Two years on and I find myself looking for a game like that little prototype, Moonlight Fortress, I played 2 years ago. ...The magic was strong in that one.
Pleased to see you're developing it into a full game now. Looking forward to playing Yokai Moon.
That's good news. ...Away from my PC... Doh! If only I could play it on android ...But that's a whole other story, no doubt. Will take a look when I get back to PC gaming.
Will there ever be a full game? I love it though it takes so long to collect enough coins for the compass and sometimes it glitches, like one time I was 1000 away and my game froze and wouldn't let me send anybody out. I was on day 35 but it happened another time earlier on with a different run.
All the ending lines in paragraphs in the popups are partially cut off making them very hard or sometimes impossible to read. Would like to give this a try cause it seems interesting, but no compatability settings or anything seem to fix this. Any ideas?
having the same problem here,anyone else having this? its a very relaxing and fun game but i cant trade or read any of the notes or dialog past the first few lines,a UI would solve this but great work so far. :)
Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment, apologies for being absent from Itch and only just replying now. Have you tried the version with the alternative font?
Nice. Great concept giving a laid back yet immersive gaming experience. Loving the scandinavian theme also, I haven't come across that in a game before and I found it very evocative. I'd buy if it were developed into a full game.
Thank you for playing and for sharing your lets play with me! I can see that you really missed Mikhail after kicking him out (although unintentionally)! I'm fond of Mikhail too, his love for Pushkin is an inspiration to us all ;)
I know right ;(. I liked Mikhail a lot but I thought it would just send the dog away xD. Anyways thank you for sharing your game with me. Will definitely look for more games by you in the future.
I love this game!! Since this is just a prototype I expect some bugs, but for some reason, Pushkin just walked in the house and underground before I even got his owner. Is this a bug or something I missed because I have played this before and I'm not sure if this is from the last time playing or what.
Glad you enjoyed playing Moonlight Fortress! Thank you for your feedback!
I think I have an idea about what could have happened... I added a shortcut to unlock Pushkin to make it easier for my lecturer to see all the game's content without having to play for a long time. If you press "P", it will spawn Pushkin. It might be possible that you unintentionally pressed "P" so this is why he randomly turned up.
I absolutely love this game. I have not played a turned based game like this in ages. Especially one that kept me wanting to play more and more. I just wish I could figure out the next step. But I am determined. I apologize if I did not get the pronunciations of the names and locations correctly =(. I am only up to 2 episodes right now, but I going to keep going. Save the lycan
ahh gah, why did I have to me so smart so late!!!! I am glad you enjoyed the video, it is such a cool game. The concept is one of my favorites. I may like resource management a bit too much.
However, I must know. The talking sound effects, are they from the age of empires game? They sound way too familer. Also, how bad were my pronunciations?
Thank you again for the tip. I will get this next time!!!!!
Thank you for saying it's one of your favourite concepts! That means a lot to me!
I'm afraid they are not from Age of Empires - they're Russian phrases downloaded from a language pronunciation website. However, the idea of them speaking when you select them or give them instructions is inspired by AoE so I can definitely see why you thought they could be the same sound effects!
As for your pronunciations, I'd actually say you were fairly accurate! :)
Oh no way really? Yes I am a natural at guessing names muhhahahahahaa(as long as they are not Asian based or symbols or none English type letters, you know what I got lucky darn it).
Well I am following the game so I better see some work done!!!!!! =P
I also finished the demo finally by getting the compass. However, it took almost an hour to do it. I finally found a good rotation of farming, food, defense, merchant, and rotate which did make it much easier. But good lord, I know it is the end of the world, but can't we just get the merchant to join us and follow us to the new settlement. At least we'd get the compass for free!!!
Anyway, keep up the work on it. I look forward to playing more.
Thank you ever so much for playing and for sharing your playthrough on YouTube! It really helps me out! I'm glad you enjoyed playing Moonlight Fortress :)
The trader only shows up if you contact her on the radio - if she stopped turning up after you searched frequencies, then I'm afraid this is a bug. Sorry about that!
Yes please, I would love a link to your video! Thank you very much for playing!
Just watched your playthrough! Really enjoyed watching, I particularly liked the accent you gave Mikhail! Haha :)
Thank you ever so much for taking the time to play Moonlight Fortress and for providing some feedback! I have made a note of the points you made.
I also realised that you didn't encounter a bug with the trader. You don't have to search frequencies every day, just only when you want the trader to turn up. After Mikhail joins the team, the only purpose searching frequencies serves is to call the trader. This could definitely have been made clearer! Apologies for this!
