Amanita Design [Official Site], developer of beautiful games like Machinarium and Botanicula is another well known name to put their games up on the itch store.
They now have these titles on there which support Linux:
- Botanicula
- Botanicula Soundtrack + Art Book
- Machinarium
- Machinarium Soundtrack + Art Book
- Samorost 2
You can find their itch.io store page here, with links to their games. They're all on sale too, a perfect time to grab them if they still haven't picked up a copy.
As a big fan of itch.io, I'm really happy to see more well known developers put their games on it. Their store is slick and easy to use, but the icing on the cake is their speedy open source game client.
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legluondunet Dec 1, 2017
I don't understand why Steam does not provide Linux port available for this game.
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I don't understand why Steam does not provide Linux port available for this game.It's steam that has control over that. It's Amanita who has the power to not publish the linux version.
I really love their games, but last time I pre-ordered botanicula with linux support, and the way I pre-ordered no linux version would be distributed. Which of course became clear when the distribution started.
But if it works through itch.io, I could try that on my gpd win. I mean: I am really looking for low cpu power games to play in an airplane.
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Still no sign of a port for Samarost 3, which is highly disappointing.
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legluondunet Dec 1, 2017
I don't think it is the last version of Machinarium selled on Itch?
The remastered edition is avalaible on Steam for Windows and Mac users, it uses Directx.
Last edited by legluondunet on 1 December 2017 at 3:42 pm UTC
The remastered edition is avalaible on Steam for Windows and Mac users, it uses Directx.
Last edited by legluondunet on 1 December 2017 at 3:42 pm UTC
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I really like Amanita Design games. It would be nice to have linux build on steam, but for once GOG have Linux build where Steam don't :p
Nice to see them also on itch.io :)
Nice to see them also on itch.io :)
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I don't understand why Steam does not provide Linux port available for this game.I refuse to buy games that do not support Linux on Steam. It's like a stamp of quality of sorts for me.
I do have a bunch of games, mostly from earlier Humble Bundles, that have a Linux build somewhere that works somewhat. Often outdated and/or lacking features in relation to a Windows version. Whereas the ones that have a Linux build on Steam are still playable without messing around much.
Not a law, but a general rule of thumb.
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So they got finally rid of the awful Adobe AIR backend that dropped Linux support a long time ago?
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So they got finally rid of the awful Adobe AIR backend that dropped Linux support a long time ago?
From what I've heard, they are using their own engine now. Really, they can as well have picked Haxe, if they liked ActionScript.
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Their upcoming game Chuchel doesn't list Linux :(
There will be none, i guess. Amanita never was into linux with all that flash based works.
Last edited by Kuromi on 3 December 2017 at 7:02 pm UTC
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Their upcoming game Chuchel doesn't list Linux :(
There will be none. Amanita uses Adobe Air and Air for Linux is dead for long time.
From what I've red, they aren't using Adobe Air anymore. It's really junk. Not sure what they are using, but as I wrote above, Haxe could be a good option for them.
Last edited by Shmerl on 3 December 2017 at 7:03 pm UTC
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