Roll up, roll up - this is your chance to ask the IV directors any burning questions you have! What is it like to make games for a living? What is an average day at Introversion like? Why are the IV headquarters called The Flying Hamster? What is Subversion really all about?....
The Introversion team will be ready to answer all your questions at 8pm (GMT i.e. UK time) tomorrow, 4th December. 5 lucky winners will win complete Introversion Anthology sets, with 1 lucky listener taking home a premium amBX kit worth £199!
To listen in and take part you'll need to first sign up for an Xfire account from here and then register your email to take part in the chat.
The Live Chat is the highlight in a 2-week Multiwinia Play 2 Win event we have been running with Xfire, in which players must log a certain number of hours in order to win fantastic prizes. You don't even need a full version of Multiwinia in order to play - you can simply use the demo!
We've got great goodies kindly donated by Logitech, amBX, 3d Connexion (the ingenious developers behind the new 3d mouse - more on this soon!) and of course some Introversion gifts thrown in.
Not only this but we're also opening up the Subversion beta - 100 lucky particpants in the Play 2 Win event will be randomly selected to join the Subversion beta when it goes live! And last but certainly not least - we're offering all particpants in the competition the opportunity to buy Multiwinia and get a FREE download of either Uplink, Darwinia or DEFCON.
If this sounds right up your street, then its not too late to take part, the competition continues until the 15th December! It's simple to participate - you'll need to sign up to an account with Xfire and join their official Multiwinia Guild in order to take part. To do this and to find out more about the competition, live chat, prizes and special offer, please click here.
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Introversion and Social Bookmarks
So you might have noticed we have joined the revolution of social bookmarking on our news and blog page.
We ask you the Introversion community to use these share links wisely to help us promote IV across the internet.
So if there is anything you read that you like and think others will too, please feel free to click on any of the share links below.
Come on IV community help us help you.
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Gumpcom LAN 23 14/11/08 Highlights
Okay, so you might have read something about Multiwinia being present at the Gumpcom Lan 23. Now the original date got cancelled due to the building leaking from the rain. Gumpcom survived this episode and went ahead with the event shortly after the buildings damage was repaired and checked by inspectors.
With many LAN centers closing down around the UK, we felt we needed to support an event with a worthy cause so we decided Gumpcom was the right event. Have a look at some of the pictures that were taken at the LAN event.
Here are some of the comments which were left by the players who got involved in the tournament and came to the event.
Liked the comps again especially Multiwinia, not just because I won but I think its a really well thought out game. Most RTS games bore the shit out of me with too much complex bollocks to learn. This one has very similar feel to chess, simple easy to follow rules and all the complex stuff happens in your head. Thanks to the guy in the final. had to be the closest game of anything ever. I'll defo check out the rest of introversion's stuff now that I won it.
Multiwinia - It was a pretty fun game and enjoyed playing it but a disadvantage to it was that if u were attacking you got pumped and defending seemed too easy.
When I first got the key I had a little blast and didn't really like playing it on my own. It was too random and despite being fun for a few rounds it got boring really fast. Then Kuf and I played a few and it was a little better but again, boring after a few rounds.
At the LAN however, I loved it! Because there was an actual goal to winning and its such a tactical, simple game like Kuf mentioned. Hope there is more of it at the LAN and another decent game from introversion
Much like DEFCON, I don't think this will get played much away from the LANs or random fun games online, but it's still a really nice, simple, intense RTS. My game against Kuf was great fun, I fraps'd the whole thing and I'll encode it at some point, perhaps that could be of interest to Introversion to see how a new player interacts with the game?
Multiwinia... On assault the host gets to defend which is impossible to break! No more assault for future tourneys!!!
The main problem with assault is that there is no scoring system besides whether you manage to reach the WMD or not. What that means is if we played once on each side, you would just end up with a draw unless someone was particularly lucky / good and managed to rush the WMD. In situations with a draw, if we had some other metric like how close you managed to get to the WMD, the scoring would be a bit more realistic.
dump assault, Capture the statue has enough to see the tourney through to the final where Rocket Riot was perfect
Seconded
Cap the statue was funny, and rocket riot is the perfect closer.
The pictures paint a thousand words and we will continue to support these great LAN centres.
Stay posted for details of future LAN events.
The next online tournament will be the Multiwinia & Logitech G15 Tournament 27/11/08 3-9pm.
Click on the following link to find out more and how to register.
