[Zeboyd Games Megathread]: Penny Arcade Adventures Ep 3 Out NOW!

Monger

Dude what.

There is no part of this that I am not on board with.

Maddoc

This gives me further reason to save up for PAX East next year, if they're going to be showing it off there.

SirUltimos

I come home from an incredibly long day to get mindfucked by this news. But mindfucked in a good way.

I am so happy for your guys, and almost as happy that I'll get to play PA Adventures Episode 3. this has officially made my entire week.

Chance

We are all so proud of you guys. This will be the awesomest.

If it doesn't come to PSN I'll commit murder.

Corpekata

That is pretty awesometastic news.

Rent

Chance wrote:

We are all so proud of you guys. This will be the awesomest.

If it doesn't come to PSN I'll commit murder.

I...but...you...you have a fucking 360

übergeek

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!

I'm up for more beta testing when it's ready guys. Bring it on!

lostprophet

Yay for Zeboyd!

surrealitycheck

yay i was sad the turd game never got maid

Fencingsax

This is pretty cool. I really enjoyed the first two games, so I really want to see where this goes.

Vegan

I think this will be better than the first two episodes.

Taranis

All I want to know is: when/where can I preorder?

Alfred J. Kwak

Speculations! My guess is episode 3 will be closer resembling the BoDVII/CStW games than the first two episodes, and I think they are going to revamp the gameplay and combat system for this one. I suspect something along the lines of Super Mario RPG: The Penny Arcade edition.

UnbreakableVow

First off: Congratulations to slash and RD, that's just fantastic news, your two prior games are awesome and if you keep this kind of streak going I can see you guys being regarded as major players in the downloadable space, along the lines of a Twisted Pixel, Q-Games or Thatgamecompany where people know that there's a certain level of style and quality they can expect from you. Great job, guys!

I am curious about the battle system. While I used to be a lot more into JRPGs and have been...less so in recent years, BoDVII and CSTW both eliminated a lot of annoying conventions that typically go hand-in-hand with that type of game. I love the battle system for their past two games, but I also love PA Adventures' frenetically-paced battle system. If it ends up being some sort of weird hybrid of the two or more like one than the other, I'm all for it.

Or shit, go nuts, whatever. You guys have my support and you'll always have my purchasing dollars.

Dusda

Rainbow, slash, you two are fucking incredible. I never would have expected another PA Adventures game, let alone it being your next project. It sounds like the gig is a perfect fit for you.

Keep it up and take my monies.

RainbowDespair

Thanks for all the positive comments! We're very excited to say the least.

AaronKI

So this is what vigor in all my limbs is supposed to feel like.

Dusda

RainbowDespair wrote:

Thanks for all the positive comments! We're very excited to say the least.

Can I ask what tech you'll be using? I would be psyched to see another high-profile Xna game out there.

UnbreakableVow

Pray for Summer of Arcade

Holy fuck that would be awesome

Triple B

RainbowDespair wrote:

Thanks for all the positive comments! We're very excited to say the least.

I seriously just found out about this via the Facebook news feed. That teaser image is pretty awesome, btw. Anyway, you know how sometimes (very fucking rarely) you hear some shit and it literally sounds too good to be true? That's what this is. The magnificent motherfuckers who made BoD7 and CSTW are making Precipice 3? If my sinuses weren't still burning from the soda I accidentally inhaled, I'd swear I was dreaming.

Which brings me to my next question: Does anyone have any advice on how to clean Pepsi off of an LCD screen?

Unco-ordinated

UnbreakableVow wrote:

Pray for Summer of Arcade

Holy fuck that would be awesome

Ugh, I hope not. Making it a timed exclusive just so you can be part of a XBLA promotion, when the other versions already exist, is pretty scummy in my opinion. And I don't really see how it's worth it, since I seriously doubt XBLA will make up the numbers you otherwise would've sold being multiplatform.

Anyway, congrats Rainbow and Slash. Looking forward to it.

A few questions though. Are you guys working on games full-time now? I was hoping the Steam release of BoD did well enough to get you guys working full time on games. Can you talk about how this idea came up? And how much input will Mike and Jerry have? I assume they're a lot less hands-on than before, since the workload is why they dropped it in the first place?

Sagroth

Absolutely incredible news. You blokes at Zeboyd deserve this for sure.

Krathoon

This will be interesting. Congratulations. It would be neat if it was FF6 style this time. Time to expand the team!

El Fantastico

Praise! Moar praise! Zeboyd Games is a company I've come to like and trust and if you ever need a Community Manager because your company has expanded to the point of needing one, I'll happily apply along with everyone else.

