Uplink Creators Surreal It Up With Darwinia

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday May 4, 2004 @08:20PM from the fish-eating-bigger-fish dept.

Thanks to DIY Games for its story noting that Introversion Software, "creator of the critically acclaimed hacker sim Uplink", has announced its next game: Darwinia, a "...monstrously fast [PC] shoot-'em-up, influenced by Cannon Fodder and Syndicate", according to PC Gamer UK. There's a very basic official site with the first screenshots, but fansite Darwinia Warfront has some further information on the early-in-development title, quoting PC Gamer as explaining you'll be "playing as a gamer, inserted into the network of retro videogame consoles... you're shooting sprites, stick men, and space-invaders - objets d'art from the annals of videogame history."

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Re:Non-photo-realism = Indie in movies? by Bastian · 2004-05-05 16:26 · Score: 2, Insightful

It'll only be a matter of time, I think, before the major publishers perk up and start to realize that these indie games are setting the trend, not them

In terms of graphic design aspects of, well, anything, I think this has been true for a long time. I first started seeing games that used photograps as sprites in the indie world long before Mortal Kombat and the like came out. Fashion trends always follow some subculture, && I've seen a lot of graphic styles used by demosceners make their way onto TV over time.