Duck and Cover

A wierd looking indie game has a demo.<blockquote>Greetings from Introversion Software!

We are very pleased to announce that the Playable Demo of Darwinia is now
available for download from our site. The demo contains a single level of the
game - the Pixel Mines - and will give you a wonderful flavour of the game. We
really do hope you enjoy it. Please show it to all your friends and tell
everyone you know about it...we need your help to spread the word.

http://www.darwinia.co.uk/downloads/

If our site is too busy, try this mirror:
http://www.3dgamers.com/games/darwinia/downloads/


The game will be launching on 4th March 2005. If you can't wait until then, you
can pre-order it from our site and we will aim to ship it to your house by that
day. This really is the quickest and safest way to get the game...pre-orders
will be handled in priority to normal orders.

http://www.darwinia.co.uk/store/

Have fun!
Chris, Mark and Tom
Introversion Software</blockquote>They made Uplink, and this game looks totally unique, so it'll be worth a try.

I remeber signing up for beta a long time ago, it just looked like a wacky game that was worth trying out. Its cool i get to finally check it out.

I gained a fair amount of enjoyment from Uplink, so at the very least I'll look into this. Cheers.

Uh, looks like a computer acid trip.

reminds me of tron wich makes me think its reality in the computer world. My ghod ive massacred my own people then.

so, uh.
what genre?

steampunk.

*laughs*

Surreal retro mind fuck, is the genre. Or so they wrote.

Yeah it's got those little Tron things. Copyright violation? Hope not.

I thought it was decently entertaining. Entertaining but bland. All I can say is that it needs a clearer tutorial of some sort and it needs to have the ability to save.

Edit, I played a little more and I think I've got a little more to add to the critique.

The gameplay itself is pretty decent if simple. It's kinda addictive. It needs some serious pathfinding ai improvement though. Seriously. Also it's real hard on the eyes after a while, bright orange on black might be ripped straight from retro 80's games but there's a pretty decent reason as to why it's not used any more - it sucks.

Definately has potential though, and I would very much like to see the full game and what kinda stuff it's got going for it.

I liked Uplink and the developers are a decent little indie company, so it'd be nice to see them do well with more unusual games. They seem to have a dedicated fanbase now too. Not bad considering they started off selling games at the local market that they had burned onto a CD at home.