Hi folks! We have a fun update ready for Ludonarracon this week! This marks one year since our early access launch and we really want to thank everyone for all the lovely feedback and support this past year!! We're on track to be content complete by the end of 2024, and then we'll likely be spending 2025 on polish and ramping up to a 1.0 launch! The plan however is to give the game as much time as it needs in early access so we likely won't have an official date locked until we're actually ready to launch! We've added a roadmap menu to the game's title screen to give y'all more transparency on what we've added over the past year and what we'll be doing to get to our 1.0 release! Highlights

• New Boss Added: Ravana
• New Weiqi Charm UI
• View Roadmap Button
• Wandering Background NPCs added to hub areas
• Added unique UI art for petting Qilin and rabbits
• New Enemies Added: Spacesuit, Sun Raven
• Final Boss sneak peek will be added closer to th (can be accessed through debug menu)

• Added additional anticipation to spike traps
• Robin can no longer get stuck in Debt-Blow animation
• Fixed issue with enemy facing direction being detected incorrectly
• Fixed issue with pixel art fonts looking incorrect when masked

• We're getting very close to having implemented all of our enemies
• The game's final fifth biome
• Fleshing out our hub areas
• Revisiting earlier bosses like Chu and Mirai
• More Gift Givers!

Hi folks! We have a new update out today! Highlights

• Improved Candlewick Ancestral Gifts: Overdraft, Onerous Debt & Pawn Breaker.
• Pawn Breaker damage has been doubled based on everyone's feedback!
• New Gift Upgrade UI
• Lunar Blood appears above enemies before a ranged attack occurs, hinting at the incoming attack type
• Wukong now has a character portrait!

• Prompts now disappear correctly when deleting a save slot
• Alternate NPC actions like giving gifts or spirit essence no longer block being able to talk to NPCs
• Prompts now disappear correctly when deleting a save slot
• Fixed typos in percentage based ancestral gifts in the gift upgrade menu
• Some performance optimizations for character outlines that should greatly reduce frame hitches. Let us know if folks continue to run into performance issues, it will be an ongoing fix throughout early access!

• we're working on our 5th biome and final boss fight! We're looking to have that be playable in time for our 1 year in early access anniversary in May
• Getting to our final number of basic enemies implemented (beyond this point they might be polished further after this or we might replace an enemy that's not working well. This will be about getting the enemy variety to where we want for the final game)
• crowd NPCs in areas of the town

It's our first discount of Early Access! We love getting to be a part of Game Devs of Color Expo every year, it's such an amazing community, and we wanted to time our first discount to coincide with it this year. A big part of making Midautumn really special during our Early Access period is encouraging folks who really understand what we're trying to make to get the game early and give us your amazing feedback. If you're attending GDOC this year and you want to support our game, Please do try it out and give us feedback while it's on sale! If you can't afford that right now, our free demo will still contain all the gameplay improvements we are making during Early Access, and will let you play up to the game's first Act!
On the 27th, we're also going to be adding a first look at our fourth biome Qilin Peaks, a part of the Spirit World where spirits have come together to build some kind of city in the mountains. There'll be some new enemies to fight, some new chambers as well as our Monkey King Boss Fight! I hope y'all enjoy it!

Hi folks! We have a new update out today!

Highlights

• Players will now see an intro cutscene when starting a new game, featuring some of the lovely animations we received from Kappapon Studios for our game trailers!
• 3 new enemy types have been added to Wooden Refuge: Slither-wheels, Moonstones, and Fanged Masks
• 3 new chamber variants have been added to Wooden Refuge
• new Act 2 Story Events have been added

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an empty interact prompt appearing when trying to pick up a Purge Stone
• Fixed some layering issues with the outside of Maggie's house
• Fixed subtitles not appearing over certain UI elements

Things we're working on for future updates

• we're working on a new gift giver character! This will either be its own update or we'll merge it into an upcoming larger one
• We are working on our 4th biome! We should have some intial chambers, enemies, and a new boss fight playable for y'all in about a month! Please look forward to it!

Hi folks! Mostly a lot of under-the-hood fixes with this build update! Expect more new content patches in the coming weeks and months!

Highlights

• The game build should now have full controller support
• there is now a Controller Remap panel in the Options menu
• If anyone continues to have issues with their specific controller, you should be able to use the Controller Remap panel as a short term fix. In that panel, your controller will be identified by a specific name. If you are able to share what name comes up for your controller, we can use that to implement a longer term fix!
• we also have Mac and Linux builds uploaded!
• for Mouse & Keyboard players, you can now also perform Debt-Blows using the mouse wheel, which I am personally finding very fun to use so I recommend trying it out!

