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Produce Panic Takes Penny Arcade Characters Gaming

Posted by simoniker on from the hurrah-for-fruit-penetration dept.

Thanks to EvilAvatar for pointing to the official Produce Panic webpage, which now has a free PC download (23mb, 5 maps) of "the first Penny Arcade [themed] game for the PC", based on the Garage Games Torque engine, in which the player can "run (or fly) around as your favorite juicer in an all out death match, or play cooperatively with friends and compete against other teams of Fruit F@*kers to capture their receipt so they can be taken back to the store." The guys at Penny Arcade seem to approve, noting "There is even a movie theater in hell which, in addition to Tomb Raider and the Tetris Movie, also shows the latest strip up on the screen", and mentioning: "It is free, as I mentioned, but the guys at Plan B Games are accepting donations for their work - if you enjoyed it, please let them know."

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  1. Re:Meh. by hambonewilkins · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Pretty much. I think you'll get modded down for it, but I agree. Penny Arcade is of the branch of humor that thinks adding swearing to anything will likely make it funnier. In reality, it only shows how lame your joke really is. That, and the jokes play to a very small audience on incredibly topical humor.

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  2. Next door neighbor by BrookHarty · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Slightly off topic.

    Gabe is my next door neighbor. Kinda funny, I get home, my wife says we have new neighbors and hes a cartoonist. She says, this is the name of his cartoon and hands me a piece of paper. I looked at the piece of paper and about fainted when it said "Penny Arcade". (Wife doesn't read comics, go figure..)

    So I grabbed a wrapping paper tube and knocked on the door, he signed it (google Cardboard Tube Samurai) and started talking to him. I mentioned I read his cartoon's daily with a script called "DailyScripts". Lets just say he wasn't happy that I use a script that downloads his comic and he didn't get the click through revenue.

    Or it could be he's a Console gamer and I'm a PC gamer. lol

  3. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Interesting

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  4. Re:Meh. by Zangief · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Mmm, while most of PA humor is gamecentric, I can still show examples of not swearing not gaming and totally random things

    It's not their main branch, but they can do other things too

  5. Re:I'm sharing the demo via ares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    No need to go with a more obscure p2p solution. eMule is much more widespread, and there's already a torrent available.