Currently available as a tech demo with the developer needing feedback, Ova Magica looks like a promising start of a new casual sim blending lots of different gameplay features.
Ova Magica looks like it mixes in a farming-life type of sim, with a creature hatching and battle system with blobbly little creatures that look like something slightly resembling what's in Slime Rancher. Inspired by the likes of Azure Dreams, Harvest Moon, Stardew Valley, Pokemon, Grandia and many more it's in early development but they're planning full Linux support. The developer, ClaudiaTheDev, is being backed up by Top Hat Studios who are also helping to publish Steamdolls and Synergia for Linux too.
Have a look at some early footage:
YouTube videos require cookies, you must accept their cookies to view. View cookie preferences.
Direct Link
Direct Link
Want to check it out? You can try the latest tech demo on itch.io. According to Top Hat Studios who got in touch there's a Linux easter egg in there somewhere too. The developer would appreciate any feedback and Linux testing / performance info from a wide pool of Linux users.
If they get this right it could be the next big casual sim.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Some you may have missed, popular articles from the last month:
The comments on this article are closed.
Quoting: razing32Quoting: kokoko3kQuoting: CybolicIt's honestly baffling to me how both the games and the audience seem perfectly fine with fantasy cock/dog fights; am I missing something?I really hope so, because my faith in human kind is alerady at minimum levels.
I've ethical problems with factorio too which seems a great game from the demo.
DAMN!
I was going to hold off on saying something because i was concerned how the conversation would go but ...
Let me play devil's advocate for a bit.
It's a game.
It's not real.
GTA has you play a gangster that can run over civilians and police officers by the hundreds. Nobody who plays that game wants to do that in real life.
I recently played Underrail where one mission for a proto-fascist faction asked me to gas some rebels. That doesn't mean I'm ok with crimes against humanity.
I don't mean to seem disrispectful but it really does sound the same as the argument that playing D&D puts you in league with the devil.
Yes yes, i know it is a game and it is not real, that's the first thing i wrote in my first reply, but imho the real fun is when game and reality blends, i like to be empathic with a group of pixels, yes.
For me, gaming is immersion; i don't like to play just for the sake of finish the game and i don't like gaming if i cannot impersonate the character.
I remember when i was a kid playing adventures without actually progressing in the story, but i was so fully immersed in the virtual world, that just walking into it was a lot of fun.
Now things are turning different, and my imagination isn't that way anymore, so i really need to like the character to pretend i am him, or else, no fun.
Quoting myself:
Quote[...]my faith in human kind is alerady at minimum levels.[...]Sorry for that, i can understand that other people are better than me in having fun in doing bad things they never should do in real life.
2 Likes, Who?
Quoting: kokoko3kQuoting: razing32Quoting: kokoko3kQuoting: CybolicIt's honestly baffling to me how both the games and the audience seem perfectly fine with fantasy cock/dog fights; am I missing something?I really hope so, because my faith in human kind is alerady at minimum levels.
I've ethical problems with factorio too which seems a great game from the demo.
DAMN!
I was going to hold off on saying something because i was concerned how the conversation would go but ...
Let me play devil's advocate for a bit.
It's a game.
It's not real.
GTA has you play a gangster that can run over civilians and police officers by the hundreds. Nobody who plays that game wants to do that in real life.
I recently played Underrail where one mission for a proto-fascist faction asked me to gas some rebels. That doesn't mean I'm ok with crimes against humanity.
I don't mean to seem disrispectful but it really does sound the same as the argument that playing D&D puts you in league with the devil.
Yes yes, i know it is a game and it is not real, that's the first thing i wrote in my first reply, but imho the real fun is when game and reality blends, i like to be empathic with a group of pixels, yes.
For me, gaming is immersion; i don't like to play just for the sake of finish the game and i don't like gaming if i cannot impersonate the character.
I remember when i was a kid playing adventures without actually progressing in the story, but i was so fully immersed in the virtual world, that just walking into it was a lot of fun.
Now things are turning different, and my imagination isn't that way anymore, so i really need to like the character to pretend i am him, or else, no fun.
Quoting myself:
Quote[...]my faith in human kind is alerady at minimum levels.[...]Sorry for that, i can understand that other people are better than me in having fun in doing bad things they never should do in real life.
Uhm dude , nobody is saying they are better than you.
I personally just disagree with your reasoning on this one topic , that's all.
If you think the game bothers you or is a bad influence on your children , by all means avoid it. No beef from me on that front.
I can understand immersion but i guess it is on a case by case basis. Someone might be repulsed by a game like GTA or Mortal Kombat , someone might not even notice the violence or context and just aim for the highest points.
0 Likes
Patreon
PayPal
See more from me