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PayPalThe Communist Dogifesto has quite an amusing setting, with Russian space dogs aboard a space station becoming really rather intelligent and taking it over. It's open source and it just had a rather big update.
About the game:
The Communist Dogifesto is a science fiction first-person shooter set on a Soviet space station in Lunar orbit, which has been used as a platform for experimentation on the Russian space dogs. Unfortunately, dogs this deep in space have more tricks in their vac suit than the scientists accounted for. Now Laika has taken over and you are the only one left who can take back the station, or at least attempt to escape with your life!
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I was actually quite impressed when I tried it before, now it's even more impressive. The developer has been listening to player feedback and so yesterday they put out quite a big patch to improve many aspects of the game.
Improvements include: the addition of in-game music including ambient soundtrack and combat music, a quicksave/quickload feature, a custom in-game cursor, better tutorial text, an end-game stats screen, improved enemy behaviour, better precision of target selection for when you're picking up items and plenty more. See the full patch notes here.
It's also currently 50% off on itch.io. It's available on Steam too, but the sale is only on itch.io although buying it on itch does give you a Steam key too.
Source code along with assets is available on GitLab, purchasing a copy enables the developer to continue patching it and make more games—I like their style!
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
I should add, if you do buy the game and enjoy it: leave a review! This helps immensely to boost the game's visibility on whatever distribution platform you've purchased it on, it's an easy free way to support the game even after you bought it ;)
Last edited by vededev on 17 August 2018 at 2:05 pm UTC
buenaventura Aug 17, 2018
Edit: Hey, it's the dev! So, do you have a roadmap for planned features and stuff in the future, or are you looking at making other games? What engine is it CD made with?
Edit2: Went and bought it now at itch, nice work! It's really cool.
Last edited by buenaventura on 17 August 2018 at 3:32 pm UTC
The Communist Dogifesto is written entirely in C, and uses SDL2 and OpenGL for input, audio, and graphics.
The game's better than I imagined, really good fun. "Blocky" graphics usually put me off a bit but they lend the game a certain style and I'm enjoying it. Excellent!
Stoney_Fish Aug 17, 2018
In "Options", the setting separately of the X and Y resolution was different, I expected a drop down list.
No issues or errors so far on Ubuntu 18.04 with nvidia.
linuxjacques Aug 17, 2018
Philadelphus Aug 18, 2018
QuoteThe Communist Dogifesto has quite an amusing setting, with Russian space dogs aboard a space station becoming really rather intelligent and taking it over.Hey, that sounds like fun! Something different, getting to play as a dog with a gun running around taking over a space station—
QuoteNow Laika has taken over and you are the only one left who can take back the station, or at least attempt to escape with your life!—oh. Well, well it was a fun idea while it lasted. :)
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