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August 28, 2006

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Penny Arcade stands On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness

Posted Aug. 28, ’06, 11:57 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Games

On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness" width=This Seattle trip is seriously messing with my internal clock. Right now it’s 3PM in my traditional East Coast digs, but here I am, mired in the past, unaware of what’s happening in the future/present. And somehow—somehow—Peter Cohen over at Macworld managed to post on the Penny Arcade game before I did, despite the fact that I was at the event where they announced it. Man. He’s good.

Anyway, yes, that most popular of webcomics has decided to leap, gazelle-like, into the world of game creation. The Penny Arcade Adventures series is billed as a comic adventure with RPG elements and an extensive vocabulary; the first episode is titled (in true Tycho fashion) On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness. It’s being developed by the company Hothead Games, which, although this is their first titles, boasts industry veterans with experience with property tie-ins. And, best of all, it’ll be coming out first for Windows, Linux, and OS X.

On a related note, I got a chance to ask Penny Arcade’s creators Jerry “Tycho” Holkins and Mike “Gabe” Krahulik about their experiences with the Mac; in the past, they’ve been—how shall we say?—hostile to the platform, though they’ve warmed up to it in recent months.

Jerry, who owns an Intel iMac, says that while he uses the computer for many of his daily tasks, he spends most of his time booted into Windows XP. He did, however, also mention that he likes the flexibility of having the option to boot into any OS he wants on his computer. Perhaps not the answer I had hoped and dreamed for, but I suppose I’ll take it.

Otherwise, the Mac platform was not really represented at the Penny Arcade Expo, other than the occasional MacBook-using lounger. This event’s attendees are primarily hardcore gamers, so it’s not terribly unexpected—I was standing next to one fellow who I overheard saying that he hated Macs and had loathed Steve Jobs since birth. I was reading my latest copy of Macworld at the time, and was particularly engrossed in one of the articles, so I restrained myself to an eye-roll.


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