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Initially released for Microsoft Windows in 2016, it soon got ported to several other systems, namely Xbox One and eventually the Nintendo Switch. The game was developed by Brazilian indie developer Bombservice, and was published by Playism. Febru11:01 pm Published by Jack Longman 1 CommentMomodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight is the fourth game in the Momodora series and is a prequel to the previous games. Initially released for Microsoft Windows in 2016, it soon got ported to several other systems, namely Xbox One and eventually the Nintendo Switch.Today’s game has reverie in the title, and I don’t know what that word means Enter our contest to find out for yourself, and win a copy of Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight for your. The game was developed by Brazilian indie developer Bombservice, and was published by Playism. Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight is the fourth game in the Momodora series and is a prequel to the previous games.
My primary role is finding new projects for DANGEN to publish and then working with developers to help them in pretty much any way they could need in order to make, release and promote their games. I’ve been doing this job for about five years. Genres:Fact: The Nintendo Switchis an indie powerhouse and with more and more publishers and developers getting the chance to bring their games to Switch, this month we caught up with DANGEN Entertainment to talk about Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight and more.Catch our full interview with Dan Stern here:In typical interview fashion, would you be so kind as to introduce yourself to our readers and tell us a bit about yourself, your background and your involvement with Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight?Dan Stern: I’m Dan Stern, one of two Producers at DANGEN Entertainment. PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One. Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight explores a cursed land in decline.
As you make your way through the map you fight bosses and uncover snippets of story that, when pieced together, give you a broad picture of what’s transpiring.Story-wise, Momodora: RUtM is a prequel to three other Momodora games. But the influences are a lot closer to Cave Story and Dark Souls than Castlevania or Metroid (if you’re a big Pixel fan you can probably feel the Cave Story influence in the jump). The gameplay is 2D action and you’re exploring a map of various locales, unlocking paths by picking up keys and new abilities.
Momodora: RUtM was originally made an engine called Game Maker (version 1.4). Porting can be very tricky. Any chance you can elaborate on those acts so as to give our readers a better idea of the process?Dan Stern: That’s a huge question, but I’ll take a stab at it haha.
It meant a lot of testing because we need it to play and perform exactly like the PC version does, which is extra tricky for a game with very precise gameplay running at 60FPS. We fixed everything and then started over again fixing everything on Switch. That basically doubled the work involved because any random thing could potentially break in the code during the upgrade and then the port proper. This meant upgrading to 2.0, and starting porting from there.
I also keep an eye on Twitter filters for the game in English and Japanese which helps me reach out to people writing about the game or making videos etc. It’s worked out great because Nintendo fans really care about getting great games on their favorite system. We knew our audience would be Nintendo fans though and focused on reaching out to folks like Miketendo64 who have a lot of Nintendo fans in their readership. By the time we’d gotten to submitting we had a build that was very close to what we needed, but it’s easy to hit snags with some games that can delay things.To be honest, promotion is tough for a port of an older game. You’ve got to run through their own checks of the game to make sure it’s compliant with their rules, error messages, and quality assurance, etc.
It has a lot in common as far as design and gameplay go. What can you tell us about it?Dan Stern: Minoria will be familiar to fans of the Momodora series. I love that the fans are so friendly and open to chatting with some excited rando about how awesome it is.Miketendo64: Momodora isn’t the only game from Bombservice you’re publishing as you ’re also releasing Minoria. Since I love the game and have been through it a bunch of times I’m not shy about popping into folks’ mentions and talking with them about it.
Bombservice really wants it to shine as a beautifully polished experience. The game is coming along and gets better all the time, but there’s still a fair bit to be done. It’s a somber story and will hit a lot of thematic notes that have been touched upon in previous games, but not yet fully explored.Minoria can be Expected sometime in 2019:Miketendo64: While it might be too soon to say, do you have a rough idea as to when Minoria will release?Dan Stern: 2019 is about the best I can say right now, haha. It has more emphasis on story–full cutscenes and significantly more dialogue to flesh out the world, plot and characters. Each one is more complex and has them learning a great deal, improving on what they’ve done in the past.
3) Proofreading is always done by someone other than the writer. System text was handled by one person and dialogue by another, but they proofread each other’s work. We did this for CrossCode because it’s a huge game. For big games, this can be hard so we might split up the text by types. Ideally by as few people as possible to keep a consistent tone/style.
Almost anything can happen to text when it’s put into a game, but especially Japanese. Every bit of text in the game has to be seen to know that it’s displaying correctly. Depending on how text is handled by the code this can be very easy (adding text into an excel sheet or maybe swapping a file out) or it can be really hard, requiring it to be input by hand. 4) The text has to be implemented into the game.
There’s nothing glamorous about these stages of localization, but it’s necessary to make sure the player experience is as great as the game is.Miketendo64: As a publisher bringing games to Nintendo’s hybrid console, how are you finding the porting process compared to other platforms?Dan Stern: It’s nothing surprising for games made in engines supported by the console. 6) We repeat steps 4 & 5 as many times as it takes for the game to look like it was originally made in Japanese. The only way to reliably know that reading it is a good experience is for an actual human to check it in game.
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