About This Game Ritual of the Moon is a 28 day long multi-narrative game exploring loneliness, power, and healing. Once discovering her powers, The Earth’s Council exiles the witch to the moon to live out the rest of her life looking at the earth - and the woman she loves - that she can never go back to. The player spends 5 minutes each day over the 28 days reflecting on her experiences on Earth, meditating at her altar, and making a life or death choice. The game is a daily meditational activity composed of a memory game, drawing symbols, receiving a mantra, and making a decision about the future of the earth. The game tracks the decisions the player makes, becoming a sort of mood tracker. Depending on their feelings over the lunar cycle, the player will experience one of the six unique endings. ☾ Ritual of the Moon is fully created from handcrafted and found objects scanned then digitally manipulated. Each of the witch’s reflections were hand-embroidered. The mantras were wood burned. The artists used paint, clay, fabric, paper, dried plants, wool, foam, wire, plastic, pieces of computer hardware, crystals, and a variety other media. The process was long, meditative, and iterative. Ritual of the Moon was written and designed by Kara Stone, with art and sound by Rekha Ramachandran and Julia Gingrich, programmed by Chris Kerich, Matthew R.F. Balousek, Kevin Stone and Hope Erin Phillips, and music composition by Halina Heron and Maggie McLean. ☾ Available on iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ritual-of-the-moon/id1166255479 ☾ Purchase the full original soundtrack by Halina Heron and Maggie McLean here: https://ritualofthemoon.bandcamp.com/ 6d5b4406ea Title: Ritual of the MoonGenre: Casual, IndieDeveloper:Kara StonePublisher:Kara StoneRelease Date: 18 Apr, 2019 Ritual Of The Moon Download For Pc [portable] ritual of the new moon. curse of the moon vs ritual of the night. dark ritual night of the full moon. ritual of the moon steam. ritual new moon january 2018. ritual for full moon lunar eclipse. ritual for full moon october 2018. ritual full moon june 2018. ritual of the harvest moon. ritual for full moon in scorpio. ritual of the blood moon. curse of the moon ritual of the night. ritual provisions moon batch. ritual new moon in scorpio. ritual of the moon android. night of the full moon dark ritual. ritual full moon december 2017. rituals of the moon wow. ritual new moon june 2018. ritual for the full moon. ritual of the harvest moon blood magic. blood of the new moon ritual. dark of the moon ritual. ritual full moon january 2018. bloodstained curse of the moon ritual. waters of the moon ritual. ritual of the moon review. ritual of the new moon wow. ritual of the moons palette notoriously morbid. bloodstained ritual of the moon. spirit of the moon remember ritual. ritual of the new moon recipe. ritual for full moon july 2018. ritual blue moon This game gets my top tier recommendation. You basically 'play' for 3 minutes daily, and can only progress the story once a day for 28 days. Even if you do not load the game for a day, the game will advance without you. Gameplay is toddler level logic, but i believe that is by design. It is basically two lines of story, a meditative thought, and a decision to steer the comet away from Earth or let it hit. I am only 5 days in, but I look forward to loading it up for a few minutes everyday. The meditative thoughts are beautiful, making it my go-to before bed game. The art style is somehow awe inspiring and adds greatly to your brief get away into a strange situation.. This game gets my top tier recommendation. You basically 'play' for 3 minutes daily, and can only progress the story once a day for 28 days. Even if you do not load the game for a day, the game will advance without you. Gameplay is toddler level logic, but i believe that is by design. It is basically two lines of story, a meditative thought, and a decision to steer the comet away from Earth or let it hit. I am only 5 days in, but I look forward to loading it up for a few minutes everyday. The meditative thoughts are beautiful, making it my go-to before bed game. The art style is somehow awe inspiring and adds greatly to your brief get away into a strange situation. Embroidered Text: I wrote the story of Ritual of the Moon in the first half of 2015. A few months later I hand embroidered all the witch's inner dialogue. It took about 5 of those embroidery hoops. Multiple people have told me I could have made a font set - I know I could have! But I didn't want to make a font set because I didn't want all the Es to look the same or the "the"s to look identical. I'm asking the player to play for 28 days, so what is 2 months of doing embroidery in my spare time? It was a great editing process. I had to be very thoughtful with the words I used and the space it took up, making it short and bittersweet as possible. Of all the parts of working on Ritual of the Moon, this was probably my favourite. I love writing and I love sewing by hand.I hope I find a reason to do something like this again. 