New SNES game is all about crunch

There's a new SNES game - yep, you read that right, a new SNES game - that's designed to raise awareness about development crunch.

Fork Parker's Crunch Out is developed by Mega Cat Studios and published by Devolver Digital, the company behind Hotline Miami and Serious Sam. It costs $49.99 and all profits go to Take This, a nonprofit dedicated to informing the games community about mental health issues, providing education and services within the industry and tackling mental illness prevention.

Fork Parker's Crunch Out stars Devolver's CFO, Fork Parker. He "bootstraps a ragtag group of game developers from a downtrodden garage studio to a high rise mega corporation using only his love of profit and questionable motivation tactics".

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