Trivia
A giant tripod virus model was created but never used in the main game. It is available in the map editor, however, which is unlocked upon the campaign's completion.
Play the game on December 25th, and you will notice that some Darwinians are wearing Santa hats.
There was a last minute problem before the Steam release. The Valve guys ran into Darwinia's "Cracked by DMA Crew" bootloader and actually thought some hackers had compromised the build they were releasing, while it just was an inside joke. Ultimately, the release went as planned.
Contributed by
Sciere 
(123554) on Dec 21, 2005.
When your computer's date is set from 15th to 31st December, it'll be snowing in Darwinia!
Contributed by
SDfish (1852) on Dec 14, 2005.
Similarly to how Introversion's previous game, Uplink, had several references and inspiations from hacker movies of the 80s and early 90s, Darwinia's art direction is also drawn from film, specifically Tron.
Like the old school music? Rename the file sounds.dat from the main game directory to .rar and you can extract all the sounds and music in .ogg format.
Contributed by
Sciere (123554) on Mar 13, 2005.
The game has different unique loaders every time you start the game, with references to The Matrix, Cannon Fodder and the ancient Spectrum platform. The fodder loader for example, shows the message "This game is not in any way endorsed by SENSIBLE SOFTWARE". Sensible Software, the developer of the Cannon Fodder games, had the message "This game is not in any way endorsed by the ROYAL BRITISH LEGION" when starting the game.
If you want to see all the loaders, change the bootloader setting in the preferences.txt file to one of the following: random, firsttime, spectrum, matrix, gameoflife, gameoflife_glow, soul, raytrace, fodder or credits.
Contributed by
Sciere (123554) on Mar 11, 2005.
