It could be said that Daniel Burgos was inspired by the series The Avengers to give shape to a project that had been pursuing him for a long time. And that was when, in 2018, it was born Moonlight Games, a cooperative of entrepreneurs from Jaén who are already a benchmark in the video game industry. “The idea arose because we wanted to get out of the comfort zone, and we decided to take a risk on a project that seduced us,” explains Burgos who, as if he were Nick Furia’s character from The Avengerswas in charge of forming a multidisciplinary team of eight professionals made up of creatives, musicians, designers, programmers, systems architects and scriptwriters.
Moonlight Games is the name of this video game firm born in the business incubator of the University of Jaén (UJA) que ha creado Hunt the Night, a retro action and adventure game with a style pixel art typical of the consoles of the nineties. It combines a fast and complex combat system with a dark fantasy aesthetic. “This is the game we would like to play,” its creators emphasize.
They began to develop the project through the Explorer program, promoted by Banco Santander to enhance talent through training and the practice of entrepreneurship culture. Then the most difficult thing would come: finding the necessary financing. To do this, they resorted to a crowdfunding campaign. “We requested 25,000 euros and we got 80,500, people saw our passion when we presented the project,” emphasizes Francisco Hermoso, scriptwriter and administrator of this cooperative, which also had the support of the Business Development Support Center of Jaén and Secot (organization for business and professional advice).
More than five years after its launch on the market, the members of Moonlight Games have specialized in the indie video game industry and work with clients from all over the country. “It’s about uniting what we were passionate about when we were little, these types of games with the aesthetics of those consoles that we still play and that we are now passionate about as adults.”
The growth of this video game company has been so rapid that the City Council has turned them into the embryo of the Digital Technology District project, El Banco, a project that aspires to make Jaén a benchmark for the video game industry.
The headquarters of the former Bank of Spain will house this technological center where the aim is to generate an ecosystem that promotes both production and the training and generation of talent. In this case, the Jaén firm will act as a bridge to facilitate the arrival of other companies related to the audiovisual sector, cinema and video games. The team is now preparing a new line of business with which to give stability to the company and that will allow them to generate a business network in the province that promotes this type of launches.
Despite their still short career, the members of Moonlight Games have already received several recognitions, such as the Business Creation Award from the Andalusian Government.
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