Moon Child

Moon Child is a platform action game released in 1997 on CD-ROM for Windows 95/98, created by Team Hoi, existing of Reinier van Vliet (game design and coding), Metin Seven (game design and graphics) and Ramon Braumuller (sound effects and music).

From 1995 to 1997, Reinier and Metin ran a semi-autonomous game development department, employed by the Dutch multimedia company Valkieser. Ramon was hired as a freelancer to take care of the music and sound effects.

Moon Child was officially released in the Netherlands in 1997, on CD-ROM in a box. But shortly after the release, Valkieser experienced a financial setback due to a failed investment in Philips CD-i authoring systems and software. This caused the publishing department to be discontinued before Moon Child was released internationally.

Years later, Moon Child turned out to have been spread around the world in the piracy circuit, and Metin still receives e-mails every now and then from people around the world who express fond memories of playing Moon Child as a kid.

Moon Child development initially started on the Commodore Amiga (Advanced Graphics Architecture models), and featured the Hoi character from Team Hoi's previous Amiga platform game (1992) as an automated sidekick. The developers planned to turn Moon Child into a semi-sequel to Hoi. But Commodore went bankrupt in 1994, and Valkieser demanded a reboot of Moon Child for Windows PCs for understandable commercial viability reasons. A demo of the initial Moon Child AGA Amiga version is included among the available files.

Reinitiating Moon Child for Windows made it possible to go for an unusually high resolution for games in the mid-1990s: 640 x 480 pixels, enabling more detailed graphics.