This game is the first and a half entry of the Myara Story game series focused on the lore and world-building (and the gameplay).

During this adventure, the protagonist you play as will try to uncover the mystery of the "Shadow Egg", and if possible, try to get their hands on it.

The Story

In a part of Japan that was sealed away in another world around 1925, in which the technology stagnated since then, exists four villages with the only inhabitants being lunar mansion magician, a race of magician using the lunar mansion magic. Today, the familiars of three of those magicians told them that a rare magic item has been located inside the Nagasaki forest, a remote area of Myara. For different reasons, those three magicians are preparing to go get their hands on this magical item, the "Shadow Egg".

But, the three of them doesn't know that two other magicians are also up to the challenge. A mad rush begins, who will be the one to get the Shadow Egg?

Gameplay

Use your bullets to take down enemies and your spell-cards to give you bonuses and different ways to attack or defend. You unlock a random spell-card every time you beat a boss. Each playable character has 16 very different spell-cards.

During each stage you have to take down random wave of enemies which become harder the more you progress. But beware of the Uber waves in Hard and Overdrive that can happen with 5% chance...

Each playable character has a different route you will take with different bosses for each of them.

You have up to 4 lives you can have. Each time you get hit, you lose health. When you health goes down to zero, you lose a life. Each bullet and enemies deals a different amount of health damage, so be careful of your surroundings.

Features

• Use your bullets to damage boss and enemies.
• Use your spell cards to affect the game and your experience in different ways.
• 3 Difficulties : Chill, Hard and Overdrive.
• Each stage contains different randomly generated wave of enemies so each run can be a new experience
• Extensive unlockable spell-card system which adds bonuses, offensive attacks and tools to make your runs easier.

Controls

Keep in mind that these controls are by default (qwerty), you can change any keys you want in the option tab of the game.

• Arrow keys - Move around
• Shoot (Z) - Shoot/Confirm
• Bomb (X) - Bomb/Cancel
• Focus (Shift) - Slow your character
• Spell Card (C) - Use a Spell Card
• Pause (Esc) - Cancel/Pause
• Spell Rack (A & D) - Switch to Left/Right Spell Card

The team

• Tania Anehina : Pretty much everything
• plug-c : The music

Smartscreen warning

This game could trigger a windows smartscreen popup or your anti-virus but do know that it's a false positive, I couldn't sign the executable, sorry about that!

Credits

• Ryannlib 1.02 : Some assets and some assets based on it. (see the .txt in /Library for more informations)

Known Bugs

• Sometimes when starting a new run or stage, a variable won't initialize properly due a lag-spike. If this happens to you, just restart the game (or your run) and try again. This is not a critical error and will not corrupt your save file. Your replay won't save, and if you continue your run with this bug happening, your game MAY crash. I'll try to fix it in a next update.
• During gameplay, on the far-right of the screen you can see a 1-pixel wide colored line. I can't seem to do anything about it.