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Globe and Mail & Jenna Stuff
« on: January 18, 2008, 09:17:46 pm »
The Globe and Mail (a national Canadian newspaper) ran a story on Aquaria today. There's an online version here:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080118.GAMING18/TPStory/?query=aquaria

If anyone has any scans of the newspaper itself, that'd be cool. :)


Also this article just went up, about Jenna's voice acting in the game:

http://www.voiceovertimes.com/2008/01/18/aquaria-voice-actor-brings-depth-to-character/
« Last Edit: January 18, 2008, 09:26:31 pm by Alec »

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Re: Globe and Mail & Jenna Stuff
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2008, 09:45:23 pm »
This review is just great news both of you, Alec and derek. propably for us, fans too. It seems that wth passing time Aquaria earns more and more attention from the world. I like the review, it's well written and brief, although not passing all of the most important issues of the game.

It's nice to see all of those things on the net, and I hope Aquaria will break the limits of indie games.

I'm wishing you good luck again!

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Re: Globe and Mail & Jenna Stuff
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Re: Globe and Mail & Jenna Stuff
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2008, 06:03:59 am »
I'm constantly amazed at this game, the art, the story and the acting, you all did ( I hate to use past tense as it IS ) an amazing job. I don't know exactly how the load was distributed, the art gets a lot of attention in this game and rightly so, but the story and the pacing is great. the key points of drama are well situated and placed, the calm respite areas are bucolic and instantly familiar.  voice acting has made or break'd games for me in the past. there was a character in dungeon siege 2 that I kept in party just for her voice! when they released broken world I was practically devestated that they swapped out all of the voices, some were improvements but my fave characters were just gone.  Jenna did such a good job on this, the acting wasn't over the top, it hit all the right notes in the right places and any colour of emotion was genuine. if there is a sequel or expansion I hope she's involved in some capacity.
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Re: Globe and Mail & Jenna Stuff
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2008, 05:36:40 pm »
According to this thread
http://forums.indiegamer.com/showthread.php?t=12680
Aquaria is in the latest UK PC Gamer and scored 81%, 2nd highest rating in the magazine.
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Re: Globe and Mail & Jenna Stuff
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2008, 07:21:58 pm »
Awesome Interview! :)
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