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@midautumngame
MIDAUTUMN is a supernatural narrative roguelite game about blasting evil spirits, Asian diaspora culture, and saving your hometown from gentrification created by an all Asian-diaspora team!
Available now in Early Access on Steam & Itch with a FREE demo!
These are the 4 Hub Areas currently in the game! We've got:
The Boardwalk Temple District Sakurafest The Fivefold Keep (which is in the Spirit World!) Right now, the boardwalk is the closest to feeling like a proper hub, the rest of them still need shops, errands to run, and more things to do while you're there! We've been really focusing on making sure the spirit world sections of the game feel right, but a thing we're really excited about for this year of development is to really bring the town and hub sections to life! Robin's motivation throughout the game relies on the town being a place you want to protect, and one of the best ways to do that is to make it a place the player actively wants to spend time in and have downtime when they're not in the Spirit World!
oh to be a lunar guardian floating on the breeze
we need more excuses to draw Robin in this style
this animation is coming along nicely! Trying to make it feel like they turn into smoke for a second!
One of the coolest visual improvements we got working recently for Midautumn are randomly generated background characters! Would you believe all these variations only required one animation? That's cause it's all handled with ✨shaders✨
We're also simultaneously generating a higher fidelity character portrait along with the sprites! A lot of our narrative events have minor characters that only show up once or twice, so this lets us get away with that without having to make a bunch of bespoke portraits!
You can see it in action below! It's all driven by a string value we can control, so for recurring characters or shopkeepers we can specify the code to make sure it's consistent!
The clever thing we're doing here to save us some extra work is setting up our animations to look like this jumbled mess of pixels! Think of this like a representation of where each pixel of the character should move each frame!
Then we draw a skin for the character, which takes literal seconds to do (the portraits of course take longer!) and we can mix and match different outfits very easily! We swap out the jumbled mess of pixels with the colors we actually want!
This also gets us a step closer to two other big features: - more outfit variations for the player to buy at stores - One our our Kickstarter stretch goals: Letting backers make a custom background NPC to add to the game!
The Sakurafest area is looking very lively!
Gardening Mechanic!
The Temple District now has a flower shop where you can buy seeds to plant in patches of soil around town. By returning to water these plants in between visits to the spirit world, you’ll be able to permanently improve some of Robin’s abilities by eventually harvesting them!
Compared to other ways of making the player stronger, you could potentially use this gardening mechanic to raise Robin’s starting health as high as you like, given enough time. What other ways of upgrading player abilities should we add?
Some of the many enemies you can find roaming around the Spirit World. For those who've played, do you have a favorite?
Available now on Steam Early Access!
Here's a render of the fearsome Teddy! They're actually the Spirit World version of the extinct California grizzly bear.
The Facecuddler may sound harmless, but these hungry lil enemies are always on your tail and will lunge at you if they get close! So try to keep moving and mind your distance!
Here's a render of the spooky Zom! These are one of the many enemies you will encounter and learn more about with each run through the Spirit World.
Here's a better look at each of the new characters! From the top: Vivian, Carlos, Michelle, and Steve!
Michelle 🐱 Details 🐱
The mythical and majestic Qilins of Midautumn
The Real World & the Spirit World
Mirai - nature spirit & boss of The Wooded Refuge (Biome 2)
we're reworking Mirai's pixel art animations to look more like her character portrait. Here's a WIP