Version 0.9 Changelog + Devlog

New version of Moonaria is now available on itch and shortly also on Google Play Store!

Here are the main changes on patch 0.9:

1.  Added game map - upon completing a certain number of floors, a new dungeon is unlocked on the surface of the Moon. Dungeons have varying exp and difficulty scaling and include some new level designs. Currently, there are 5 dungeons.
2. Added new music  - created by Medniex, you may hear this awesome background track after completing a couple of floors.
3. Enemy spawn balance - Wolf and crow enemies can't spawn on the first floor of the first dungeon. Everything else goes.
4. Rebalanced enemy stats - it used to be so that stronger enemies have one super jacked stat and everything else is average. Now the stats should be more spread out on average
5. Added some new bugs - can't make a new version without these :) From testing, I didn't find anything, particularly gamebreaking, but there are a few minor ones. I will get around to fixing them, someday for sure...

The future of Moonaria is uncertain at the moment. Back in August 2022, I released a paid version of Moonaria on play store and even experimented a bit with paid advertising. I didn't spend much money and saw even less of it paid back, as only a handful of people bought it.

Besides spending small amounts for ads on Reddit, Facebook, and the usual suspects, I also fulfilled a lifelong dream of advertising my work on TV. The ad in question being a 5-second text blurb on an exclusively Latvian country music channel. I have no idea who watches it...

The text blurb says "Buy Moonaria! It can be found on Google Play Store".  Here is another recording of the ad - this time with loud developer commentary in the background.

Since publishing Moonaria, I have also given some short "post-mortem" talks, where I go more deeply into the development process. Check it out! (talk starts at 1:40)

Overall, I quite enjoy working on Moonaria. There are a couple of improvements and additions I would love to implement, should destiny permit. That being said, I may spend this year resurrecting an old project - Centurion Rex - or even writing comics. 

If you have tried out the game, let me know what you think!