Underdogs

I was in HMV in Stratford today and spotted several copies of Darwinia on the shelves, priced £29.99. Darwinia is the latest offering from hip indie developers Introversion Software, mildly famous for their previous game, Uplink, which they marketed and sold themselves via their website (i.e. without going through a publisher like EA). I didn't realise their new title had been released, let alone distributed to physical retailers.

I couldn't find a publisher's logo on the box, so I guess they made some kind of direct deal with the distributors. Which is cool. Introversion are now proof that it's possible to get an original PC game to full price retail without a 50-man team and a seven figure budget. In 2005.

As an aside, I spotted a familiar box on the shelf below - Agassi Tennis Generation! Priced at a modest fiver, mind, but still occupying valuable shelf space several years after I worked on it.

Anyway, good work, Introversion. I have yet to try the Darwinia demo, but I ought to wait until my dissertation's in and the exams are over...

Posted by pwr (site) at March 28, 2005, 11:04pm. Category: blog. semipermalink

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Darwinia is pretty sweet, have been waiting for the release for a while. Also played Uplink back in the day.

Posted by Phil at April 10, 2005, 1:40am. Category: blog.

have you seen <a href="http://www.m3fe.com/content/aboutme/">this</a>? somebody wants to work with your "well-known prominent company"! back of the net.

Posted by dan at April 5, 2005, 5:16pm. Category: blog.

so what do we WRITE about? intro is easy, conclusion/evaluation is fine, but the rest..? do we discuss how we actually developed the code, in the past tense? i'm not quite sure whether we should be focusing on the features/functionality, or on the methods and algorithms we used. or both. probably both.

Posted by dan at April 5, 2005, 5:14pm. Category: blog.

Fixed it for you :)

I haven't started my report yet either :-(

Posted by pwr (site) at April 3, 2005, 4:57pm. Category: blog.

(fails to see the "enable html" checkbox entirely...)

Posted by anonymous at April 3, 2005, 1:16pm. Category: blog.

shit. i tried it. the marvellous ambrosia software, who have <a href="http://ambrosiasw.com/games/darwinia/">ported it to the mac</a>, can now be added to the list of credits of those who have contributed to my degree failure.

not yet started the report... oops.

Posted by dan at April 3, 2005, 1:15pm. Category: blog.
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