Harvest Moon is like it said a Harvest Moon clone with more tasks, items.. and a larger story, which is currently in development. It uses SDL and will be written mainly for Windows and Linux.
the full moon nearest the September equinox
The Harvest moon is the full moon that appears closest in time to the Autumnal Equinox, occurring in late September or early October.
Victor Interactive Software (acquired by Marvelous Interactive in 2002). Yasuhiro Wada is considered the father of the Harvest Moon series. English translation and distribution of the game is done by Natsume.
Harvest Moon is a folk-rock album by Neil Young, released in 1992. Due to the abundance of musicians appearing on it who also appeared on his 1972 album Harvest, Harvest Moon is in essence a pseudo-sequel to that album.
The Harvest Moon is the full moon nearest to the autumnal equinox, which occurs (in the northern hemisphere) on or about 23 September, and in the southern hemisphere on or about 21 March. Its physical characteristics - rising time, path across the sky - are similar to those of the Hunter's moon.
Harvest Moon, a game series originally released for the Super Nintendo system, was published in the U.S. by Natsume in 1997 and was the first installment of the Harvest Moon available in the U.S. Since then the game has spawned several sequels for various consoles, starting with "Harvest Moon GB" for Game Boy and most recently "Harvest Moon: Magical Melody" for GameCube.