Autumn Moon Entertainment is an independent

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founded in 2002 by

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. The company specializes in traditional graphic adventure games in the style of the LucasArts classics, particularly ''

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'', on which Tiller served as the lead background artist. The studio released ''

A Vampyre Story ''A Vampyre Story'' is a 2008 point-and-click adventure game developed by Autumn Moon Entertainment for Windows, published by Crimson Cow. The game is set in Europe during the 1890s, and follows a young female opera singer turned vampire as she a ...

'' in 2008 and ''

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'' in 2009. The studio's intended third release, ''A Vampyre Story 2: A Bat's Tale'', is on indefinite hold due to financial issues with its publisher,

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. With the distribution rights to the sequel still held by the publisher, Autumn Moon launched a

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campaign for an episodic, independent prequel to the ''A Vampyre Story'' saga called '' A Vampyre Story: Year One'', which was unsuccessful. However, the game remains in development. Autumn Moon Entertainment will be licensing the ''Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island''

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to Bill Tiller's new company (which was co-founded by Gene Mocsy and Jeremiah Grant), Venture Moon Industries, for the

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'' Duke Grabowski: Mighty Swashbuckler!''

Company strategy

Autumn Moon Entertainment is dedicated to creating original adventure games. Their staff includes a number of former LucasArts employees, and as such, their games frequently reference

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properties such as ''

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''.

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