In the near future, high-tech and ancient horrors collide as the world teeters on the brink of oblivion. Only our hero Yoshi, with his mutant mentor Gamaji and his robotic dog Newton, stand in the way of eldritch annihilation.

Yoshi and Newton enter the Gruckezber Magtech Challenge, a corporate-sponsored technology competition drawing contestants from around the world for the 1 million credit grand prize. They soon discover, however, that this friendly game has a much darker purpose behind it…

- the first crowdfunding platform fully dedicated to the video game market, born from the union of Gamesplanet, Ulule and selected project holders

- the first to propose a comprehensive service to project holders that goes far beyond simple crowdfunding

- the first to agree to a 10-point Charter of Commitments that pledges to the gaming community (see our charter )

10 Things You Should Know about Magrunner: Dark Pulse

It’s not your Daddy’s FPS. Magrunner is a first-person game and you can shoot things, but you won’t be gunning down nameless hordes of enemy soldiers or zombies. Instead, you’ll be focusing on using the high-tech tools available to you to navigate a fiendish gauntlet of both man-made and supernatural death traps!

Magrunner is the Future! Well, it’s set in the future, at least. You’ll explore a cutting-edge corporate facility and all of its gleaming technology, and then witness its terrifying transformation into someplace beyond our reality!

It’s built on Unreal Engine 3. So you know it’s been developed around a solid, tested and trusted piece of gaming technology that has set the standard for first-person video games.

Magrunner combines the old and new. Original technological and social futurism collide with the Cthulhu Mythos described by the 20th century author H.P. Lovecraft. The result has been described by various authors and fans as Cthulhupunk, the genre where cyberpunk and the Mythos intersect.

The game wants you to experiment. You’ll have to use your brain to save your butt. The options for solving the environmental puzzles within the facility will require you to test reactions between different forces and elements to see what happens.

The game wants to eat you. Yes…it wants to eat you.

Magrunner is being made by gamers! 3AM Games is composed of fanboys and girls of different genres, all of us tired of the repetitive kinds of games released by major publishers quarter-after-quarter. We want something new, and we hope you do, too.

It’s a new take on the Cthulhu Mythos! The futuristic aspect of the game influenced new designs of Mythos creatures—some old favorites, some never seen before. The setting and technology also provide for a glimpse of the Mythos in the future.

Magrunner ain’t mad at ya. So, let’s say you’re not interested in anything we’ve pointed out so far, and you’re not sure about spending your hard-earned money on it. That’s okay. We understand. But consider this…

The base game is already funded! That’s right, Magrunner: Dark Pulse is already funded as a stand-alone game. We want you to help us finish it, though. Tell us what options you want to see to make the game perfect, and be a part of bringing it to completion!

The game is already funded as a stand-alone game but we are addressing the crowd-people to help us make it even better though. We target at 100,000 eur to polish it. We do have the options though:

If we reach 100,000 €; we will add a Player vs Player mode to the game and 5 additional maps for the PVP gameplay.
With 200,000 €; the game will be available for Mac, game soundtrack will be composed by a famous composer, and the solo mode of the game extended with 10 additional levels (55 solo levels and 5 PVP maps).
If we reach 300,000 €, we will be able to add high quality voicing not only for the English version of the game but to French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian.
With 400,000 €; the game will be available for iPad and be Apple TV compatible for a specific gaming experience. We’ll also create 2 additional levels (for those who own neither Mac computers or iPads!)

The best thing with Magrunner and Gamesplanet Lab is that we do not want to release a decent game, we aim at the best possible quality. It sounds a little ambitious :-) but we won't release the game until players are happy with it! We are going to release a playable demo of Magrunner in around 6-7 months along with a survey asking backers (the supporters) to rate the game on a scale of 1 to 5. You know the procedure :-) Until the game is rated 4 out of 5 we won't release it but will rework on the categories that players rate under 3.5.