Now that I do have the voice acting though, they've become my top priority. So hopefully that will be rectified within a few months.
Huge hopes for this one. Keep up the great work dev!
so like i saved a lot and somehow when i closed the game and went back later all of my saved files were gone... what do i do :(
edit: ok nvm found out that i have to hit 'quit' for it to save my files :P
before i accidentally maybe mention a potential spoiler, are there supposed to be any invisible containers anywhere? because i found one, and if its supposed to be visible i would like to know.
There is ONE that I can think of that is intentional yes lol. If it's at the river I placed that there for people who have trouble running the current version of the fishing mini game so that they can still access the secret boss. If it's NOT that. Then it might be a mistake.
i found two inside the abandoned house (thief questline) willing to show where whenever you need. potential bug active as of most recent itch version.
Appreciate the report! I took a look at the level and found the areas you mentioned. It looks like the crates were mistakenly erased at some point but I've added them back in. Next update will include that fix.
not a problem, if i notice anything else i'll let you know.
so that bug his still there of when you lost to the bandit with your cloths destroy, here my save so you can look into it. just go into battle.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/0jt10qgct7wjkrf/save.rar/file
Strange. I thought I fixed this one. I'll look into it though, the file should be a big help to figure out what's causing it still.
This might be too gooner but how do you start the 18+ stuff
Basically if you ever see a Heart Balloon icon over a person or object, that will contain some kind of lewd event. The most obvious ones are located in the Merchant Camp. Some of them are available right out of the gate, others are tied to completing side quests (like catching fish for the Fisherman NPC.). There are also several that can just occur depending on certain choices you may make. Certain glowing effects near water or beds may also indicate that you can view a scene. Hope that helps!
Thank you it does
Hello, got another bug:
The Magic skill option only appears if Red has one of the Magic-enabling Accessories (Liquid anklet etc...) equipped, even if scrolls have already been used. I think there should be an OR statement there, to check for naturally appearing Magic skills.
Appreciate it. I'll look into getting that fixed.
I've played a lot of porn games but this might be the best ever. Damn. Very good job man, keep it up
I appreciate the kind words! Thank you!
i cant find the logs to repair the bridge :(
All 3 logs can be found past the Right exit of the Merchant Camp. They are each in a zone accompanied by a cutscene (Meeting the Hunter, Meeting the Sick Man and finding the strange house.). They're just lying on the floor around these spots and need to be interacted with. If you've found those then you just need the Carpenter's Tools which are in the Slime Nest. That can be found by going Up from the Rest Spot map.
Hope that helps!
thanks great game btw!!
i got tpd here after talking with a kid that looked like the default skin from rpgm so i guess you just forgot to disable that, its just after leaving the sewage to the bottom
this kid
Yep that was a testing thing I forgot to delete lol.
figured xD
Been enjoying the game so far. Did the event where you get captured by the crows in the sewers if you lose not make it to this update?
So it looks like when I fixed the prior issue of the Crows bodies being impossible to step on. I accidentally copy and pasted a version WITHOUT the loss event. And I now have to recreate that dialogue scene entirely. I'll add it back in with an upcoming patch. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Oof. Not a game creator but have definitly been there before. Keep up the good work.
im stuck, i cant pass through the body D:
Apologies for that, the latest version was already patched to fix this issue. Alternatively if you'd like to just progress in your current game there is another route forward if you go back to the zone where Red encounters the Werewolf. Just go left and up and you'll be able to find an alternate route to the Crows Den
thanks! just moving the save to the new ver was enough!
btw, im doing a bloodlust run and its starting to be a bother being told everysingle trasition that red reeks of death, i think its enough indication of that having the bloodlust metter and not having the message
Have an issue where the screen is all black in the newest version.
I selected to skip to chapter 5 with R18 turned on.
I can still see the menu open up though. Just can't see where I am.
Oh whoops! Yeah a trigger wasn't set up right! I'll have that fixed later today. Figures me and my play tester did all the other options lol. Thank you for the report!
Nice update. I'm encountering a bug though with the Crow double battles. Sometimes, due to crits, only the Bow arms are left over after an AOE attack, but the battle doesn't end, thus locking the game.
Hmmm. I'm gonna have to play around with that since it's definitely coded to kill the bow whenever the archer dies. Thanks for the info though, I'll look into figuring this one out.
Okay I figured out what was going wrong. I'll be posting a hot fix update to solve the issue soon! That bug was way more derailing than I expected and idk how I didn't notice it! Thanks so much for bringing it to my attention!
Sorry for bad news, but I got 1 more.
In the underground base of the crows, there are random invisible blocks all over, and also the crow's corpses block passages. In the left room, which is only 1 block wide, the crow you kill stops you from walking any further left, to the ladder.
