Talk:Another World (video game)

message: Would Heart of Darkness be considered a follow-up? MajorB 23:05, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Heart of Darkness a Sequel?

message: Two items in the trivia section get my attention:
* Recently, this game was released to the public domain for play in the Game Boy Advance and via emulation with raw (Rewritten engine for Another World).
* It has also been released for the GP32 in the GBAX2005 Handheld Coding Competition.
I can find a link confirming the latter (and Chahi's blessing of it) but the sources I could find suggested that Eric Chahi was discouraging the emulation projects in the interest of a future commercial re-release -- a tricky feat to pull off if it really has been released to the public domain.  Can anyone find some links to back this up?
:The game is available for GBA from http://www.foxysofts.com/index.php?l=content/gba/anworld.inc However as far as I know its only freeware, not public domain. From what I understand the commercial release never happened and thats why you can get it as Freeware, however only for a limited number of platforms at the moment. The PC version, which was already up and running and closed down due to the possible commercial rerelease is still not available: http://membres.lycos.fr/cyxdown/raw/ 
: -- Grumbel 02:58, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Updating myself: The game got rereleased in the meantime as 15th Anniversary Edition. -- Grumbel 14:16, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Released to the public domain? 

message: The above fellow should not be credited in the 'designers' column in the info box. Mr Freitas made some sound effects for the game, nothing more, and accordingly he gets a mention in the 'technical aspects' section. The only person who designed this game was Eric Chahi; he designed the game, programmed the game, and even did the artwork for the box. Jimd 00:12, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Jean-François Freitas

message: What in the world is that ludicrous pseudoanalysis supposed to be, and what place does it have in an encyclopedia article?
:Relax dude. What makes it a 'ludicrous pseudoanalysis' and what authority do you have to call it that? I included it for consideration by the community, on equal terms with every single other contribution to this encyclopedia. I consider it a description of the tematic elements of the game. If you disagree, you can improve my contribution, discuss it constructively on this page or even delete it, just like in any other article. There is really no need to be an asshole. --AndersFeder 15:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: With all due respect (I mean that), I too found this section to be a 'ludicrous pseudoanalysis' (and agree with the associated comments). However, I also completely agree with the reply and justification. My two cents. --Fracture98 20:27, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you. As I wrote on my talk page, I think that the thematic side of this game is very important to its status as a classic and that an encyclopedia article which doesn't cover this side of it, at least superficially, is incomplete. This was my motivation for iniating the work on the analysis and I would appreciate if somebody produced a 'not-ludicrous, genuine analysis'. --AndersFeder 21:10, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Story Analysis? 

message: Can someone please cite the source for "Today Chahi is working on a version of Another World with vector animation rendered at a higher resolution and more detailed background graphics."?
:http://www.edge-online.co.uk/archives/2006/04/revisiting_anot.php  Here's what I've seen. Ladlergo 18:20, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unconfirmed (?) Info 

message: I've added a Releases section and moved some Sequels stuff over to it, as appropriate. However this new section definitely needs more information. For example, the game was originally written for the Amiga as far as I know, and different versions have different graphics and sounds than others, and stuff like that should probably go in Releases. CGameProgrammer 21:28, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Releases

message: The article is currently inconsistent, has an advocative tone and doesn't really flow properly. I imagine it contains all the right information, but it needs a thorough rewrite for style. Chris Cunningham 09:34, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Many thanks to Retodon8 for doing some hefty cleanup work. The article still needs a bit of spit and polish (especially in the references department) and could be less sympathetic to Chahi but it's much better than it was. Chris Cunningham 10:36, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup tag 

message: "Ironically, a science fiction sitcom called Out of This World aired at the same time of the game's US release."
This is a coincidence, not irony. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.55.232.38 (talk • contribs) 04:56, March 1, 2007 (UTC)
No, it is ironic.  "Coincidentally" doesn't do the paragraph justice.  It's ironic because they changed the name from Another World to Out Of This World to avoid having the same name as a TV show, but then a TV show called Out Of This World came out anyway, thus making the name change useless.  I'm going to change it back.  Sir Lemming 18:19, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ironically 

message: What? --HanzoHattori 06:07, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I can only guess that you're referring to: "The game was similar in visual style to Another World, although Heart of the Alien's programmers opted instead to use standard sprites instead of Chahi's 2D polygonal style, as they were quicker and easier to implement."  Could you be a bit more specific? --GargoyleMT 13:45, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, and this is false. Sprites were in Heart of Darkness AFAIR. --HanzoHattori 14:18, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  So Heart of the Alien is polygons, and Heart of Darkness is sprites?  If you know the article is wrong, correcting it is a valuable service. --GargoyleMT 03:19, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heart of the Alien - sprites? 

