Good news, the developer of Banished is blogging again and it's still progressing. I'm still really excited to give the highly rated harsh city builder a try.
The developer has noted a beta will open soon for the Windows version, as it will test the groundwork that has been done for the ports. So, it looks like we could still see Banished on Linux this year!
Looks like the developer has been busy, and time away from the screen is always a good idea!
About the game (Official)
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland.
The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource. They are born, grow older, work, have children of their own, and eventually die. Keeping them healthy, happy, and well-fed are essential to making your town grow. Building new homes is not enough—there must be enough people to move in and have families of their own.
Banished has no skill trees. Any structure can be built at any time, provided that your people have collected the resources to do so. There is no money. Instead, your hard-earned resources can be bartered away with the arrival of trade vessels. These merchants are the key to adding livestock and annual crops to the townspeople’s diet; however, their lengthy trade route comes with the risk of bringing illnesses from abroad.
You can see the latest developer blog post here. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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psymin 25 Sep 2015
This is certainly one I've been waiting for. This pleases me :)
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Sounds good. Unfortunately i bought it on windows at release and enjoyed that game so far. Then i switched to Linux and haven't played it since this time. Can't wait to coordinate my small village again and bring my citizens through the harsh winter time. :)
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Nezchan 25 Sep 2015
This is such good news! A friend of mine bought this for me at Xmas, and I've been dying to actually play it natively.
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oldrocker99 25 Sep 2015
About farking time! I :'( did buy it for Windows, in my DB days, and hardly got to play before I said, after XCOM came out, "To hell with Windows!"
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STiAT 25 Sep 2015
Well, I got Cities: Skylines for now where I try to rebuild some parts of Vienna, but Banished is a different setting, which I personally enjoy better than the Cities setting. I'd be pleased if it hits Linux, but I'm aware that the developer needs to focus on the Windows version, since a small indie needs to focus on the playerbase giving the major income first, despite if we'd like day1 releases, we'll have to cope with that :-).
Hopefully we'll get a port too, even if it's a delayed one, but if groundwork is already done I'm positive we'll see it one day. I'm sure I very much would enjoy that game, and I'd be happy to test it. I've played one of the betas too on a windows computer, it's on a track to become one of my favourites considering the setting and way it's designed.
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Hopefully we'll get a port too, even if it's a delayed one, but if groundwork is already done I'm positive we'll see it one day. I'm sure I very much would enjoy that game, and I'd be happy to test it. I've played one of the betas too on a windows computer, it's on a track to become one of my favourites considering the setting and way it's designed.
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Liam Dawe 25 Sep 2015
Oh we will see it STiAT, ports are the whole reason he's done all the work on it and blogged about it.
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STiAT 25 Sep 2015
Well, that's true. I wonder if he earned that well that allows him to do that, or if he's nuts :D. I just saw that Banished actually was already released for Windows. I played a alpha/beta version back then.
Without wanting to f** up our platform, but financially he probably will break even, but he won't do a huge profit. Maybe it's his ideology, maybe it's good enough for him to make some cash for a living, maybe it's preperation for the future, since it seems to use it's own engine, and learning for doing a cross platform engine is quite tough.
Without wanting to f** up our platform, but financially he probably will break even, but he won't do a huge profit. Maybe it's his ideology, maybe it's good enough for him to make some cash for a living, maybe it's preperation for the future, since it seems to use it's own engine, and learning for doing a cross platform engine is quite tough.
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Segata Sanshiro 25 Sep 2015
This was top of my list in the "games you're looking forward to playing" so yay :)
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Cyba.Cowboy 26 Sep 2015
Ah guys?
The only mention of Linux is (from the site FAQs)...
Maybe I'm missing something, but that's not what I'd call encouraging...
The only mention of Linux is (from the site FAQs)...
Is the game available for Mac or Linux?
Banished is currently only for PC’s running Windows. However, I’d like to make Mac, Linux, and SteamOS versions in the future.
Maybe I'm missing something, but that's not what I'd call encouraging...
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tuubi 26 Sep 2015
Maybe I'm missing something, but that's not what I'd call encouraging...Yes, you are missing something. ;)
The developer is slowly but surely working towards Linux (and Mac) support, that much is clear from the last few posts on their blog. Seems like it's a one man effort and requires a whole lot of changes to their engine, which explains the slow progress.
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Eike 26 Sep 2015
Ah guys?
The only mention of Linux is (from the site FAQs)...
Is the game available for Mac or Linux?
Banished is currently only for PC’s running Windows. However, I’d like to make Mac, Linux, and SteamOS versions in the future.
Maybe I'm missing something, but that's not what I'd call encouraging...
From the blog post linked: "I’m still working on the ports" ... "The game will use my SRSL language for materials, so any future ports to other platforms will hopefully just work graphics-wise." ... "Lots of internal changes to the tech that shouldn’t actually change anything but need beta testing. Most of these are things that were changed to enable other platforms, such as using UTF8 for text, rendering changes to support OpenGL and other graphics APIs, and versioning code to load old save games and mods, which have changed format slightly." ...
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Crazy Penguin 26 Sep 2015
This was top of my list in the "games you're looking forward to playing" so yay :)
IMHO it is a bit overhyped. As I got my hands on it and played around for a few hours (+20h) I was a bit disappointed and wondering if that is all. Yes, this is all! There isn't much content or complexity in the game.
Get Retro-Pixel Castel which is more fun. It is also in Today's Sale for the next 9 hours here: Indiegamestand: https://indiegamestand.com/deal/
https://indiegamestand.com/store/1924/retro-pixel-castles/
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LinuxGamesTV 27 Sep 2015
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Get Retro-Pixel Castel which is more fun. It is also in Today's Sale for the next 9 hours here: Indiegamestand: https://indiegamestand.com/deal/
https://indiegamestand.com/store/1924/retro-pixel-castles/
If you like 20 years old graphics, then yes.
For me is this game and other "Pixel" games a no-go.
If i want Retro feeling, i turn on my uae.
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