Moonlight Tales

Hello, it's been a while but I'm making another game!

The Town Where We Met is a life and farm simulation game made in RPG Maker and taking inspiration from similar titles in the genre.

This prototype is to test the base gameplay mechanics of the game.

So naturally, most (if not all) graphics are placeholders, so don't pay too much attention to that. I would like to gather feedback on the flow of the game mechanics as they stand right now.

Currently the game has the following features fully implemented for you to test:

Farming

Animal Care

Beekeeping

Foraging

Fishing

Mining

Cooking

Crafting

Decorating

As of today the game is being worked on by a solo developer and it's not expected to have a full release anytime soon. I'm just working on this in my spare time and I'm doing it for fun and from a place of love for life and farming sim games.

Please send any relevant feedback to my email [email protected] or contact me on Twitter @jomiancu. I will be making a separate blog for this game, just wanted to post the announcement here since most of you would probably be interested.

Yes, the game is cancelled now. I don’t think I’ll be making an official announcement post. I’m gonna let the blog die slowly, maybe reblogging some other interesting game projects I follow. 

But I do appreciate everyone’s support throughout the time this blog ran and I hope to see you guys in the future if I ever get back into game-making!

Hello! 

Thank you for checking in with us! I myself am doing better, but unfortunately the project is still on hold for the time being. I’m working on other stuff at the moment (you can check my personal art blog if you wish), and I still don’t feel motivated/skilled enough to come back to Moonlight Tales.

I also want to take this opportunity to thank everyone for 500+ followers and 630+ downloads on the prototype (last time I checked was a few weeks ago), and to everyone who reported bugs and gave feedback. If/when I come back to Moonlight Tales I would do it in a different and better engine that would allow me to do more things.

As promised, here’s the Moonlight Tales prototype.

Moonlight Tales is a series of life and farming simulation games inspired by the Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons and Animal Crossing series.

Inspired by the Harvest Moon/Story of Season series, Moonlight Tales includes features such as farming, cooking and raising relationships with the people in town. The series also has elements of the Animal Crossing series such as decorating. Although this is a prototype, most features are functional (farming, house decoration, friendship system, tv, calendar, shops, weather, etc).

[itch.io] [dropbox] [mediafire]

This post has been a long time coming and it’s about time I sit down and write it. I want to start by apologizing to everyone who has been following this project since it was announced and for all the constant periods of silence, and for all the excuses I have been given and for everything, really. 

Unfortunately development on Moonlight Tales has stopped, and has been this way for the past 7-8 months. There are many reasons for this but the main one is that I moved to Argentina back in July 2015 to start university there but unfortunately things just didn’t go my way, I was in a bad place mentally and I lost contact with my team and just didn’t have the motivation to work on the game or any project, really; and to make a long story short, I am now back in my home country, severely depressed and demotivated to do anything art related. This is no one’s fault but mine and I wish I could have done something other than disappoint my wonderful team and you, the followers. 

This is not to say MT is cancelled for good, I love this project a lot and would love to keep working on it at one point in the future after I get my stuff sorted out and manage to be in a more emotionally stable state of mind. But for now the project is on hiatus, and will be for a long while.

Thank you so so much for all your patience these past few months and I will upload a prototype with whatever we managed to do so far this weekend after I clean it up a bit.

Finally, please support my wonderful team with all their stuff while I’m gone:

You can find Teresa’s art over here, she’s an amazingly talented artist and overall just the sweetest person!

Please send some encouragement to my lovely writers Danni and Rachel, who have put all their passion into developing such amazing characters and creating such a lovely world.

And check out Jacob’s music and tell him how much of an incredibly talented young man he is! 

Again, I am so sorry things went this badly and I’ll forever apologize for all my mistakes working on this project and for disappointing you all. Thank you so much as always for your constant support!!

You are all wonderful! See you soon!

Oh man, I was going to post this earlier but I lost track of time while working, but anyways, here’s a WIP from one of the last maps for the demo. This is going to be a small town for the demo with a few shops. 

I’ve finished classes for this semester and I have started working on the game full time again.

“Hi! Just wanted to say that this game looks really cool so far! I was wondering though, what kind of system you’re planning to release it on? :)”

And well, RPG Maker VX only exports the game to an .exe file which means it can only be played on Windows OS. However, there are multiple ways to play RM games on a mac, here’s some useful links with more information: x, x, x, x, x

I don’t own a MAC so I can’t personally verify anything posted on those links actually works, but I’ll try to check with friends a bit closer to release. 

ladykae replied to your photoset “Graphics upgrade!  Hey guys, we’re upgrading the character sprites to...”

Yeaaaaa ok i really like these. I was kind of hoping for a sprite update and I must say - very much impress. take your time though, seriously. loved games are more fulfilling than rushed ones. yeah? ;)

Graphics upgrade!  Hey guys, we’re upgrading the character sprites to this new set. The old one was made a long time ago and it seems very unpolished (and just plain ugly in my opinion). I’m my own harshest critic and I’m almost never satisfied with my own work but I’m quite pleased with how these new sprites look and I hope you guys like them too. The demo is almost done! I’m really sorry about all the delays, I recently moved from one side of the continent to the other to study (game design :D) and I’m still adjusting to my new life here, I apologize again for this demo to be taking so long but me and the team want it to be as good as it can be and I don’t want to rush too much and end up with something mediocre to show you guys. But like I said, we’re close to finishing the demo! We’ll keep you guys updated and I hope everyone enjoys their Halloween month :D

Hi, I’m sorry for the late reply, tumblr didn’t notify me of some asks.

I made a page with some information for people with the same question, and also for people who don’t want to commit to a monthly subscription like on the Patreon.

Anyways, here it is.