Ex-Bungie men form Moonshot Games

By Tom Bramwell Published 8 October, 2009

Dedicated to downloadables.

Former Bungie men Michel Bastien, Damián Isla and Rob Stokes have formed their own company, Moonshot Games, and announced plans to start making downloadable games.

Bastien had been production lead on Halo 2 and 3, while Isla was the series' AI and gameplay engineering lead and Stokes did writing and mission design. They're joined at Moonshot by a Seattle artist, Mike McCain.

"The Moonshot team firmly believes that the stars need not be limited to multimillion-dollar projects supported by armies of ground crew," it says on the official website.

"There is a place in history for that small, nimble craft, built smartly on a modest budget, and piloted by expert hands."

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Comments (13) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • davisorle #1 2 years ago

    I can only say that this will be interesting as in how they will start of specially :) Good luck guys.

  • db3 #2 2 years ago

    I think we'll see much more of this as we transition to more direct software distribution.

  • GamesConnoisseur #3 2 years ago

    They must already have some working ideas for them to be able to put up money to form studio, would not be suprised If we ll hear from them again within 18 months or less! iPhone perhaps a starting point? Multi platform dlc Market?!

  • INSOMANiAC #4 2 years ago

    [Sarcasm] Lets hope their games are of the same high quality as Halo 2 and 3 ! [/Sarcasm]
    Edited by 1 at 08/10/09 @ 09:00

  • miiiguel #5 2 years ago

    [Sarcasm] Lets hope their games are of the same success as Halo 2 and 3 ! [/Sarcasm]

  • JensonJet #6 2 years ago

    Thanks but no thanks. I doubt I'd care for anything a couple of ex-Bungie people produce. Those games look and sound horrible. Some of the worst designed maps I've ever experienced. I hope to never see anything produced by Bungie or ex-Bungie staff for as long as I'm playing games.

  • DrRobotnik #7 2 years ago

    JensonJet, Sony's most conspicuous plant :p

  • actionfitz #8 2 years ago

    huhhhuhuhu.
    (butthead style snicker)
    sounds like 'Moneyshot'.

  • Thalanos #9 2 years ago

    Loving the art design of their new website. Well done Mike McCain. Good luck to them all.

  • john_silence #10 2 years ago

    Amazing website and great name, very evocative. Now if only they focus on something PC-compatible (boy that does sound retro - that's what it has come to I guess), I'll be interested. Probably some sort of XBLA/iPhone stuff coming up, though, console-exclusive and featuring a general finger-weaving towards the PC crowd. If not, please let me know - I'll be in my bunker.

  • miiiguel #11 2 years ago

    JensonJet?!... This ignore function makes threads weird.

  • Bravestinsane #12 2 years ago

    +1 @miiiguel

    Hidden posts make the whole comments section fucked up, the amount of people who reply to hidden threads and if your not logged in you havnt a clue whats going on.

    On topic however good luck to the fellas hopefully they wont need a publisher because they will be downloadable, meaning they keep creative control, games wont be as dumbed down and they can charge me less ;-)

    One can dream

  • comissars_handgun #13 2 years ago

    Guess they were sick of working in huge teams for big budget games like the Halo series.