Mana Quest - Monster girl game inspired by stardew valley and recettear! [Dev thread]

raffle

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Hello everyone! I'm developing a game called Mana Quest and I'm here to share a bit of my dev journey and bring updates as I develop it.

You will step into the shoes of an entrepreneur, running a humble shop, and serving a diverse array of customers. Along the way you will develop into a colossal business by acquiring business partners and recruiting adventurers to help you explore other worlds in search of riches. Build your harem all while stopping an evil force approaching this new fantasy world!

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HENTAI
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In Mana Quest, you can have hentai scenes with nearly all characters! Store customers? Royalty? The girl that brings you your coffee in the morning? You can bang them if you want to.

Every character has a different body type, monster race types (Humanoid, Anthro, Monsterish) and personality to keep them interesting. Hopefully the best girl will be different for every player.

All of the adult scenes have a minimum of 8-12 variations alongside immersive dialogue, narration and actions. They will also be fully animated.

All gameplay elements also reward you with these scenes, from Mana farming to running your shop or even mini-games, you've got something spicy to work towards.
You also won't have to lose in combat to see scenes.

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PLAYABLE CHARACTERS
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SIDE CHARACTERS
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And more characters planned which I still don't have any art for!

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STORY
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Mana Quest has a lighthearted and engaging story divided into 7 chapters, including a prologue and an epilogue. The story and characters are all already written (No, I won't be making stuff up as I go along!!).

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One day, while playing your favorite MMO, you suddenly get teleported into a fantasy world called Eter by a strange cat. Her name is Euna, the goddess of this realm, and she informs you that this world desperately needs your help.

There's just one problem.. you're not really the hero she was looking for, in fact you're just a regular guy!

In Eter, Mana is the essence of life, which also serves as the fundamental fuel of magic. But there's been a sudden inexplicable shortage of it. In order to prevent chaos, veteran adventurers started exploring other worlds to gather it. This is called world-hopping.



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They established the city of Hoppe, a thriving hub around an ancient tree that acts as the gateway to these worlds, making it the bustling center of Eter and functioning as the main gathering point for extra-dimensional Mana. Adventurers of all kinds travel here to go world-hopping!

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In Mana Quest, your mission is to bring Mana back to Eter, get rich, collect cute monster girlfriends and become famous while doing it. Use your business skills and your party's unique strengths to help prevent a mysterious impending doom befalling upon this world!

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SCREENSHOTS
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FEATURES
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  • Diverse character bust system - with many emotions and different poses to make everyone feel way more expressive.

  • Almost no menus. Nearly all info is in-map or on screen, including the in-game inventory window.

  • Quest log & map window to keep track of events and characters.

  • Pixel movement with custom collisions system.

  • Mana farming - gather Mana essences that help you craft and sell things. Comes with seasons and a weather system.

  • Crafting grid system - a 3x3 grid where you can place ingredients to make items. Much like minecraft.

  • Monster girl management - Leveling up your farming skills will help you collect monster girls that live in your farm. You will need to take care of them.

  • Shop system - You can sell things at your shop and haggle with customers for the best deal, as well as other features like special orders, picking up specific items, etc. You will also be able to expand your shop, customize it and hire workers to help you out.

  • World-hopping exploration - You will be able to travel to other worlds via the adventurer's guild. All with different aesthetics, enemies, bosses, monster girls, etc.

  • Turn management combat system. No other gauges to take care of besides health and turn points. All skills/actions require a certain amount of turn points in order to be used. Both players and enemies can use order altering skills to mess things around. It's all about strategizing what to do with your turns! No menu browsing either. You just click on the action you want to do and then on the enemy/party member.

  • Camp system - During world-hopping you can set up camp at specific spots, these will be the only safe spots in other worlds, you will be able to talk with party members, save the game and among other things.

  • Professions & skills - Each party member will be able to do different actions during world-hopping, for example Alna can pick up heavy objects and mine for resources.

  • Poki - A dice minigame that will help you make some money on the side.

  • Configurable controls - You can use keyboard & mouse or you can almost fully play it with just your mouse as well.

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Mana Quest will release as an early access free to play game on Itch.io and Steam!

HOW CAN I PLAY?

The game will be in early access to the public towards the start of 2025. If you'd like, you can make a one-time donation now on for dev builds or VIP perks so that you don't have to wait until then. You will also keep those benefits forever.

(The opportunity for a one-time payment will no longer be available after Early Access is launched.)

Additionally, the game will be free afterward on Steam & Itch. However, the free build will lag far behind the dev version.


I will be updating this thread with news about development and answering any questions you guys have!
 
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raffle

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May 15, 2018
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Just a small update! I actually got 100% funded on Kickstarter after 3 days!! :PogChamp:There's still some stretch goals to go through to include cool things in the game as well!

As I mentioned above I will be posting dev updates here in the following months after my KS has ended c:
 

Tompte

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Looks great. Not at all surprised you hit your goal in only 3 days. Congrats and good luck!
 
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raffle

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May 15, 2018
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Henlo everyone!

I'm launching a special giveaway for a free upgrade to the €650 tier of our Kickstarter! As a winner you can get a custom NPC & Hentai scene. This giveaway will last for a week so you have time to enter. I will email the winner at the end!



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Both backers and non backers can enter. Although if you're a backer you can get extra entries! (Check your kickstarter messages for your code c: )

(If you already have this tier or above you will still get the additional NPC & Hentai scene.)

Good luck! <3
 
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raffle

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Aww, I thought the giveaway was going to be for the game :( but of course not... and eww, that gleam site is the most annoying thing to use for giveaways, just my opinion anyways.
You do get early access to the game if you win, you get that reward tier, including all previous rewards! Also this website was the only one I knew for giveaways!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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raffle

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Thank you everyone for participating in the free giveaway! :giggle:

We already have our winner and I've already contacted them and hope we can make some cool content together :)

I wish everyone would have been able to win, but then I'd be making Mana Quest for the next 30 years :cry: however this was a cool experience for me and I hope I can make more free content giveaways in the future for other releases!

Once again thank you for the support :giggle:
 

QazHentai

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Is Thenidrur living armor? If so you have my interest and I look forward to seeing how you handle scenes with her.
 
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raffle

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Got a new sketch artist and have been redesigning two of my previous characters to make them hotter:

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Only have sketches for now but I think they look way better, here's how they were before:
 
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raffle

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We hit the full animation goal :3 I'll be able to have hentai scenes moving in spine 2D now!!

Also may have already found an animator: