Besides being the name of the game, it’s also the name of the world where part of the story takes place. In this world, you must decide whether or not you will accept XP — a choice that determines whether life will be easy or hard. Will you earn your power, or simply be rewarded with it?

I am building this game in RPG Maker MZ. I am currently using content included with the program, but I plan to swap many of the assets with custom ones I feel better fit the game, once I can afford an artist. So right now we’ll say I’m on phase one of development, which is assembling a working model. Phase two will be once I am working with custom assets.
Phase one:

Zone 1: more or less completed, I’m just playtesting to make sure things work like I want them to.
Zone 2: upcoming
Demo: once I’m confident with Zone 2, I plan to put it on itch.io and Steam
Zone 3-7: after that
Early Access: once the first seven zones are done, aka act 1, I plan to release to early access. This is when I will see how it is received and consider enemy balancing based on feedback.

Phase two: I will start releasing updates replacing assets in act 1 while working on the act 2
Phase three: release act 2, polish, full release

This isn’t really a time line, its just the series of event I hope will lead to the completion of my game. I’m working on this game in my free time while having a full time job. The first zone took me two months but i knew nothing about RPG Maker when I started and I’ve discovered aspects of games I never considered. I’ll start posting updates when I see some sort of interest in my game.