Well, I had hoped to get the first video of Monster’s Developer Commentary up and viewable before we released the game, but you fine folks have been waiting long enough. And I figured I’m not going to get anything accomplished this week because of my birthday, anyway (and the first legitimate day off I’ve had in about a month, no less), so I figured I’d just go ahead and give Monster a birthday release.
Monster is the story of a fourteen-year-old girl, Mora, who was abandoned by her abusive father at the age of ten. She is a Summoner, a person with the ability to reach into the spirit realm and manifest creatures of mythology, such as Minotaurs, Genies, Nymphs, and Dryads, to do her bidding.
When the century-long peace on her home continent shatters with the western kingdom of Zapad invading Mora’s home kingdom of Stredni, Mora realizes that her status as a Summoner, which has made her an outcast her entire life, will now make her a beloved hero! She gathers up a crew of powerful creatures and heads out to stop the invasion and put an end to Zapad’s plans for war.
But with every corpse she casually passes by, she gets one step closer to the truth. In the end you, the player, must decide who or what really is a Monster.
It’s free, so click on the tab at the top of page labeled Monster, or just click on the title image in this post to go to GameJolt and download it. It’s a JRPG-style game filled with humor, sorrow, loss, and it has a female protagonist to boot.
Monster is a game about a young woman, created by a young woman (my wife, Mimi). So give it a try and enjoy the story, the fully voiced scenes in the last half of the game, and play through to the ending.
Thanks for coming, and thanks for playing!
~Rich
Richard C. Shaffer 