Foraging for mushroom girls with Mortally Moonstruck

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 on their website and on itch. 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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