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Poncho Shifts Its Way onto PS4™ System, PC, Mac and Linux

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The open world parallax platformer brings new layers of depth to a flat genre

LONDON, UK – November 03, 2015 – Rising Star Games are proud to announce that they have launched Poncho, an exciting new pixel art platformer for the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, PC, Mac and Linux.

Poncho will also be released on PlayStation®Vita handheld entertainment system and Nintendo Wii U in the coming months.

A robot finds himself waking with no memory in a strange and desolate world, with nothing on his person but a strange and ancient artifact from a bygone era – a red poncho. The little red Poncho quickly becomes his namesake and our robot hero goes on a journey to discover what tragedy has befallen the world around him.

As Poncho, players can explore a beautifully animated pixel-drawn open world. Harness Poncho’s unique powers of depth, by hopping between the background, mid-ground and foreground in a giddy and unique blend of parallax platforming action. Use these abilities to effortlessly explore and solve puzzles as you jump between planes whilst traversing Poncho’s mysterious and immersive world.

“I’m so excited to finally be releasing PONCHO out into the world.” said Jack Odell, composer and co-creator of Poncho. “This project has meant a lot to myself and Dan over the past 3 years and the soundtrack has been some of my favourite work to date. We really hope that people enjoy it as much as we loved making it!”

You can download assets here.

Want to shift in on this parallax-platforming action? Just ask for a key (of your platform preference) at tom@indigopearl.com or anita@indigopearl.com

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Poncho Game Features:

  • Discover a charming open-world  adventure brimming with personality and memorable creatures as you attempt to uncover what happened
  • Get lost in the multi-layered musical journey that is Poncho’s incredible soundtrack – in Poncho the gameplay and the soundtrack are intrinsically linked
  • Embrace the freedom to go anywhere – explore at your own will, this land is yours to traverse as you see fit
  • Interact with every little creature. Every area is filled with randomly generated ecosystems of mysterious beings and robots, all co-existing and reacting to every movement Poncho makes.

KROMAIA Blasts Off on Steam

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LOS ANGELES, USA – October 23, 2014 – The award winning cyber shoot ’em up we’ve all been waiting for is now available to download on Steam! Kraken Empire have done an incredible job over the last couple of months to enhancing KROMAIA with more intense gameplay features and epic enemies, all with a quality layer of polish on top. Blasting, beaming and blowing up space aliens has never felt this good in the 3D bullet-hell that is KROMAIA!
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October 23, 2014 – Rising Star Games and Kraken Empire today announced that highly-stylized shoot ’em up (shmup), Kromaia, is now available for download on Steam for PC.

Kromaia is an immersive journey that mixes technology and myth for an innovative gameplay experience. Players will feel like a small droplet of water in a vast, alien ocean as they explore new worlds protected by giant god-like guardians, filled with ancient temple ruins, and littered with puzzles to solve and treasures to collect.
A truly unique adventure, Kromaia’s approach to gameplay looks to bring new life to the shmup genre.Providing players with full 360˚ freedom to fly, spin, and shoot changes the traditional style of arcade shmups significantly. Also, Kromaia’s adaptive AI creates a special kind of emergent gameplay: one that changes variables like enemy speed and formations to offer something new depending on how the game is played. Combine this with several ultra-maneuverable Armors (pilotable ships/vessels), all with different attributes, and a wide range of ancient, alien worlds to explore, and you’ve got a game that changes the genre forever.      

Kromaia Key Features
  • Experience one of the fastest and most agile shoot ’em ups to-date
  • Interact with hundreds of physical objects, like asteroids, ancient temple ruins, puzzles, treasure, and fight dozens of on-screen enemies at once
  • Highly destructible worlds with their own rules and law of physics
  • A truly unique graphical style, gameplay and immersive experience
  • Adaptive AI – Artificial intelligence based on independent simple brains that cooperate creating emergent behaviors
  • Pilot several different Armors, each with unique weapons, attributes, and philosophies
  • Multiple gameplay modes including “Story” and “Score Attack” – with more on the way
  • Four levels of difficulty to test players of all skill levels
  • Moddable content using plain text (XML) including levels, objects, weapons, player and AI units

3D Wire 2013 Best Indie Game winner and multi-award finalist, Kromaia blazed through Steam Greenlight with ease earlier this year, and with Kraken Empire reaching the end of the game’s epic development cycle, it is now time for everyone to enjoy this must-have PC title!

The Odd Gods Launch TRI

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It feels like just yesterday we had partnered up with Rat King Entertainment to welcome 3D puzzle platformer TRI to the growing Steam library of Rising Star Games. In three short months TRI has toured America, hit Europe’s biggest gaming expos and befuddled more puzzle-gaming enthusiasts than ever imagined. TRI’s charming aesthetics, intricate level design and ability to continually present new and intelligent challenges throughout the game has won hearts of ourselves and the many people we had the pleasure of sharing the game with.

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TRI is available now on Steam and GoG.com including a 10% discount for launch!

Check out the official press release below:

Discover the true secret of the Fox God in this beautiful first-person puzzle adventure

GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN – October 09, 2014 – Step into the topsy-turvy world of the Odd Gods. Rising Star Games and Rat King Entertainment today announced that their thought-provoking first-person puzzle adventure, TRI: Of Friendship and Madness, is available for download on digital outlets including Steam for PC, Mac, and Linux (5pm BST).

In the world of the Odd Gods, players will experience a mind-bending first-person adventure like no other as they discover the magical power of the TRI. By creating magical triangles that can be used to solve puzzles and traverse the landscape, players can hunt for mystical totems and master a wide range of fantastic abilities such as reflecting light, scaling sheer heights and even defying gravity!

Rezzed Recap #Cloudbuilt

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The last 3 days have gone by in a whirlwind of excitement, discovery and competition for us at the Cloudbuilt launch stand for Eurogamer’s Rezzed 2014 in the United Kingdom. We were immensely proud to be representing such a game in front of the thousands of expo-goers over the weekend. A quick shout-out to Coilworks who unfortunately couldn’t make the show due to dedicating their valuable time and efforts to the community ensuring Cloudbuilt’s launch was a success. We had many expo veterans asking after Coilworks who had met them in the past. They’re obviously very popular people!

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Even the slowest had a go!

Overall the show was a tremendous event and we’ve never had so much fun showcasing a game to the public. Everybody we met was enthusiastic to find out more about Cloudbuilt and we enjoyed answering all the questions you could fire at us. There were certainly a few ‘Bambies on Ice’ experiencing 3D platforming for the first time, but they soon spread their wings and learnt to apply their jetpacks and parkour stunts in order to complete the levels before them. We felt like proud parents watching our offspring mature into competent avid speed runners having succeeded in ‘The Initial Entry’ (second tutorial) after a rocky start. It’s awesome to see that undisguisable sense of achievement present from the first time you play, right through to the pros managing to clear an S-Rank in the later stages of the game. We wish Coilworks were there to see it! Continue reading→