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Torque 360 Chosen Engine for Penny Arcade Games

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From the article: "Torque 360, GarageGames' game engine for the Xbox 360, has been selected by Hothead Games for Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness. Penny Arcade Adventures is a 3D cell-shaded RPG-Adventure game set in a deranged comic-book-meets-pulp-horror universe. Armed with unconventional weaponry, players join forces with the Startling Developments Detective Agency to make war on bizarre enemies and solve the mysteries hidden deep in the sinister heart of New Arcadia..."
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JoelR - 590 days ago
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Chosen to be fully crossplatform and yet no PS3 or Wii support
You would think a group (Penny Arcade) whose core audience plays across all platforms would try to be more inclusive.
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JelalTrueshot - 589 days 23 hours ago
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Part of me thinks this was a move done on purpose NOT to support the other platforms, like some sort of anti-Sony outburst or something. I wonder who was responsible for that decision, the publisher or developer or both?
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JoelR - 589 days 20 hours ago
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Funny thing is .... they tout their crossplatformness in the article.

I personally don't think it is intentional but it is insulting.
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Lyan - 589 days 15 hours ago
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1.3 - Chill out
If you look for problems then that is all you will ever find. The engine they chose is not supported on the PS3. The reason they chose this engine is for it's large support dynamic, i.e. 4 different platforms, and so that they did not have to develop an engine from the ground up.

Quote from the article: "Rather than building platform code from from the ground up, using Torque gave us far more time to hone the actual game."

This is an entry game by a small developer and an even smaller idealistic base of creators, hothead and penny arcade respectively. Try to remember that gaming is not restricted to strictly consoles.

I remember an interview with gabe and tycho (P.A. creators) where they expressed that they wished they could of chosen something to support the PS3, but the support dynamics for publishing a game was not there enough for them to restrict it further by choosing a engine that would not support as many platforms. I'll try to dig it up and edit it in.

If you look for problems then that is all you will ever find.
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edhe - 589 days 8 hours ago
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2 - Core audience are gamers...
..core gamers have 360s.

Since they actually want to game the most games, the best games running on the best version..

zing!
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JoelR - 589 days 3 hours ago
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right ..../cough *bullsh*t* cough/
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