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Aquaria is pretty artistic to me
Aquaria is pretty artistic to me
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General / Re: Possible to finish Sunken City without light-up form?
« on: February 12, 2011, 09:48:02 am »
Actually with +3 to Energy shot I recall tearing the crap out of the Octopus before he even turned things dark.
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General / Re: Aquaria ever released in stores/amazon?
« on: January 21, 2011, 03:39:45 am »
There is info there on where to buy aquaria because I recently added it 
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General / Re: Aquaria ever released in stores/amazon?
« on: January 20, 2011, 02:43:33 am »
I checked, there is a facebook page, I "Liked" it a couple days ago or so. Only has like 400 followers or so though, and whoever is running it doesn't update it.
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General / Re: Aquaria ever released in stores/amazon?
« on: January 19, 2011, 04:13:12 am »
The reason there is not much of a community is because of the very small distribution of the game. There's a TON of online games and it's hard to sort out the good ones from the trash, and it's not like Aquaria was ever advertised. Marketing the game almost anywhere else at all would gain a much greater following.
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General / Re: Aquaria ever released in stores/amazon?
« on: January 18, 2011, 08:31:11 am »
Considering that the cost of developing the game is already out of the way, how would it cost more to publish the game commercially than you would make off selling it? I mean technically he could burn CD's and sell em on Amazon directly. Who really needs an instruction book anyway when there's a tutorial in the game itself. And honestly you can print CD labels from home computers these days super easy....
I don't know if I agree about Aquaria 2 being worse if made by a team. After all, it's not like all games that ever came out of a team of people have been bad. Just depends on the quality of the team.
I don't know if I agree about Aquaria 2 being worse if made by a team. After all, it's not like all games that ever came out of a team of people have been bad. Just depends on the quality of the team.
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General / Re: Aquaria 2 open source?
« on: January 18, 2011, 05:57:30 am »
Okay - I'm a little ignorant when it comes to copywrites, trademarks, etc, but isn't releasing the source code pretty much an invitation to do whatever you want with the game? IE, release it commercially or whatever? I assume it wouldn't be such a big deal if it wasn't significant in some way.
Also, it seems to me Aquaria 2 would take less work than Aquaria 1...couldn't you use a lot of the same mechanics, creatures, etc in the second game as well? Except maybe you could add a few more simple mechanics for the land and/or flight based portion of it(since he was last seen in a flying boat, it makes sense for the game to add more land element).
Considering how advanced the mods already are, I don't care really, I just want more Aquaria
I wish Alec hadn't burned out on it from the criticism. Aquaria is basically art, and you can't create art without expecting art critics to fling shit at it regardless of how good it is. Sure, it's not perfect, it's probably really freaking hard to perfect a game with such a small team of testers(since testers weed out the little stuff yes?), but the overall game is incredible.
Also, it seems to me Aquaria 2 would take less work than Aquaria 1...couldn't you use a lot of the same mechanics, creatures, etc in the second game as well? Except maybe you could add a few more simple mechanics for the land and/or flight based portion of it(since he was last seen in a flying boat, it makes sense for the game to add more land element).
Considering how advanced the mods already are, I don't care really, I just want more Aquaria
I wish Alec hadn't burned out on it from the criticism. Aquaria is basically art, and you can't create art without expecting art critics to fling shit at it regardless of how good it is. Sure, it's not perfect, it's probably really freaking hard to perfect a game with such a small team of testers(since testers weed out the little stuff yes?), but the overall game is incredible.
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General / Aquaria ever released in stores/amazon?
« on: January 18, 2011, 05:49:25 am »
I admit I don't really know "Indie" culture to know whether this is forbidden or not, but was Aquaria ever released in stores? It seems like it would sell really well, and it'd be a great way for more people to find and experience it. It's better than many big-box company games I've played, and to be frank until I saw the Indie Bundle advertised on one of my favorite webcomics I'd never even heard of Indie games.
I admit my input is somewhat selfish - maybe if Alec made a lot more money off Aquaria he might finally be able to hire a team to help make Aquaria 2.
I admit my input is somewhat selfish - maybe if Alec made a lot more money off Aquaria he might finally be able to hire a team to help make Aquaria 2.
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General / Aquaria 2 open source?
« on: January 18, 2011, 01:59:28 am »
So, now that Aquaria is open source(or has been for awhile now), does that mean that any developer who wanted to could now make Aquaria 2?
Considering someone made a very in-depth prequel for Aquaria already...
Was a storyline for Aquaria 2 already developed, considering how Aquaria 1 ended?
I only wish I had the skills needed to do this myself.
Considering someone made a very in-depth prequel for Aquaria already...
Was a storyline for Aquaria 2 already developed, considering how Aquaria 1 ended?
I only wish I had the skills needed to do this myself.
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