We did the deal with Microsoft way back in 2005. Containing both Darwinia and Multiwinia and destined to be launched over the Xbox Live Arcade service, we're hoping D+ will bring Darwinia and Multiwinia to a whole new console audience.

What began life as the Multiplayer component of the Xbox version of Darwinia has now blossomed into a full standalone game. Multiwinia is our fastest and most frantic game yet, simulating massive battles between thousands of Multiwinia in the distinctive fractal world of Darwinia.

Introversion signs its biggest deal yet with publisher Encore Software, to bring DEFCON into retail throughout all of North America.

No excuse now for people to say they haven't heard about us!

Introversion's third game was released to the public. The theme is Global Thermonuclear War, and the aim is simple - obliterate your opponent! Fight hard and make those MegaDeaths count.

Simultaniously released on our website and over Steam, Defcon quickly becomes Introversion's best selling game yet.

With all four of the Directors in attendance, Darwinia wins three seperate awards at IGF 2006 - Technical Excellence, Innovation in Visual Art, and the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, netting Introversion a cool $25,000 in prize money.

Introversion signs a deal to sell Darwinia over Valve's Steam distribution service. This deal exposes Darwinia to millions of hard-core gamers that wouldn't otherwise have given it a second look.

During the first three weeks Darwinia sells more copies through Steam than Introversion have managed from their website since March.

After nearly 3 years of work Introversion's second game Darwinia is completed and released to the world. Once again Introversion self-publishes the title into the UK highstreet with Pinnacle acting as distributor, as well as handling sales direct to customer through the store website.

Reviewers are ecstatic, awarding Darwinia a string of massive scores and awards. PC Gamer print a 4 page review culminating in a 90% score and a Must Buy award.

Although the magazine coverage of Darwinia is awesome compared to that of Uplink, sales never really take off in quite the same way.

Introversion begins work on a number of projects, but has trouble completing any of them. Uplink is ported to PocketPC but the project is shelved after failing to ever work properly. A number of game projects are started and then stopped months later. (Including Defcon and our Fourth Game)

An American publication deal is signed with Strategy First, but the company goes bankrupt and takes all of Introversion's royalties with it. By mid 2004 Introversion's finances are looking increasingly grim.

One project begins to stand out - jointly developed between Chris and Andy Bainbridge and codenamed Future War, it eventually becomes Introversion's next game.

The Gamer review acts as a key to meetings with several major UK distributors. Introversion eventually signs a deal with Pinnacle Software in order to get the game into the shops in the UK.

With Pinnacle performing the distribution duties, Introversion self-publishes Uplink into the UK highstreet. More sales and rave reviews follow.

This was the breakthrough moment that Introversion had been waiting for. Certainly not the first review, but it was the most prominent so far - a full page review in PC Gamer by a highly respected journalist (Kieron Gillen) and a very worthy review score (80%). The demo shipped on the issue's coverdisk, and our sales went through the roof.

"Perverse and brilliant, precisely the sort of work thing that should be coming from the underground, and a game which will be just as compulsive in three years time when the graphical rush of today's blockbusters has faded into obsolescence." Kieron Gillen, PC Gamer

With money slowly flowing in, the initial informal business partnership is disolved and Introversion Software Ltd is founded as a proper legal entity, with Chris, Mark and Tom as the Directors.

The guys feel much safer now they are no longer personally liable for any debts accrued by the company.

Chris Delay, Mark Morris and Thomas Arundel meet for the first time at Imperial College in London UK. Chris and Mark are busy with Masters degrees in Computing and Tom studies Electrical Engineering.