Planet Moon Studios

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Planet Moon Studios

Type	Privately-held
Founded	1997
Headquarters	San Francisco, CA, USA
Key people	Nick Bruty, President, Bob Stevenson, CEO, Aaron Loeb, COO, Tim Williams, Head Writer, Scott Guest, Director of Technology, Ken Capelli, Art Director
Industry	Software & Programming
Products	Third person shooters, action-adventure games
Employees	28 [1]
Website	http://www.planetmoon.com

Planet Moon Studios is a game development studio based in San Francisco, California founded by ex-Shiny Entertainment developers Nick Bruty (President) and Bob Stevenson (CEO) in 1997. The name of the company is said to be invented by co-founder Scott Guest, who described the founding of the studio as a moment of intense overwhelming joy as "being on the planet, Moon."^{[citation needed]}

Planet Moon is responsible for games like Giants: Citizen Kabuto (Interplay, 2000) ^[1], Armed and Dangerous (Lucasarts, 2003) ^[2] and Infected (Majesco Games, 2005). ^[3] The games are generally critically acclaimed for both game-play and graphics, and are often lauded for their humour in various reviews. ^[4]

1 Recent work
2 Games developed by Planet Moon Studios
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Recent work

SEGA have contracted Planet Moon to revive a "vintage brand" for them: After Burner for PlayStation Portable. Called After Burner: Black Falcon, it was released on March 20th, 2007 and has a single-player campaign along with competitive and co-operative Wi-Fi multiplayer modes. Planet Moon has injected the game with 19 officially licensed, customizable planes, as players embark on a story-rich campaign to discover the origins of the titular mercenary group Black Falcon, responsible for the theft of 13 top-secret planes.

The company recently released the trivia and party game Smarty Pants for the Wii, which was published by EA. Their next project currently in development is Battle of the Bands, also for the Wii, which will be published by THQ.

[edit] Games developed by Planet Moon Studios

[edit] References

^ Osborne, Scott (December 2000). Review: Giants: Citizen Kabuto. GameSpot. Retrieved on 2006-07-07.
^ Gerstmann, Jeff (December 2003). Review: Armed and Dangerous. GameSpot. Retrieved on 2006-07-07.
^ Davis, Ryan (November 2005). Review: Infected. GameSpot. Retrieved on 2006-07-07.
^ Reviews for Giants: Citizen Kabuto. GameSpot (December 2000). Retrieved on 2006-07-07.