| Niobium Moon Studios | |||
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| Type of Company | Video game developer Film and TV production company Console designer | ||
| Founder(s) | NeoNio99 (t∣b∣c) | ||
| Founded at/in | 2012 (as MGX Studios) | ||
Niobium Moon Studios, formerly known as MGX Studios and Lone Planet Productions, is a video game developer and film/TV production company founded by NeoNio99 (t∣b∣c). Originally established in 2012 as the production company behind the "umbrella" film Super Mario Silver Spurs: The Crossover Vacation, the company has since grown and gone on to produce and develop more multimedia content, including multiple Mario and Sonic franchise games along with original projects like the Shadowcalypse series and Souls in Sync. They were one of the collaborators on the massive umbrella platform fighting game, The Mysterious Five Project, alongside Toroko, Keyhole Gaming, Fantasize Studios, and ShadowElise - all of which have since been defunct, but Niobium Moon has carried over a lot of its concepts to their own umbrella fighting game, Chaos Collision.
Niobium Moon was also responsible for the primary design choices of the Nintendo GameCube 2 and the Game Boy Hub, two ninth-generation video game consoles which run alongside the Nintendo Switch family, including the Nintendo Switch Plus console developed by Nintendo and fellow affiliate Krexxal (t∣b∣c). Prior to this, they had pitched the Lone Planet Impetus console, the Pharo and Nucleo platforms, and the LP Corona gaming PC.
Throughout the 2020s, Niobium Moon has taken a vocal stance against the "Sony-fication" of video games - as in, their decreasing accessibility due to the ever-increasing emphasis on "power" and graphics and the resulting increase in prices. Their mission is to redefine "power" in the context of the modern video game industry, seeking to "put the power back in the hands of the players" - a statement that calls back to the classic 1980s Nintendo slogan, "Now you're playing with power!" This philosophy is emphasized with console features like the Nintendo GameCube 2's expansive backwards compatibility and the Game Boy Hub's rewritable multimedia cartridges, as well as the GBH generally being far more open for smaller-scale "budget" titles.
Members[]
If you're a Fantendo user, you can sign up to be a Niobium Moon employee. If you're accepted to join, Nio will publish any projects you make as an employee under the Niobium Moon Studios company name, and he'll help you work on them and make them better. Feel free to offer your help to other employees as well if they need it.
To sign up, simply leave a comment on this article or message Nio on his talk page or the Fantendo Discord server, and tell him which project you want to work on.
- You can request to work on any of the pages listed in the navigation box at the bottom of this article - except for projects in the MGX Studios and Lone Planet archives, which are strictly off limits. Other projects that are currently off limits for other employees include:
- Chaos Collision (Nio's umbrella project)
- Super Mario Realms (already done for the most part)
- Understand that Nio may not always grant you permission to work on one of his projects. This usually depends on how much he's already planned out for it.
- If you are given permission to work on a Niobium Moon project, do not remove any content that Nio or other collaborators add. Repeated offenses of this rule can lead to you being blacklisted from projects, or even outright fired from the company.
- In the event that Nio loses interest in a project he created, an employee can ask to take it over and become the new head developer for it if they wish, with Nio taking more of a backseat in the meantime.
| Icon | Username | Joined |
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| NeoNio99 (t∣b∣c) | N/A (Founder) | |
| HunterTDB (t∣b∣c) | August 22, 2024 |
