''Savage Moon'' is a

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and PSP

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by British studio FluffyLogic which sees the player protecting a remote, off-world mining facility from constant attack by Insectocytes, a type of carnivorous creature inhabiting the planets. The mission is to strategically place an array of upgradeable, defensive weapons in the way of the bugs. There is a range of towers, from rapid-fire machine guns to support towers such as the chaos tower. The game was released for download on the European

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on 24 December 2008 and in North America on 29 January 2009. In 2010 the soundtrack to the DLC of ''Savage Moon: Waldgeist'' - also composed by Elsaesser, was nominated for Best Original Video Game Score in the 55th

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. This was the first year that music from games was given a category in the awards. On 22 December 2009 a new game set in the same universe and featuring some of the same units and towers was released, titled ''The Hera Campaign''.

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