PopCap has today announced the formation of 4th & Battery, which is being described as a new experimental label where PopCap’s designers and developers have free reign to create smaller, simpler, and sometimes edgier games without the typical constraints of an established global games publisher.
Their first release will be ‘Unpleasant Horse’ where players take on the role of “a strikingly unpleasant horse that sports wings and advances through the game by destroying small birds and landing on more pleasant horses from above.”
Landing atop other horses enables the player to force them earthward into a perpetual meat grinder for extra points and special bonuses. The game will be out on iOS devices this month, for the rather generous sum of “for free”.
Source: Press Release
Klart
flying unpleasant horses landing on more pleasant horses from above and perpetual meat grinders?
edgy indeed
Klart
Might be my new pick up line: Can I force my strikingly unpleasant horse into your perpetual meat grinder?
Crocadillian
oooooohhhh… XDD
This doesn’t seem like anything new, but the idea of a new label sounds great.
hazelam
ios only? shame as that sounds like fun
3shirts
They should look at MY horse, my hose is amazing.
Tuffcub
You have an amazing hose? Well you aren’t shy are you.
bunimomike
Good on Popcap for taking a brave step in this direction. I have oodles of respect for them anyway but will be doubly fascinated to see how things turn out.
quinkill
Good, all the power/freedom to them!