Studio founded by Diablo and Diablo II team want to revolutionize the ARPG on $4.5 million budget

Moon Beast aims to revolutionize ARPGs with a $4.5M budget and user-generated content.

: Moon Beast Productions, founded by industry veterans, plans to create a new ARPG with a $4.5 million budget. They aim to innovate beyond traditional templates and focus on user-generated content. Peter Hu, Phil Shenk, and Erich Schaefer are key figures driving the project with decades of experience. The studio is building tools for player-created content and steering away from being a Diablo clone.

Moon Beast Productions, created by industry experts Phil Shenk, Peter Hu, and Erich Schaefer, targets ARPG innovation with a $4.5 million budget. Their mission is to explore new design directions beyond typical hack-and-slash conventions.

The team's extensive experience from projects like Diablo, Hellgate: London, and Torchlight fuels their drive for groundbreaking action RPGs. They emphasize creating more dynamic worlds, with Schaefer keen on rediscovering and evolving elements that made early Diablo games successful.

Focus on user-generated content (UGC) is a significant goal, aiming to introduce tools that allow players to create and mod games effortlessly. Overwolf, an angel investor, supports Moon Beast's vision to inspire new gameplay experiences, similar to the MOBA emergence from Warcraft III mods.