Technobabylon
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Developers | |
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Technocrat Games | |
Publishers | |
Wadjet Eye Games | |
Engines | |
Adventure Game Studio[Note 1] | |
Release dates | |
Windows | May 21, 2015 |
macOS (OS X) | February 1, 2022[2] |
Linux | February 1, 2022[2] |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 82 |
OpenCritic | 82 |
Taxonomy | |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Relaxed |
Perspectives | Flip screen, Side view |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Adventure |
Art styles | Pixel art |
Themes | Cyberpunk |
Technobabylon is a singleplayer flip screen and side view adventure game.
Key points
- Game suffers from extreme mouse acceleration in full screen mode. See Mouse acceleration.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Publisher website | Via Humble Widget. | |||
GOG.com | Deluxe Edition also available. | |||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam |
Version differences
- The Deluxe Edition includes soundtrack, behind the scenes video, production art gallery, a PDF of the backstory, and poster art.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Technobabylon\acsetup.cfg |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux |
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Technobabylon\agssave.* |
macOS (OS X) | $HOME/Library/Application Support/Technobabylon/ |
Linux | $HOME/.local/share/ags/Technobabylon/ |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
- ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Pixel-perfect 640x400 (16:10). Scaling algorithm is either nearest-neighbor or bilinear. | ||
Multi-monitor | Fullscreen locked to primary monitor | ||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | Maximum resolution is 5120x3200, but 3840x2160 cannot be set without pillarboxing. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | 2D game | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Setting affects output resolution. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Frame rate is capped at 40 FPS. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | Suffers from aggressive mouse acceleration in full screen. See Mouse acceleration. | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | Mouse as primary control method | |
Mouse Y-axis inversion | Point-and-click gameplay. | |
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Mouse acceleration
Disable mouse acceleration in fullscreen mode[3] |
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[mouse] mouse_accel_factor=0 |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Music & SFX | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | Game freezes when focus is lost. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | Fan translation by «Ghylard» | |||
Russian | Fan translation by «Prometheus Project» | |||
Spanish | Fan translation |
Issues fixed
Description boxes close too fast
- Description boxes that appear when observing objects flash on screen for a split second before disappearing.
- This is a common Adventure Game Studio bug that can easily be triggered by opening the Steam overlay with ⇧ Shift+Tab ↹.
Press Tab ↹[4] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9 | |
OpenGL | ||
Software renderer |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) | |||
Linux |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | ME | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 700 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 5.2 compatible | |
Sound (audio device) | DirectX compatible | |
Other | 640x400 resolution with 32-bit color |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.11 | |
Processor (CPU) | 1.8 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 1 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Other | 640x360 resolution |
Linux | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | Ubuntu, Debian | |
Processor (CPU) | 2.7 GHz Dual Core | |
System memory (RAM) | 1 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | OpenGL compatible | |
Sound (audio device) | Alsa/PulseAudio/DSP compatible |
Notes
- ↑ Adventure Game Studio engine build: 3.5.1.13[1]
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2022-02-01
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Steam News - Technobabylon - LINUX AND MACOS ports! - last accessed on 2022-02-01
- ↑ Massive mouse acceleration :: Technobabylon General Discussions
- ↑ Is anyone else having this problem? :: Technobabylon General Discussions