In 2012, the writing team of brothers Christopher and Alan Miller had acquired the licensing rights to the
Redwall book series from the Redwall Abbey Company with the intent of making a feature film. That same year, Christopher launched a website and
Facebook page for a video game concept he announced he was working on with the assistance of series illustrator
Sean Rubin. Originally titled
Redwall: The Adventure Game, the title was intended to be released for
Microsoft Windows,
macOS,
mobile phones, and
tablets in Fall 2012. After talks with Miller throughout that year, Soma Games launched a
Kickstarter campaign which ran from April to May of that year to allocate funds for a
Redwall-themed
Minecraft map called "AbbeyCraft", with all additional funds over the target going toward the adventure game itself. As Soma Games
CTO Chris Skaggs remarked, "Developing a
Minecraft map and server as the first step of the adventure game allows us to create ways for
Redwall fans and the
Minecraft community to actively participate and evolve the game in a meaningful and authentic way." The campaign successfully raised
$17,618 of the developers' $11,000 goal, reaching the first stretch goal for adding the location of St. Ninian's Church to AbbeyCraft, which was later released on Soma Games' website on August 9, 2013. Although the game was intended for release in Summer 2014, financial difficulties and "tons of paperwork" meant development proper could not begin until Soma Games secured additional funding. In September 2014, the company's website issued a pitch for interested partners to support the project, and in February 2015 announced that the non-profit organization The McClellan Group had joined them as a backer. Throughout 2015, the company took part in a Praxis Labs business accelerator where they completed all art and pre-production steps on the title and began a "grassroots" marketing campaign. The Early Access version was originally going to be available on September 29, 2017, but was pushed back to December 18 of that year under its new title,
An Epic Tale of Redwall. The title was changed once more in March 2017 to
The Lost Legends of Redwall following concerns by
Random House and The Redwall Abbey Company that the previous one was too close to the branding "A Tale of Redwall" seen on some
Redwall novels. On September 14, 2018, the first episode, "The Scout", was officially released on Steam for Windows and macOS. Soma Games initially stated that they wanted to make
Legends of Redwall a progressive adventure' designed for multi-platform deployment" with primary development beginning on Windows and Mac with "tablets as secondary. A console option is a maybe." The title was later released on
PlayStation 4 and
Xbox One in 2019. == Episodes ==