Halcyon

Halcyon is a mod for PMDO created by Palika that aims to recapture the vibes and energy of Explorers in an all-new original adventure. It currently consists of 4 chapters. A final length of 10-12 chapters is currently planned.

To install and play

1. Download and install PMDO if you have not already.
2. Download Halcyon as a zip file from the Github project releases. The latest release should be the most stable one.
3. Extract the Halcyon zip file to its own folder.
4. Place extracted Halcyon folder into PMDO's MODS folder. The exact file path changes depending on where you put PMDO, but it should go something like PMDO/MODS/Halcyon in the end.
5. Make sure Halcyon is not embedded an extra folder down! When you click on Halcyon's folder in your MODS folder, it should have the readme file in plain sight, and not in another folder!
6. Start PMDO, and select Halcyon from the main menu via Special Episodes.

If you're having trouble installing the game, or have any questions, comments, feedback, etc., please join the PMDO discord and talk with Palika there! The dedicated channel for Halcyon discussion is #quest-halcyon.

FAQ

1. I'm having a weird audio stuttering issue! How can I fix it?

• If you're encountering this issue, you'll need to run PMDO with the following command line argument to force it to use a different audio driver: -audiodriver:wasapi
• If you don't know how to this, look in the Halcyon Mods folder and put the audio-wasapi.bat file into the same folder as your PMDO.exe, then use the .bat file to boot the game instead of the .exe file.

Credits

• Palika — mod author. scripting, writing, balancing, mapping, etc. (all non-engine work, except where other credit is given)
• Audino — for making the engine, adding features that I needed for the game. His work cannot be understated as without him this mod would not exist
• Trio- — Mission_gen in-dungeon scripting, other scripting features/enhancements/quality of lifes

Music credits:

• Minemaker0430 - Anima Core theme

Spriting credits:

• Edan Momu — guild exterior and partial interior sprite work
• D4yz — guild interior tilesets and original guild decorations pixel art
• Jaifain — Eating and Posing sprites for Growlithe, Breloom, Noctowl, Tropius, Snubbull, Cranidos, Girafarig, and Zigzagoon;
  River animations for Illuminant Riverbed's Entrance, Metano Town, Metano Outskirts, and Altere Pond.
  Anima core and anima root animations. Scarfed Sandile Portraits.
• Baroness Faron — Audino upwards eating + posing sprites
• Happysmily — Shuckle's cafe animations, sandile scarf sprites
• Cait_Sith — Luxio fainting animation
• NanaelJustice — Cleaning up staircases inside guild and adding some detail to them
• Minemaker0430 — Scarf sprites for player/partner characters
• Sunkern — Apricorn Grove tilesets

Playtesters:

• Sunkern
• Audino
• Xindage
• Minemaker0430
• NanaelJustice
• Trio-
• Dovey
• Brimcon
• The kitchen sunk

Other custom sprites and animations come from the master PMD Sprite Repository and were not custom made for this mod.

If you helped in some way and aren't listed here (probably because I forgot, sorry!) please let me know.

Special thanks

• NeoGeoThomas — For putting the first trailer together
• borzoiteeth — for inspiring the game in the first place
• SkyTemple community — For helping me figure out base Explorer's behavior for some cutscenes and functions