Produce Panic Takes Penny Arcade Characters Gaming

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."

Comments

Next door neighbor

[BrookHarty]

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

Not quite the Samurai...

[wheresdrew]

...but the tube makes an appearance in Legacy of Kain: Defiance for PS2. From psx2codes.com:

At any time while playing as Kain, pause the game and enter: UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, R2, L2, TRIANGLE, DOWN, and CIRCLE.

You will exit the pause menu and Kain will utter "Beware the tube!" For the rest of the game, Kain will fight with a cardboard tube instead of the Reaver blade. This code will only work for Kain, not Raziel.

Re:Meh.

[Cecil]

Penny Arcade is of the branch of humor that thinks adding swearing to anything will likely make it funnier.

No, not at all. Penny Arcade thinks adding swearing to a serious and relevant discussion will make it funnier. And it does. It works very well in fact. See: George Carlin Standup Comedy.

The jokes DO play to a very small audience. But I am a gamer, much like them, and I do find the jokes funny and the comments relevant. If you think it's lame, fine. But the intended audience doesn't. And thankfully, the small audience is who they care about, rather than trying to water things down and "diversify" their audience like the rest of the corporate world.