Cliffhanger Productions launches one of the biggest European games  project on Kickstarter to date. Their ambitious project for Browsers and Tablets  wants fans to control much more than just the  funding.

Vienna/Frankfurt, July 29, 2012 - Shadowrun has  had an exciting year, with Jordan Weisman, the creator of Shadowrun,  launching a wildly successful Kickstarter topping near two million dollars with Shadowrun Returns. Now Kickstarter sees the launch of Shadowrun  Online from Austrian based Cliffhanger Productions, who have already teamed  up with Harebrained and Catalyst to create the Shadowrun Universe at www.shadowrun.com.

While Shadowrun Returns is focused primarily on providing a great  single-player adventure experience, Shadowrun Online—like the  tabletop—is all about experiencing the awesome world and gritty atmosphere of Shadowrun together with friends in tactical but fluid turn based  combat. Details on the project can be found at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1964352341/shadowrun-online.

Cliffhanger  Productions is taking its game to the community to fund, launching an ambitious  Kickstarter campaign. This ensures that Shadowrun Online remains under the  creative control of Cliffhanger, while offering the fans to participate like  never before. "Our whole game concept has the fans at its heart," said Jan  Wagner, Managing Director of Cliffhanger Productions. "From our unique player  driven plotline to connecting the community on the Shadowrun Universe website  directly with the game, we want to bring games back where they belong: To the  people who play them."

Cliffhanger is teaming up with creative talent  from Catalyst Game Labs and Hare Brained Schemes as well as previous Shadowrun  authors, coordinating on story elements and pooling writing talent. That  cooperation will lead to allowing players to directly affect the ongoing  tabletop storyline through their game play of Shadowrun Online and also connect  to the Shadowrun Returns plot! "I think coordination between the different  Shadowrun products is important," said Jason Hardy, Shadowrun Line Developer for  the tabletop RPG. "I've been really pleased at how open the different parties  have been to pooling cool ideas and coming up with ways to interweave plot lines  to make the playing experience as awesome as possible."

The online game  will available for the browser on PC and Mac as well as Android Tablets and  iPads, using the Unity3D engine to create high quality graphics and visual  effects.

In Shadowrun Online players take on missions alone or together  in the dystopian world of the 2070s, ranging from hustling a local Ork gang, to  stealing valuable cargo from a ghoul-infested warehouse, through infiltrating a  remote megacorp research lab to sabotage a top-secret project.

Players  will meet and mingle in social hubs and (in)famous establishments, to form  runner teams, and pick up missions. Runs will take place on beautifully detailed  3D maps, involving combat, stealth, and strategy.

Different characters  will perceive the world differently, and be able to interact with different  parts of the world, from tactical overlays to augmented reality or assensing the  spirit  world.

About  Cliffhanger Productions:

Cliffhanger Productions is an interactive entertainment company  that creates free-to-play games for a new generation of players. Cliffhanger  games combine the accessibility of social and browser games with the depth and  excitement of traditional games. We care about graphics and immersion. We care  about story. We care about deep and satisfying gameplay. We care about what  gamers want. Our first online product Jagged Alliance Online was critically  acclaimed for raising bar for the quality of browser games and we aim to do even  better on Shadowrun Online. Find out more at www.shadowrun.com or visit www.cliffhanger-productions.com