Various editions of Star Cruiser (1988-1990, Arsys Software). Screenshots from MobyGames.

We found back a vector version of the Moon Child logo. I made it in a mid-1990s version of Adobe Illustrator. There's also a plain version, without gradients and strokes. I've uploaded the files to the Moon Child Archive file directory: archive.org/download/Moo...

HELP WANTED! I want to do some lofty things with #MoonChild modding, but I can't sprite for the life of me! Trust me, I tried... I'm looking for anyone who can try to replicate Moon Child's / Metin's style, either in sprites or more formal art. Please contact me here or on Discord at kotonesdiary!

📯More Hoi #drawpile #art

I've added Moon Child's tiles and backgrounds to the Archive file directory. Fun fact: the backgrounds are also tileable. We planned to make those move in parallax style, at half the speed of the foreground. I don't remember why that didn't make it into the game. 😅 archive.org/download/Moo...

The gang's all here!

Started porting our old game Hoi from Amiga code to a more portable format so it can be run 'anywhere'. As you can see, not there yet! 😅 Debugging this stuff is pretty tricky but fun! Hopefully it get's into something playable / useful at some point. 🙏

Also from @wafflenet.com, the full installed files for the PocketPC version of Moon Child: mega.nz/file/VRdUiIK... I don't know how easily this can be played, as I don't know the state of PocketPC emulation at all, nor how to easily mess with an original device. But it's easy to look at the files.

Exciting news on the Moon Child PocketPC front. @wafflenet.com, who is in our Discord, got the game installed onto their iPAQ, retrieved the files and found an old PC version of the Syntrax software to get us this, the title track of Moon Child PPC, which hasn't been heard in possibly over a decade:

Me when discussing cool games: World is my oyster! Everything else:

Found an official Moon Child theme for Windows 95 while searching DiscMaster. The source? A companion CD for an Amiga file manager, of all things. It replaces the default SFX with sounds from the game. #moonchild Shoutout to ShivaShaw for the original ISO. discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/20256...

"MOON CHILD FE" IS OUT!!! A modern source port of the original 1997 version of Moon Child, available for Windows, Linux, and browsers! Comes with a save system, controller support, and more! PLAY HERE: mors-games.itch.io/moon-child-fe The story is TRUE!!!

@lenna.gay and I started up a discord server for all things Moon Child, like speedrunning for example (hope that can kick off soon here). You've got the power, to be our friend: discord.gg/eEXqjcAu

This is a wonderful leaderboard design. I'm out of practice with this stuff so can't imagine I'd have done it as well as this. Shoutouts to Lenna for helping on this, she did a wonderful job.

I'm going to polish it up a little more before I probably post the file itself, but I was working on some other project stuff last night and alongside that I recreated the Moon Child logo from the boxart in SVG :P The font is just a modified Black Chancery but I did match it, weird angles and all

When my wife and I had just married, she crafted this Hoi plushie for me. 😊💚 As we married uhm… a 'few' years ago, the condition of the plushie has declined, but I thought it's fun to post here. My wife wants me to emphasize that it was a quick prototype, not a finalized creation. 🙂

Moon Child stuff: Not sure if it's been mentioned anywhere, but at least in the texture container for the original PC release, is animation frames of Hoi able to walk left and right (quickly made the frames into expanded GIFs for reference).

@seven.eurosky.social This only sorta relates to Moon Child, but have you by chance ever heard Supersempfft? Their debut album is something I closely associate with Moon Child, owing to a similar vibe www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhwB...

Moon Child now has a SR.C leaderboard, in anticipation of runs for the sourceports in development (kind of leaning towards the port worked on by Reinier and @eidolon.photon.institute, unless the other one catches on for runs; we'll debate it). Anyone interested in a mod role, and will be running it?

There's like three ports of Moon Child to SDL. First there's @mors.games,then @eidolon.photon.institute , then finally there's the original repo which got pushed to TWO HOURS AGO to have it as a Portable SDL version https://bitbucket.org/rhinoid/moonchild

🧵 1/x I'll explain the weird "Hoi" game name… 🙂 "Hoi" means "Hi" in Dutch. Back in the 1980s and 1990s I used to have a cat named Mickey. When the cat entered my room, I always greeted the cat by saying "Hoi Mickey!" 🙂 [Continued in next post…]

Funny enough, it's the anniversary of me actually playing Moon Child (give or take a time zone). I had downloaded it some time prior but couldn't get it working. Then I dropped in a wrapper or something and finally got it to run. Can't wait for a sourceport release, whoever can pull that off soon.

restored the removed settings menu and the exit option. i even restored the credits layout from the dos version because reasons it's all coming together... the ultimate way to play moon child

successfully built Moon Child SDL for 64-bit windows. giving builds to a few friends but not quite ready for release - waiting to see what the team does today/tomorrow!

WIP moon child SDL port source github.com/HybridEidolo... #MoonChild

I just remembered Guimo, which is technically Brazilian in origin but is spiritually a Europlatformer in overall design. Difference being that it's more like a sprawling combat game with enemies that are able to intelligently engage in combat with the player. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pguB...

it's moon child, oooh oh oh there's still quite a bit of work left before i can release it, but it shouldnt take too much time. the moon child pc port is REAL

Just boredly throwing this out there but one particular europlatformer I tripped over in the past is the German game Tailchaser, released the same year as Moon Child. This one has in-game voice acting (all in German, of course), and it too is Freeware. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdZk...

I found the Pocket PC version of Moon Child, but I can't install it as it wants the drivers present for a compatible Pocket PC device, and I don't have any of those around (it probably won't work in Windows 11). Apparently it has different music, so it'd be cool to hear that. mega.nz/file/VJMRVBY...

If you hold crouch down in Moon Child, after a number of seconds he will fart. Amazing easter egg I was able to properly figure out after looking at the source code (I forgot how I originally got it to happen):

Back in the mid-1990s, I made all Moon Child's graphics using DPaint on an Amiga, but I wasn't skilled in 3D creation yet. So I designed and printed a storyboard template, drew storyboards with pencil and directed 3D animators to realize cinematic videos that surround the game in the CD-ROM version.

I decided to re-register an account to enjoy the memes of our 1990s #MoonChild game. 😁👍 I designed Hoi and Moon Child. Reinier van Vliet coded it, and Ramon Braumuller made the soundtrack. Play Moon Child online: proofofconcept.nl/portfolio/mo... Moon Child Archive: archive.org/details/Moon...

TFW you had found Moon Child several years back and are blindsided by it suddenly becoming a meme on that social media platform you rarely ever use.

#birdbot

This place needs more theme options.