The developer behind the great looking top-down shooter Solstice Chronicles: MIA [Official Site] has said that they may soon have a Linux beta build.
We've known for a while they've been working on the Linux version, but this makes things sound a little more promising that work is actually progressing. Here's what they said:
Got MIA to build under linux finally. There are problems we'll need to handle still, but I hope we'll be able to release at least a beta version soon.
I consider myself a bit of a top-down shooter junky, so this pleases me.
Game Features:
- Master fluid twin-stick combat to blast through waves of mutants on Mars.
- Use your drone's abilities tactically, weighing the risk and reward of decisions that drastically change the threat you face.
- Decide between scavenging for supplies and upgrades in the face of the oncoming menace, or pushing forward, potentially unprepared for the enemies still to come.
- Decimate the mutant onslaught with upgradeable weaponry, including shotguns, rocket launchers, and more, as well as special Heavy weapons, like the autocannon and flamethrower, which will obliterate everything in their path.
- Develop your own skill tree from across four classes--Assault, Demolition, Hellfire, and Terminator--to become the ultimate instrument of destruction.
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Ah, that's where this tweet comes from.
I was wondering, because I didn't see any Linux related depot.
Now I see they have added Linux to the os list.
I love twin stick shooters, Assault Android Cactus and Ruiner are great games of this kind and showed me how good this type of gameplay can be.
I was wondering, because I didn't see any Linux related depot.
Now I see they have added Linux to the os list.
I love twin stick shooters, Assault Android Cactus and Ruiner are great games of this kind and showed me how good this type of gameplay can be.
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Quoting: PatolaJust like shadowgrounds, but closed-source and with modern graphics (and hopefully without the awful bugs). Right?
Isn't Shadowgrounds closed-source as well? I remember this being the reason for the Linux version not being on Steam; the existing build no longer works and they don't have the source code for the port.
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Quoting: PatolaQuoting: CybolicQuoting: PatolaJust like shadowgrounds, but closed-source and with modern graphics (and hopefully without the awful bugs). Right?
Isn't Shadowgrounds closed-source as well? I remember this being the reason for the Linux version not being on Steam; the existing build no longer works and they don't have the source code for the port.
Sorry, you are right. It is not an open-source (nor free software) license, it is a free non-commercial license. I have read that it was open-source from elsewhere, found the github address and used it to recompile the executables for my distro, without ever verifying if the license complied to the Open Source Definition or Four Software Freedoms. Now I have, to my disappointment.
However, the source is there, and if there was any interest in it, people would have fixed the bugs which almost make it unplayable. It seems though that you simply can't get proper attention and mindshare if you try to lure people with half-baked licensing terms. I was going to study the code but realizing this also put me off.
BUT: the source code is there. And I compiled it successfully, got to the ending of Shadowgrounds and played a few levels of Shadowgrounds: Survivor, up to Episode V so far. Aside from the bugs, the game is great, fun, engaging and beautiful even to today's standards.
Ooh! I did not know that the source was freely available! I spent an awful amount of time trying to wrap the existing executables in something that would work with a modern installation of PulseAudio, Glib, etc, without much luck. Truth be told, I'm in the same position as you now; not really that interested in getting it running, especially with Solstice Chronicles: MIA on its way.
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Kuduzkehpan May 20, 2018
SC:MIA one of a AAA games for me. I played a bit. Different Classes, skill points (some rpg elements ofc.) and more ways to play with. Also enemy mechanics are not like any other game. thats a good point for gameplay.
game is in my list.
I call this games genre as "military action rpg." in sci-fi atmosphere.
game is in my list.
I call this games genre as "military action rpg." in sci-fi atmosphere.
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