No worries! I was expecting issues since I didn't have the usual time for play testing. Appreciate the reports lots!
Also, that bug diagnosis was fast as hell. It looks like you have good coding practice. Fun game so far, keep it up!
I do have a small list of things both bug and not, which I think is worth bringing up:
Great game so far btw. Good standalone RPG. Looking forward to more.
First of all, let me just say I GREATLY appreciated all of your feedback and bug reporting. It was incredibly helpful to me since I had to skip my usual play testing period to get this out on time. Thank you so much dude!
Reading this list some of these are definitely mistakes that I'll be tweaking and some of them are definitely things that could use some quality of life tweaks like more Hunter guides to explain enemy weaknesses and what statuses mean (plus i need to finish my custom icons which will hopefully be MUCH clearer just at a glance anyways.) As a helpful tip for now, the Crows main bodies are weak to piercing attacks in particular. So guns and stabbing moves will net you extra turns.
Nice update, I don't know if it was intentional but setting a maximum level made me fear some enemies. Also, did you plan to make a guide? I don't know if I'm the only fool but I never knew where to find the stick to make a torch
The level cap is definitely intentional. Though I'm sure it'll be increased as more game gets added. As for a guide, that's probably a good idea. There's definitely some mechanics that could stand to have extra explanation and what not. Though I'll pry have to wait until I finish updating all of the games icons so that I can properly explain every status and what every symbol means.
For now I'll consider writing up something more general though.
Oh nice, that's a good new. I would like to know if you will enable the community topic once you think you are close enough to the final ver.
I suggest that because of the relics, hidden events and maybe some eggster eggs. Just one idea I drop
Yeah I think we're probably like, maybe 2 to 3 versions away from that making more sense to do. Once most of the core systems are fully ironed out (for example, the skill trees and morality system are still just placeholders.) then I think community topics will make a lot more sense to enable. For now though most things other than hidden relics would become outdated very quickly.
new update!!!
im gonna enjoy this so much!
just to make sure, there is no gallery yet, right?
Correct. I'll try to get a rough version of that in the next version update.
Hope you have fun with this one!
i sure will! the last demo was super fun
love it.
Thank you!
when can i play ch.1?
Chapter 1 is probably going to be one of the final things I produce. I'm not sure it'll ever be included in a demo either since it's planned to be quite different to the core gameplay experience.
i just wanted to say i love this game
Happy to hear it!
I'll do my best to make sure you continue to love it as well!
Are you still thinking about releasing an Android version?
I have looked into it, but it seems like it involves quite a process to package properly involving downloading a couple of external apps to convert. So I don't think it's something I'll be committing to for the current builds. Once it's in a more complete state I think it will make more sense for me to approach. But for the Windows and Mac versions is all I can properly manage.
I understand
just wonder is it a bug that Red's bust doesn't show in battle when naked, or that just not implemented yet?
It depends on what you mean actually. She SHOULD display if your armor is broken. However when thinking about it more I think there is an oversight should your clothes get stolen by the Drunkard that I didn't properly implement.
So if it's the latter I can make a fix for that easily. If it's NOT I'll need a few more details to figure out what's going wrong. So just let me know what exactly happened in that case, and I'll try to fix it.
Right now, the Drunkard stole it so for battle display not showing, before when you release the new demo, and I think you didn't have a cloth lock if you removed it, she same problem happed.
Gotcha, so yeah that's a little oversight on my bad! I'll have that fixed up for the next update. It's good timing since I was just working on the proper CG to finish off that scene as well. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
np
i love seeing the updates. im looking forward to this and check for updates regularly. keep up the wonderful work danny
I quite liked in the previous versions that you could check all the images in the folder on their own. how come we can't do that now?
Between changes to character designs, and the finalization of the script, not to mention voice acting, a number of scenes are simply too out dated for me to want to share. But since I use them as a reference for what I still need to redraw I leave them intact as a guide. So I opted to remove the access.
A proper scene viewer will be implemented before the games final release so you'll be able to view all the final art in game. It just wont be implemented quite yet.
am i supposed to start on chapter 3?
Yes. This demo effectively covers Chapters 3 and 4 (though it doesn't display the title card for 4 in this build.)
I don't want to give away TOO much but the first 2 chapters are a bit of a genre shift to the rest of the game and don't feature much of the mechanics. I probably will not include them in the demo until much closer to the games full release. Don't want people to have too much time to figure out all the twists they set up early!
When starting battle every time empty stamin
Could you give me any more details? Is it displaying a different value when outside of combat?
And do you have any idea when it began to occur? Like after using an item or resting at a camp fire?
