Our old RPG Dink Smallwood has been free for quite a while, but today I present you with a free full “HD” version for Windows.

Yep, that's Dink being spread across two monitors. What? It's fun for a minute or two. Hold shift while dragging a border to allow incorrect aspect ratios like this.

It’s basically identical to the iOS/Android mobile versions minus the touch controls.  It’s the same code, which is built on Proton, so it’s a simple matter to dump out Windows builds so I might as well.  Thanks to the Dink Network lads and ladies for helping me test this.

Main differences between this and the old one are:

• New GL rendering engine with anti-aliasing and custom screen resizing
• Seamless built-in DMOD download/install/management
• Includes the entire digital audio track from the original CD release
• Hold TAB to speed up the game to skip boring cutscenes/text
• Auto save every 5 minutes (FINALLY!)
• Full state save when quitting, can also save/load anywhere with F1 and F8
• Fixed many memory/file bugs from the original Dink
• Save machine saved games are fully compatible with older versions, just copy the .dat files
• Should work better with newer computers
• Difficulty tweaked, some pop-up help things added to get new players started.
• Natively runs at 32 bit color, now supports alpha channels in images
• New audio system with .ogg support

The bad:

• No gamepad support yet (what?  You never used it anyway)
• Probably not 100% compatible with all DMODS (let me know when you find a problem, send me the save game and directions to reproduce the problem and I’ll take a look)

You can download it from here. (45 MB)

All in all, I think it’s easily the best way to experience Dink on a Windows PC now.

Let me know if you have any problems, new versions will just use the same filename.