The return of Moonstone?
How Rob Anderson is planning on returning his fantasy world
rob anderson has always maintained that he’d be interested in a Moonstone sequel. Indeed, he once had ideas around the game’s quest knights being resurrected far into the earth’s future to battle for the titular Moonstone once again! Perhaps it’s no bad thing that particular idea never saw the light of day.
Instead, Rob is now planning to remake the original, building on the original game’s strengths while taking advantage of modern processing power. Expect an expanded world map with more diverse environments, wider weapon and armour sets, expanded knight and monster attacks, block/riposte mechanics and more… all in glorious retro 2D. In other words: D&D meets Mother Russia Bleeds.
“Knights on horses is something I’ve thought about many times,” muses Rob on his remake, “as well as more types of magic, curses and expanding on the final stages of the [original] game. Mindscape did ask me to write a design for a sequel, but it never moved past the word processor.”
Fast forward more than 25 years and Rob is currently working on a brand new playable demo for audiences – much like a reimagining of the Commodore User Amiga cover disk featuring Moonstone from October 1991 – with the ambition that it’ll be used alongside nostalgia for the original to drive a PC Kickstarter, with other formats (including PS4 and Xbox One) also under consideration if demand exists.
Head over to the Facebook group facebook.com/ moonstone.official to keep up to speed with the latest announcements about the new project.