Iolo

So cool. Wow. So incredibly cool.

RBach

Alfred J. Kwak wrote:

Speculations! My guess is episode 3 will be closer resembling the BoDVII/CStW games than the first two episodes, and I think they are going to revamp the gameplay and combat system for this one. I suspect something along the lines of Super Mario RPG: The Penny Arcade edition.

I would buy this 5 times. I'm (probably) not even exaggerating one bit.

Darmak

RBach wrote:

Alfred J. Kwak wrote:

Speculations! My guess is episode 3 will be closer resembling the BoDVII/CStW games than the first two episodes, and I think they are going to revamp the gameplay and combat system for this one. I suspect something along the lines of Super Mario RPG: The Penny Arcade edition.

I would buy this 5 times. I'm (probably) not even exaggerating one bit.

I bought BoD and CStW on Xbox, then I bought 4 copies of each on Steam (one copy for me, three for friends). So I guess I'll go ahead and buy 5 copies of this too, though I'll wait and just buy them all on Steam this time.

AaronKI

This announcement came at a fantastic time for me because I'm on a huge Lovecraft kick right now. Reading through a huge chunk of his stories and DMing the Call of Cthulhu RPG for the first time has really put me in the mood to replay the first two PAAs.

Drez

This is very phat with a capital phat.

darleysam

Let me be the first to say this is awesome news. Because it is awesome news.

Gaspode_T

You guys really need to wander into the Indie Games channel, there are so many hidden gems in there and most of the devs are truly basement/garage devs so your dollar really does help them out. The dev of Hypership out of Control for example has a full time job and is somehow miraculously finding time after work to code (and he has a family as well). There is crap to wade through but some sites are featuring indie game reviews more and more like extraguy and there's the rotating Kotaku's Favorites list too.

I'm so happy for Zeboyd, this is +1 for the optimistic indie dev.

EvilMonkey

I'm cautiously optimistic that this episode will run on my machine (and assuming that a PS3 version is wishful thinking.)
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Who am I kidding, the money is already spent regardless. Just take it you monsters!

Spoiler:

Who I for one welcome as our new overlords.

Dyvion

Wanted to throw my congrats at Zeboyd. I own all the Zeboyd games that I can own, twice! Now I have a third to add to the collection. PAA:ORPD 3 is in great hands!

HammerNinja

Alfred J. Kwak wrote:

I suspect something along the lines of Super Mario RPG: The Penny Arcade edition.

Rainbow and Slash, make this happen and I will mail you my wallet.

B:L

Congrats again, and it was great meeting you two at PAX!

Lemme tell you all, folks, RD plays one mean game of Pac-Man


Since you're likely not doing a kickstarter... any chance of community involvement? I thought the donating thing to get our name (or sprite!) into the game was a great idea and it'd be fitting for this to continue somehow.

Also please make sure I can make my Charles Barkley like I did in the first two PA Adventures.

curly haired boy

this is one of the best possible things.

slash000

Thanks again everyone

B:L wrote:

Congrats again, and it was great meeting you two at PAX!

Lemme tell you all, folks, RD plays one mean game of Pac-Man

It was cool meeting you as well! And man, RD won that Pacman tournament. Can't say I did too great in the SF tournament haha.

lowlylowlycook

You guys got mentioned in the Bombcast. They seemed to think it was a good fit to make PA games.

Brainiac 8

I have some comments/questions guys.

1) Please make select characters from your earlier games playable as secret characters or something, namely Cthulu and Dem.

2) I am curious as to how this came about. Did you approach them or did they you? Tell us a story! Are you guys hiring more people to work on it or are you two still the only ones doing it? Do you have more funds to work with this time since it's a full blown XBLA game, or maybe because it's a major property?

slash000

lowlylowlycook wrote:

You guys got mentioned in the Bombcast. They seemed to think it was a good fit to make PA games.

Sweet. I remember they did one of their quicklook videos of CSTW and BODVII. I'll have to check out the latest bombcast now

Brainiac 8 wrote:

I have some comments/questions guys.

2) I am curious as to how this came about. Did you approach them or did they you? Tell us a story! Are you guys hiring more people to work on it or are you two still the only ones doing it? Do you have more funds to work with this time since it's a full blown XBLA game, or maybe because it's a major property?

There was a forum post quite some time ago, suggesting that perhaps we could produce the next PAA game. RD responded and said that we'd certainly like to if they ever asked us / after we finished our current project. Not long after that Robert Khoo got in touch with us!

We're still a two-man team; and Alex Mauer is working with us to provide the music. As far as funds (and platforms for that matter), we can't say the details yet!