Factsheet

Developer:
DjMonkey
Based in Surrey, UK

Release Date:
12 December 2023
(Early Access)

Platforms:
Steam PC

Website:
https://djmonkeyuk.github.io/games/tales-from-the-dancing-moon

Regular Price:
£9.99 (Early Access)

Description

Tales from the Dancing Moon is a life-sim RPG set in a parallel universe inspired by UK culture and fantasy novels. After the events of a shadow-beast invasion on a seaside town, complete villager quests and collect hidden diaries to understand your role in this mysterious character-driven story.

History

The idea of Tales from The Dancing Moon formed back in 2012 after I left University and has been in my head ever since. It’s story is inspired by “portal-story” adventures, such as Narnia or Alice in Wonderland.

The details of the story evolved over the course of many years as I worked my day job as a Technical Artist for film visual effects. When the pandemic hit in early 2020 and the UK went into lockdown, I used my time to learn Unreal Engine – which kickstarted my interest in game development.

A year and a half into the pandemic (October 2021) I released the demo on Steam, and reached the front page of Reddit with some of my postings. This encouraged me to continue developing and work towards a full version of the game.

The plan is to enter Early Access in 2023 – in which the quests for the main story (that has been swimming around in my head all of this time) will finally be playable.

Features

• A character driven story inspired by young-adult and portal-fantasy stories. Told via quests and reading diaries scattered across the world.
• A hybrid of RPG and life-sim with open-ended sandbox features.
• Questing, farming, crafting, building, fishing, cooking, combat – just to name a few things you can do!
• Season and weather effects.
• Free object placement and village building systems.
• Both hand crafted and procedural areas.
• Photo mode with many lens and filter options!