Action roguelike Midautumn is named after the Mid-Autumn Festival, one of the most important events of the calendar for…
is named after the Mid-Autumn Festival, one of the most important events of the calendar for many countries in Asia. It's a celebration of the full moon, usually falling in September or October, though traditions vary between countries. For me, it's a time of year I'll always associate with the mooncakes my grandma shares with us.
Uduwana tried pitching the game in a traditional way to secure funding, but the culture gap - and then, more significantly, the pandemic and the wave of anti-Asian sentiment surrounding it - caused him to opt for a more indie development approach instead."That galvanised me to just be like, I'm just gonna message people and we'll try and make it," he says.
This led the team to centre combat on lunar blood, which acts as ammo, and is collected from and then reflected back to enemies. The amount of blood you can be holding at once is limited, and if you hold on to it for longer than five seconds or get damaged, it turns into lunar rot. Rot can still be used to attack, but in doing so you'll take damage.
On a thematic level, the feeling this creates can be interpreted in different ways. The act of reflecting ammo ties into the game's lunar imagery, evoking the effect of the moon's reflection of light from Sun - something seen at the full moon of the Mid-Autumn festival. Personally, I really like the idea of harvesting energy from your spiritual demons, whatever they may be, and using it to defeat them, but keeping it to yourself for too long will only hurt you further down the line.
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