Providing Emotional Relief Through Video Games
We create video games that provide a safe platform for emotional release and self-discovery.
In doing so, we can help people relieve stress, have fun, and understand themselves for a better future.
The Moonbow Web Arcade will be a new website to replace this one! We want to create a web arcade that has a few unique features to help relieve some stress points of trying existing mobile games!
Cute or fun mobile and desktop friendly arcade games to play for free, no strings attached.
So long as you can get to our site, we want the games to try their best to be playable through touch, mouse, and even keyboard or joystick if applicable!
The games are sorted into sets of "planets" to help create a world.
This will promote immersion in the land of the arcade lore.
A weekly reset of all high score tables!
Instead of being drowned with other player's perfect scores, you'll have to compete each week to stay on top! Each week the games will use a special seed from the server to generate the random numbers, leaving everyone with the exact same layout to compete with. This rewards actually having skill at the games instead of just getting lucky!
No logins or emails needed to play.
Ids will be saved per device so nothing is ever saved to our server besides submitted high scores.
All supported by donations, but only from players who can afford to donate!
With no other advertising plans, we intend for this to keep the arcade accessible when players emotionally need it the most, regardless of their life situation.
Completely honest section of prototype style games when we have gameplay but are not done with art.
We believe the actions of playing a game should be fun enough even if the graphics are programmer art placeholders. By exposing our development, this allows you to see what we are cooking, and forces us to stay focused on "is it fun?" instead of selling less fun ideas through graphics or looks.
Shoutout short form blog section where we share games made by other developers!
No sponsorships or developer bribes allowed! Just honest shoutouts from Moonbow staff to you about other companies' games we think are cool.
Our smaller games in which we still aim at our goals! Many of these are the result of us doing game jams, where developers are tested to make a game in a very short time. So be aware these lack the polish of full releases! Give them a try, many players still love them!
A score chasing game about compromise.
A game about a kobold doing their best to deliver packages quickly and efficiently.
The Kobold Alchemist stars in an endless match popping adventure.
A little kobold goes on a short sliding adventure.
A visual novel about Carl, a spider who suffers from anxiety attacks. Help him have a good time with his friends as they come over for tea.
A fishing game about managing populations and enjoying sustainability.
Our bigger projects aim to be full, commercial games with a larger, more traditional game length.
A turn based, retro 2d graphics style computer role playing game about a brave Kobold Knight who must stop a mysterious force known as The Forgotten from destroying the world!
Explore an open world map full of adventure, danger, and many recruitable characters. Make use of the different racial traits and skill training systems to build your own custom adventuring party. Help the Dragon restore his realm by discovering, and remembering, the history of what once was. Build your party up from fresh new adventurers into unstoppable heroes.
Or open up the editor tools, and create your own additional areas, quests, and other content, using the same tools we used to develop the main game! A modular add on system allows for mixing in other player's modules, allowing you to create your personalized copy of the game combining whatever you like.
Disclaimer: This description is not final and is only based on our current work in progress design. The final published game features may vary in execution, story, or functionality. We hope to fit in all the above, and will do our best, as always!
This section is a bit different. These are experimental games that explore ideas without our main stress relief goal in mind. They are often from game jams or weekend idea exploration. They may not be sane, but we promise they are at least clean and family friendly. Proceed at your own curiosity and risk.
This is our entry for Crossroads Jam 2024. The theme was Severe Weather, and so we made space and cosmic radiation.
We couldn't get it to perform well in the browser due to some pretty rushed code to make the jam deadline. We recommend downloading to your desktop, the page has further details in the game description.
https://moonbowentertainment.itch.io/ambassador-of-pluto-vs-the-celestial-bodies
Email: Gawain@moonbow-ent.com
Personal Ko-fi link: ko-fi.com/gawaingames
Game Portfolio: https://darkgriffin.itch.io/
Mastodon: @darkgriffin@mastodon.gamedev.place
Twitter: https://twitter.com/darkgriffin1986
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/gawaindoell
Email: Tristan@moonbow-ent.com
Mastodon: @Black_Drake@mastodon.gamedev.place
FA Art: www.furaffinity.net/user/blackdrake00
Itaku Art Black_Drake (@blackdrake) - Itaku
Currently, we are hosting all our games for download or play on the itch.io website. Our company profile, where you can view and purchase our products can be found at the following page.
https://moonbowentertainment.itch.io/
We hope to publish to other more "mainstream" markets soon!
Moonbow Entertainment LLC was started in 2021. Passionate about design and the emotional impact of video games on players, Gawain wanted to create a game company prioritizing positive messaging, and the emotional impact of their products, over everything else. Moonbow has been working to improve the lives of their players ever since.