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[Pinqu!]

Presenting: MòŌóN a roguelike action game set in space

Story
The Major caught himself in a very uncomfortable situation! His spaceship fell down a mooncave and was blown to pieces. Hunt for the lost parts and rebuild your spaceship.. But beware.. it seems you are not the only one down there.

Prototypes
I heard you like prototypes, so here's some for ya
https://pinqu.itch.io/mooon

changelogs:
- prototype release 2
- prototype release 3
- prototype release 4
- prototype release 5
- prototype release 6
- prototype release 7/8
- prototype release 9

Development
How it started:


First time with a randomly generated cave:


And this is what it looks like when things don't go as planned:


Bugtesting:


Here it's at today:

[foofter]

Woa! Love the colors and visual design and monsters! Can't wait to see it more developed in the direction of the last few screenshots. :D

[MrHassanSan]

I feel like I've definitely seen the first few images before...did you have another Devlog, or am I going crazy?

Either way, it looks like this is coming together nicely!

[Pinqu!]

Thanks guys :D

I feel like I've definitely seen the first few images before...did you have another Devlog, or am I going crazy?

Either way, it looks like this is coming together nicely!

Nope this is my first devblog ever! I probably have posted them before in the gif wip or the screenshotsaturday topic here at tigsource (or someplace else like indiedb/reddit/twitter etc.)

[Manuel Magalhães]

The title accentuation is killing me. @_@

Seriously though, this is looking pretty great — gives that vibe of going into the unknown. Nice artstyle and monster design, too.

[Pinqu!]

The title accentuation is killing me. @_@

Yeah I should probably loose that.. I also starting to annoy me cause I have to copy/paste it every time

[MrHassanSan]

I actually really like it! But I see how it'd be annoying to type all the time. Maybe you could keep it for the title screen/in-game stuff, but just type it out normally?

[InterGalactic]

Indeed, nice colours and concept, keep up~!

[absolute8]

Cool, I didn't know this would become a rogue-like. Can't wait  to see what monstrosities await us in the RNG.

[Pinqu!]

I was looking for a way to communicate with the player. To show hints and/or tell some kind of a short story. So I made a little text balloon..

[Fat Pug Studio]

It's looking better and better, and the balloon is really neat 

[Pinqu!]

Been working on a snow/ice theme. Pretty happy with the result.
At the moment the icicles aren't destructible, but that shouldn't be to hard to implement. So coming soon

[MaxTexeira]

Haha seems fun. What if you do that the spiky green enemy damage the purple one with some of its spikes?

[absolute8]

Haha seems fun. What if you do that the spiky green enemy damage the purple one with some of its spikes?

I second this. Such tactics would be perfect for a rogue-like.

[The Armorman]

a halcyon roguelike!

[Pinqu!]

Sounds like a plan! I could make it so that if a bullet hits the green one it would be set in motion and do damage to other enemies that are on it's way.

[Alec S.]

I like the look of this so far!

[Pinqu!]

Unfortunately the release of this next prototype took longer then expected. I made some simple changes, but this affected much more things then expected. So I had to fix all of it before I could release. And then I got sick, so that sucked. Anyway it should all be done now. For the next prototype I'll try to come up with some new enemies and/or weapons.

Fixed
- On some (older) machines, the first prototype was running way to slow.
- Small issue which could cause the player to get stuck in the walls.
- Jetpack particles spawned at a wrong position when being sucked into a portal. Due to the speed this was hardly noticeable though

Changes
- The size of the mooncave has been reduced from 80+ rooms to 50.
- The number of rocketparts is now 20 instead of 24.
- Changed the parallax background settings.
- Changed the appearance of the background mist fx and moved it to the front as part of the fog of war.
- The searchlight got a little bigger and it's appearance changed a little bit
- Instead of using the mousewheel to switch between the 3 weapons slots, you can now also use the 1, 2 and 3 keys to select a different weapon slot.
- Grenades now explode faster.

Added
- Text balloons. The Major can now give the player some small hints or scream like a little baby when getting sucked into a portal.
- Snow/ice cave theme.
- Shoot the green spiky enemies to set them in motion and use them to hurt/destroy other enemies. Be careful not to get hit yourself though.

Download here: https://pinqu.itch.io/mooon

[Beyond]

I like the story set-up, and game looks nice. Good work!

EDIT: That music though. Props to the composer as well!

Liking that back-firing mechanism. For every action there's a reaction.

Got skill level 5. Is that good?

[Pinqu!]

I like the story set-up, and game looks nice. Good work!

EDIT: That music though. Props to the composer as well!

Liking that back-firing mechanism. For every action there's a reaction.

Got skill level 5. Is that good?

Thanks! Glad you like it The composer is TeknoAXE. You can use his music license free. It will be replaced by other music at some point though. The songs are called Eight_Bit_Commando and Space_Vacation (I like this one )

Skill 5 isn't really good (sorry). You either got hit some times very quickly or you spend to much time wandering around.. It's important to kill as much monster as you can, as they can supply you with more air.