Primordia News

Over the next few days, we will be sharing our reminiscences about developing Primordia. But first, a few numbers.

• 10 years since release
  
• 3 friends who set out on the adventure of making this game
  
• 306,105 copies sold
  
• 17th place, its highest ranking on Steam (September 21, 2015)
  
• 2582 days in the top 250 on Steam
  
• 2911 player ratings (as of today)
  
• 7 completed fan translations (French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Turkish, and Russian)
  
• 1 and only Crispin
  
• infinite gratitude for you, our fans, who defied the critics, loved our game, and supported us over this decade

Mark, James, and Vic

We are very very thankful, to not only release one translation, but two of them at the same time! The translation teams have worked endlessly and tirelessly to get this done, and we are extremely proud to share their work with the public!


ENGLISH
I'm extremely proud that *Primordia*, which has a special place in my heart and reminds me of the good old days and the beautiful people of the past, is the first localization project i have ever attempted. I wanted to experience this feeling and experience in a very special and sincere production and thanks to the indiewords team, especially *Gökhan Kocaman*, i achieved this dream. I would like to extend my endless thanks to the entire development team and indiewords team, especially *Mark Yohalem and Jim Spanos *, who approached us very sincerely to experience the game in *Turkish*. I hope you experienced this work with the same pleasure, which i did by escaping from the chaos of daily life, especially in the peaceful silence of the night with a cup of coffee. With respect and homage to my grandmother *Cevahir Aslan*, who will always live in my heart.
Semih Gökbayrak

TURKISH
Bende ayrı bir yeri olan, geçmiş güzel günleri ve güzel insanları hatırlatan Primordia'nın hayatımda giriştiğim ilk yerelleştirme çalışması olmasından son derece gururluyum. Bu duyguyu ve tecrübeyi oldukça özel ve samimi bir yapım üzerinde tatmak istemiştim ve bu hayalime başta Gökhan KOCAMAN olmak üzere indiewords ekibi sayesinde kavuştum. Oyunu Türkçe olarak deneyimleme konusunda bize oldukça içten yaklaşan başta Mark Yohalem ve Jim Spanos olmak üzere Primordia'da emeği geçen tüm geliştirici ekibe ve indiewords takımına sonsuz teşekkürlerimi sunuyorum. Gündelik hayatın karmaşasından kaçıp, özellikle gecenin o huzur veren sessizliğinde bir kupa kahve eşliğinde son derece keyif alarak yaptığım bu çalışmayı umarım sizler de aynı keyfi alarak deneyimlemişsinizdir. Her zaman kalbimde yaşayacak olan anneannem Cevahir Aslan'a saygı ve hürmetlerimle.
Semih Gökbayrak


Instructions:
1) Right click on Primordia in your Games Library
2) Properties
3) Languages
4) Select either Turkish or Hungarian
5) The game will begin downloading files and once that's done, you can enjoy the game!

(Note: If you have a savegame already, unfortunately you cannot continue your progress in Hungarian or Turkish, you have to stay in that version of the game, or switch to Hungarian/Turkish version of the game, and start over)

-Fixed a typo on a kiosk entry.
-Fixed an issue with Crispin scaling in the Underworks.

Hello, everyone!

In our attempts to keep Primordia always updated and playable, we've passed the verification process of Valve, and Primordia has now moved from playable to verified! To enable our players to move their saves from and to the Steamdeck, we've decided to upgrade the Windows version from 3.4 and 3.5.0.26

That means that issues like that red border and other glitches with the OPEN GL renderer, are now fixed.
We want to ensure that you are able to continue your progress prior to the update, so if you have savegames before this update, you can revert to the previous version of Primordia, and resume your progress. We're also providing savegames in key-parts of the game, to help you move to the new version, if your heart so desires.


- If you want to revert to the older Primordia, opt into beta channel "oldprimordia", password is "oldprimordia".
Here's a small guide.
1) Right click on Primordia, go to PROPERTIES.
2) Properties
3) Betas
4) typing in that text input box "oldprimordia" WITHOUT QUOTES, hitting check code
5) Hitting the blue button that will appear
6) The game will begin downloading files and once that's done, your saves will still be there and ready to be loaded.


BELOW ARE SAVES FOR THE NEW VERSION:
- Here are saves in case someone needs em!

http://primordia-game.com/Files0/Primordiasaves.zip

If you want, u can extract them into your saves and load the relevant names.
Your saves are located at:
1) Windows:

%USERPROFILE%/Saved Games/Primordia

2) LINUX:
~/.local/share/ags/Primordia

3) OSX/MAC
~/Library/Application Support/Primordia

Next week, as part of our decade-long support of Primordia, we will be updating the game's Windows build. This build will improve the game in significant ways, including: ensuring save-game cross-compatibility with Steam Deck, Linux, and MacOS; integrating the Italian translation; and resolving issues with both OpenGL and Direct3D.

Unfortunately, the updated build will not work with saved games from older builds. If you want to continue saved games from older builds, you will be able to revert back to the current version using three simple steps that will be described in the news post associated with the update. We are sorry for this inconvenience, a persistent problem with the AGS engine, and we appreciate your understanding.

If you want to lock current version of Primordia (and not get the update) you can do the following:

Here's a small guide.
1) Right click on Primordia in your library, go to PROPERTIES.
2) Properties
3) Betas
4) Type in that text input box "oldprimordia" WITHOUT QUOTES, hitting check code
5) Hitting the blue button that will appear