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After you have pre-ordered the game you can now download the game by going to the secret pre-order forum which is only available to those who have downloaded the game. From there you can now find the latest alpha posting and download it from there.
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After preordering Overgrowth and linking a forum account, access to the Secret Preorder Forum becomes available. Each week, the alpha build is posted as a stickied topic with a title of the form: "Unofficial Overgrowth a###, weekly build".
There you should see a thread named Unofficial Overgrowth a[XXX], weekly build. Just look for the first post in this thread and you should find download links.
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There are multiple download options available - a direct download, torrent download, and a "differences" download, which can be used to update a previously installed alpha.
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Additionally, once at least one full alpha installation has been performed, the community-made [http://forums.wolfire.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=14201 SUMLauncher] may be used for updates.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 18:37, 17 January 2012

After preordering Overgrowth and linking a forum account, access to the Secret Preorder Forum becomes available. Each week, the alpha build is posted as a stickied topic with a title of the form: "Unofficial Overgrowth a###, weekly build".

There are multiple download options available - a direct download, torrent download, and a "differences" download, which can be used to update a previously installed alpha.

Additionally, once at least one full alpha installation has been performed, the community-made SUMLauncher may be used for updates.


Overgrowth Tutorial - Getting Overgrowth (Mac & Windows) - YouTube video by Silverfish