Entry for https://itch.io/jam/rpg-maker-2025-game-jam using RPG Maker MV.

The goal is to finish one task (getting to the Post Office and back to your apartment) while keeping your Anxiety Levels low. Along the way you'll encounter people and scenarios that affect your anxiety, and if they get too close, your anxieties manifest in a "battle".

This is really only about 1/3 of what I have envisioned. My plan was to have the interactions increase in difficulty as you progress - so your neighbors would be fairly easy to deal with, but as you get further away from your home the interactions become more intense. As you beat the interactions, you level up and earn new coping mechanisms (which sort of exists in the game). The final "boss" was going to be a snide  postal worker who keeps putting you off and asking too many questions... which leads to the final battle.  

I also had this whole idea of various "safe spaces"  and safe people around the map, that would help lower anxiety. Also, having your phone be a distraction that would make it easier to escape interactions. 

Also, also... All the music is composed/performed by me. The images/sprites/sound effects are mostly stock. There are a couple of pictures that I created - the title, the intro, and the peep-hole.  I used a couple of "YEP" plugins, but that was just for being able to use 'ASWD' for movement... the rest are things I coded.