Blood Moon Dev Log

Period tracker/RPG app where you play as a witch who uses blood magic to fight monsters during that time of the month. Visit us on Facebook | About Blood Moon

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Dev Update 5/23

Hey (d)everybody! I bet you’re wondering how the behind-the-scenes is going… well, in between designing, coding, redesigning, refactoring, and the ongoing brainstorms and rainstorms, I have been slowly but steadily making progress. Right now, I am working on the RPG game logic, which includes many pieces as you may or may not imagine—including the exciting combat-y bits and the (maybe not so exciting for some) databases for enemies, items, etc. Anyway, figured I’d give a quick update and say hello and thank you for your patience! Blood Moon is only two people with day jobs so your support means a lot. Stay tuned for more in the moons to come!

Humble dev, 10E

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Familiars part 1!

Introducing familiars! Familiars are buddies you can equip and use to help out in combat!

Name: Meow-Meow

Ability: Present!

Effect: Chance of finding a random item for you during combat

Name: Bubbles

Ability: Toxic

Effect: Chance of poisoning enemies

Name: Minerva

Ability: Wisdom

Effect: Gives you enemy facts, weaknesses, and lore

Name: Luna

Ability: Love Bite

Effect: Steals opponent’s HP and restores that amount to you

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Aunt Flo

Sorceress of the Tides

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Potion Shop

Finished the in-game shop! Here’s where you buy your standard potions and elixirs as well as some treats that can cure your status ailments.

Some examples of what items might do...

Dark Chocobar- treats ‘PMS’ (makes it harder to land hits/defend against attacks)

Ginger Root Tea- treats ‘Cramps’ (our game’s version of ‘Poison’ status effect, lose a bit of health each turn)

Strawberry Yogurt- treats ‘Bloating’ (prevents you from using all other items except Yogurt)

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Happy Birthday Grimes!

Not related to Blood Moon, but Grimes has been a huge inspiration for us. We’ve been listening to ‘Art Angels’ pretty much non-stop since it came out and it’s the perfect album to draw pixel witches to. 

I also did the whole cover because I couldn’t resist:

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Meow-Meow

Your trusty kitty familiar... she’s meowgical!

tiny Meow-Meow:

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Some witch characters

original:

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Full version of the ‘bloodscape’!

Beware the blood moon...

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SharkGuy

The only thing more infectious than his bite is his laugh!

Nyuk nyuk nyuk...

original size:

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Oh my glob! It’s a hemoglob! There’s going to be a hemogoblin too eventually

original size:

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This was the original concept art with logo, backgrounds to coincide with cycle changes, and witch with familiar character concepts.

Blue = beginning of cycle

Yellow = mid-cycle

Red = the Blood Moon is upon you...

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What is Blood Moon?

Blood Moon is a mobile phone application that will take the best part of period tracking (woo hoo, data collection) combined with combat-based gameplay elements! The app will change along with the user’s cycle so when it is comes to “that time of the month”, a boss is generated for you to defeat! Up until that point, users can play a mini-game or fight smaller monsters to train for the big fight. (Eventually, it also will have a cool social aspect where other players can help you in battle too! Baby steps... baby steps...) Gameplay will take a classic turn-based RPG format with 21st century touch controls! And blast processing! (Just kidding.) With the app, we’re hoping to reduce the stigma of menstruation. The idea is that by making period tracking fun, people will be more inclined to pay attention to their menstrual health and talk about it more openly and casually.

Who is Blood Moon?

Blood Moon is two folks, Tenny (dev) and Kirsten (artist)!

How'd you come up with this crazy idea?

I (Ten) came up with Blood Moon when I was sitting through a lecture one day in my 3-month intensive coding bootcamp. I asked myself what I wanted to see in an app and I knew that period trackers existed but I didn’t know much else. Any talk of periods was done hush-hush, spoken in euphemism, or outright condemned. When I first got my period 15 years ago, I didn’t know where to turn—embarrassed and ashamed by a completely natural process. I’ve always felt at odds with my period, especially as a gender-nonconforming individual but I knew there was a lot of value to knowing your body on that level. I mean, that’s why period tracking apps already exist, huh? But I wanted to create a more active user experience, thinking that if my period gave me something to look forward to, I’d be more likely to track it. Therefore, as a long-time geek and gamer, I decided I wanted to make a video game and here we are today!

When will Blood Moon be released?

Somewhere between “I don’t know” and “soon hopefully?”. Blood Moon is officially only two people right now and as awesome as it would be for Blood Moon to be our full-time jobs, we have mouths to feed (particularly cat and lizard mouths). With that said, anyone looking forward to the project, please know your support and patience means everything! It’s what pushes us to work on it everyday so that we can make it happen. Again, thanks for checking out our page! Keep being awesome. :) Sincerely, Ten and Kirs