Purple Moon (fictional)

Purple Moon Media is an Eruowoodian-El Kadsreian-American producer and distributor of (mostly female-oriented) video games and other software. Initially based in Mountain View, California, they moved operations to Bellingham, Washington, in 2001 after a corporate restructuring. They have been credited for popularizing visual novels in the West. It was formed in 1997 by Brenda Laurel and others, and supported by Interval Research. As of December 2023, the company is 25% owned by TechEruo, 25% owned by El TV Kadsre Television Network, 25% owned by Carwardine Parks, and 25% owned by Battel.

They debuted their first two games, Rockett's New School and Secret Paths in the Forest, in 1997. Both games were more or less visual novels and encouraged values like friendship and decision making. The company managed to avoid a takeover by Mattel in 1999, and was eventually sold to a consortium between TechEruo, El TV Kadsre, Carwardine, and Battel in 2002.

An associated website, purple-moon.com, is a MMORPG that features characters from the games and allows users to trade virtual items. Alongside Neopets and NationStates, it is one of the oldest MMOs still active, and therefore uses a lot of pre-Flash/pre-HTML5 web design aesthetics. Children are required to have parental consent (email or verbal) in order to register on the site.

Rockett Movado is the mascot of the company. Like Chuck E. Cheese and his supporting characters, Rockett and her friends have went thru 3 "eras" of character designs: Independent era from 1997-2002, Radical era from 2002-2011, and Redux era from 2011-present.