We all have our petty personal crusades to fight. Mine is the endless battle in defence of RPG Maker, accused by many of being a bad engine only used by lazy developers.

RPG Maker games tend to look the same, so this means that only untalented developers use it, right?

I decided to prove people wrong. With science. That's why I took a deep dive in the Steam RPG Maker tag, gathering data about all 559 tagged games released to this day.

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Developer Freebird Games has announced that its wonderful lo-fi tearjerker To the Moon is being turned into a full-length animated feature film.

To the moon, which released to much critical acclaim back in 2011, tells the story of two scientists attempting to change a dying man's memories in order to fulfil his final wish to have become an astronaut and visited the moon.

"By the end, To the Moon has pushed beyond the limits of its central character's story and become about the issues we all face as our days pass by", concluded Eurogamer's review at the time of release, "The convincing banter between the two doctors, the tale of John's carer and her relationship with her children, the stories of friends and families and how they intersect along the passage of life... To the Moon takes the details of human life in its stride, and delivers them with a breezy effortlessness."

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Oh, To the Moon! What a wonderfully touching exploration of human life, dressed up like simple Japanese role-playing game from '90s, that was. A few hours of game which will stay with me for years.

Now - finally - creator Kan Gao and his very small team at Freebird are ready to release the follow-up...

No, it's not To the Moon 2 really, as the trailer jokingly suggests, and no it doesn't have loot boxes and explosions and alien baddies. That was Kan Gao's cheeky little joke. The real game is Finding Paradise, and it's coming out 14th December on PC and Mac.

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