Android?
In all honesty I hadn't really considered an android version. But if there's enough interest for it, I'll look into it.
Really like the idea of the game but can't play due to "Failed to Load" after collectinng silver ore and trying to open the main menu and save the game. Game crashes at that point constantly
There must be an error with the scene trigger when collecting the silver ore. Sorry about that!
This was just a placeholder system until a more proper "mini game" style event is added in, which will hopefully be included in the next demo alongside the graphics and voice acting updates. Please look forward to that!
Is it possible to find all the logs for building a bridge in the demo version?, I found 3, but no matter how much I searched, I never found more(
Yes, you also need to get the Carpenter's Tools which requires finding and defeating the Slime King. You can find him by going to the main "hub" area of the forest and taking a path near the left most top corner that was previously blocked off by slimes.
Played it for the first time today and had a blast!
I did run into quite a few bugs; many which were solved by just loading an autosave / recent save, others which were not
I ran into quite a few crashes from 'Failed to load' errors, I believe mostly from trying to load Red facial expression images? They popped up seemingly randomly. Fortunately reloading a save fixed all but one - the big slime that you run into as part of the bridge repair quest consistently 'Failed to load' for me. Per the crash screen it's trying to pull up the following directory:
"img/pictures/Red%20Busts/Reed%20Faces/Red%20Huuuh%3F.png"
Looking through the game files, that directory is correct for Red's facial expressions. There is a 'Red_Huuuh_.png" in there, but seems like it's not pulling it up correctly? Not sure if the '%3F' on the end of the file name is just internal jargon for the underscore, or if it's trying to point to a file with a different name. An especially rough spot for it, since that quest is necessary to fix the bridge and continue on with the game.
I had an instance while trying to work a way around that bug where Red's clothes were destroyed mid battle, and then after the battle ended the cut-in cutscene of 'Red's clothes were destroyed!' looped infinitely. Reloading a save just before it didn't fix it, so at that point I just decided to abandon the run. I was able to use the chapter select functionality to skip ahead to Chapter 3 and poke around a bit in the content afterwards, which was fun.
On the design side of things, I'm not sure how intentional it is for the gun regular attacks to be as potent as they are. Seems like they don't use ammo (or at least still fire even when you're out? I didn't actually try any of the gun special attacks TBQH). Putting a gun in my offhand made my regular attacks super powerful, to the point where it didn't really seem worth using special attacks anymore, since just regular attacking with dagger+gun was doing almost as much damage. Felt weird to get access to more powerful basic attacks without having to interact with ammo at all.
I also had no idea what a lot of the status effects that Red got were ^_^; Some of them like 'ATK arrow down' is obvious, others not so much. Would be nice if there was some way to figure that out ... I initially assumed that info would be in the Witch's books, but I wasn't able to find anything on them there.
EDIT: Also looking more closely at the preview images, I don't think the bottom left HUD is displaying correctly either on my end. I'm seeing the heart and circle, but no shield (clothes durability indicator?). The heart does change color, but I never saw any number in that or the circle, or saw any change in the circle at all, for that matter. (This is all in Windows 10, fwiw.)
Overall though I had a ton of fun with the game! Love the content, love how dangerous things feel at the start of the game. It's clearly made with a lot of love. Looking forward to future updates!
Hey there! I'm glad you enjoyed it! And thanks so much for all the feedback! It's much appreciated!
Yeah so, for some reason the game consistently failed to deploy if the "faces" folder was present at all. So I knew there were going to be problems. I opted to simply remove it, and then manually insert it again in the deployed game. As far as I could tell all of the files were in the proper format so I have no idea what the issue was, but it's a headache I'm gonna have to solve for a stable build. I'll pry have to recreate the folder and insert every expression one at a time and see which one is causing the deployment to fail. (As a further note, test running the game never has any issues with the faces folder, it was just when trying to deploy the exe which usually means an improper file type is present in the files.)
The armor breaking is interesting as well. I can't say I've had it infinitely loop but I'll make sure to look into it. The additions of various armor types may well have caused some line of the code to get jumbled up by mistake.
As for combat, yeah I'm still working on balancing that out. The final game will likely include stronger versions of all enemies that replace the weaker ones as you do milestones (Like fixing the bridge, or clearing out the Thief hideout.) As the only solution. I like that you can go dual daggers and hit twice. I don't like that you can hold a gun and still attack twice. But I also think equipping a gun is necessary to use the skills. But yeah I too haven't found a viable solution. On the plus side, ammo meant you couldn't spam abilities like stun shot which you could use to stun lock most everything in the game before lol. But like you said, being able to hit twice for basic attack makes that almost a moot point.
