Puppygames are making all their games free for Linux, with Basingstoke first

Thanks lucinos, I have a RX 560 as well. All things are pointing at i3 WM so far. I guess the game can't handle that i3 tries to put it in a fullscreen window. Need to confirm with some other WM.
Player.log indicates an unhandled exception. Unfortunately there is no text config file to possibly work around it.

EDIT: starts on my old Laptop with almost identical software setup. Not a clue what's wrong, but at this point it's very likely some config issue on my part.


Last edited by Sir_Diealot on 7 March 2019 at 8:12 am UTC

Getting this one! :o

Hmmm

Any idea WHY they are making their games free ?

Quoting: razing32Hmmm

Any idea WHY they are making their games free ?

linux enthusiasts? help linux to thrive?
but linux is a very small market and they wont lose a lot of money AND you can donate, so they get some amount of money

something valve should to with their games... after they start making games again... real games, not card games

Not to distract from the value, as this is generous of the developers...

But, as pointed out linux is not a huge market share.

Also, other than Basingstoke, the games are quite old and are probably close to market saturation... Not likely selling much due to age and the people that want them have them. Maybe a few sales from time to time, but not much continued revenue anymore. (And after looking at Steam DB, I am guessing that Basingstoke did not do as well as they hoped it would.)

According to Steam DB...

Titan Attacks, $9.99/$0.99(sale), 100k-200k sold, Released Feb 3 2012
Revenge of the Titans, $14.99/$0.99(sale), 200k-500k sold, Released Mar 16 2011
Droid Assault, $9.99/$0.99(sale), 50k-100k sold, Released Jan 9 2013
Ultratron, $9.99/$0.99(sale), 50k-100k sold, Released Mar 18 2013
Basingstoke, $29.99/$10.19(sale), 0-20k sold, Released Apr 27, 2018

Note: I bought a triple pack of Titan Attacks, Droid Assault, and Ultratron directly off the developer's website before Revenge of the Titans was released... So this means SteamDB is showing the release date on Steam... Not the original release dates. Also some of the titles were on Humble prior to steam as well, so it is likely SteamDB's numbers might be underreporting estimated sales of the older titles.

Quoting: Sir_DiealotEDIT: starts on my old Laptop with almost identical software setup. Not a clue what's wrong, but at this point it's very likely some config issue on my part.

interesting note about my initial experience with Arch. A lot of games do fail to start if needed fonts are not installed and there is no indication that this is the problem. So the first thing I would do, it would be to search and install every font that I could find. I can not say if this is the problem, but it was an experience with many games when I installed Arch for the first time.


Last edited by lucinos on 7 March 2019 at 9:21 pm UTC

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: TcheyRevenge of the Titans was, is, one of the best tower defense i've played until today.

Revenge of the Titans is NOT a tower defense game…

No?!?, thats a shock to me. :O

If not tower defense, what do you call it when you build offensive gun/laser turrets to prevent the enemy from reaching and destroying your base/buildings, especially when the enemy follows a predefined path towards your base?


Last edited by stretch611 on 7 March 2019 at 10:30 pm UTC

Quoting: lucinos

Quoting: Sir_DiealotEDIT: starts on my old Laptop with almost identical software setup. Not a clue what's wrong, but at this point it's very likely some config issue on my part.

interesting note about my initial experience with Arch. A lot of games do fail to start if needed fonts are not installed and there is no indication that this is the problem. So the first thing I would do, it would be to search and install every font that I could find. I can not say if this is the problem, but it was an experience with many games when I installed Arch for the first time.

Thanks, that's one thing I never encountered before. I think most games ship the fonts they use. But yes, my Laptop's installation likely has more fonts, I'll experiment a bit.

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: TcheyRevenge of the Titans was, is, one of the best tower defense i've played until today.

Revenge of the Titans is NOT a tower defense game…

I checked because i thought that maybe i was confused and was thinking about another game. But nah.

RotT fits exactly the Tower Defense genre. Even Puppugames tag their game as a Tower Defense game, mixed with some RTS elements.

That said, you can call it whatever you like, the game is great anyway.

It's a great game and I wouldn't argue the point much, but I get why some people don't call RotT a tower defence game. It breaks lots of traditional TD rules. The main one is that there are no routes in RotT. You're told that an attack will come from... vaguely over there, and then you build some emplacements to stave off the alien horde.

It feels more like an unusual RTS to me, even if you don't actually command moving troops, only towers.

I never actually finished it. If you do badly enough in the early levels, the game becomes near-impossible in later levels. And the ghost-aliens basically ruined the later levels for me (99% of your towers ignore ghosts, but you can build a manual laser tower to take them down - manual, as in, you have to aim/shoot the ghosts with mouse-clicks. It's tedious having to constantly scroll back to these towers to see if there are any ghosts attacking).

Got my money's worth though!