Moon Breakers

This was my pitch for Moon Breakers - no design doc needed.

A rough concept of a first-person viewpoint.

My initial UI and gameplay architecture plan.

A slightly more detailed sketch of the core loop.

Working out the general scale and gameplay elements for our first gametype, Carrier vs. Carrier.

I wanted our ships to have a WWII feel, so this was my first concept, based loosely on a P-38 Lightning.

Keeping with the WWII aesthetic I was trying to cross it with something a little more Buck Rogers-esque.

This rough sketch showed the first inkling of the final carrier design which ended up looking nothing like this.

One of the things I learned quickly is that establishing the scale of things in a space game is quite important.

Before we had hired any artists I made this model in SketchUp so we could playtest launching from, and flying around, a full sized carrier.

I was playing with visual ideas here for our first map, the Broken Moon.

This was my mockup for our eventual marquee banner we used on our store sites, blog and business cards. The final piece was done by our inestimable concept artist.

This screen grab shows the culmination of all these ideas.

I built the in-game fiction, including store descriptions.

All our artists were remote so giving quick and clear feedback was essential.

When Moon Breakers came out we had a small but dedicated community.