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The developers have stated that the Linux builds will come soon which is great news as it's a fantastic looking game.
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You can get it from them directly using their Humble Store widget or from Desura.
For $9.99 it's not the cheapest indie game around but it's extremely polished and the graphics really are excellent. The engine itself is open source too but the art assets aren't.
The game engine and assets are freely available on github so you can get it for free, but it's well worth paying to support the developer.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
The developers have stated that the Linux builds will come soon which is great news as it's a fantastic looking game.
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- High-end, handcrafted 16-bit+ pixel art.
- Buy powerups to enhance and unlock new abilities.
- Forgiving savegame/respawn system so you don't have to be afraid of losing progress.
- Playful dialogue writing that tries not to insult your intelligence.
- Massive soundtrack with over an hour of original music.
- Sprawling, complex world with over 50 levels to explore, and tons of secrets to find.
- Strong translation support, including French, Italian, German, Spanish and Chinese versions.
You can get it from them directly using their Humble Store widget or from Desura.
For $9.99 it's not the cheapest indie game around but it's extremely polished and the graphics really are excellent. The engine itself is open source too but the art assets aren't.
The game engine and assets are freely available on github so you can get it for free, but it's well worth paying to support the developer.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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The game code is open source but the art is not.
So this game is freely available for ages on linux, and even in the ubuntu repository .
! :D
So this game is freely available for ages on linux, and even in the ubuntu repository .
! :D
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Played this one long time ago on Fedora natively ^^
But as it seems it costs money now and they took away the Linux version so no improvement imo.
But still it is a good game :)
But as it seems it costs money now and they took away the Linux version so no improvement imo.
But still it is a good game :)
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This game is excellent, the graphics are very beautiful, the musics are great, I, like a platform lover, can say it is very adictive, the free version is still available but this paid one must have more stuff (I didn´t try it yet), I think it is worth the price.
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Frogatto was already on GNU/Linux, I already talked about that some time ago. The headline is a bit misleading. It was already being sold for the iPhone, and now it seems it's also being sold for Windows, Mac and soon for GNU/Linux, but it's already on most distributions. I don't know if that means it will come with extra content or it's some kind of donation, I fail to see that info anywhere. Anyway, buying opensource is a great way to support it.
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Can the misleading title be corrected already?
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muntdefems Aug 27, 2013
Done. ;)
However, for further clarification please refer to these two comments from two of the developers on their website: [url=www.frogatto.com/?p=1305&cpage=1#comment-109679]#1[/url], #2. According to them, the source code and the art assets remain available to everyone for free at their GitHub. They'd only appreciate people to give something in exchange, either money or collaboration in the project.
They don't say anything (or I've been unable to find it) regarding free copies of the game included in many Linux distros. My guess is they won't be updating them anymore: the current version is 1.3 and the one available at my Ubuntu 12.10 Software Center is 1.2.
However, for further clarification please refer to these two comments from two of the developers on their website: [url=www.frogatto.com/?p=1305&cpage=1#comment-109679]#1[/url], #2. According to them, the source code and the art assets remain available to everyone for free at their GitHub. They'd only appreciate people to give something in exchange, either money or collaboration in the project.
They don't say anything (or I've been unable to find it) regarding free copies of the game included in many Linux distros. My guess is they won't be updating them anymore: the current version is 1.3 and the one available at my Ubuntu 12.10 Software Center is 1.2.
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Not bad... I have played the free of charge version to completion as it is.
I wonder if this will add any significant amount of new gameplay? Anyone know what the changes are from the free version?
I wonder if this will add any significant amount of new gameplay? Anyone know what the changes are from the free version?
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After some reading it seems the game stays just the same it was. The engine is free, the assets are freely distributable, at least for GNU/Linux. Debian already has packaged version 1.3.1, muntdefems, your Ubuntu is a bit old. So nothing new for us, except that we may soon be able to support the developers thru Desura. The last sentence in the article is completely misleading since it states they changed the license to keep development alive but they didn't.
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