One thing I REALLY wanted to include in this demo but just didn't have time to finish was a set of bestiary style items. I wanted to put them all around the world and they'd teach the player what magical spells enemies are weak to and what certain status effects did and all that. So checking the Witch's books was the right choice...if only I had finished the relevant items haha. Next time though!
As for the Hud, that was a very last minute change. Since new armors were added in, and the original armor gauge was linked JUST to Red's main outfit. I didn't want a situation where you could be wearing say, the Hoodie, at 20% armor, while your gauge shows your main outfit has 80% and get confused when your armor breaks. I simply opted to turn the gauge off for this current build . I think a reworked version will be added back in though. Pry without numbers to match the rest of her gauges as just an indicator of how much or how little you've got.
Seriously though I super appreciate this message! Players like you are the biggest help with figuring out where the real problems are that I can't find on my own, or what sorts of tweaks need to be made since I know how EVERYTHING works behind the scenes. And of course, I'm really glad you enjoyed it! That makes me super happy and excited to get back to work on it! Please continue to enjoy your time with Project Red!
idk if I need to get farther into the game or something, but where do you use the dildo and vibrator?
Sorry for the late response! I was taking time off for the holidays.
The dildo should be usable from the main menu once you get it. There's no associated event image at the moment but it will cure Red of any lust related negative statuses.
The vibrator on the other hand should be equipped to Reds underwear. It likewise has no real event images yet but it'll boost your LP gained from other events as long as you wear it. Hope that helps!
In the future I hope to add new and edited versions of existing scenes that make use of these items should the player have them, but for now they're purely just functional in terms of mechanics.
thank you so much, I hope you had a good break
So, whenever I try to run the .exe it says
"This app can't run on your PC."
"To find a version for your PC, check with the software developer"
Does this just not work on windows 10 or something? Even running as administrator doesn't help so idk what's causing this. The original demo worked perfectly fine.
I had a friend with windows 10 mess with it. And this was the solution we found.
If you run as administrator you should get a different pop up saying that "Windows prevented an unrecognized app from starting"
There should be a "More info" button you can press on that same window that will give you the option to open the game anyways. Do that and it should run properly, but if it doesn't let me know and I can try looking into it further.
Strangely enough that's what happened when I first tried opening it, but after I clicked the option to run it anyway that's when it started saying "this app can't run on your PC" And running it on administrator is just saying the exact same thing too.
Tried troubleshooting it as well which was no use, even tried deleting it and trying again but it just said the same thing again.
Yeah that's real strange. Unfortunately I can't say I've seen that issue on the computers I was able to test on so I'm really not sure how to resolve it. The only thing I can really suggest for now is to delete it and wait for the November 28th update, and see if that version gives you the same issues or not. I'll see if I can find an alternate way to package the game for the update as well, that might be more user friendly. Sorry I couldn't be more help!
if you get defeated by the drunkard the image remains on screen even after the cg ends and you can't spare him or it freezes. good game though. how do you get the thief scenes?
Appreciate the info, I'll make sure to fix that error.
The thief enemies were not fully programmed for demo 2, so their CG's are just a bonus teaser more or less. In the full game they'll spawn in after you fix the bridge,, along with all the enemies getting remixed.
when is the next update? also are the hj and fj scenes in the demo?
I plan to have an update out before the end of the month, but no specific date in mind yet as I'm still working on things I want to add.
I'll post a dev log with more details on what that will entail later today or tomorrow.
The FJ scene is not finished so it's not present, the HJ scene was SUPPOSED to be there and is technically present, however the trigger for it is out dated do to a last minute change, so I don't believe it can be properly accessed. That'll be another thing fixed with the upcoming update.
I tried out the demo and i loved it. You got yourself a patreon, Cant wait to see the full gam
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! And I appreciate your support. I'll work hard to make sure the full game doesn't disappoint!
hi, i have a problem, i have battled a lot of slimes but i cant find anywhere the tools for repering the bridge, ma i missing something? :c
The Carpenters Tools are being guarded by a Slime Boss. You can find the boss by going to the top left corner of the main Forest zone, and taking a path up. Hope that helps!
yes, i find it, i really didn't notice the road xD
thanks for your help <3
Just a .exe? No other folders? Tried to run it and it's just a white screen... Did I miss something?
Hmm, that's not an issue I encountered when testing it on other computers. It's all packaged together into one executable so there shouldn't be anything else needed to run it. Sorry, I wish I had something more helpful to say.
i found the same issue as Rusty, however i was able to bypass it by running it at administrator. that might be require
Oh cool! Appreciate you clarifying that. I'll add a note to the games page about it. Thanks Shavalyoth!