Big North American Break For Darwinia!

[Major Cooke]

D'oh!
How bout you sell 2 packages like Half-life 2 did...

1st one is normal Darwinia barebone for 19.99.
2nd one is the darwinia bonuses with the extra gadgets for 29.99.

Sounds like a better deal than just the second one for 29.99.... seriously...

[Slacker]

I picked up my copy at a Wal-Mart here in Canada. I finally saved that shipping cost I didn't want to pay for.

The keychain is pretty neat too.

[pat_trick]

I was able to pick up my copy of Darwinina from Gamestop here in Honolulu, Hawaii last week. Just finished it tonight.

I was considering purchasing it over steam for quite some time, but seeing the boxed copy (priced at $19.99 USD by the way) and the included keychain made the extra push for me to picke it up there in the store.

I'm looking forward to messing around with the mod tools!

[trickfred]

For those that are interested - here's a short clip of the new 'bootloader' that plays when the NA version of the game is loaded. This plays before regular bootloaders, every time the game is launched.

http://stellarmatter.net/iv/darwinia_cm_intro.avi

XviD, about 5 mb.

[xyzyxx]

That's more like a production logo than a boot loader. The addition of the little darwinians was cool though.

[trickfred]

That's more like a production logo than a boot loader. The addition of the little darwinians was cool though.

...Hence the 'bootloader' in quotes. (I should know better than to try and be subtle here, I guess)

I thought it was neat, as it's a video run in-game with game-created DGs watching it.

...Which means Darwinia can play .avi files.

...Which means soon I'll be begging Chris to let us use that functionality in mods.

...Starting now.

[Testrie]

Big calls for celebration here at Introversion as publishers Cinemaware Marquee, an affiliated label of eGames, Inc., begins its launch of Darwinia into the North American retail market.

Following on from the IGF Awards, Cinemaware Marquee’s decision to sign Darwinia comes as a further boost to our growing reputation as fearless producers of innovative, unique games and as sweet compensation for the enormous number of hours, days and nights that we lived and breathed Darwinia during its long and difficult genesis.

Darwinia is available now at North American retailers for just $29.99 and will include a bonus Darwinian keychain and poster.

For the full, official press release and a taste of Cinemaware Marquee’s own official Darwinia website, visit www.savedarwinia.com

Time to get in big trouble for buying a game online without my parents noticing. (Actually i paid somone else to buy it for me )

Tes

[one01]

Does the Cinemaware retail package also contain the Linux version? I was looking at the box at the store yesterday and saw no mention of the Linux version being included.

Another weird thing, the Cinemaware Darwinia website has links for the Mac, Windows and Linux demo, however they all link to darwinia-demo2.exe.

[xander]

Does the Cinemaware retail package also contain the Linux version? I was looking at the box at the store yesterday and saw no mention of the Linux version being included.

AFAIK, yes and no. It contains all of the data files for Darwinia, but not the executable. The executable can be downloaded as a patch from the IV website, for free.

Another weird thing, the Cinemaware Darwinia website has links for the Mac, Windows and Linux demo, however they all link to darwinia-demo2.exe.

Indeed, that is weird.

xander

[trickfred]

Does the Cinemaware retail package also contain the Linux version? I was looking at the box at the store yesterday and saw no mention of the Linux version being included.

AFAIK, yes and no. It contains all of the data files for Darwinia, but not the executable. The executable can be downloaded as a patch from the IV website, for free.

Another weird thing, the Cinemaware Darwinia website has links for the Mac, Windows and Linux demo, however they all link to darwinia-demo2.exe.

Indeed, that is weird.

xander

Eh. They apparently have no experience with either OS, or they just put that link in as a placeholder until they found out what the proper links were, and then forgot.

By the way, the Cinemaware disc has a Windows installer on it, but no seperate files like the UK disc does - so if you want to use that version to play in Linux, you'll have to run the Windows installer somehow to extract main.dat and sounds.dat. (Wine, VMWare, dual boot, whatever the task calls for). Then of course, get the Linux executable from IV's website.

[alexm]

I got the US version of the game (I am in Canada) and I am running Linux. However, the linux installer from the introversion website doesn't seem to recognize the CD. I've extracted the files from the CD to my hard-drive (using wine) but I don't know where to put them so the linux installer will find them. Can anyone on this forum help me?

[mibias]

i guess you are new to forum stuff. try going to darwinia and then linux support. You will get more help there

[sirvoks]

i guess you are new to forum stuff. try going to darwinia and then linux support. You will get more help there

*agrees*

Anders

[Shwart!!]

IDEA!

Can someone with a mac version of Darwinia try putting a .avi into the directory as cinemaware.avi? It would be good to know if Macs support it too...

I'm thinking a secondary bootloader, a short video abvout the mod...

Someone with the plain Introversion version (Windows) testing that could also be useful.

If this works, it could be a very neat little modding feature. I doubt it would work on all versions, but it might.

Shwart!!

[sirvoks]

I got windows, non-cinemaware, but plain retail. I'll try it, and report back with my results.

EDIT: Nope, it wont display.

Anders