Episode 946
Aquaria (video game)
Sat, 2019-Dec-07 00:20 UTC
Length - 2:42
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The featured article for Saturday, 7 December 2019 is Aquaria (video game).
Aquaria is a sidescrolling action-adventure game designed by Alec Holowka and Derek Yu, who published the game in 2007 as the independent game company Bit Blot. The game follows Naija, an aquatic humanoid woman, as she explores the underwater world of Aquaria. Along her journey, she learns about the history of the world she inhabits as well as her own past. The gameplay focuses on a combination of swimming, singing, and combat, through which Naija can interact with the world. Her songs can move items, affect plants and animals, and change her physical appearance into other forms that have different abilities, like firing projectiles at hostile creatures, or passing through barriers inaccessible to her in her natural form.
After more than two years of development, the game was released in late 2007 for Windows. A Macintosh port of the game was released in 2008 by Ambrosia Software, and an updated version of the game was released on the Steam platform that same year. A Linux version of the game was released as part of the first Humble Indie Bundle collection in 2010, and a version for the iPad was released in 2011. An Android port of the game was released as part of another Humble Bundle collection in 2013. In 2009, an album with the Aquaria soundtrack was released. It includes all of the music in the game as well as a new nine-minute vocal track and a few remixes.
Reviews of the game were generally positive. Critics focused primarily on the visuals, music and atmosphere as being particularly praiseworthy. The controls and gameplay were also lauded, while negative critiques more often centered on the map system and limited variety of objectives. The game won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at the Independent Games Festival in March 2007.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:20 UTC on Saturday, 7 December 2019.
For the full current version of the article, see Aquaria (video game) on Wikipedia.
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