Moonkid

"The moon is falling and you can only watch." A hybrid game/animation. Experience it now.

Hello everybody! Since I dropped off the face of the planet in October, I've been hulled up in my secret laboratory, cooking up something special. Now, I present thee... Moonkid!

Moonkid is a game/animation hybrid (a medium I call "Promenade"). Your only mission is to walk around and watch events unfold. You aren't the hero, and you don't influence the final outcome. So it sits in a gray-area between game and film. I want to give a shout-out to Ryan Sandvik and Michael Reed for helping me develop the concept. I never would have mashed these two mediums together without them.

At its core, Moonkid is a story about fatalism and human nature. You play as a child in a sleepy neighborhood, unaware that the world is about to come to a sudden end.  Each of the town's seven residents goes about a full day, and you can follow whoever seems most interesting. Every player will have a different experience, depending on what they decide to focus on.

UPDATE: The fine folks at popmatters.com wrote a article about this game and it's themes. You can read it here.

Behind-The-Scenes Notes:

This was the most complex game I've worked on to date. Every character needed to live a full day (thirteen and a half minutes). That's over an hour and a half of content to produce. Wowza! 

The scope of this game also gave rise to several bugs (most of which have been patched). So, if you played this game on day-one and got stuck in a chair, I formally apologize!