Bug Fixes

• Players can talk to the Terracotta Warrior in the Debtor's Chamber without having to walk all the way into him
• The text for the Hunter's Sword and Shield effects now matches the displayed enemy in the Hunter's chamber
• Detecting the closest interactible object to the player should be more accurate
• Incorrect visuals on enemy health bars for shielded enemies have been fixed
• A duplicate of Robin no longer appears in the clothing shop when you return back to the town after buying clothes in a previous visit.
• Player can no longer move during the short build up before the Ancestral Gifts or Focus Thoughts UI appears
• Fixed an edge case where the Sycee received when refunding skills in the Narakan Loom was lower than the amount the player should receive

Things we're working on for future updates

• Some new enemies to find in Wooded Refuge and Lotus Sea
• A proper intro sequence for starting a new game using some of the animations from our trailers
• A new Gift Giver character (this probably won't be in the same update as the previous two, we'll probably split these into two different updates)

Hey folks! Some more bug fixes, mainly focusing on the most commonly seen crashes, non-progression bugs and issues people have been mentioning!

• using the leftmost saveslot no longer lets you open the save slot menu while the intro sequence is playing
• you can now skip the intro sequence for all save slots. This used to not work if using the leftmost save slot
• You should no longer get soft locked and unable to leave if you visit the temple district twice
• deleting a save should no longer cause a File Input error when returning to menu from game
• Robin should no longer repeatedly play the pickup vfx in their house if the codex opens with a null error
• the sound of money spawning no longer occurs at the start of each room
• voice lines in Practitioner's Journal should no longer overlap. Instead, the currently playing voice line will stop and the new one will then start.
• some text size fixes to UI
• Added the ability to change the volume of speech, as well as SFX previews for when changing SFX and Speech volume in the settings menu

Hi folks! Thanks to everyone who checked out the game on launch day and also for letting us know about bugs you're running into! I'm working on identifying the sources of some the higher impact issues some folks are experiencing like crashes, controllers not registering input, or saves not loading and that might take some time to properly identify so if anyone has any additional details for us, let me know! I'm adding some quicker fixes in this current update before taking a look at those larger ones: - Return To Menu button in pause menu should now be clickable with a mouse - Fixed some issues that were preventing settings from saving for some folks, let me know if anyone is still having settings reset every time you bootup the game! - You're now able to switch between high resolution and pixel art fonts in the options menu. You should also be able to change font sizes, setting extremely large fonts might cause some weird layouts with UI so let me know any instances of that folks run into! I'll be updating with small fixes regularly and once we have those larger fixes identified I'll make sure to propagate those changes back into the demo as well!

Midautumn is out on Early Access!

• A new character reveal (TBD)
• A new feature (TBD)
• More narrative events!

Check Out Our Fan Wiki For Gameplay Tips!

Steam Reviews!

Hey folks! Catch me playing through our new demo this Saturday at 11AM PST as part of LudoNarraCon. I'll be going through the content and teasing some of the stuff we'll have available for early access, which goes live on May 9th! I'll also be showing off a new character in this build that we haven't fully announced yet, but you can find them in the demo and in early access as well!
I hope y'all have a lovely time during LudoNarraCon and try out some of the really cool demos!

It's Happening Folks!

We Have a Free Demo!

LudoNarraCon Gameplay Stream!

Development Updates - Beta Recap!

Character Reveals!

Art Roundup!

New Character Reveals!

Meet Vivian!

Meet Carlos!

Our Backer Beta is coming soon!

Early Access Build Progress!

What happens after our Early Access Launch?

Are you planning on reviewing Midautumn when it comes out?

We're coming to Steam Early Access on May 9th 2023!

• We didn't end up with enough video submissions from our community to include in this announcement video, so what I'm planning to do is hold onto the ones we've received and do another round of submissions when we're announcing our version 1.0 launch!
• Steam Early Access will be sometime in 2023, which should give us plenty of time to get the amount of content we're targeting for early access launch! This will include 3 full biomes of gameplay! Some of our stretch goals and community designs will probably be completed during early access so we can get more feedback on them!
• We will have beta access for kickstarter backers who backed at the Weekend Trip tier or above before our early access date, once we have our first candidate build for early access. I'm aiming to have ready by the end of this year and I will lock down the timing of our beta once we've confirmed that is ready! We're planning to use this to identify bugs, and confirm that the early access build is meeting your excitement for the game!
• Based on the success of the beta, we will hopefully spend our development time in 2023 working on additional content that will be added to the game as early access updates, so there's interesting things to check out and return to the game for until we eventually hit version 1.0! If during beta, we identify high priority changes we'd want to make to the initial early access build before that goes live, we may end up focusing more heavily on that instead! How often we'll be able to add updates during early access, whether that's weekly (unlikely!), monthly, or a longer stretch of time, will depend on how much content we're able to make in 2023 to stay ahead of that cadence, and how much additional effort we decide to put towards improving the initial early access build!