Thank you for playing and for sending me a link to your playthrough, it really helps me pinpoint what things players are struggling with and what they are finding unintuitive.
I see the work in it, I just wasnt very good at it any chance of a difficulty level like no attacks and then pick it up few days in, reminds me of sheltered its the opposite not enough attacks. I like difficult games yours is my cup of tea just drag out the action.
I have to say I was nicely surprised by how well done the game was for what it was.
It was rather short but very enjoyable. I really liked the idea and the way it looks is really nice. I wish you could make a full-er version with more characters, more 'hints' to the story and more enemies and places to stay/go to!
For what it was I thought it was pretty neat :D I expect more great games from you!
However, encountered one problem- on day 46, after I clicked "proceed", the game couldn't continue- I can't select character, nothing appear when I moved the mouse on them or click them, couldn't select items as well, I had to quit game and lost all the progress and I was doing very well so far! Got Pushkin, almost saving up enough money for the compass, both characters have full health and have a good routine!
Oh no - that's so frustrating! I've not heard of that happening before, sorry you were so unlucky! A save feature would have been really great here - I'm really sorry about that! Thank you for letting me know this happened.
If it brings you any comfort at all, finding the base just ends the experience. You have actually already seen pretty much all there is to see and experienced all the most important mechanics. I included that last objective to illustrate to my lecturer that the hypothetical full game would allow the player to move to different locations. It was also included to encourage the player to devise a strategy to generate gold as quickly as possible, which it sounds like you already figured out!
If you do make a gameplay video, please share it with me. I'd love to see it!
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how can i get this game? :c
Moonlight Fortress is no longer available to download but the good news is: the sequel is out! Check it out here!
Two years on and I find myself looking for a game like that little prototype, Moonlight Fortress, I played 2 years ago. ...The magic was strong in that one.
Pleased to see you're developing it into a full game now. Looking forward to playing Yokai Moon.
Thank you so much for this kind message.
If you didn't already know, the sequel to Moonlight Fortress is out now. Check it out here!
Looking forward to hearing what you think!
That's good news. ...Away from my PC... Doh! If only I could play it on android ...But that's a whole other story, no doubt. Will take a look when I get back to PC gaming.
3 Pushkins at a time!!! World record!!! (It lagged somehow).
If you keep tapping “P” on the keyboard you can spawn INFINITE PUSHKINS (not recommended XD)
Oh, I think I accidentally did that! :)
Will there ever be a full game? I love it though it takes so long to collect enough coins for the compass and sometimes it glitches, like one time I was 1000 away and my game froze and wouldn't let me send anybody out. I was on day 35 but it happened another time earlier on with a different run.
Yes! I'm currently working on a full version, check it out: https://pixelotl.itch.io/yokai-moon
All the ending lines in paragraphs in the popups are partially cut off making them very hard or sometimes impossible to read. Would like to give this a try cause it seems interesting, but no compatability settings or anything seem to fix this. Any ideas?
having the same problem here,anyone else having this? its a very relaxing and fun game but i cant trade or read any of the notes or dialog past the first few lines,a UI would solve this but great work so far. :)
Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment, apologies for being absent from Itch and only just replying now. Have you tried the version with the alternative font?
Nice. Great concept giving a laid back yet immersive gaming experience. Loving the scandinavian theme also, I haven't come across that in a game before and I found it very evocative. I'd buy if it were developed into a full game.
Its a really fun and cute game. I would love to play the final version!
I love this game, I played it multiple times because there's always something new. I hope there is a full release and if so when would that be?
Go check out my video on this game!
Thank you for playing and for sharing your lets play with me! I can see that you really missed Mikhail after kicking him out (although unintentionally)! I'm fond of Mikhail too, his love for Pushkin is an inspiration to us all ;)
I know right ;(. I liked Mikhail a lot but I thought it would just send the dog away xD. Anyways thank you for sharing your game with me. Will definitely look for more games by you in the future.
I love this game!! Since this is just a prototype I expect some bugs, but for some reason, Pushkin just walked in the house and underground before I even got his owner. Is this a bug or something I missed because I have played this before and I'm not sure if this is from the last time playing or what.
Glad you enjoyed playing Moonlight Fortress! Thank you for your feedback!
I think I have an idea about what could have happened... I added a shortcut to unlock Pushkin to make it easier for my lecturer to see all the game's content without having to play for a long time. If you press "P", it will spawn Pushkin. It might be possible that you unintentionally pressed "P" so this is why he randomly turned up.
