The Village Post, Oct 5
Greetings, Alchemists!
We've been toying with calling Moonstone Island fans "Moonstoners" just because it's very funny to me, personally. Until someone comes up with something better, though, it's Moonstoners. Let's get into what we've been up to, two weeks out from launch!
We've always wanted to have an accolades trailer. These are videos made specifically to show off all the nice things people say about you – well, your game – and it's so exciting to have enough nice things to be able to turn it into its own trailer. All it needs now is one of those Hollywood-style deep manly voiceovers saying things like PLAY THE GAME CRITICS ARE CALLING "A GOOD GAME". But I guess that's not really the ~vibe~ of Moonstone Island. We'll probably keep it as it is.
Another exciting thing is that we're MAKING A PLUSH FISHBO. We've been calling him "Squishbo". This kind of creativity is why they pay us the big bucks.
Squishbo is being made by Makeship, a plush company that works kinda like Kickstarter, which is to say that he won't get made for realsies unless we hit a goal. As of writing, he's 80% funded with 14 days to go, - if you wanna slap your credit card down to get a Squishbo of your own, then here's the link:
https://www.makeship.com/products/fishbo-plush
We've been hard at work fixing bugs, glitches, and issues and implementing suggestions from the community, which is going pretty well!
Here are the highlights:
We realized that the description on the gems (which told you they were just for selling) wasn't technically true – they were used to craft Mailbox and Crystal. So, we changed the recipes, and now it IS true. Gems are just for selling!
There was a really frequent soft lock that popped up if you used a card that drew from a discard pile, but the pile was empty. We fixed it! YAY
People were amassing so much Energy in battle that it broke the display, so we had to cap it at 99 (which is still a LOT)
We made it easier to target placeable objects with both mouse AND controller
We taught Ossono and Tobin to count
We taught Rowan the meaning of capitalism
But there's more work to do. You can catch up on all our patch notes so far on our other Steam posts, but for now, back into the bug mines we go!
If you find anything you need to report, you can do that here!
First off, a pair of fan art pieces from Reiyh Feh, who is a HUGE fan of our boy Tobin:
And secondly – you know we love Fishbo fan art, so here's a gorgeously-styled '90s fan art piece of Fishbo, Longlog, and Capacibee from MiguiMonkey:
Meeeeooowww. Mew mew mew. Purrrr.
That's all we have for you today, but... oh? What's this? A little piece of paper has just landed on our desk... and it says "More DLC coming soon". Seriously?! Do these guys ever take a break?
No. No, we do not.
So, in summary:
Thank you for your support
Buy Fishbo plush
Send us your fan art
Bye!!!
~ Studio Supersoft