My Planet: Moon Child

My Planet: Moon Child is a visual novel with a branching story shaped by your choices. Jinan and Hitoriko join the Ark project, a national effort to establish a new human settlement, and travel to an unexplored world. There, they encounter aliens who look strikingly like humans.

The story

Jinan was born on a lunar base and studied at the Academy, where he failed. After a series of events, he joins the Ark Ship Project as a planetary explorer. Hitoriko, a cheerful and friendly prodigy who grew up in the moon’s slums, met Jinan while skipping grades at the Academy and becomes involved in the project alongside him.

The first alien Jinan encounters is Nora, who lives deep in the mountains, away from the alien village. Nora risks their life to save Jinan when he is in danger, and is skilled with a bow and at hunting. Other inhabitants include Praline, cheerful and innocent aliens who interact with Jinan, and a cautious, stern-faced scholar skilled with a spear. Ossa, the village chief, organizes the villagers and knows a great deal about them, but appears unable or unwilling to leave his mansion because of a disability affecting his lower body.

The Academy’s chairman is a renowned scientist and charismatic lobbyist involved in lunar politics. Jinan calls the chairman “teacher.”

Choices and features

Frequent choices lead to distinct story paths and multiple endings. The story advances mainly through mouse clicks, and the game includes skip, auto-play, save and load, and a message backlog.

The visual novel contains 165 standing illustrations, 110 event CGs and approximately 230,000 characters of scenario text.