The History of Harvest Moon - The Game That Inspired Stardew Valley!

Описание: In today's episode of The History Of, Nickadimoose explores the wonderful, farming world of Harvest Moon. This documentary includes the early life of series creator, Yasuhiro Wada, the creation of the original game in 1996, as well as the evolution of the franchise up to modern day.


Originally titled Bokujo Monogatari in the east, it came to be known as Harvest Moon in the west due to localization from Natsume. In 2014 there was an abrupt split between Natsume & Marvelous, Inc., the company that makes the Bokujo series, leading to the development of two, farming simulation games: Harvest Moon (originally localized by Natsume, then developed solely by Natsume in 2014) and Story of Seasons (the Bokujo series, created by Marvelous, Inc.,). It's...really confusing, so hopefully this video helps shed some light on the transition!

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https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/1... (references Wada’s early life, growing up on a farm in the country-side, the pressure he had on his shoulders from landing his first game development job, as well as his desire to try different approaches compared to his mentors to create video-games; this ultimately led to him trying to capture his young life digitally in Harvest Moon.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derby_S... (the game that inspired Wada to try Harvest Moon in a farm setting).

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1015842... (Wada speaking about the making of Harvest Moon; this includes his early life as well as the timeline for Harvest Moon up to 2011/2012).

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1016368... (translation of the above text, since the original video is strictly in Japanese).

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/featur... (confirmation of the move to Victor Interactive after Pack-In-Video was absorbed)

https://tcrf.net/Harvest_Moon_(SNES) (unused assets in the SNES Harvest Moon)

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