AGORA
Agora™ is an upcoming single player first person puzzle platformer shooter from K.O. Koala Entertainment™, coming to PC & Xbox.
Set in the Parthenon training simulation, players will experience visceral physics-based challenges while they unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding their enlistment into the advanced technology corporation, Agora.
A work in progress flyover from one of the first levels in Agora
The Agora teaser trailer unlocked by the community upon solving the Hack Parthenon ARG
AGORA DEVELOPMENT STATUS
In order to better insure that we meet our sales goals, we are iterating on Agora through a series of playtests, conducted alongside a group of players that we consider “super fans” of Agora. We borrow the term “super fans” from Amy Jo Kim's book, “Game Thinking”, in which she categorizes “super fans” as players who are actively seeking a game like Agora.
We have conducted 4 major internal playtests with this group of super fan playtesters, along with various longtime UX professionals from the gaming industry.
For more info on our methodology and process for executing these playtests, check out our Koalatea Time podcast episode with the amazing UX master, Dr. Celia Hodent, whose work we leveraged greatly in our playtesting process.
AGORA LORE REWARDS
Agora is an advanced technology corporation filled with a myriad of fascinating and often mysterious research projects.
When players joins our Discord, they are placed in 1 of 3 research projects: Destroying Angels, Cryptic Bonnet, and Distinguished Inkcap. As players level up in our Discord Research Idle Game, they unlock new research milestones for their project. These milestones include lore drops that flesh out the inner workings of Agora and their research projects.
The information provided in these lore rewards proved to be invaluable in solving the Hack Parthenon ARG, and will undoubtedly be important in the future…
1st Destroying Angel Lore Reward
1st Cryptic Bonnet Lore Reward
1st Distinguished Inkcap Lore Reward
HACK PARTHENON ARG
On August 7th, we began releasing cryptic video messages to our community across our social media channels, encouraging them to Join the Discord by August 14th. Our community thought that the recently announced Parthenon Trivia giveaways (launching that same day) were all that was coming, but as they began to play trivia for the giveaway, they realized that a mysterious entity had hacked Parthenon and was trying to reach out.
Thus, our community embarked on conquering the "Hack Parthenon ARG" that involved a sequence of puzzles facilitated through our Discord's Research Idle Game bots. After over 36 hours, the community was able to crack the final puzzle that revealed the first ever Agora teaser trailer to the world.