Moon Hunters
Two Beautiful New Shirts - Pre-Order for a Free Bonus!
One features the art of Kelly Smith (otherwise known as @beatfist), with the Songweaver paying tribute to the Queen of Heaven. The other is a remix of the classic Kickstarter Spellblade design, but with new colors and on a lovely navy blue.
Click through to check out the shirts!
If you pre-order them before April 19th, you'll get a free Goddess sticker added as a bonus. Send us pictures of you wearing the shirt (or sticker) for free retweets, or wear them to the PAX East booth for free hugs.
Cheers,
Tanya & the Kitfox team
P.S.
Also, we patched a little bit today with some save file loading fixes & V-Sync toggle.
Now for Mac & Linux! +10 new encounters! +Keybinds!
You can even play across all 3 platforms Online, if you have your port forwarding set up correctly.
In the same patch, we also enabled keybindings while offline. We ALSO added 10 new encounters, scattered around the world. Plus we fixed a bunch of other stuff! If you're curious about the detailed patchnotes, check out the patch notes thread on the forums and have fun!
Our next priority is 100% sorting out all of your online issues, so wish Marcelo luck as he heads into the belly of the beast.
Thank you for your support!
Tanya & the Kitfox team
Week 2 Patch Notes
* (Online) Added support for Steam Invite. Look in the bottom right after pressing Host Game.
* Improved load times and memory usage in several places.
* Baba Yaga can now be found on the world map, and will always appear in the same adventure map as her cat Bayun.
* The mouse cursor hides itself when not being used.
* Non-native screen resolutions can now be used in fullscreen.
* The Songweaver’s ability panel now shows the correct buttons when using a gamepad.
* The Witch’s stab attack has more reliable collision checking.
* The Ritualist's dash is much nicer-looking now.
* Unlockable palettes are now selectable with gamepad and mouse in both online and offline play.
* Health pickups now heal players even when shielded / evading.
* The recipe count now shows the correct number of recipes unlocked.
* The proper text for hero names is displayed in places it wasn’t shown before.
* (Online) Dialogue confirmation moves forward properly in cases where it was occasionally getting stuck.
* (Online) The end-of-adventure award screen and shop screen can no longer become stuck if one player cancels while the other confirms.
* (Online) The mouse can now be used even when a gamepad is assigned.
Next week: Mac & Linux!
We're also hoping to start looking at improvements like a few more events, characters, etc. Let us know in the forums if you have a suggestion for what you want to see most.
Thanks!
Tanya & the Kitfox team
Week 1 Patch Notes
If you're interested in keeping tabs on the timing & content of each and every patch, check the forum thread on Patch Notes but here's all of it mushed together for your convenience:
MAJOR
* The framerate is now limited to the current monitor refresh rate.
GAMEPLAY
* Fixed the Songweaver sometimes not regaining stamina while running.
* Fixed the Songweaver’s run speed buff carrying over between areas.
* Fixed the Spellblade’s Shockwave animation triggering when it shouldn’t.
* Fixed several issues with dialogue being displayed incorrectly.
* Fixed an issue that prevented Apricot events from appearing.
* The final boss can no longer be damaged while spawning.
* Fixed an issue where players were getting stuck in certain caves when playing online.
ONLINE
* Fixed players sometimes getting stuck at the hometown selection screen.
* Fixed remote players not always being able to hit the final boss when playing online.
* Fixed an online death synchronization issue.
* Fixed remote player totems sometimes moving off-screen.
* Fixed an issue where enemies would sometimes disappear online.
* The pause panel no longer pauses enemies when online.
* Players with different client versions will be asked to update when trying to join.
INTERFACE
* Keybinding settings have been reset to resolve issues some players were having.
* Improved initial loading experience.
* A visual bug with selecting options in the Cooking Panel has been fixed.
* Increased clickable area on the dialogue panel UIs.
* Improved mouse controls in the in-game options menu.
* Fixed some incorrect button icons being shown in the ability panel.
