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

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

Developer(s)	Hothead Games
Designer(s)	Jerry Holkins Mike Krahulik
Series	Penny Arcade Adventures
Engine	Torque Game Engine^[1]
Release date(s)	TBA
Genre(s)	Adventure, RPG
Mode(s)	TBA
Platform(s)	Mac OS X, Linux, Windows
Media	Download

Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness is an upcoming video game based on the webcomic Penny Arcade.

Announced on August 25, 2006,^[2] the opening day of that year's Penny Arcade Expo, it is set to be an adventure game that will be distributed episodically several times a year via download.^[3]

The teaser shows what appears to be the glowing eyes of the Fruit Fucker character from the comic strip. This is most likely due to an image later added to the Penny Arcade website, depicting many Fruit Fuckers advancing on Tycho and Gabe. The Fruit Fuckers appear more primitive in this image though, tying in with the game's somewhat 1920s steampunk timeline and style. It is also possible however that the glowing eyes are that of the monstrosity Cthulhu from H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Call of Cthulhu; this has been suggested because of the mention of Lovecraft's name in the original Penny-Arcade post on the game. In addition, the title of the game could be considered a parody of the Lovecraft story At the Mountains of Madness. A teaser trailer is available for viewing at gametrailers. In the trailer announced at the Game Developers Conference, it shows that the game is a 3D Adventure RPG that has punching, kicking, and tommy-guns, with the fruit fuckers having automatic guns in the "chute".