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Nuskrad writes
"A demo of the long awaited Darwinia by indie game developers Introversion has been released. At the moment there is only a Win32 demo avaliable, but Mac OSX and Linux demos should be coming soon. You can grab the demo from the torrent."
Demo Guide (Score:5, Informative)
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The official site is pretty much impossible to access at the moment.
--verbose (Score:3, Interesting)
First guess was MMORPG but the site doesn't seem to uphold this. Unfortunately the
Besides, does this qualify as interesting news? Why not give us weekly or monthly summaries of all the games (even indy ones) released in that timeframe instead of having to be selective about what you post and having some articles read like advertisements?
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Rob
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*cough* [slashdot.org]
Anyway, you can see the magazine and web coverage they've been getting - which includes info on the game - at their site [darwinia.co.uk] (well, you will be able to when everyone stops downloading the demo - it's been hammered since yesterday when it was released).
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Re:This game like totally sucks arse (Score:2, Interesting)
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I'm pretty sure it'll exist...
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Introversion Software's unofficial motto - 'our fanboys go up to 11'
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Also see the phase 2 beta tester list [introversion.co.uk] for my nick, and note that I registered my account here before Darwinia was announced, and that e-mail and home page matches up.
(Yes, I know, IHBT, IHL, IWTTHAND.)
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*PMs Chris to tell him*
I assumed it was visible due to the fact that it's linked to from the credits page [darwinia.co.uk].
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As for not being free; the developers have to make a living someway, isn't it better they're producing something innovative rather than still working at EA? Open source software is great, but computers can't ex
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I can say... (Score:2, Informative)
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Beat the demo (Score:2, Interesting)
This is the greatest RTS ever made.
Sorry Total Annihilation, it's over.
Re:Beat the demo (Score:1)
Okay, that's it. It competes with TA? I'm downloading.
MacOS X port (Score:1)
does anyone know if the linux port is done inhouse or by an outsider too? (i.e. any interesting devel logs about this game out there?)
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Refreshing (Score:2, Interesting)
Only thing I could see becoming a little bit annoying is the gestures.
I enjoyed the demo; can't wait to try the full game!
Oh god, another great waste of my time... (Score:3, Insightful)
Imagine a cross between Populous and Black & White (not so hard... they're related by parentage anyway) set in the world of Tron... that about sums it up.
OK... so after reading the story I grabbed the demo and played it for a few minutes. I admit it... I'd still be playing it if it weren't for my lovely wife making me tea. Bloody hell, I think I'm going to have to buy this one now I've played GTA to death
Seriously, it's a matter of taste though. It's not for everyone... but if you appreciate retro styling, nicely integrated sound and graphics in your games... and at least potentially addictive gameplay then you'll like it. If you're into FPS shooters or MMORPG's then this ain't for you... this is an old-fashioned "god game" using more recent advances in hardware to make the game I think we all THOUGHT we were playing when we played populous many many moons ago.
Hope this helps!
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The main.dat file is actually a renamed
So fix the extension and you can decompress it into the base game data which is written in plain text.
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I tried to edit the unit stats in data/stats.txt but none of my changes to the squad took. Then I tried editting the CurrentResearch value in game_data.txt and it worked. This could be an extremely fun little demo to write stuff for.
strangely, I see no mention of this on any of their forums. Can so many people NOT have figured this out already?
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Some sad geek is even translating it into Klingon >_>