Savage Moon
Savage Moon is a PlayStation 3 and PSP tower defense strategy game by British studio FluffyLogic which sees the player protecting a remote, off-world mining facility from constant attack by Insectocytes, a type of carnivorous creature inhabiting the planets. The mission is to strategically place an array of upgradeable, defensive weapons in the way of the bugs. There is a range of towers, from rapid-fire machine guns to support towers such as the chaos tower.
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Developer(s) | FluffyLogic |
Publisher(s) | Sony Computer Entertainment |
Designer(s) | Ana Kronschnabl, Tomas Rawlings, Stuart Griffin |
Engine | PhyreEngine |
Platform(s) | PlayStation 3 |
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Genre(s) | Tower defense, strategy |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
The game was released for download on the European PlayStation Network on 24 December 2008 and in North America on 29 January 2009.[1]
In 2010 the soundtrack to the DLC of Savage Moon: Waldgeist - also composed by Elsaesser, was nominated for Best Original Video Game Score in the 55th Ivor Novello Awards.[2] This was the first year that music from games was given a category in the awards.
On 22 December 2009 a new game set in the same universe and featuring some of the same units and towers was released, titled The Hera Campaign.