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Long-Awaited Anachronox Patch Out Now
psyco484 writes "A long-awaited patch (Build_45) to the PC action-RPG Anachronox has finally been released. Thanks to ex-Ion Storm programmer Joey 'Chinaman' Law, Anachronox now runs a lot better. Hope there's still a few fans out there, an excellent game with a good story. Read about it on the PlanetAnachronox forum, which also has a list of mirrors." Whatever you think of the game, adding new features like a Bricks Taxi short-cut service and fixing a heap of bugs, months/years after the Anachronox team got laid off when Ion Storm closed down, shows a lot of dedication.
how well independent developers and "one-man" enterprises do, especially in face of the larger game companies struggling to do the same thing. Maybe it's because there isn't as much pressure to perform economically, but in any case it's nice when someone with a personal connection to a game can make a difference for its community.
And it certainly beats the crappy technical support we get from some major developers (cough, cough, MMORPG, cough, Everquest)...
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
A band I was in ( Drunken Monkey ) recorded one of the songs for this game way back when - the funky theme song for Stiletto. Its kinda cool to see the game still going....
but i wonder when they'll release the source so the dev community can fix the rest of the bugs. ;P
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