Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness

Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
Developer(s)Hothead Games (Episode 1–2)
Zeboyd Games (Episode 3–4)
Publisher(s)Hothead Games (Episode 1–2)
Penny Arcade (Episode 3–4)
Designer(s)Jerry Holkins
Mike Krahulik
EngineTorque
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, OS X, Xbox 360,[1] PlayStation 3[2]
ReleaseEpisode 1
May 21, 2008
Episode 2
October 29, 2008
Episode 3
June 25, 2012
Episode 4
June 7, 2013
Genre(s)Adventure, role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness is an episodic action-adventure role-playing video game series based on the webcomic Penny Arcade.

Episode 1 was released on May 21, 2008 on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and Xbox Live Arcade, and was later released on PlayStation Network on October 23, 2008. There is a demo available which can be upgraded to the full game. It was later released on Steam, with new Steamworks support. Episode 2 was released on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live Arcade on October 29, 2008.

The game was originally planned to be distributed episodically across four games. In March 2010, developer Hothead Games chose to devote its resources instead to DeathSpank, discontinuing its development of further episodes.[3] Subsequently, prose chapters constituting the plot of Episode 3 were presented on Penny Arcade's website.[4] In August 2011, Zeboyd Games announced that it would be developing Episode 3[5][6] albeit in a completely different graphical style.[7] The third episode was released on June 25, 2012[8] and subsequently Zeboyd announced that they were working on Episode 4, which was released on June 6, 2013.[9]

  1. ^ Grant, Christopher (2007-08-25). "PAX 07: Penny Arcade Adventures coming to XBLA". Joystiq. Retrieved 2008-08-25.
  2. ^ "Penny Arcade Adventures Head to PlayStation 3". Shacknews. 23 July 2008. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  3. ^ Grant, Christopher (2010-03-26). "Penny Arcade Adventures discontinued, 'there won't be an episode 3'". Joystiq. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
  4. ^ Episode Three. Penny Arcade. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
  5. ^ "Zeboyd Games Resurrects Penny Arcade Adventures". RPGamer.com. 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2011-08-26.
  6. ^ Rossignol, Jim. Zeboyd Are On the Rain-Slick Precipice rockpapershotgun.com. Retrieved 2012-03-04
  7. ^ "Zeboyd Games to continue Penny Arcade game series". 30 August 2011.
  8. ^ "Penny Arcade's On The Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness Three". Retrieved 2013-02-12.
  9. ^ "The Long, Strange Journey of the Penny Arcade Game". IGN. 24 January 2013. Retrieved 2013-02-12.