Features of the game, as noted on Xbox.com:
- Create-A-Player system: Create and develop your very own character to participate in the adventure.
- Episodic content: Penny Arcade Adventures keeps the fun going with new material released regularly, with pick up and play capabilities from any episode, and the ability to carry over your character's appearance, stats, and inventory from episode to episode.
- Dynamic combat: The turn-based combat system features over-the-top animations and team-up moves during enemy battles.
- Role-playing adventure: The classic adventure-style gameplay combines with RPG elements for a mysterious and puzzling good time.
- Twisted goodness: The crazed geniuses behind Penny Arcade promise a thrilling and wild ride, with story and dialogue written by written by Jerry "Tycho" Holkins and art by Mike "Gabe" Krahulik. Working with Gabe and Tycho of the Startling Developments Detective Agency, it will be your job to resolve the chaos and solve the mysteries of New Arcadia.

If you haven't heard the interview in Major Nelson's Podcast with Penny Arcade's Gabe & Tycho, listen to it here. It'll give you some good insight from Penny Arcade's creators on the game and its development over at Hothead Games. Penny Arcade Adventures Episode One is also available today for the PC, Mac and Linux at playgreenhouse.com, where you can also download a demo.

See screenshots and the trailer of Penny Arcade's RPG adventure here on xbox.com. Check out the playable demo as well, now available on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.

From Microsoft

Press release:

“PENNY ARCADE ADVENTURES: ON THE RAIN-SLICK PRECIPICE OF DARKNESS, EPISODE ONE” LAUNCHES ON XBOX LIVE ARCADE THIS WEDNESDAY!

Discover the mysteries of New Arcadia with Gabe and Tycho in “Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One,” available on Xbox LIVE Arcade this Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. GMT (1:00 a.m. PDT).

The first episodic RPG-Adventure game to grace Xbox LIVE Arcade, “Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One” is the result of a collaboration between Hothead Games and Penny Arcade. The first episode sends players to a deranged 1920s comic-book-meets-pulp-horror universe called New Arcadia. Armed with unconventional weaponry, players join forces with Gabe and Tycho of the Startling Developments Detective Agency to make war on bizarre enemies and solve the mysteries hidden deep in the sinister heart of New Arcadia.

“Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One” offers players the ability to design their own customizable character, a dynamic turn-based combat system and the ability to transfer your customized character’s stats and inventories to future episodes, or start fresh with each episode. Fans of Penny Arcade will appreciate the authenticity of the game, which features distinctive artwork and characters designed by Mike “Gabe” Krahulik and a story and dialogue written by Jerry “Tycho” Holkins.

Developed by Hothead Games, “Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One” will be available worldwide (with the exception of Korea) for 1600 Microsoft Points and is rated “M” for Mature by the ESRB for all platforms. For more details on “Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One” please visit:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/p/pennyarcadexboxlivearcade/

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