As promised the System Shock Pre-Alpha Demo is now available on Linux due to demand for it and closing in on the Linux + Mac stretch goal.
They are doing it for Linux first as it has seen much more demand over a Mac version. As always, we are a very loud bunch.
See their announcement on it here. They say you need to install some audio library manually, but it worked for me without it.
At the time of writing they are about $63,670 away from hitting the Linux + Mac stretch goal. According to Kicktraq, at the current pledging level they will hit around $1.6 million so it looks like they will easily hit the goal.
I tested the Demo and it does seem to run fine on my PC, and wow it really does look good! It does have one issue where the sound will screw up and be distorted if you try to alt+tab. A minor issue considering this is really early stuff.
You can download the demo on Steam (scroll down to the download image/button), but it looks like the Linux demo is not up on GOG or Humble Store yet.
See the Kickstarter here.
Considering how good it looks and feels, I'm even tempted to help fund it. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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"System Shock is a complete remake of the genre defining classic from 1994, rebuilt from the ground up with the Unity Engine."
Remember kids Unity is part of .Net foundation and it is writen (mostly) in C#, so when you finance Unity games you are financing and spreading Microsoft technologies, good job!
http://blogs.unity3d.com/2016/04/01/unity-joins-the-net-foundation/
Last edited by c927776 on 17 Jul 2016 at 9:07 pm UTC
Remember kids Unity is part of .Net foundation and it is writen (mostly) in C#, so when you finance Unity games you are financing and spreading Microsoft technologies, good job!
http://blogs.unity3d.com/2016/04/01/unity-joins-the-net-foundation/
Last edited by c927776 on 17 Jul 2016 at 9:07 pm UTC
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rustybroomhandle 18 Jul 2016
"System Shock is a complete remake of the genre defining classic from 1994, rebuilt from the ground up with the Unity Engine."
Remember kids Unity is part of .Net foundation and it is writen (mostly) in C#, so when you finance Unity games you are financing and spreading Microsoft technologies, good job!
http://blogs.unity3d.com/2016/04/01/unity-joins-the-net-foundation/
Microsoft is also one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel - so better hop onto BSD if you want to escape. ;)
(it's mostly stuff to aid Linux on their cloud platforms, but still - Microsoft code in the kernel)
Last edited by rustybroomhandle on 18 Jul 2016 at 1:06 pm UTC
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Microsoft is also one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel - so better hop onto BSD if you want to escape. ;)
(it's mostly stuff to aid Linux on their cloud platforms, but still - Microsoft code in the kernel)
Yes it is and their contributions are written in C language, using some GNU extensions and kernel API; their contributions where in staging for long time and they almost got ditched by Linus because Microsoft programmers didnt want to program by Linux kernel guidelines, it would be nice for Linux gamers to have same high standards as Linus has for kernel code.
Decision to support and propagate Unity games and engine is bad from Linux user standpoint because engine is bad on Linux, development tools are all on Windows, it uses Microsoft language and Microsoft API (.Net/D3D as first class citizens), and Im pretty sure that they are going to get bought by a Microsoft very soon, and when that happens, MS will sabotage Unity on Linux in every way possible.
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rustybroomhandle 18 Jul 2016
development tools are all on Windows
This is wrong.
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development tools are all on Windows
Unity editor for Linux:
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/unity-on-linux-release-notes-and-known-issues.350256/#post-2453359
Last updated last friday with version 5.4.0 release candidate 1 - so it's even out of beta now.
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TheRiddick 18 Jul 2016
Ok, I put my $30 support in for this, pretty sure they can make that stretch goal. I liked the fact they made it a priority stretch goal instead of doing what other companies do, that is putting it at 500k-1m WAY down the stretch-list making it almost impossible to achieve. Thumbs-up for System Shock fellas for not doing that!
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Remember kids Unity is part of .Net foundation and it is writen (mostly) in C#, so when you finance Unity games you are financing and spreading Microsoft technologies, good job!thanks.
But seriously, they finally opensourced .net to make it multiplatform and now you are trying to boycott it? Just because its a microsoft product? This MS hate is not justified, not this time, sorry
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TheRiddick 19 Jul 2016
Unity engine has gotta allot better for under Linux, it does have active support unlike other game engines that get once off patches and everyone has to cope (looking at Unreal engine, and whatever CoH2 uses)
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The Linux demo was added to GOG too: https://www.gog.com/game/system_shock_demo
Last edited by Shmerl on 19 Jul 2016 at 4:14 pm UTC
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johndoe86x 21 Jul 2016
They reached their Linux stretch goal!
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