Kritiqal Care9 Helmi 2025

Episode 85: Mortally Moonstruck Games

Autumn Greenley (she/they) and Zaozoruzhna (he/him) are two members of the indie game studio, Mortally Moonstruck Games, who for the last few years they have been working on the mushroom girl cultivating game/RPG/visual novel,Mushroom Musume.They joined me for this episode to discuss the game’s origins, how it grew from a game jam experiment to a much larger project, adapting tabletop principles to a videogame, and their favorite mushroom girls. Later, I get some pointers on how to start foraging.

You can learn more about Mortally Moonstruck’s games ontheir website and onitch. You can follow Autumn and Zao on Bluesky@autumnotopia and@zaozoruzhna.

Autumn and Zao’s Cool Things to Share
- Going outside and looking for mushrooms
- Cooking on a cast iron skillet

Things Discussed
-Mushroom Musume(Mortally Moonstruck Games, upcoming)
-Princess Maker(Gainax, 1991)
-All That the Rain Promises and More…(David Arora, 1991)
-Pigsquad Summer Slow Jams

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