A downloadable game

Once By Moonlight is story about your body changing before you're ready -- but is anyone ever ready? Charlie is trying to cope with the big changes in their life, internally and externally. Will they be able to move forward or will they cling to the past, clawing and howling?

Writing and Programming done by my amazing friend Crane. You can find her other work here.

Game created for the Go with the Flow Game Jam.

Cozy Place by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon

Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

Creative Commons CC BY 4.0

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/


StatusReleased
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorsNeonJax, Crane
GenreVisual Novel
TagsHorror, LGBT, Narrative, Short, Story Rich, werewolf

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OncebyMoonlight-1.0-pc.zip 84 MB
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OncebyMoonlight-mac.zip 50 MB

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Wow, wow, WOW! This was incredible. Super long comment incoming because I have so much to say.

I found this game because, since I'm currently writing a narrative game featuring a werewolf, I wanted to see what other similar games are already out there. I wanted to see what themes I'm considering have already been explored, and how; I wanted to engage with and appreciate someone else's vision; and honestly I just absolutely love werewolves so I wanted to play a werewolf VN. So I just searched itch using "werewolf" and "visual novel" as filters. Nice tagging, because I found exactly what I was looking for.

This was SUCH an effective and compelling story. I was amazed by what you accomplished using relatively few assets - just enough portraits and expressions to make the characters feel alive and emotional, just enough backgrounds to set the tone, and limiting it to just black/white/red in terms of palette was SO EFFECTIVE. It made that climax title screen absolutely incredible.

I was taking notes the whole time about exactly what you did in this game that made it SO effective. Your writing evoked a lot of really clear sounds and images and sensations, I noted in particular how when describing Charlie's mom bring the car to a stop and turn it off, it was described in terms of sound: the roaring engine, and how at the turn of the key the sound quieted. It turned the scene from just a catalogue of "this happened" into something where I could hear and feel it, and I could sense Charlie's focus on specific sounds and actions by the way it is described. Just excellent writing all around.

[Vague spoilers below because I have more to say but honestly I recommend anyone just download and play the game now instead of reading the rest of this comment]

I adore stories about generational trauma and that do very interesting things with the werewolf puberty metaphor. This was just an excellent game all around. Really great work!