Linux native games Eschalon Book II, iBomber Defense Pacific and Livalink are being featured right now on Groupee's Be Mine Anniversary bundle.
For a minimum of $1, you get:
Eschalon Book II
Available on Linux as a DRM-free download.
iBomber Defense Pacific
Available on Linux as a Steam key and a DRM-free download.
Livalink
Available on Linux as a Desura key.
Party of Sin
Not yet available on Linux but it will be sometime, as stated on the game FAQ and reported earlier by avarisclari.
Major Mayhem (unlocked bonus game)
Not yet available on Linux but the developer will be working shortly on it, as they stated on the game's Desura page and reported earlier by avarisclari.
There's also music on this $1 tier: Be Mine Anniversary Special EP, Recalibrated Vol. 1 (unlocked bonus) and Square Tactics (unlocked bonus)
Pay $5 or more and get the following games & OSTs (all games are in the form of a Steam key and none of them are ported to Linux as of today):
Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
Men of War: Assault Squad
Planets Under Attack
Two Worlds II
Party of Sin OST (bonus OST)
Two Worlds II OST (bonus OST)
And that's not all! There's still 3 more bonus to be unlocked, the first of them being the game Dungeons: The Dark Lord.
For a minimum of $1, you get:
Eschalon Book II
Available on Linux as a DRM-free download.
iBomber Defense Pacific
Available on Linux as a Steam key and a DRM-free download.
Livalink
Available on Linux as a Desura key.
Party of Sin
Not yet available on Linux but it will be sometime, as stated on the game FAQ and reported earlier by avarisclari.
Major Mayhem (unlocked bonus game)
Not yet available on Linux but the developer will be working shortly on it, as they stated on the game's Desura page and reported earlier by avarisclari.
There's also music on this $1 tier: Be Mine Anniversary Special EP, Recalibrated Vol. 1 (unlocked bonus) and Square Tactics (unlocked bonus)
Pay $5 or more and get the following games & OSTs (all games are in the form of a Steam key and none of them are ported to Linux as of today):
Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
Men of War: Assault Squad
Planets Under Attack
Two Worlds II
Party of Sin OST (bonus OST)
Two Worlds II OST (bonus OST)
And that's not all! There's still 3 more bonus to be unlocked, the first of them being the game Dungeons: The Dark Lord.
Some you may have missed, popular articles from the last month:
1) Daedalic Entertainment, developers of Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes, replied:
2) Kalypso Media, publishers of Dungeons: The Dark Lord (which is about to be unlocked as a bonus game at the time of writing), replied:
So at the moment there's no Linux support on the $5 level, don't bother to pay more than this (unless you think the 3 native Linux games deserve it, of course! :P)
...or you fancy the OSTs! :)
First of all, Dungeons: The Dark Lord has been unlocked on the $1 tier, although with no foreseeable Linux port as I reported earlier today.
And secondly, I've just received the answer from Topware Interactive, publishers of Planets Under Attack and Two Worlds II:
I'm still waiting for the answer about Men of War: Assault Squad, but I guess it's gonna be the same as the other ones.
Next bonus item is an EP, but there's still another game to be unlocked (the Mistery Game on the $5 tier). Let's hope it's a Linux title and thus another reason to get this bundle (or raise the paid ammount).
There's a trend of game developers giving a fuck about their customers arriving to our platform lately. :-(
Ew, that's not cool. On my end I can only confirm that it works flawlessly on Ubuntu 12.10 64bit.
They warn about this in the README.txt file, but I agree that they should say it on their website.
At first I was very excited since it's a game built with Unity3D and I read that they had recently upgraded to Unity4, so a Linux port seemed a matter of (little) time. The game's FAQ isn't very definite about this question, though:
Quite an ambiguous answer, by any standard... So I decided to contact them by email and that's the answer I've got:
While I appreciate their good wishes I'm a little disappointed to read this. So as it is we can only hope they retake the porting tasks ASAP so a native Linux port can finally see the light of day. If you're as hopeful as I am remember that this game will fit under the $5 tier, so you might need to raise your payment to get it.
That's a pretty dumb statement, and you'll only get to see it when you buy the game. Normally, I can run every game compiled and tested on Ubuntu 12.04LTS as long as it hasn't been linked with a glibc newer than 2.13. I bet no game needs the newest glibc version.
On Windows, these games are usually compatible with Windows XP (11 yo?), Vista (6 yo?) and 7 (3 yo?), but they won't make them compatible with a fundamental GNU/Linux library that is only 2 years old! Great!
We shouldn't buy the argument in the statement above about so many variations because truth is they don't care about GNU/Linux as they do for Windows. I'm not surprised but it's still unfair. I regret having paid for that since it seems I won't even get a support contact. I'm sticking to games by good known sources or with working demos, i.e. HIB et al.
You can play libc2.15 games even if your distribution uses libc2.13. Try this:
1. Download the glibc 2.15 package from packages.ubuntu.com
2. Extract it with "dpkg -x". Note I wrote "extract", not "install".
4. Add the lib/i386-linux-gnu folder to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
5. Play.
It worked with all the games I tried so far, both 32 and 64 bits if you choose the proper package.
If you want to ask for support, Basilisk Games provides a lot of channels: http://basiliskgames.com/about-us
I tried this using glibc 2.17 from the Debian experimental repository and it didn't work, I got a crash. I'll try again with the Ubuntu package. I'm used to fiddling with libraries but replacing glibc is more complex than other ones.
Thanks, I'll use that, although I expected some kind of sale support from the bundle.
Thanks for the advice.