Show Your Working  Introversion is outing everything about
Darwinia+. Emails, design docs, the lot. Chris Delay explains.
You could never criticise the guys at Introversion for not
sharing their views of the world. From swearing at the
mainstream industry during their Independent Games Festival
acceptance speech, to Chris Delay's detailed and heartrending
posts about exactly how bad their 2008 turned out to be, they
have always been impressively open about what they've been
thinking while making their chain of splendid independent games.
But as they work on Darwinia+, the Xbox Live Arcade version of
that IGF Grand Prize winner (also incorporating last year's
Multiwinia), they've gone a step further, and taken to open
development. They've posted everything from emails to design
documents to Microsoft feedback reports and, well, just go and
look at the treasure trove. For anyone with the slightest
interest in how games are made, it's invaluable.  What provoked
them to do this? It's an oblique form of marketin