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Alternate Titles

"达尔文" -- Simplified Chinese spelling

"Дарвиния" -- Russian spelling

"Future War" -- Working title

"Darwinia: A digital dreamscape" -- Tag-lined title

"Daerwen" -- Chinese title

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In Introversion 's second sci-fi computer-themed game, you once again find yourself as a hacker. Unlike Uplink , however, Darwinia focuses on the world inside the computer rather than our own.Cruising around the net, you stumble into a mysterious computer network called Darwinia, the brainchild of the barely sane genius Dr. Sepulveda. Darwinia is what amounts to a Jurassic Park for programs; small sprites called Darwinians evolve and adapt to their digital environment as its maintainers watch. But despite the fact that you're not supposed to be in the system, Dr. Sepulveda has no choice but to enlist your help. A deadly virus has taken over the system, and in order to save not only billions of dollars of research but also the simulated lives of the Darwinians, you will need to take command of the computer.Played inside a fractal-generated world inspired by retro arcade games as well as films like Tron, Darwinia requires you to take strategic command of various program-generated units to protect the Darwinians as well as engage in fast and furious action combating the virus with soldiers.

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1001 Video Games

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4Players 2005 – Biggest Surprise of the Year

PC Powerplay (Germany) Issue 02/2006 - Wannabe Retro Game of 2005



Information also contributed by Zack Green.

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Darwinia (official website)

Darwinia (Official website)

Darwinia (Darwinia Wikipedia article)

Developer Interview (AllAboutGames interviews Introversion Software's Chris Delay about Darwinia.)

Grok These Games (An Apple Games article about two games offered by independent developers, including Darwinia (May, 2005).)

TheNextGame (One of the earliest fan site for the game, with exclusive content first looks. Now hosting mods for Darwinia.)

Contributed to by Kabushi (248016) and Darksun (14)

appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.Similarly to how Introversion's previous game, Uplink , had several references and inspirations from hacker movies of the 80s and early 90s,'s art direction is also drawn from film, specificallyThe game has different unique loaders every time it is started, with references to Cannon Fodder and the ancient Spectrum platform. The fodder loader for example, shows the message "This game is not in any way endorsed by SENSIBLE SOFTWARE". Sensible Software , the developer of thegames, had the message "This game is not in any way endorsed by the ROYAL BRITISH LEGION" when starting the game.There was a last minute problem before the Steam release. The Valve guys ran into's "Cracked by DMA Crew" bootloader and actually thought some hackers had compromised the build they were releasing, while it just was an inside joke. Ultimately, the release went as planned.A giant tripod virus model was created but never used in the main game. It is available in the map editor, however, which is unlocked upon the campaign's completion.