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Posted August 04, 2015
Underwater wonders to wander on your own terms.

<span class="bold">Aquaria</span>, a metroidvania underwater adventure, is available now on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, DRM-free on GOG.com with a 50% launch discount.

We hardly think about it daily, but the mysteries of the deep sea right beneath our feet remain just as alien to us as the farthest reaches of our solar system. And where the unknown begins, our imagination starts to wander, and the world of Aquaria begin to fascinate.
Aquaria is a game about exploring both the deepest, darkest recesses of the sea and the sunlit expanses of underwater havens. Equal parts game and audio-visual experience, it's a critically acclaimed adventure that's out to challenge, delight you with a beautiful wide world to explore, and treat you with respect by letting you do so on your own terms. Aside from gamers' hearts, Aquaria stole the show during the prestigious 2007 Independent Games Festival where it was awarded first place for Excellence in Audio, Excellence in Visual Art, Design Innovation as well as the big grand prize as best of show. As one most acclaimed indie productions in recent years, there's no better place for Aquaria than a digital shelf on GOG.com.

Experience an underwater metroidvania with <span class="bold">Aquaria</span>, available now, DRM-free on GOG.com. You can take advantage of the 50% launch discount for the first week, until Tuesday, August 11, 12:59 PM GMT.
Posted August 05, 2015
Music files are under the Aquaria/mus folder, if you have something that can play the .ogg format (like VLC media player) you can listen to them just fine.
Posted August 05, 2015
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HeDanny: ok, this is interesting. Last I heard I could have sworn there was only one of the developers left with any interest in the game, so he turned it into Open Sauce. The official forums were full of nerds dissecting it to improve it in various ways. Modding it with total conversions. All that cool awesome stuff.

Was that pulled? Is it no longer Free direct from the developers? Seems likely, as I can't seem to find the official forums anymore. Looks like they were closed, may be?

I know say this fairly often, but still... I'm confused.
Once some code was released as Open Source with permissive license its quite hard re revert it back. Developers can release new version with new license, as closed source, but files released before will stay open source.
Posted August 05, 2015
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NoxTM: I received the game in the Humble Introversion Bundle. If I go to that specific key page Aquaria isn't listed in the Music tab, but if I go to my main Humble library and click the game it's listed in mp3 and flac. I've no idea if I actually bought the game again in a different bundle and that's why it's there, all present and correct, or it's just an odd quirk for the Introversion one, but there you go. Downloading the tracks now!
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Grargar: I have the game from the original Humble Bundle and it didn't come with a soundtrack. At any rate, being featured in a limited-time bundle isn't the same as being sold in a store.
Soundtrack was also part of one of earliest Game Music Bundle. But yeah, OST was NOT part of HIB 1(or 2) where Aquaria was initially bundled. It was added later in one of later bundles.
Posted August 05, 2015
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HeDanny: ok, this is interesting. Last I heard I could have sworn there was only one of the developers left with any interest in the game, so he turned it into Open Sauce. The official forums were full of nerds dissecting it to improve it in various ways. Modding it with total conversions. All that cool awesome stuff.

Was that pulled? Is it no longer Free direct from the developers? Seems likely, as I can't seem to find the official forums anymore. Looks like they were closed, may be?

I know say this fairly often, but still... I'm confused.
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Redfern: Once some code was released as Open Source with permissive license its quite hard re revert it back. Developers can release new version with new license, as closed source, but files released before will stay open source.
Yes, but in this case, the most important thing is, like Klumpen0815 wrote on the previous page, that only the executable was made open source, the assets (graphics, music, sounds, etc.) are still under a commercial license. That means that you can recompile the executable and give it to anyone you like, but you are not allowed to share the whole game.

Sorry for repeating something that was written before (even in this thread), but it is a common misconception.
Post edited August 05, 2015 by mk47at
Posted August 06, 2015
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Redfern: Once some code was released as Open Source with permissive license its quite hard re revert it back. Developers can release new version with new license, as closed source, but files released before will stay open source.
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mk47at: Yes, but in this case, the most important thing is, like Klumpen0815 wrote on the previous page, that only the executable was made open source, the assets (graphics, music, sounds, etc.) are still under a commercial license. That means that you can recompile the executable and give it to anyone you like, but you are not allowed to share the whole game.

Sorry for repeating something that was written before (even in this thread), but it is a common misconception.
Yeah, i know that. Its quite common thing. For example you can get Serious Sam linux port from Icculus, BUT its only main executable, assets should be taken from actual windows version of game.
Another example is Quake which was released open source, but only in term of engine, assets is different story.
Still, i think HeDanny was asking about source code itself being no more accessible which is not true.
Anyway, its kinda sad that even with Source and level editor we haven seen anything really impressive done with Aquaria. Some mods? ok. Several patches? fine. But this game deserved much more.
Maybe its because of big initial price, but i think Humble spawned enough of cheap copies to get it more popularity. Not much helped, though.
Posted August 06, 2015
Watched the stream and was impressed by the music and ambiance and novel gameplay, but then it turned into a shooter with checkpoint saves. bleah, pass.
Posted August 06, 2015
Even without the assets being open source, having the executable be open source is still enough to port the game to other platforms, such as the Raspberry Pi.
Posted August 06, 2015
I am really glad this one showed up here, been waiting for it for quite some time :)
Posted August 06, 2015
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shmerl: UPDATE: this can help somewhat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroidvania
Yes, that's where I got the reference to the two game series from. But there I also got the question what's so special about Aquaria that it's labelled as Metroidvania on GOG while all the other games in the Metroidvania list on wikipedia are simply labeled as platformers on GOG.

Or is it just the usual inconsistency on GOG, different maintainers, different tags?
Posted August 06, 2015
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shmerl: UPDATE: this can help somewhat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroidvania
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eiii: Yes, that's where I got the reference to the two game series from. But there I also got the question what's so special about Aquaria that it's labelled as Metroidvania on GOG while all the other games in the Metroidvania list on wikipedia are simply labeled as platformers on GOG.

Or is it just the usual inconsistency on GOG, different maintainers, different tags?
No, I'm pretty sure the straightforward explanation is that GOG only just added "Metroidvania" as a genre tag, and haven't yet updated the back catalog, given that the only two games carrying the tag were released here within the past month. Of course, knowing them, they may never update the back catalog.
Posted August 06, 2015
Cool. We need more metroidvania games. :)
Posted August 06, 2015
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Roxolani: Cool. We need more metroidvania games. :)
Vote for Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet,
it's an excellent Metroidvania with free movement up and down too but way less backtracking:

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/insanely_twisted_shadow_planet

I really enjoyed it although it had some bugs.
Posted August 06, 2015
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mintee: Watched the stream and was impressed by the music and ambiance and novel gameplay, but then it turned into a shooter with checkpoint saves. bleah, pass.
Its true that in Aquaria you cannot evade fights no matter that. You can call it shooter, ok. But i still suggest to try it first, because you have not only to shoot, but explore, visit various places and many more.
If you really really cannot tolerate shooting but want to try exploration and lonely atmosphere you should try Waking Mars (here, on GOG), which was called "Aquaria on Mars" when its came.
Posted August 07, 2015
Ah, another great Indie comes to gog, that's fine :)
Aquaria is a beautiful game, I enjoyed it very much

Welcome at gog.com Bit Blot, I'm looking forward to see more good games of you! :)
Posted August 07, 2015
Solid B- game fun enough for five bucks for sure.
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