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Introduction
Moonray is a 3rd-person action RPG set in a surreal sci-fi world.
Explore a beautiful and deadly landscape on a quest to recover the sacred element and regain control of the planet It-Ao.
Featuring a world-class soundtrack by renowned producer Ten Walls and incredible story by comic artist virtuoso Grim Wilkins, Moonray is a stunning journey with intense combat and an unforgettable style.
Upgrade abilities, weapons and skills to survive the brutal onslaught of the cult. Fight through large, open spaces and tight, intricate corridors in a titanic struggle to recover the sacred element miium. Explore a surreal, sci-fi landscape to unlock all of the hidden mysteries in Moonray.
Features
Explore Stunning Environments
Moonray is full of dazzling, surreal environments. Take the fight to a fierce religious cult in the heart of their holiest shrine complex. Each world features a unique biome with the incredible religious architecture of the cult.
- 4 different weapon types with unique move sets and fighting styles
- Deep upgrade system: enhance your abilities to melt the landscape and objects around you to defeat enemies
- Fast-paced combat that rewards tactical thinking, no button mashing!
- Dynamic 'shader' skins to personalize your character and gain new abilities
Gameplay
Beams are spread throughout the enormous levels, allowing fast travel to any unlocked areas and access to healing and upgrades.
Deep Upgrade System
Explore the incredible landscape thoroughly to find the resources needed to upgrade. The enemies will get very tough, very quickly... unlocking new strengths and abilities will be crucial to survival. Three different categories of upgrades are available: upgrades to your character, to your weapons, and to the floating vailx that trail alongside you. The vailx are chunks of pure miium that provide extra offensive and defensive abilities, enhancing your ability to attack and survive and enabling you to develop a unique build and playing style.
Distribution
Moonray will release on Steam, the largest platform for PC games with over 90 Million MAU (monthly active users) and other PC platforms as well, before eventually launching on next-gen Xbox X and PS5 consoles.
Technology
Moonray is built with industry-leading game engine Unreal Engine, used for hit titles such as Fortnite, Gears of War 4, Mass Effect 3, Bioshock, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, Batman Arkham Knight and many more.
Vision and strategy
Next-gen Musical Visual Effects
The world of Moonray is full of cutting-edge VFX and shaders that all pulse and move with the beat
These advanced effects are tightly integrated into world-exploration and upgrades. These remarkable objects are emanations of the sacred element miium and signal that special collectibles, upgrades and pickups are near...
Shaders vary from liquid surfaces and pulsating foliage to mind-bending, dynamic, flowing objects.
All of the VFX react to music and pulse with the beat, creating a hynotic, captivating effect that will suck you into the extraordinary environments of Moonray.
Music
Moonray features an intense, beautiful and haunting electronica soundtrack by world-renowned DJ/Producer Ten Walls:
- Over 100 million views on Youtube
- 150k followers on Soundcloud
Preview on SoundCloud
Story
Moonray is set in a surreal, very far-future world with a story written by comic artist Grim Wilkins. The story will be told in-game through comic panels.
Roadmap
Surreal Environments
We're developing new and innovative graphical techniques to create a dynamic and unforgettable world
Innovative Fluid Powers
Upgrade your abilities and deform the world around you with fluid powers.
Competition
Moonray is taking aim at the largest and most-established market within video games.
Action games are the most popular video games in general with the largest market share.
Moonray will compete with other action titles on Steam such as
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, 5 - 10 Million units sold, $59.99 retail price
- Dark Souls III, 5 - 10 Million units sold, $59.99 retail price
- Code Vein, 1 - 2 Million units sold, $59.99 retail price
- Nioh, 1 - 2 Million units sold, $49.99 retail price
- Remnant: From the Ashes, 1 - 2 Million units sold, $49.99 retail price
Traction
Funding
A successful investment round would enable us to finish developing and marketing the game consistent with industry standards, for a potential 12x ROI to Republic investors.
By comparing early reviews and our success on fig.co with similar titles in the action genre, we calculate a series of reasonable outcomes to demonstrate the potential earnings of Republic investors.
The break-even point of a max $500k raise for investors is approximately 50,000 units sold (equivalent to 5% of the units sold of the typical top-selling title in this genre).
note: ROI here is calculated as Net Return/Investment Cost based on a max $500k investment
Founders
Moonray is the creation of Element 115, a game studio founded in 2019 to create compelling games using next-gen, state-of-the-art graphics technology.
Our focus is on creating totally unique experiences in indie games by combining addictive, well-crafted gameplay with next-gen visual ideas to create worlds you can get lost in and explore for hours.
We are a global team spread all over the US, Europe and Asia and have been actively developing Moonray since the Spring of 2019.