Planet Moon Studios

Planet Moon Studios

Infobox Company
company_name = Planet Moon Studios
company_
company_slogan =
company_type = Privately-held
foundation = 1997
location = San Francisco, CA, USA
num_employees = 28 [http://www.planetmoon.com/contact_3.html]
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
revenue =
homepage = 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"." Fact|date=July 2007

Planet Moon is responsible for games like "" (Interplay, 2000) [cite web|url=http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/giantscitizenkabuto/review.html|title=Review: Giants: Citizen Kabuto|date=December 2000|accessdate=2006-07-07|last=Osborne|first=Scott|work= GameSpot] , "Armed and Dangerous" (Lucasarts, 2003) [cite web|url=http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/armeddang/review.html|title=Review: Armed and Dangerous|date=December 2003|accessdate=2006-07-07|last=Gerstmann|first=Jeff|work= GameSpot] and "Infected" (Majesco Games, 2005). [cite web|url=http://www.gamespot.com/psp/action/infected/review.html|title=Review: Infected|date=November 2005|accessdate=2006-07-07|last=Davis|first=Ryan |work= GameSpot] The games are generally critically acclaimed for both game-play and graphics, and are often lauded for their humour in various reviews. [cite web|url=http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/giantscitizenkabuto/review.html?mode=web|title=Reviews for Giants: Citizen Kabuto|date=December 2000|accessdate=2006-07-07|last=|first=|work= GameSpot]

Recent work

SEGA have contracted Planet Moon to revive a "vintage brand" for them: "After Burner" for PlayStation Portable. Called "", 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. Planet Moon also recently released "Battle of the Bands" published by THQ for the Wii.

Games developed by Planet Moon Studios

* (2000)
* Armed and Dangerous (2003)
* Infected (2005)
* (2007)
* Smarty Pants (2007)
* Battle of the Bands (2008)

References

ee also

* Lucasarts
* Shiny Entertainment
* Interplay
* SEGA
* THQ
* List of Wii games
* List of PlayStation Portable games

External links

* [http://planetmoon.com/ Planet Moon Studios official website]
* [http://www.mobygames.com/company/planet-moon-studios "Planet Moon Studios"] profile on MobyGames


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