The Valentines day Indie Royale bundle of 5 games includes native linux game Lume which can at the moment be purchased for a minimum of £2.71. Looking at the trailer below Lume is quite an attractive looking game and looks to be worth the £2.71 not sure if the other games can be played through wine, but its still not a bad price.
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Other games in the bundle.
http://www.indieroyale.com/
UPDATE - Lume can now be purchased directly from Desura. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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QuoteWith a set built entirely out of paper and cardboard, and sumptuously filmed, Lume is an adventure game with a style unlike any other. Power to your grandad’s house has failed. What’s more, he’s nowhere to be seen. Immerse yourself in Lume’s photoreal world, solve perplexing paper puzzles to help restore the power, and uncover a deeper mystery behind the blackout. This game forms Part 1 of a larger, ongoing story. ***Nominated for Excellence in Visual Art – IGF Awards 2012***
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Zeno Clash for: steam (pc)
Hoard for: steam (pc and mac)
*BONUS* Includes individual keys for two DLC packs.
Lume for: windows, mac, linux, desura, steam (pc and mac)
BONUS: Soulcaster for: windows, desura
Soulcaster II for: windows, desura
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http://www.indieroyale.com/
UPDATE - Lume can now be purchased directly from Desura. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I support Desura, it is Linux friendly. Indie Royale is not. I do not care if they are from the same company.
This still is not a good sign for me.. i better buy it with full price off the desura than supporting the devs who dont make linux ports of their games.
specially those small indie games which allready have mac port and dont have linux port.
Yes, there have been quite a few flash games in the bundles. More games seem to be appearing through NaCl as well. And then there are things like OnLive.
Not sure how much I like this evolution... :/
None of those things are really "native".
What's the difference between playing a game through Flash or NaCl and using Wine? (Desura even sells GNU/Linux games using Wine)
If anything, Flash being proprietary, it's probably the worst of all options... (Unless the games run well with Gnash&co)
(Onlive is a special case, since it means the game is not even local)
As for the Royal Bundle, I probably also won't buy it. Although Lume does look interesting.
I bought this one to check out Lume since it was cheaper than buying it on its own, but other than that, I won't be playing any of the other games it includes.
Indie Royale needs better games to compete with the humble bundle.
Being a flash game doesn't bother me. I assumed the game's already proprietary. I guess I don't care what they write it in as long as I don't have to know it. If I have to tinker with the flash runtime (or jvm or clr or grab a newer version of libstdc++ than my system provides) then I get irked. Open Source software get some extra leeway there that proprietary software doesn't.
Well, NaCl is a bit different, as it simply launches from the browser. It then uses your native system to actually execute the game in a similar manner to QuakeLive. Or at least, that is the impression I got from what I read.
Agreed. Furthermore you would pay for a couple of games you can't play (as wine is not an alternative to native games, I don't count on it). In the End you wouldn't even (directly) support Linux Gaming.
But if the game will be released on Desura, I'll buy it :)
I was mostly pointing out that it being a Flash game means that it was just wrapped up with a linux flash runtime, and wasn't ported as such.
This is in contrast to the HiB were they actually convince the developers to do a port, or do it themselves.
Now if the game has problems due to the engine (like flash, Air or Java non-portability) then it's a bug in the game as far as I'm concerned and it's the developers problem because they chose the technology. Likewise, if they don't ship the runtime or if I have to mess with the runtime to make it work because they didn't deal with the it, that's also their fault.
Give me an executable to run, binary or script and make it work. If that happens, I don't care if it uses C, C++, java, flash, lisp or bourne shell under the covers. For that matter, if they ship wine with the game AND they support the wine they ship such that it works well and I don't need to know it's there, I don't see how I can complain. I'd consider it foolish on a developer's part, but it's not my problem.
Adobe hasn't always provided the best support for Linux. Developers will then some times point the finger at flash when their software has problems on Linux. It's not unreasonable but users to be irritated.
If it were native and it worked on some version Linux, the user at least as the ability to get the right dependencies to make it work on their system. Regardless of whether you want to blame the developer or Adobe, it's not the user's fault when a flash program fails. The user is usually pretty powerless to do anything about it aside from switch OSes to something Adobe and/or the developer supports better.