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Our Darker Purpose, Avidly WIld Games’ top down rogue-like action adventure RPG, has hit Steam today. Available for a discount $10.00 for the next week Our Darker Purpose is a Coraline inspired tale of a girl named Cordy who attends the creepy sounding Edgewood Home for Lost Children. Things go completely Lord of the Flies when the teachers disappear and now players must guide Cordy through a variety of procedurally generated levels in order to get to the bottom of things. (Read More)

Last week I was at Rezzed instead of looking at Kickstarter pages but I’ve made up for it by spending most of today browsing through projects. Thoughts of Kickstarter’s purpose have been hanging in the air (on twitter and in chatrooms that I frequent) and I have been pondering how I see the site. I have backed projects knowing that I’m essentially pre-ordering something that I assume will be released and will be as expected, based on the team’s previous work and a comfortable place in a familiar genre. But I mostly back smaller projects that I want to support and to play because they are different, risky and challenging. There’s a great deal of innovation among the nostalgia. (Read More)

You made it! We are so so so so grateful!!!! What can we say??? We are so deeply indebted to everyone who backed us, advised us, wrote about us, streamed or made YouTube videos, met with us, emailed others on our behalf, tweeted/liked/shared, or... (Read More)

It's amazing to see your energy here as you work to help us get this thing over the top. You all rock. We've got 750 people pitching in to make this happen, and more on the way. Please keep it up, and we'll see you at the finish line!  And by the... (Read More)

Hey everyone, So this is it -- we are down to the wire. Raising $11k in 43 hours is a long shot. But we've come a really, really long way in our Kickstarter campaign. It's amazing to see over 690 people behind this game, old friends and new friends,... (Read More)

Hey everyone, Welcome to the homestretch! This past week was excellent and we're hoping that we can increase the momentum up until the end. So, a few updates below!  First, we're so excited by everyone's response to the pre-alpha that we're going to... (Read More)

Journey to the dark heart of the Edgewood Home for Lost Children in this fiendishly difficult action RPG (Read More)

Indie developer Avidly Wild Games has a twisted little action RPG in the works; a roguelike by the name of Our Darker Purpose. Painted in the colours of Tim Burton, the project has just four days left of its Kickstarter campaign to raise the final dollars it needs to succeed. (Read More)

Hi Friends, It's official -- this is the strongest day of our campaign for both new backers and funds raised! And to celebrate, we invite you to check out the public pre-alpha demo for Our Darker Purpose, also linked at the top of the main page! If... (Read More)

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. (Read More)

Hey everyone, those of you watching the indie scene on YouTube or the comments here may have noticed that our pre-alpha early build is making the rounds! We've had a ton of other press as well! We've essentially been heads-down coding and sending,... (Read More)

Action role-playing game Our Darker Purpose was inspired by a fascination with the psychological results when an abusive authority suddenly disappears. (Read More)

Before we roll into three great crowdfunding projects I have to give a shout out to Mike Dietz, Ed Schofield and Doug TenNapel of Armikrog. There’s no godly reason why Armikrog shouldn’t cross the finish line, so it’s time to nut up and pledge your hearts out for Mike, Ted, and Ed. Now that Armikrog is successfully funded, we can move on. You’ll need to break out the AA’s and Halogen lamps for two of our projects, and your compass for the third, woodsmen unite! (Read More)

Hey everyone, hope you had a great weekend! And thank you again for all your support so far! As you may have noticed, we've passed 400 backers and we're steadily closing on 450. Moreover, we've released an early demo of the game to media, so keep an... (Read More)

Hey team, major major update for you below! But before that, we advise you to check out our new Kickstarter friend, Dungeon of Elements. They've got a great looking game and we're a backer! And without further ado, we'd like to introduce you to our... (Read More)

Thanks for an amazing weekend! We've been hard at work coding but have some exciting updates planned over the next few days. Tonight, we want to introduce you to one of the stranger random events that can occur within the halls of Edgewood -- a visit... (Read More)

Per our announcement yesterday, we are introducing a new tier! Enjoy the $29 Somewhat Early Acceptance tier to celebrate folks now joining the campaign. For those of you who bought in at $35, feel free to take a few bucks off! For those of you at... (Read More)

A little bit of The Binding of Isaac, a lil' bit of Diablo, and a whole lotta "this is why you can't leave children alone," Our Darker Purpose has the player work their way up a dangerous orphanage in the hopes of figuring out why the adults have disappeared. Seems sinister. (Read More)

We continue to power forward! 250+ backers and counting! We've got a quick update for you today. Stay tuned tomorrow, when we're going to roll out some new award tiers -- you may have noticed that we sold out of Early Acceptance for instance... ... (Read More)

Our Darker Purpose is described by its creators, Avidly Wild Games, as a "fiendishly difficult action RPG." Set in the Edgewood Home for Lost Children, this dark, top down rogue-like features an interesting take on permadeath and a full action combat system woven between "bizarre storylines." (Read More)

Welcome to the Kickstarter Compendium, a gathering of games and game-related projects that we’ve come across that deserve your attention. The crowd-funding model for video games has resulted in some interesting new game ideas, and new projects are going up on a weekly basis that deserve your attention. (Read More)

Hey everyone, as you may have noticed, this has been a GREAT day for Our Darker Purpose!  So, two quick announcements for you.  First, we got a short but excellent piece on Rock, Paper, Shotgun which you can check out here. This kind of coverage is... (Read More)

Our Darker Purpose is a story about a stylised school/orphanage from which all of the teachers have vanished, leaving the students to form factions and fight to the death, which is precisely what children do, as proven by the terrifying reality television show Lord of the Flies. To make matters worse, all of the furniture is haunted and most of it has teeth. And the school is sitting on top of an otherworldly abyss. With random item drops, character customisation and a Zelda-meets-roguelike vibe, the whole thing looks like Isaac has been dragged from the basement and dropped off at the boarding house on the borderlands. The little blighter even makes a cameo appearance. To nobody’s surprise, there’s a Kickstarter and a quarter of the $40,000 has almost been raised. (Read More)

First off, thank you for powering us through an awesome Friday and weekend! We're closing in on 20% of our goal! In this update, we're going to answer a few more of the questions we've received, and then we've got a surprise for you -- the newest... (Read More)

Wow, thanks SO much for an amazing 72 hours out of the gate. You are the champions that will make this campaign successful, and we are deeply, deeply humbled by your support. Your Facebook shares, forum posts, and general energy and enthusiasm and... (Read More)