- 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.comPlanet 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) in1997 . 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 2007Planet 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 " forPlayStation 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 theWii , which was published by EA. Planet Moon also recently released "Battle of the Bands" published byTHQ 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 onMobyGames
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.