Play as Luna, a vampire trying to get home to her father, Dracula. In Moonlight, all manners of ill luck can befall you as you fight and explore through a short permadeath action-adventure RPG.  Each item has a chance to go awry, and sometimes even the world itself will fight back!

The game is "roguelike" in the sense that progression items are random and death means a restart. Enemies and rooms are not randomized due to the large amount of time that would have taken.

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Made with love using Unity 6, Aseprite, and Ultrabox for GBJAM 13, Sep. 2025. 

WARNING -

Play the downloadable versions for a more stable experience!

Apparently, the web version has a rare-ish bug that will cause the game to get "stuttery" or have delays in some parts of the game updating. Not sure why this happens and I didn't run into it once in development. Sorry if it happens to you but the local versions should be more stable!

Controls: 

Based on on-screen / "Gameboy" buttons. Bindings are listed below.

• A: Open chest / Talk / Use "A" item / Sleep in bed
• B: Use "B" item
• Start: Confirm prompt choice, open subscreen
• Select: Eat Banana
• D-Pad: Move / Navigate prompt

Bindings:

(Controller bindings listed w/ XBOX layout, plays like Nintendo layout)

• Move: WASD / Arrows / Controller D-pad / Controller left stick
• A: Z  /  LMB / ' / Controller B
• B: X / RMB / ] / Controller A 
• Start: Space / Escape / Controller menu button
• Select: Left Shift / Middle Click  / Controller view button

• F11: Toggle Fullscreen
• F4: Close game

Status Conditions

Sometimes you can be affected by a status condition or place them on enemies. These wear off automatically after a short while. Movement debuffs are only partially implemented.

• Poison - Cannot heal
• Charmed - Cannot damage enemies
• Burned - Take extra damage
• Stunned - Cannot move or use items
• Frozen - Cannot move
• Zapped - Cannot use items

Credits

Fainspirit - Programming, Environment Design, Art, Mechanics Design

HeroOfFlames - Sound, Mechanics Design

Mechanics spoilers below!

See below for items and their "failure" mechanic!

Some items have incredibly rare "super failures" that are not listed here.

Items:

• Lightning Staff
  • Can apply Stunned and Zapped
  • Variable projectile speed and can break.
• Fire Staff
  • Can apply Burn
  • Variable projectile speed and can break
• Ice Staff
  • Can apply Frozen and Chill
  • Variable projectile speed and can break
• Stick
  • Basic weapon
  • No downsides
• Hammer
  • Deal heavy damage in a small area
  • Can fly off into the distance
• Baseball Bat
  • High knockback and can reflect projectiles
  • Can fly off into the distance
• Zweihander
  • Slow, but huge AoE, knockback, and damage
  • Can fly off into the distance
• Gun
  • Shoots a tiny fast moving bullet
  • Variable projectile speed and can break
• Boomerang
  • Throw a boomerang that knocks enemies back and stuns them
  • Variable projectile speed and can break.
• Bombs
  • Place a bomb that deals indiscriminate damage and can break blocks
  • Can have a short fuse or explode instantly along with the item
• Perfume
  • Spray a charming cloud that makes enemies harmless
  • No downside because debuffs are undervalued in games
• Shield
  • Knock enemies back and destroy projectiles
  • Can sometimes be too heavy to hold up or break

• Banana
  • Eat these to heal your HP
  • Some bananas are poisonous
• Key
  • Use these to unlock blocks with keyholes
  • Found in Dracula's Castle
• Revival Potion
  • A rare potion that will save you from death
  • There are two of these but they do not stack
• Luck Potion
  • A mysterious potion that affects your luck
  • You can find it somewhere in the Forest
• ???
  • This item allows you to travel more freely
  • Found after beating the game

Yes I know about the item dupe bug, yes I chose not to fix it because it's fun

Dev notes:

Used a hacky self-implementation of the ECS pattern for this. It felt lovely to use, though my framework leaves a lot to be desired. It's tempting to make a proper ARPG engine...