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Introversion: “To Our Credit, We Survived” | Design Website — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:46:58 +0000

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By: Cargo Cult

Cargo Cult — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:46:25 +0000

The Darwinia title track. For added verisimilitude, it should be played through a real live Atari ST. Fear the thunderous beepyness!

By: mr_anonymous

mr_anonymous — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:41:26 +0000

Kast: It should also be noted that Mike Blaugazuski (or however you spell his name) of Ambrosia fame has done a great deal of work to get the Mac version of DEFCON running, and is working hard on Multiwinia.

By: James T

James T — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:58:50 +0000

The Darwinia music gives shivers.

It's by a Mr Trash80; you can have a dig around his site here for more. I particularly like 'Saturn's Children', 'Mawwaa', 'Schroeder's Failure' (which I don't recall hearing in-game, but which is apparently from Darwinia), 'The Pancake Song'... He's got a few goodies up there.

By: Kast

Kast — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:47:10 +0000

http://www.introversion.co.uk/aboutus.html

All your questions are answered! The actual developers are Chris, Gary and Leander. Also, John codes for mac and linux.

By: kadayi

kadayi — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:28:08 +0000

The only thing that nagged at me after watching it was it seemed like Chris does all the coding & comes up with the ideas, which makes me wonder what the rest of them contribute to the games tbh.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:21:38 +0000

Doug: That wasn’t of all their games – that was of Darwinia. Without a doubt, the exposure on Steam helped keep Introversion solvent.

By: Arathain

Arathain — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:29:11 +0000

I think in traditional retail the developer gets less than 10% by the time the whole thing pans out. Makes online distribution a far more favourable set-up for those making the games.

By: kadayi

kadayi — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:48:14 +0000

50% might sound like a hell of a cut by Valve, but it’s a far better return than you’d get on a retail sale by a publisher like EA or Activision, plus Valve are covering the download bandwidth side of things ad infinitum IIRC. I’m pretty sure Introversion got a sweet deal from Valve at the time, because Gabe was nuts for Darwinia as well.

By: JakethePirate

JakethePirate — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:44:48 +0000

The Darwinia music gives shivers.

What always surprises me most about Introversion is how much the seem to get how it all works more than anybody else. I often find my self thinking about something from a recent game that I think is a new and interesting concept and then I realize that Introversion has already advanced that concept beyond wherever I think it might go. They seem, to me at least, years ahead of anyone else in terms of theory and understanding.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:01:29 +0000

I think I read a quote from Introversion somewhere that they made more sales off of Steam in a month than they had off of their own site in a year. So even if Valve is taking a cut, Introversion is still gaining more exposure. Of course, now that I can’t find that quote maybe it’s so much hyperbole.

Between Steam and Ambrosia’s Mac ports, I think they may be doing OK.