First of all, what is "Free Indie Saturday"? A series I'll be trying to do every Saturday about a free indie game! Of course, I'm not an approved writer so it wont be guaranteed ;) If the higher powers feel my work is worth it, maybe it'll change!
Anyway, lets be organised here. What is this game I'm talking about? A stealing simulator 2014. You run around, you steal stuff and you get hit in the face by an angry lady who apparently has a problem with people stealing her christmas presents. Some people..
This is a fun little game with a few secrets. Like, you can cut the alarm-circuits if you decide you have time left for that. (The lady comes home a few minutes into a stealthrough) You have a list of things you need to steal, as shown in the picture below and you have to find all the things before the lady finds you. She has super-vision you see, she can see in the dark!
It uses Unity, which is a shame. But I haven't noticed any bad performance or glitches honestly, which is great! I had a problem with "libGLU.so.1" missing in the beginning, but I fixed it by creating a symlink to the correct install directory. Just Duck/Google it and you'll find more in-depth answers there.
Game Link: http://gamejolt.com/games/puzzle/the-very-organized-thief/18991/
Official About:
You are a thief. A very organised thief. Find all the items on your checklist and then escape the house...
The game is designed to be neither easy or hard, and slightly different every time you play. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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So ... why is it a shame?
Unity has very bad Linux support compared to other engines and is closed-source. They also dont have a Linux editor :/
Not with this game. Unity has a lot of black-screen issues, but I rarely play Unity games. Just Duck and you'll find a few issues.
Also, for some reason, the visual output just isn't up to par with the other serious competitors out there (like Unreal, to name but one obvious example).
Blessing because we have so much more games because of it, and a curse because it rarely works as it should.
Mouse issues, vsync issues, gamepad issues, graphic issues...you name it.
And above all and the most painful, performance issues.
Every time I hear about a new Linux game I pray: please, please, please be not an Unity game, please, pretty please.....oh crap, IT IS an Unity game...
Sure, bugs are understandably frustrating - I just don't get it when there's still bashing in cases where there are zero issues.
Fortunately, problems like the one you mentioned above are getting fixed as they get reported - the mouse look problems have been resolved, vsync (which was initially disabled on some WMs to work around a bug in Compiz/Unity DE) has been reënabled on all WMs, etc.
Additionally, Unity 5 takes a more SDL-like approach to gamepad support (see Fight the Dragon), meaning that things should be more likely to Just Work, and it should be easier for users to override them if they don't.
Still doesn't weigh up the fact that its closed souce ;) (the engine) This itself is a huge negative for me.
I have high hopes for UE4, its cost to developers and it being a damn powerful engine will hopefully bump Unity from its top spot on the charts of engines used by smaller devs in the coming years.