message: Chahi had nothing to do with the development of the game, beyond suggesting Lester's death, and he has since regretted that decision stating that he did not like it because it made a definite conclusion to the story, which Chahi had deliberately left open-ended.[4]
The Another World and Heart of the Alien articles seem to disagree on this. The citation in the Heart of the Alien article points to an interview where Chahi apparantly does talk about working on Heart of the Alien for 6 years. The citation in the Another World article points to a citation in the Heart of the Alien article which is a broken link.
Probably for accuracy's sake this should be cleaned up. Ian Lewis 02:13, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Chahi worked on Heart of Darkness (game) for six years, which is a completly new game independed from Another World. Heart of the Alien is a direct sequel to Another World and Chahi didn't work on that. -- 87.122.213.106 14:01, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Chahi had nothing to do with ''Heart of the Alien''?

message: The article states Moby Games ranked this the #1 DOS game of all time. It is actually ranked #2, behind The Secret of Monkey Island.
http://www.mobygames.com/stats/top_games  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.185.7.104 (talk) 02:58, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ranking on Mobygames.com 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:AnotherWorld Cover 960.jpg

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message: i want to point out that there is a wii port out too. http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Raw 75.36.132.97 (talk) 23:55, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: We need sources for that and the best I Can find is from Play Asia. --Masem (t) 22:05, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ports 

message: I would like to know more of the technical details like:
* in what language was it programmed in? AFAIK that would be Assembly(using devpac assembler). There is also a separate level editor done in basic.
* where was it programmed on? AFAIK Amiga 500
* How big was the final program in Kb or Mb? AFAIK it was small enough to fit on a 5.25" disk. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.60.25.241 (talk • contribs) 02:50, 9 March 2009
:The IBM/Tandy version was distributed on one 1.2 MB DSHD 5.25-inch diskette and two 720 kB 3.5-inch diskettes to accommodate customers with either type of floppy drive.  The program's executable file, WORLD.EXE, is 21 kB in size.  It was written in Borland Turbo C, according to a string embedded in the excutable, visible when one examines the file with an hex editor.—QuicksilverT @ 02:26, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technical details? 

message: it says the win 3.1 version came in 1995. That may be so, but why is there no mention of the MS-DOS version. 
Me and my friends played it together for days way back in 1993-94 already.Nunamiut (talk) 05:37, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's listed in the Infobox as "DOS", which includes IBM PC-DOS and MS-DOS. —QuicksilverT @ 21:29, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Windows 3.1 / MS-DOS version 

message: Eric is making a new game for XBLA and PS3 called 'From Dust'. Perhaps this could be added to the section about Eric taking a break and beign excited to make new games?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.117.13.81 (talk) 11:08, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  'From Dust' 

message: This information was obviously included in order to slam the inconvenience of DRM. I removed some biased language but I have to wonder if including information about the DRM is even necessary at all. The paragraph doesn't cite any sources and I personally don't think it's relevant at all to the article's topic. 24.168.240.243 (talk) 05:46, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Any citation for DRM limitaton of this version? I checked this with the german version. No serial number, no limit of 5 installations, no internet connection is required.--141.24.17.208 (talk) 09:04, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  DRM on 15th Anniversary edition 

message: Is the added plot on 26/12/14 something from a later rerelease of the game? Otherwise i appears to have been made up, it's not in the older ones: "Buddy lands the creature on a desolate part of the planet where the aliens can't see them. However, right when Buddy lands the creature, Lester dies of his injuries. Buddy lays Lester's body in a church, and Buddy looks at him in sorrow."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.64.89.165 (talk) 07:21, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Best I can recall w/o playing the game, this doesn't happen, and I see someone has removed it already. --MASEM (t) 20:09, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot?