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Beware Planet Earth

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Beware Planet Earth!
Beware Planet Earth! cover
Developers
Lightmare Studio
Publishers
Bandai Namco Entertainment
Release dates
Windows June 29, 2012[1]
macOS (OS X) August 29, 2013
Beware Planet Earth on MobyGames

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Can be played without Steam running.[2]
Windows
[ Official website] (unavailable)
DRM details are not known
Demo was available, until their website was hijacked by a Dutch casino SEO.
Windows

Version differences

Steam version includes several extra levels and enemies from Valve games.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patches and changelogs are available at official site (not needed for Steam version).

Game data

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Lightmare Studio\BewarePlanetEarth\Saves\
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/267340/pfx/[Note 1]
Save game data possibly includes configurations as well.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Steam Cloud is enabled, but it never syncs anything.[3][4]

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
4:3. Fullscreen uses desktop's resolution and uses anamorphic scaling.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
1024x768 by default. For other resolutions and forcing windowed at launch use launch parameter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Use launch parameter.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Most animations are 30 FPS, gameplay is unlocked.[4]
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse, touch State Notes
Remapping
Completely mouse driven game.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Touchscreen optimised
Should be playable in windowed mode.[5] Use launch parameter to force larger resolution.
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles
All speech is text.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Game by default uses OS to determine language. To change language, use launch parameter.
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Brazilian Portuguese
Spanish
Swedish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7, 9
OpenGL
Use launch parameter.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio OpenAL

Other information

Launch parameters

These can be used as regular launch parameters or by creating file <path-to-game>\arguments and putting in arguments separated by space or new line.[6]
Parameter Description
-windowed launch the game in windowed mode
-width x force window's width in windowed mode to x pixels. 'x' value must be between 1 and the max width supported by the graphics card. Value is 1024 by default.
-height y force window's height in windowed mode to x pixels. 'y' value must be between 1 and the max height supported by the graphics card. Value is 768 by default.
-unsafe deactivate integrity tests on files at loading
-renderer r force to use 'r' renderer. 'r' can be: OpenGL. Use DirectX 9.0c by default
-vsync activate render vertical synchronisation.
-forcelanguage Language Force the game to be in 'Language', can be: French, English, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, BrazilianPortuguese.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 350 MB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectSound Compatible


Notes

  1. File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/267340/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (267340) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Official presskit, "We are proud and happy to announce that "Beware Planet Earth!" will be available for purchase on www.bewareplanetearth.com from Friday, June 29.", file creation date is June 28, 2012 and June 29, 2012 is Friday.
  2. Verified by User:Vetle on 2016-03-20
  3. Steam Cloud :: Beware Planet Earth General Discussion - last accessed on May 2023
  4. 4.0 4.1 Verified by User:Marioysikax on 21 August 2015
  5. Is this game touchscreen compatible? :: Beware Planet Earth General Discussion - last accessed on May 2023
  6. Lightmare Studio • View topic - Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q) - last accessed on 9 June 2023