16 days until release.. Goals With No Punishment: This is the image of the calendar in game. As days go on, it marks your choices. At the end, it will hopefully track your emotional landscape for the past month. Even though I've set out to do #RitualoftheMoonReflections everyday, it's been 6 days since I posted. I was on vacation! A much needed vacation away from my laptop. In Ritual of the Moon, we ask the player to play for 28 days. It's a long time. I believe this habit forming self-relfection that RotM asks is beneficial to us, but of course sometimes we slip up. So the programmers and I had to figure out what would happen if someone missed a day (or 6). Should we make the game keep going, the comet always crashes into the earth? Not do anything? Freeze the game? Never acknowledge they missed a day? In the end, we decided that if you miss a day, the comet crashes into the earth that day, then if you miss the next day or any day after, the game freezes. This is to remind the player that their choices have consequences, but not to have the game punish them totally for missing it. I missed days. It's ok. I have a goal. I don't need to punish myself if it doesn't go perfectly. I'll get back on track. 19 days until release.. The Altar: These images are some of the altars we tried out. As always when looking at early versions: wow, colour! Everyday the player must go to the altar to perform a ritual to receive that day's mantra. First one must arrange the altar objects in a specific way. This is a memory game that resets each week. On the first day, there will be one object. On the second, there will be two. The third, three, and then continued until 7. The player must press them in the order they appeared, so theoretically must remember the order they appeared. In actuality, you can just tap them all until you find the right one. I wouldn't want to lock people out of it really; it's more like setting an intention to link all the days together and start a pattern for that week. If you have played Ritual of the Moon at a gallery or festival, you would have played the "simon says' version which wee made specifically for exhibition, where you tap after it animates. and don't have to remember anything.After the memory game, there is the connect the dots part which I talked about in a previous #RitualoftheMoonReflections. Then the player receives their mantra for the day. There is about 60 different mantras - but I swear I always get the same 4! These mantras were woodburned by me 5 years ago. Some of the mantras are trite, some are dark and sad, some might ring true with the player. Because the game is about self-reflection on emotional states, the mantras are there to prompt that reflection. It's not a fortune, it doesn't have to be "true" to instigate self-reflection, just like tarot and astrology. It's more meaningful that you think about it and situate yourself in relation to the given information. 15 days until release.. From One Full Moon To The Next: Happy full moon! You probably didn't sleep at all last night. I didn't. This is a big full moon for me because the next full moon will be the release of Ritual of the Moon. It's 29.5 days away. It takes the moon 27.3 days to orbit the earth but 29.5 days for the lunar phase cycle. Saying 28 is a nice middle ground. Over the next 28 days I'll be posting little bits of process work, reflections, documentation of exhibitions, and miscellaneous thoughts about Ritual of the Moon. Please follow along!. Raw Scans: To make the visuals of Ritual of the Moon, artists Rekha and Julia handcrafted objects and sourced materials, scanned them, and digitally manipulated them. Here are some of the raw scans. There are the crystals and runes, clay molds, wire weaving, my hair, broken computer hardware, a crystal, and very creepy bottles i made. 6 days until release. . Connecting the dots: This image is some sketches of images the dots connect to. The altar mini-game where the player connects the dots to form an outline of an image wasn't implemented until later in the game's design. Originally there were more formal mini-games, in the "Moon Witch" version, but those all got scrapped as it became more artsy and meditational. Connecting the dots at the altar is to be an action that is slow and physical with your hands (designed more for mobile than desktop). It can feel quite nice to touch the smooth surface of phones in that way, rather than tapping or absent-mindedly scrolling with your thumb. It is also to create a little more slowness before getting your daily mantra, to have it feel like a reveal (not a reward). 26 days until release.. The Soundtrack: I believe music has the biggest affect on mood and tone in time-based multi-media like videogames, film, and installation. The music in Ritual of the Moon is really extremely beautiful. I've been listening to it for almost 5 years now and I still am so moved by it. It made by the wonderful composers Maggie McLean and Halina Heron. I had collaborated with Halina before on Cyclothymia. and Maggie on Techno Tarot, both of which I've been told my players that they leave open the app just to listen to the music. I think Ritual of the Moon will be just the same! Luckily Halina and Maggie have put up the OST! So instead of having to leave the app open all the time, you can actually download the music and listen how you'd like! ☾ https://ritualofthemoon.bandcamp.com/ ☾3 days until release.. Iterations of the Ship: Here are some iterations of the witch's ship. 10 days until release.. Text Material Trials: Before we settled on embroidery and wood burning for the text, we tried out some other things like wire, pencil crayon, glue, sparkle paint, and puffy paint. Puffy paint is amazing. Just in general. Puffy paint is great. Everything looks like foamy clouds. My writing is so messy I really couldn't do hand written or puffy paint even if I wanted to. Embroidered text is more legible than my handwriting. I also tried cursive, which was a mistake. 8 days until release.
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