Aquaria
From PCGamingWiki, the wiki about fixing PC games
Revision as of 12:33, 16 August 2021 by 2406:3400:413:b3b0:e970:d50c:79d5:93e9 (talk) (→Open Source Edition)
Developers | |
---|---|
Bit Blot | |
macOS (OS X) | Ryan C. Gordon |
macOS (OS X) | Ambrosia Software |
Linux | Ryan C. Gordon |
Publishers | |
Bit Blot | |
OS X | Ambrosia Software |
Release dates | |
Windows | December 7, 2007 |
macOS (OS X) | November 13, 2008 |
Linux | May 4, 2010 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 82 |
IGDB | 75 |
Key points
- Game features modding support and source code is available.[1]
General information
- Official Forum
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
- Modding Wiki
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Developer website | Demo available for Windows. | |||
GOG.com | ||||
Steam | To disable Steam, use Open Source Edition. |
Essential improvements
Open Source Edition
- Has many enhancements compared to the official version (gameplay and stability fixes, better controller and resolution support, positional sound, online mod downloader, etc.).
- Unofficial update packs are available from Github. Works with every sold version of the game, however with the Steam version, Steamworks is completely disabled.
Game data
Configuration file location
System | Location |
---|---|
Windows | <path-to-game>\usersettings.xml[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux |
- Defaults are stored in
default-1.xml
and if config file is removed, user is prompted with configuration utility when starting the game.
- This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.
Save game data location
System | Location |
---|---|
Windows | <path-to-game>\save\[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux | $XDG_DATA_HOME/Aquaria/ |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
---|---|---|
GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video settings
External options menu. Launched if configuration file is missing or corrupted or directly opened from
<path-to-game>\AQConfig.exe
.Input settings
Audio settings
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English | ||||
Russian | Retail «1С/Snowball Studios» | |||
Russian | Fan translation download | |||
Spanish | Fan translation download 1 or 2. |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
Direct3D | 7 | |
OpenGL |
Executable | PPC | 32-bit | 64-bit | ARM | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Windows | |||||
macOS (OS X) | |||||
Linux | 64-bit, ARM and PowerPC support requires Open Source Edition.[2] |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
---|---|---|
Audio | FMOD | |
Input | SDL2 | Officially Linux only. Also Open source edition. |
System requirements
Windows | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 2000, XP, Vista | |
Processor (CPU) | 1.8 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 225 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | OpenGL compatible |
- System requirements do have slight differences: Official FAQ (Windows, OS X), Steam (Windows), GOG.com (Windows, OS X, Linux).
macOS (OS X) | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.3.9 | |
Processor (CPU) | 1.42 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 225 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | G4 |
- System requirements do have slight differences: Official FAQ (Windows, OS X), Steam (Windows), GOG.com (Windows, OS X, Linux).
Linux | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | Ubuntu 14.04, Mint 17 | |
Processor (CPU) | 1.8 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 225 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | OpenGL compatible | |
Other | libc6:i386, libasound2:i386, libasound2-data:i386, libasound2-plugins:i386 and dependencies. |
- System requirements do have slight differences: Official FAQ (Windows, OS X), Steam (Windows), GOG.com (Windows, OS X, Linux).
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ AquariaOSE/Aquaria: Aquaria open source, forked from icculus.org due to inactivity. Has many enhancements compared to the official repo. - last accessed on 2017-02-01
- ↑ freshports -- games/aquaria - last accessed on 2020-12-12