About this project

This project was started years ago, shortly after I started using Game Maker Studio. It was my first experience with game programming, and I believe it really shows.

For a first project, I managed to incorporate quite a bit of content in this game so far; it will take a player approximately 5 hours or more to reach the end of it.

In addition, I tried to incorporate as many elements and mechanics from the Harvest Moon and Rune Factory series as I could, including:

• Animal raising
• Makers
• Cooking and recipes
• Fishing (still in a very basic form)
• Mining
• Upgradeable tools
• Shipping
• Foraging
• House upgrades

The game's main plot--about townsfolk going missing and the player having to rescue them--was partly inspired by Dark Cloud for PS2, and partly emerged out of necessity, as I had a fairly large starting town (that could take upwards of a minute to compile) yet few NPCs to populate it with.