Sword of Moonlight

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{{Infobox VG series
| title                  = Sword of Moonlight: King's Field Making Tool
| image                  = 
| caption                = 
| developer              = [[From Software]]
| publisher              = [[From Software]]
| platforms              = [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]
| genre                  = [[3D first person role-playing game maker]]
| first release version  = ''1.0''
| first release date     = March 16, 2000
| latest release version = ''1.2''
| latest release date    = 
| website                = http://www.fromsoftware.jp/main/soft/som.html
}}

'''Sword of Moonlight: King's Field Making Tool''' is a 3D first person RPG maker developed and published by [[From Software]] for the Japanese PC gaming and computing market. The original suggested retail price was 9,280 yen. For this modest sum a Sword of Moonlight owner is ostensibly sold an unfettered license to produce original games -- either unlicensed or with an implicit license -- including [[KING'S FIELD]] intellectual property. The user created games are then free to be distributed and or ''even'' sold like any other PC game, royalty free and independent of the original Sword of Moonlight software and its minimal end user license agreement, or EULA.

In Japan Sword of Moonlight in hindsight looks like a short lived phenomenon. Today it is difficult to locate any prominent games produced by Japanese users on the internet or elsewhere. It is generally thought that Sword of Moonlight upon release was a boxed product able to be found on store shelves in select retail outlets. Support for Sword of Moonlight was dropped after less than a two year run due to lack of interest from fans or From Software. Many serious bugs in the software were never addressed by online patches. To this day From Software still sells to Japanese residents old warehoused copies of Sword of Moonlight directly out of their offices through direct mail order at a discount price.

Non-traditional marketing made importing a copy of Sword of Moonlight an especially challenging task. Because of this the product would remain an enigma to collectors of KING'S FIELD merchandise and curious parties alike for the larger part of the decade following the initial release. The de-facto embargo inevitably broken, the limited number of imported copies were in short order themselves copied, and shared, and translated into English. During this period [[Diadem of Maunstraut]] emerged as the first full-featured user made Sword of Moonlight game in the KING'S FIELD mold. Diadem's author would later produce [[Trismegistus]], a puzzle game reminiscent of From Software's [[Echo Night]] series.  



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