Apparently, it’s already been online for about a month, but I’ve only just noticed it. The bilingual forum is still a bit empty, but if our mighty army of pirates invades it, it will soon turn into an atmospheric buccaneer bar. Let’s go!

The fabulous Adventure Gamers crew have managed to find out a lot of stuff about Autumn Moon’s upcoming game, Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island. If you want to know more about the locations, characters and more that will be in the game, be sure to head over here!

There are some lovely bits of Ghost Pirates concept art over at GamersHell.com for you to look at. This pic is especially interesting, showing off the colourful cast of the game. Also, publisher dtp have put a Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island teaser site, with genuine pirate jokes that you can tell to your friends!

Feast yer eyes on this, mateys! Some swashbucklin’ screenshots, posted by the sailors of that fine ship, the HMS Adventure Gamers.

Hot on the heels of the press release announcing A Vampyre Story 2: A Bat’s Tale and some other things (that you can read in the previous post here), comes a preview by Adventure Gamers of the second game starring Froderick and Mona. It contains an interview and some wonderful screenshots and artwork, so definitely check it out. Especially if you’re a publisher, in which case you should direct a substantial amount of monies towards Autumn Moon, because this game will just be too good not to publish.

Of course you already knew about A Vampyre Story 2: A Bat’s Tale. But did you know that you can now follow it on Twitter also? Well, now you do. And of course you already knew about that AVS art book. But did you know that it contains an AVS comic by character artist Jean-Louis Sirois? Well, now you do. And of course you already knew about Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island. But did you know that it is due for release in January 2010? That’s just half a year! Well, now you know everything.

Remember that talk about an A Vampyre Story art book? Well, it is now available to buy! There’s a whopping 156 pages, containing boatloads of art from A Vampyre Story, and there’s even a preview of the second AVS game, A Bat’s Tale. You can get the book here, where it’s also available as a digital download.

Now, I’m not going to update the news everytime someone somewhere mentions Autumn Moon, but this is different, since it’s Tim Schafer we’re talking about here, and he’s, well, Tim Schafer. Asked by Eurogamer if he thinks adventure games have a future, he seems to think they do! And he mentions Autumn Moon as a part of that future. Here’s the interview, the question in question is on page 4 (via GoNintendo).

If you own a Mac and are looking forward to A Vampyre Story, here’s something to tide you over. Games4Mac reports that the demo for the Mac version of AVS is here. Check out the product page here, or download the demo right away.

At these splendiferous scans from Ghost Pirates. There’s really no need to say more about this, only that I stole this news from Mojo, but that’s okay, since we’re all friends around here. And the pictures look funtastic!

Update: Actually, I might as well just translate those captions…

• Papa Doc | A serious character, who knows vooju magic. He was betrayed by his love and cursed.
• Jane Starling | Jane is a clever, pretty, and above all agile spy with a romantic weak spot for pirate commander Flint.
• Blue Belly | The kind ship cook is secretly in love with Jane and is embarrassed about his real name: Ham Rackham.
• Cool trio | Papa Doc, Jane and Blue Belly are the three playable heroes in Ghost Pirates, between which you can switch at any time. They will change into ghosts at the start of the game.
• Atmospherical | Lightning strikes in the sky - hopefully it will be animated nicely when the game is done.
• Expression | The 3D characters are more detailed than those in A Vampyre Story.
• Return | Still without a body at the start, the heroes will turn into half-ghosts later in the game.
• Rethink | Because the heroes are all ghosts, puzzles will often have unorthodox solutions.
• Pixel beauty | The lovingly drawn backgrounds are full of atmospherical details.