Game Devs of Color Expo is this weekend!

Hi folks! I wanted to let y'all know we're currently preparing to announce our Early Access Launch Date (the actual date is not going to be anytime soon so don't get too excited!!) and I'd love to get our community involved without spoiling the announcement for y'all. If you'd like to be part of our announcement video please send a recording of yourself saying the following to hello@midautumngame.com: [olist]

Happy Lunar New Year Everyone!

Game Improvements

Plans for the Coming Months

We're in the Future of Play Direct this Thursday!

New Characters?

Hi everyone! We're participating in the MIX Next showcase and we've got a new character reveal for y'all! You can check out the showcase on Twitch! Meet Xiaoying! She's got some chill mom vibes and is in fact a literal mother to our spirit siblings, Wenye and Tsechoi.
We've been sending out Kickstarter surveys and I know folks have been asking for ways to back if they missed the campaign so we've officially opened up a pre-order store where you can get some of our reward tiers suchs as beta access, our art book, and even some of our physical rewards! You can tune into the MIX Next showcase to check out more of what we've been up to! Enjoy the showcase folks!

Hi folks!! Another reminder that I'll be doing a livestream of the demo today at 5PM PST / 8PM EST as our kickstarter campaign enters the last 48 hours! Come through and ask questions, and let's finish this campaign off strong!! Remember to get in and pledge to the campaign if you're planning to! We've already unlocked FOUR of our community goals and we're only $300 away from a fifth, where all backers can submit and vote a custom powerup for the game's boba store! Thanks so so much for all the help and support this past month and keep telling folks about the game!

Hi folks! We're participating in Steam Next Fest this year and we have our FREE demo up for everyone to enjoy! We've got:

• Evil spirits to blast
• Dogs, cats & bunnies to pet!
• Boba!!

Hi folks! We hit 100% funded on Kickstarter over the weekend and to celebrate we have a new update for the demo, which now features our second area boss, Mirai!
Mirai is a spirit bonded to a magic lunar stone hidden in the town of Nambo Quay. She loves telling and hearing stories, and doesn't really see why human life is any different from plants or animals. Thanks so much to everyone for playing the demo and for supporting our kickstarter these past few weeks! Please keep sharing and telling people about the game so we can meet our stretch goals, like romanceable characters! You can pledge and share at bit.ly/midautumnKS The Demo Update also includes a few bug fixes, here are some of them:

• Removed Lorem Ipsum from gift UI
• critical hit bonuses no longer stack forever, they now reset each time a new room
• You can't walk aound in the empty void of the ranged tutorial room anymore
• The bug where you can enter the shopping center and leave without transitioning outside is harder to trigger
• we've fixed some bugs that were blocking progression

Midatumn's Kickstarter campaign is officially live! We have a brand new trailer for everyone to checkout! [previewyoutube=AmR9Iu8FZ70;full][/previewyoutube] Here's also a great explainer video from I Dream of Indie [previewyoutube=orJjYku6c9I;full][/previewyoutube] You can also download the demo NOW! We hope you enjoy it and let us know if you come across any bugs, we'll be keeping track of those to help with post kickstarter fixes! You can back us NOW on Kickstarter! the first day of the campaign is super super important and we're doing really well so even a little push today is going to help us snowball in the coming weeks! Please back and also if anyone has any kind words to say about the game or the team today would be a great day to share that with people! wishlist us on Steam if you haven't already, and follow along with the campaign on Discord and Twitter!

We're thrilled to announce that Midatumn's Kickstarter campaign will go live on September 3rd, which means the campaign will coincide with the real world Midautumn festival on the 21st of September! We'll be putting out a brand new animated trailer as well a pre-alpha demo once the campaign goes live! [previewyoutube=SJdFIOsUS88;leftthumb][/previewyoutube] The games kickstarter demo will allow players to toggle the amount of damage the player takes so even players who are intimidated by rogue-lites can still play and enjoy the narrative. This pre-alpha demo will be an early look at the games opening chapter, designed to allow players to give early feedback during the kickstarter campaign. during the campaign, w!e're going to be making appearances at the PAX 10, Game Devs of Color Expo, and Steam Next Fest Make sure check out the Kickstarter page and request to be notified once the campaign goes live, wishlist us on Steam if you haven't already, and follow along with the campaign on Discord and Twitter!