A small East Asian fantasy action RPG prototype made in Godot 4.
By day, the village is green, quiet, and almost kind. By night, the same paths turn cold blue, lights flicker awake, and things that should have stayed buried begin to move.
Moonlit Jianghu is a playable top-down pixel-art prototype about a lone sword bearer caught between an ordinary village and a haunted jianghu. It blends wuxia movement, xianxia mood, old-world village scenery, and fast little bursts of action combat.
This is not a finished game. It is a preserved slice of one: enough to walk, fight, dash, guard, switch day and night, open the inventory, meet hostile creatures, and feel the shape of the world it wanted to become.
中文简介：这是一个 Godot 4 制作的俯视角像素动作 RPG 原型，带有亚洲古风、武侠、仙侠、江湖、东方幻想、昼夜切换、近战战斗和独立游戏实验气质。
The village was built on an old road through the jianghu. Travelers once came for tea, shelter, and rumors of immortals in the mountains.
Then the moon changed.
At sunrise, the grass still shines and the houses still look warm. At night, blue fire drifts over the paths, corpses remember how to stand, and a burning lion stalks the edge of the village. The sword bearer has no grand prophecy yet, only a blade, a few unstable skills, and a place that refuses to stay peaceful.
| The Sword Bearer |
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The Sword Bearer is the prototype hero: a quiet wanderer in pale robes, carrying a blade that looks too bright for a village this cursed. Their story is still unwritten, but the shape is already there: a lone cultivator, a broken road, and a night that keeps testing whether courage is a skill or a habit.
| Bone Wanderer | Ember Runner |
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Bone Wanderers are the old dead of the road, held together by resentment and half-remembered patrol routes. They are slow enough to read, close enough to punish careless attacks, and useful as the first pressure test for the combat loop.
Ember Runners are faster, leaner, and meaner. They move like a warning flare through the grass, forcing the player to dash, guard, and reposition instead of standing still and trading blows.
| Ashfire Lion | Green Revenant |
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The Ashfire Lion is the prototype's signature threat: a burning beast that turns the moonlit road into a danger line. It reads clearly in both day and night, but at night its glow becomes part of the village atmosphere.
Green Revenants are bodies pulled back into motion by unstable skill magic. They are not quite enemies and not quite allies in spirit, a hint of the stranger systems this prototype was starting to explore.
- Switch between day and night with
P, changing the village from bright grassland to moonlit danger. - Fight in quick top-down melee with attacks, guard timing, dash movement, stamina pressure, hit flashes, knockback, and impact feedback.
- Face prototype enemies including skeletal attackers, zombies, fast enemies, and a blazing fire-lion variant.
- Explore a compact fantasy village with tiled paths, lantern-lit buildings, trees, rocks, breakables, particles, and hand-placed landmarks.
- Open the inventory overlay and see the early RPG structure behind the combat prototype.
| Day Village | Day Combat |
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| Night Village | Night Combat |
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| Inventory |
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- Move:
WASDor arrow keys - Attack:
Jor left mouse button - Guard:
K - Dash:
L - Use selected skill:
Space - Select skills:
1-5 - Inventory:
M - Toggle day/night:
P - Reset scene:
R
This project uses Godot 4.6.2.
godot --path .Local release builds can be exported into out/, which is ignored by git:
mkdir -p out
godot --headless --path . --export-release "macOS" out/moonlit-jianghu-macos.zip
godot --headless --path . --export-release "Windows Desktop" out/moonlit-jianghu-windows.exeUnsigned builds may trigger operating-system security prompts.
Moonlit Jianghu is public as an archival prototype and visual showcase. Some tests document older scene expectations, some systems are experimental, and not every asset in the tree is used by the current scene.
No open-source license has been selected yet. Until a license is added, the code and assets are visible for reference but not explicitly granted for reuse.