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PAX East: Adventuring into Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Mike Wall in PC, PC Previews, Previews, XBLIG Previews | Leave a comment

Before Cthulhu saved the world or death took seven breaths, there was Penny Arcade. Robert Boyd and Bill Stiernberg, the duo Zeboyd Games, met on the Penny Arcade forums when Boyd was searching for help on Breath of Death VII. Two and a half years later, the pair has quit their day jobs and is now putting the final touches on Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 (we’ll just call it Penny Arcade 3).

After the disappointing sales of Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 2, it appeared the series may go the Shenmue route and fade into obscurity. That changed when a devoted fan suggested that Tycho and Gabe allow an indie developer to pick up the series, and specifically suggested Zeboyd Games. “I posted on the thread that it would be really cool, but I don’t think they’d be interested. A few weeks after that, I got an email from Robert Khoo at Penny Arcade.”

Penny Arcade 3 has actually been in development since 2010, before Cthulhu Save the World was even released. “As you can imagine, it’s been hard to keep it under wraps for so long,” said Boyd. One fan even guessed that Zeboyd was working on the game after he spotted their name on a whiteboard in the background of an episode of Penny Arcade TV, but his commented disappeared into the ether of the Internet without much fanfare. Read more

Zeboyd Games developing the third installment of Penny Arcade Adventures

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Taylor Bliss in News, PC News, xblig | 1 Comment

We heard talks of Zeboyd Games having a big announcement for all of us this week at PAX Prime. We even entertained the possibility that whatever they would be working on might not be an IP of their own. But I doubt anyone would have guessed that they would be announcing they were developing Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode 3, a game that had previously been declared dead.

According to Robert Khoo of Penny Arcade, “We originally had the idea of an NES-style RPG last year, but we couldn’t find the right people to do it. After we saw Zeboyd’s Breath of Death VII and Cthulhu Saves the World, we knew we didn’t have to look around anymore. Zeboyd was a perfect match.”

Whether Zeboyd had caught the eye of the guys over at Penny Arcade before or after their lucrative move to Steam is unclear, but if being on the platform did make a tangible difference, that’s just one more piece of evidence supporting the power of the Steam for indie developers.

As previously confirmed by Zeboyd, the game will maintain a pixelated art style, taking a 16-bit approach to the episodic adventure. The game is slated for a 2012 launch; developer Robert Boyd previously told us that his next project would appear on XBLIG and PC, and we’ve reached out to him to confirm if the plan has changed.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode 3 in Development

THIS IS HAPPENING 

SEATTLE – August 26, 2011 – Penny Arcade has partnered with indie dynamo Zeboyd Games to develop the third episode of On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness.

As Gabe and Tycho, players will once again delve hip-deep into the sinister mysteries of New Arcadia.  The latest installment will take the series in a new direction, or maybe a really old direction, with a retro 16-bit RPG look and style of play.

“We originally had the idea of an NES-style RPG last year, but we couldn’t find the right people to do it,” said Robert Khoo of Penny Arcade. “After we saw Zeboyd’s Breath of Death VII and Cthulhu Saves the World, we knew we didn’t have to look around anymore.  Zeboyd was a perfect match.”

 On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode 3 will launch in 2012.