After I finally got round to re-installing windows yesterday (blue screening due to the change of hardware - so shit), I started downloading all of the games I want to play in my steam games list. Because that involved about 2Gb of downloads I looked for something else to play.
Darwinia Demo - what the hell is this?
20Mb of downloading later, and I am immersed in a virtual AI theme park gone wrong. The darwinians (little green men) are fighting a virus (red stuff), and you have to help them basically. While you can’t control the darwinians directly, you can influence their moves by promoting one to be an officer. They also do tons of really handy stuff, and can be brought back to life using engineers (they look like the hover flying things from tron).
It looks totally retro and is a real blast to play, like a mix of cannon fodder, ant attack, lemmings and tron. I bought the full version for $20 over steam an hour after I tried the demo.
Comments Ahoy ! refraining from moaning about how painful my arms are from overdoing the BMX learning, oh I just did…
Anyway, Darwinia is sweet, nice to have a game to play that wasn’t written just for its dx 9 and shader v3 graphics, means that all the effort went into making a game that is playable for what it is, a very interesting and original concept, i’m sold !
Comment by Euan — December 21, 2005 @ 1:10 am
Ive almost completed it now. Im on the last level I think - its quite a short game!
Comment by Sandy Thomson — December 21, 2005 @ 5:01 pm
Merry Christmas Sandy ! Load Darwinia up, it detects the date.. It starts snowing and some of the little darwinians have santa hats on !
Comment by Euan — December 25, 2005 @ 3:22 pm
this sounds like quite a funky little game, think I’ll give it a shot…
Comment by Justin — December 26, 2005 @ 2:03 pm
I missed out playing it at christmas (too many commitments etc), booo!
Comment by Sandy Thomson — December 27, 2005 @ 2:16 am
My commitments started about an hour after I discovered festive season existing in darwinia and lasted until yesterday. boo
Comment by Euan — December 28, 2005 @ 4:18 pm