Last of the bedroom coders :)

[Warbie]

Check out http://www.darwinia.co.uk/

There's an excellent article in this months Edge about Introversion (3 men with 3 laptops and no offfices ) and their new game Darwinia.

It looks and sounds great \o/

 

[Dedalus]

looks decent, highly stylised, but there's very little available on the site in terms of explaining what sort of game it is.

will follow this one closely though.

 

[Feath]

Uplink was class. Did anyone else play it?

 

[Bad^Hat]

Ooh, funky.

 

[Foxtrot]

Is the beta worth getting?

 

[Varg|Hund]

Uplink was class. Did anyone else play it?

Yeah, t'was fun and nerve-racking :O

 

[Warbie]

looks decent, highly stylised, but there's very little available on the site in terms of explaining what sort of game it is.

will follow this one closely though.

Snipets from Edge:

'Set in a glowing world of fractals and wireframe, it puts you in charge of sprites that mine polygons and doge viruses.'

'You can't control them directly. You'll need to marshell them by running different programs - engineers to fix Darwinian's machines, officers to point Darwinians in the right direction, and squads to protect them while they move. Any energy you discover along the way can be reprocessed into more Darwinians, and as you complete each level you discover it builds into one giant, contiunous system'

'In order to defeat the virus, you'll need to evolve the the Darwinians and the programs that control them. Each new level makes them smarter and more dangerous, ready for the threat of virus induced monsters'

'Darwinia has a subtle and complex spirituality. The energy which powers each Darwinian can't be destroyed, even if they are killed. It will sit, glowing, on the ground untill gathered up and reprocessed. If left too long it will float away, and the bereaved Darwinians left behind will gather to fly candle-holding kites as a memorial to those they've lost. It's a bizarrely moving sight, but one which ties in tightly to the gameplay'

'It seems impossibly appropriate that Darwinia, with it's weird mix of science and religion, has been created by a trinity. Good things, it seems, definately come in threes.'

The newer screenshots (not on the website yet, unfortunetely) look really good. Worth supporting imo.

 

[Asuka]

Looks cool but eh.