Creeper World 1 and 2 Anniversary Editions are coming to steam next week! Yep, why wait… it has only been 7 and 5 years respectively. Carpe decade!
Creeper World: http://store.steampowered.com/app/422910
Creeper World 2: http://store.steampowered.com/app/422920
Now, before anyone asks, the answer is ‘yes’. I do plan to have a way to get a steam key for your existing copy. That will work for anyone who purchased CW1 or CW2 through knucklecracker.com or from another store, with the exception of a couple special ‘pay what you want’ bundles that happened a few years ago.
You can also just purchase the games again on steam, I won’t complain 🙂 There might even be a special pricing and such to make that easier to swallow, plus you’ll get to actually have your review count on steam if you do that. Even if you don’t plan to purchase… please add the game to your wishlist. That really helps on launch day.
So… what, you may ask, are Creeper World anniversary editions?
- Available on steam (and non steam versions are also available).
- No longer need Adobe AIR as a separate install. AIR is still used, but it is captive and you won’t care anymore.
- CW1 has some new higher resolution textures, and new unit graphics!
- CW2 has two new awesome soundtracks by Finn M-K, the composer who did music in CW3 and Particle Fleet!
- And the steam versions also have steam achievements and support cloud syncing.
Some dark days do have silver linings… 🙂
Any chance that we can get CW3: abraxis up on Steam as well?
Awesome! Can’t wait to get them. Will you be doing a bundle for them so we can get both at a reduced price?
Creeper World 1 is one of the best computer games ever made (seriously, it’s up there with Tetris and Half-Life 1 (or at least it is for me, if only in terms of the (thousands of) hours of gameplay enjoyed))… Drooling at the prospect of new content (albeit limited) and cannot wait for the non-steam link!
Aww i like the old graphics for CW1 better.
Sounds cool. I need more money in my Steam account now though. I hope things haven’t chamged to much from what I remember from my childhood on armor games.
Are you going to make a non-Steam version of these available?
Yep, there will be non steam versions.
I’ll just leave this here:
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No Linux support?
Is AIR 2.6 too old to run even CW1?
You can run the windows version on Wine. It worked for me without much fiddling, but of course that’s no guarantee (nothing is with Linux).
Good old Adobe. Dropping linux was one of the reasons I dropped them (one of several reasons) for development. Linux users make about less than 5% of people who play the games. But they are a vocal group. Adobe only looked at the stats and determined they didn’t want to spend the money supporting the platform. That was just one more nail in the flash/air coffin.
In a world where time had no value, I’d happily port CW1 and CW2 to some other platform that also supported linux. But, since time is ridiculously expensive for me, I have to play with the hand Adobe dealt me.
Even the worst Linux fanboy wouldn’t want you to port the games to another environment, Virgil.
I just wondered why AIR 2.6 (~4 years old, newer than CW1), the last Linux version, can’t run even CW1.
How finalized is the new art?
I like most of it, but I can’t stand the rotational asymmetry on Odin City.
Yeah, it’s final. Has been for more than 6 months actually. I just now got some time (stole some time) to put the new builds together and get them on steam.
Is it also too late to suggest code changes? I replayed both CW1 and CW2 over the summer and found it aggravating being unable to select things by clicking the destination. (insert “kids these days…” comment here.)
That kids these days is kinda true.
CW 1 is my first one and so i don’t actually find myself using the destination as a point to move it.
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What about his amazing? 😛
How will getting the steam keys for this work? I’m definitely interested, but I missed the CW3 key so I dunno how it works.
There are just web pages at knucklecracker.com that will allow you to enter your non-steam key and get a steam key in return. For CW3 that page has been there since it launched:
http://knucklecracker.com/creeperworld3/steamkeys.php