I absolutely love this game. I have not played a turned based game like this in ages. Especially one that kept me wanting to play more and more. I just wish I could figure out the next step. But I am determined. I apologize if I did not get the pronunciations of the names and locations correctly =(. I am only up to 2 episodes right now, but I going to keep going. Save the lycan
I watched both episodes! Thank you for playing and for your enthusiasm! I'm really pleased you liked the game so much :)
PS: you pretty much had the next step figured out by the end!
ahh gah, why did I have to me so smart so late!!!! I am glad you enjoyed the video, it is such a cool game. The concept is one of my favorites. I may like resource management a bit too much.
However, I must know. The talking sound effects, are they from the age of empires game? They sound way too familer. Also, how bad were my pronunciations?
Thank you again for the tip. I will get this next time!!!!!
Thank you for saying it's one of your favourite concepts! That means a lot to me!
I'm afraid they are not from Age of Empires - they're Russian phrases downloaded from a language pronunciation website. However, the idea of them speaking when you select them or give them instructions is inspired by AoE so I can definitely see why you thought they could be the same sound effects!
As for your pronunciations, I'd actually say you were fairly accurate! :)
Oh no way really? Yes I am a natural at guessing names muhhahahahahaa(as long as they are not Asian based or symbols or none English type letters, you know what I got lucky darn it).
Well I am following the game so I better see some work done!!!!!! =P
I also finished the demo finally by getting the compass. However, it took almost an hour to do it. I finally found a good rotation of farming, food, defense, merchant, and rotate which did make it much easier. But good lord, I know it is the end of the world, but can't we just get the merchant to join us and follow us to the new settlement. At least we'd get the compass for free!!!
Anyway, keep up the work on it. I look forward to playing more.
Loving the game and decided to do a video or so for it for my channel! Keep up the amazing work!
Thank you ever so much for playing and for sharing your playthrough on YouTube! It really helps me out! I'm glad you enjoyed playing Moonlight Fortress :)
The trader only shows up if you contact her on the radio - if she stopped turning up after you searched frequencies, then I'm afraid this is a bug. Sorry about that!
Yes please, I would love a link to your video! Thank you very much for playing!
Just watched your playthrough! Really enjoyed watching, I particularly liked the accent you gave Mikhail! Haha :)
Thank you ever so much for taking the time to play Moonlight Fortress and for providing some feedback! I have made a note of the points you made.
I also realised that you didn't encounter a bug with the trader. You don't have to search frequencies every day, just only when you want the trader to turn up. After Mikhail joins the team, the only purpose searching frequencies serves is to call the trader. This could definitely have been made clearer! Apologies for this!
had a go good game Im just not very good at it, thank you here is my attempt https://youtu.be/4uqFVu1xdwo
Thank you for playing and for sending me a link to your playthrough, it really helps me pinpoint what things players are struggling with and what they are finding unintuitive.
I see the work in it, I just wasnt very good at it any chance of a difficulty level like no attacks and then pick it up few days in, reminds me of sheltered its the opposite not enough attacks. I like difficult games yours is my cup of tea just drag out the action.
I have to say I was nicely surprised by how well done the game was for what it was.
It was rather short but very enjoyable. I really liked the idea and the way it looks is really nice. I wish you could make a full-er version with more characters, more 'hints' to the story and more enemies and places to stay/go to!
For what it was I thought it was pretty neat :D I expect more great games from you!
Thank you very much for playing and for your kind feedback - I'm really pleased to hear you enjoyed Moonlight Fortress and want to see more!
I've got lots of ideas for new characters, enemies and locations, which I'm really excited about! This is definitely something I want to improve!
VERY COOL GAME!
I will probably make a game play video out of it.
However, encountered one problem- on day 46, after I clicked "proceed", the game couldn't continue- I can't select character, nothing appear when I moved the mouse on them or click them, couldn't select items as well, I had to quit game and lost all the progress and I was doing very well so far! Got Pushkin, almost saving up enough money for the compass, both characters have full health and have a good routine!
So frustrating!
Oh no - that's so frustrating! I've not heard of that happening before, sorry you were so unlucky! A save feature would have been really great here - I'm really sorry about that! Thank you for letting me know this happened.
If it brings you any comfort at all, finding the base just ends the experience. You have actually already seen pretty much all there is to see and experienced all the most important mechanics. I included that last objective to illustrate to my lecturer that the hypothetical full game would allow the player to move to different locations. It was also included to encourage the player to devise a strategy to generate gold as quickly as possible, which it sounds like you already figured out!
If you do make a gameplay video, please share it with me. I'd love to see it!