* The host's IP address is now shown in the "host game" menu, as well as an option to hide it.
* The host game menu now links to our "How to play online" guide.
Thank you so much for your patience & support! We'll strive to make the game better and better with your feedback over the next months or (gods willing) years!
Thanks for a Great Launch Day!
We've had a few glowing articles published recently, including:
* "Zelda Meets Diablo in the Gorgeous Moon Hunters" by IGN
* "The Importance of Player Stories in Moon Hunters" by Indiegames.com
* A "GREAT" (four-star) rating by WeGotThisCovered
* And lots more, but you get the idea!
If you have played the game, please leave us a Steam review! It really helps!
I'm also still sorting through all of your lovely emails and messages, but it's clear most of you have been cheering us on for two years and your support has meant the world to us. We were briefly #22 in the top sellers, beating out Dark Souls III!
This is just the beginning, and we're already planning out what will be in the patches to come every week. Today we hope to put up a couple of fixes for the Options menu and Character Select screen, and next week we're focusing on optimizations.
How else can I play Moon Hunters?
Other than Humble, itch, and IndieGameStand, we were initially planning (and had announced) coming to GOG yesterday. But at the last minute, we decided to delay the GOG build until the Online mode goes out of "beta", to better-suit the nature of GOG.
Taking everything into account, this is the current release schedule for all of the remaining (confirmed) Moon Hunters platforms:
GOG.com: March 24th (and Online leaves Beta)
Mac & Linux: March 31st
PS4: June-July
PSVita: August-September
We are also considering other platforms, but for now it's one step at a time. Thank you AGAIN for all of your support and patience! <3
Cheers,
Tanya & the Kitfox team
Moon Hunters is out now!
This is only the beginning, really, as we intend to keep making the game bigger and better over the coming months and years. We're so excited to share the game with you today!
Thank you so much to our fans, followers, backers, and supporters! Tell your friends!
1 week till launch! Sharpen your blade!
IGN released a flattering video calling it "Zelda meets Diablo", so if you want to see some gameplay footage, check it out: http://ca.ign.com/videos/2016/03/02/zelda-meets-diablo-in-the-gorgeous-moon-hunters
If you want to see what else we're up to, pop into the livestream in the next hour, or check out our Kickstarter update posted this morning.
Less than 2 weeks until launch: March 10th!
That was the sound of time flying past.
Very soon now, Moon Hunters will be released to the world and we'll see what you think of our little game. Mark March 10th in your calendars to buy it on day 1!
In the meantime, you might have noticed we also have activated the original soundtrack as a purchaseable DLC. It will be available separately for $9.99, or for an additional $4.99 as part of the Soundtrack Edition of the game (total $19.99).
Wish us luck squashing all of these bugs in the time we have left...!
Tanya & the Kitfox team
Release Delayed 2 Weeks: March 10th
We're in the final days, fixing and tweaking and adjusting here and there, making everything just a little bit more beautiful and bug-free.
However, we ran into a small snag, and need to overhaul the way online data is being saved -- this should only take the Amazing Marcelo a little while, but we want to make 100% sure that the game is great at launch (or as great as we can, being a small team). So, after much discussion, we decided to delay until March 10th.
By way of apology, here's some dancing animals.
We're sorry for any disappointment, but we promise that it's all for the best. If you have any YouTuber, livestreamer, or press friends, now is the time to let them know about Moon Hunters, so we can have the best launch day possible!
Cheers,
Tanya & the Kitfox team
Dev Diary January: 5 weeks before launch!
Video version of the update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlrX7Sy_jDA
Written version: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kitfoxgames/moon-hunters-a-myth-weaving-rpg/posts/1461619
We also hope you'll tune in tomorrow, the afternoon of January 21st (3-5pm EST) to vote on the Songweaver's dance moves while Mike live-animates on Twitch!
Meanwhile we're trying not to panic! Fun times! Wish us luck!
Joyfully,
Tanya & the Kitfox team