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Announced in an update last month, the developers posted the exciting announcement after passing the $450K stretch goal.
At time of writing, they've hit over $565K in funding against their original $300K goal which is impressive. They only have 5 hours left to go, so it's pleasing that it's funded and coming to Linux too!
About the game:
The game will be a new approach to point-and-click adventures, filled with dark comedy, drama, weirdness, and an apocalypse in the suburbs. This is the first time we're making something set in the unified C&H Universe, so we're completely excited to be making this for you!
As a huge fan of their comics, I think I might enjoy this one. It might be rather old, but this one still gets me. I don't often like comedy adventure games, but something tells me this is going to be a bit special.
As with all Kickstarters, I just hope they don't leave Linux as an afterthought, especially considering they've taken funds in the form of a stretch goal to make it happen.
They aim to release the first chapter by December next year, so it's going to be a bit of a wait. Will you be buying it at release?
Thanks for the tip Zlopez!
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
I'll buy it when all episodes are out and IF it truly works on Linux. :P
Agreed. When a Linux port is a 'stretch goal', it is never made a priority. As much as I would love to back this game, I can't. I'll wait until there is an actual Linux version for sale. (Still fuming about Carmageddon - First backed project on KS).
I'll buy it when all episodes are out and IF it truly works on Linux. :P
Agreed. When a Linux port is a 'stretch goal', it is never made a priority. As much as I would love to back this game, I can't. I'll wait until there is an actual Linux version for sale. (Still fuming about Carmageddon - First backed project on KS).
Well , if you look closely you can see that also PS4 and Xbox versions are stretch goals.
Last edited by Leopard on 5 Oct 2017 at 3:56 pm UTC
Will it support Arch Linux tho...
is it that different from the rest of the distros?
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It's a rolling release distribution, and those don't make for stable targets.Will it support Arch Linux tho...
is it that different from the rest of the distros?
Last edited by tuubi on 6 Oct 2017 at 11:03 am UTC
It's a rolling release distribution, and those don't make for stable targets.Will it support Arch Linux tho...
is it that different from the rest of the distros?
As an Arch (desktop), NixOS (laptops) and Debian (servers - also using OpenBSD but this is out of topic) user, I don't have that much problems either with Arch or Nix' when it comes to games. Except from the good ol' Unity fullscreen bug, which is solved with a simple line, and some problems on Arch with the desperatly old libgnutls.so library packaged with Steam (which is solved by just deleting it from the games' directory, in order to use the system one). On Nix' it's another matter, as Steam is in a dedicated chroot with "everything it should ever need©". Hated to have had to build the full mono stack from source, tho…
But I do agree on the fact that this kind of distro is more oriented to people who knows (or who want to know and thus pay the price for knowledge) the inners of their operating system and who like tinkering with it ("Oh, a problem? nice! let's solve it!" ). Obviously, people who want an "it just work" solution should head to more user-friendly distros - which is perfectly fine, no elitism intended.
BTW, as a huge fan of Cyanide & Happiness since the beginning… I'll keep an eye on their game. If it comes to Linux, and if it is as cynical and fun than their comics and shows are, they can count me in :)
Last edited by lidstah on 6 Oct 2017 at 11:21 am UTC
But I do agree on the fact that this kind of distro is more oriented to people who knows (or who want to know and thus pay the price for knowledge) the inners of their operating system and who like tinkering with it ("Oh, a problem? nice! let's solve it!" ). Obviously, people who want an "it just work" solution should head to more user-friendly distros - which is perfectly fine, no elitism intended.My comment had nothing to do with how difficult these distros are to use and maintain.
Rolling release distributions do not provide a stable target for developers to test on, which means it's harder to commit to long term support. Being source-based adds its own set of variables to this equation. It's much easier to promise support for a specific release of Ubuntu for example. If a game is tested to work on Ubuntu 16.04 now, it's quite likely it will work on Ubuntu 16.04 in half a year. That's all I meant. No room for elitism in this discussion.
Hope there will be support for subtitles aswell !
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