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Creepy children go rogue(like) at school on Steam tomorrow
Classes start for action RPG Our Darker Purpose on Steam tomorrow at 9AM PT – and then they're immediately canceled because all of the teachers have disappeared and the school is overrun with terrifying monsters. Indie studio Avidly Wild Games Kickstarted Our Darker Purpose to the tune of $40,000 in June and pushed it through the dark, convoluted passages of Steam Greenlight in October. Our Darker Purpose has a cartoonish, Tim Burton art style and is inspired by The Binding of Isaac, A Link to the Past and Diablo – it's a roguelike with permanent twists. "Each playthrough features a unique set of procedurally generated levels," Avidly Wild says. "Death is permanent, but your accomplishments earn you resources to buy lessons and upgrades in the afterlife ... and your education lasts forever. Every game teaches you more about the Edgewood Home for Lost Children, the disappearance of the adults, and the darker purpose of the Administrators." We always knew there was something up with our school administrators.
ANNE, Nimble Quest among 100 greenlit games by Steam
Valve accepted 100 more games onto Steam through its Greenlight service, in which community votes determine the games that are granted distribution on the platform. Among the games that will now appear on Steam are action-platformer ANNE, Nimblebit's arcade-style RPG Nimble Quest, Cornerstone: The Song of Tyrim, roguelike Our Darker Purpose and real-time strategy game Frozen Hearth. Cornerstone developer Ascension Games just achieved its funding on Kickstarter last week. You can view the entire list of greenlit games on Steam's announcement page.
Crowdfund Bookie, June 23 - 29: Massive Chalice, Armikrog, A Hat in Time
The Crowdfund Bookie crunches data from select successful Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns that ended during the week and produces pretty charts for you to look at. The Kickstarter campaigns for Massive Chalice, Armikrog, A Hat in Time, Our Darker Purpose, Afterland, Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet and Siegebreakers concluded this past week and there was much money to be had. Double Fine's Massive Chalice earned the most moola this week ($1,229,015), and had the most backers of the group, with 31,774 people funding the project. Afterland had the highest average pledge per person, with each funder averaging a $73.29. Take a gander at the results and our fancy charts after the break.
Roguelike 'Our Darker Purpose' goes from grad school project to Kickstarter
Our Darker Purpose is a roguelike, action RPG that takes place in an eerie boarding school where all of the teachers suddenly disappear, and the children establish a Lord of the Flies system of governance. It's chaos, mostly. Players take control of Cordy, who is on a quest to the Administrators' offices at the top of the Edgewood Home for Lost Children. With a name like that, you'd think the students would expect some funny business. Our Darker Purpose developers at Avidly Wild Games in Boston are well into a Kickstarter campaign asking for $40,000 – it has six days left and has so far raised $20,000. "Right now we don't have plans to release if we don't hit funding, though to be honest, it's not something we've given much thought to," Avidly founder David Roth tells Joystiq. "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it (and hopefully we won't)." Until this point, Roth and his partner, Will Wu, have been funding Our Darker Purpose out-of-pocket. It started as a graduate school project. "But, little by little, we realized we were putting way more time into it than on school, and we decided to try to make it real," Roth says. "We're on Kickstarter because, coming out of school, we don't really have the personal resources at this point to take this to the level that we want to." Avidly Wild says inspirations for Our Darker Purpose cover A Link to the Past, The Binding of Isaac and Diablo. It's planned for PC, with possible Mac and Linux installments later on, and it would love to join the Steam party. Hit up all the details on the Kickstarter.
