Friday, December 31, 2021

Mingli Art + Screenshots

So it's the end of the year, I was going to post one last minor update to the demo, but once again I couldn't get it done in time due to various things. So instead I here's some art for Mingli, and screens of one of Nyx's areas plus an H scene I added for an existing enemy.


 



Chao Mingli is the waitress at the tea house next to the inn belonging to her grandmother in Seiryu Village. She's one of the few mostly normal human residents, though despite her polite and friendly demeanor, she's a tad eccentric, a trait she shares with her grandmother. Due to the frequency of attacks by demons and spirits on the village she's also a very cautious person. In Nyx's mode the strange fog covering the islands doesn't bother her, but she finds herself alone and trapped inside her shop.

That's it for 2021, Moon Rhapsody still isn't finished yet, but I still feel the game is coming along fairly well, maybe it will be done next year...but I don't want to make any promises. I hope every one enjoys/enjoyed the holidays and keeps looking forward regardless.

Sunday, December 5, 2021

End of the Year Update

 I suppose I better post an update since I said I would try not to get behind again.
Although at this point I don't feel like there's really much I want to talk about, there's still quite a lot of work I need to do obviously, and I wasn't able to get the game complete by the end of 2021 like I had originally wanted to, and it's probably going to take until the end of 2022(or longer) to finish unfortunately, considering I can only get so much done each day by myself. With the game around half way complete and the demo taking up a good portion of the total content, I don't really want to post too much more, as a lot of it needs to be saved for the full game.
But more importantly, the last demo update took me several months to get out, long after I gave all the information I wanted to give and that ended up creating a long drought of information that probably left multiple people disappointed. So I'm going to have to keep updates to around once or twice a month, instead of weekly like I used to do. This is probably a troubling sounding post and not what some people want to hear but it's the reality. I created Moon Rhapsody originally as a side project to a larger game, and it ended up becoming even more complicated than that one, and I don't want to to strip it down or abandon it due to the difficulty.
There's some new things I've added, I want to post another update to the demo before the end of the year but until then there probably won't be anything else. I'm also working on a Japanese translation with help from someone else which I've posted screenshots of a few weeks back, though probably only a handful of people here would be interested, so I'll probably find a different place to post updates on that version.