Quadrilateral Cowboy
Press Kit

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Description

Quadrilateral Cowboy is a single-player first-person adventure in a cyberpunk world. Tread lightly through security systems with your hacking deck and grey-market equipment.

Players are challenged to pull off heists with a variety of tools, hardware, and cybernetic enhancements. Pull out your portable hacking deck and punch instructions into the commmand-line interface. Subvert, sneak, and break your way past building defenses.

With top-of-the-line hardware like this, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder.

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Development History

During the tail end of developing Thirty Flights of Loving, a thought popped up: what about a first-person sneaking game, but all of your equipment is outdated and heavy and clunky. And hacking is done by typing commands into a command terminal. And it's alt-future 1980-something.

With that, Quadrilateral Cowboy began development in March 2012. Using the idTech4 engine, the next 4 years were spent exploring different ways of fleshing out the core "analog tech" premise.

Work took place at home, on train trips, at coffee shops, but the lion's share was done at Glitch City, an office space shared by local Los Angeles independent game developers. Financially, ongoing development was supported by earnings from previous titles in the Blendo Games catalog.

Records of the development cycle were chronicled in live development streams and blog posts.

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About Blendo Games

Blendo Games is a video game company founded in 2010 and located in Los Angeles, California.

• Blendo Games founder Brendon Chung did art, programming, and design.
• Former Bioshock 2 designer Tynan Wales was brought onboard to provide valuable design & art.
• Programmers Aaron Melcher and Ethan Lee handled Quadrilateral Cowboy's Mac & Linux ports and additional programming assistance.

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Awards & Recognition

• Independent Games Festival 2017 Seumas McNally Grand Prize winner
• Independent Games Festival 2017 Excellence in Design winner
• IndieCade 2013 Grand Jury Award winner
• Independent Games Festival 2014 Excellence in Narrative honorable mention
• South by Southwest 2014 Gamer's Voice Award nominee
• XOXO Fest 2014 Official Selection
• Mild Rumpus 2014 Official Selection
• Fantastic Arcade 2013 Official Selection

EXHIBITIONS:

• Museum of the Moving Image New York, 2014
• EMP Museum Seattle, 2014

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Videos

2016 RELEASE TRAILER: YouTube
Release trailer conceived and created by:
Jake Rodkin, Derek Lieu, Erin Yvette, Chris Remo.

INDIECADE 2013 TRAILER: YouTube
Trailer music by Chris Remo.

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