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My friend recommended it to me. But I decline because it was only on windows. Now maybe I will check it out if it comes out on Linux

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Bah, they should FLOSS the sources instead...

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Quotethe game is 90% off on Steam until September if you own them already

It's a staggered discount, even: 30 percentage points per part you own.

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Actually the game segfaults and fails to launch for many linux users. =/

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I feel now little stupid owning them on GOG because I will not get the discount now :(. I practically do not buy games there why did I think that buying Deponia there was a god decision now I am full of regret :(

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Completed the original on wine (worked perfectly), but that's amazing news! Instabuy. :)

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Quoting: xfimI downloaded Subway Reflections demo on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS powered laptop but I dont know how to start those demos actually... Can anyone help please? Thanks.

Run the executable in the unpacked folder, under
engine/binaries/linux/

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Quoting: OrkultusAt least i got it in a bundle.

I got it in a bundle too. It cost me less then $1 and I'm okey with that.

Quoting: EKRboiI’m just not an indie gamer though so it's really hard to justify some of these indie titles..

I found the difference between watching trailers and playing the same games many times. And sometimes games really amaze me. Maybe that's why I play a lot of indie games.

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I logged in to play. No one in sight. Ran around the map. It was weird for sure. Hopefully it gets better. At least i got it in a bundle.

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I downloaded Subway Reflections demo on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS powered laptop but I dont know how to start those demos actually... Can anyone help please? Thanks.

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It does look pretty cool (read different). I have been buying up games for linux on steam just to show my support for the movement.. I’m just not an indie gamer though so it's really hard to justify some of these indie titles.. and especially not @ $15 for a multi player only game that nobody plays (according to Astro)..

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Quoting: AstroIt's cool-looking game but nobody play it. Server is empty every time I want to play.

That's the nature of these multiplayer only indie games. :(

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Sound is fluent for me in both XCOM, and all the UE4 demos, and I run directly on ALSA. But I also have a proper soundcard (a SoundBlaster Live 7.1; I unfortunately lack ISA slots for the superior SoundBlaster 16), and not some unboard shit.

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It's quite telling when these small simple demos features flawless mouse handling, while finished games made with Unity usually struggle like crazy.

I really, really welcome Unreal to our platform.

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It's impossible to explain why DF is so awesome. On paper, it's an unintuitive, ugly, micromanagement-filled mess of complicated screens and monotonous tasks, coupled with a learning curve so steep that you can shave with it. The secret is ride out the learning curve and try not to be put off by the 'limitations'. There will come a time when it's suddenly 6am, and you're putting off sleep until you've seen off the invasion of Trolls and Goblins, tamed that Dragon you captured, upgraded all your military to steel armour, and fully mined that bituminous coal vein you found. It's impossible to explain why these things are important to you to anyone else.

Also, Boatmurdered.
http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/

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It's cool-looking game but nobody plays it. Server is empty every time I want to play.

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Steam told me, on release day, that I did have to buy it again. I had the $16.99, and, as I've said before, to get a native version of the game and ALL the DLC seemed to me like a steal. Besides, Aspyr got a chunk of my payment (and richly deserved it), and, if I'd just downloaded it had it appeared in my library, they wouldn't have gotten my payment.

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It seems the shaders used in the demos work only in OpenGL4. They should warn about this even if the reasons are a bit stupid. It seems the shaders are converted to GLSL4 for no special reason or benefit. Taken from this IRC log:
http://www.teemperor.de/ue4-logs/ue4linux/2014/07/04.html

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It's really complex and deep features wise. You hang on to the primitive UI, but didn't really pay attention to the rest of it. That's kind of the point - Dwarf Fortress put an effort into developing deep features (interacting with the world and so on), and not into UI. That's weird, I agree, but it has its place.

Some interesting articles about it:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/02/dwarf-fortress-ten-hours-with-the-most-inscrutable-video-game-of-all-time/
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/04/16/dwarf-fortress-the-detailed-roguelike-thats-easy-to-play/

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While the Mobile Temple demo worked fine for me on my desktop, the Blueprint one was quite low-FPS, the Effects Cave even worse, and the Elemental Demo brought my poor old system to a crawl.

It allocated 2GB of my 4GB RAM, then produced about one frame every minute or so. It even stopped X on my second monitor from updating the gkrellm and xclock running there, and dropping to the console (so I can kill -9 the bugger) took several minutes. I was just about to reset the machine, in fact, when the console appeared. All the while, the demo's sound ran fluently, though.

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Quoting: oldrocker99CIV V has been the only game I've bought twice; every other game I had bought for Windows, when a Linux port came out, it was free to download. You know, the way Steam usually works. X-COM:EU appeared in my library, and I didn't have to pay for it again.

I don't really get why would you need to buy it again? I don't know about anyone who had to. They had that bug for the first few hours with the expansions being disabled for some users, but they've solved it pretty quickly.

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CIV V has been the only game I've bought twice; every other game I had bought for Windows, when a Linux port came out, it was free to download. You know, the way Steam usually works. X-COM:EU appeared in my library, and I didn't have to pay for it again.

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Lords of Midnight was one that slipped by me when I was a C64 gamer, and I hadn't heard of it before I read about LoA.

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I actually think that it is fair to pay some money for the ported version even if you already own the game. What I think is not fair is to pay for the content I already own inly to get native binaries. So I really hope there will be a discount for the owners of Windows version.

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I've been playing this game since builds were made available to Kickstarter backers and it's been great to watch it evolve. When I first got my hands on it, it was already pretty solid so far as premise and core concepts go.

I'm really looking forward to seeing how it changes as we push towards release (release of the full game) - I fully expect the Steam Early Access launch to ramp up the rate at which the rough edges will be smoothed out.

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I tried a few of the demo files and they work great for me with an AMD 6850 graphics card and Catalyst.

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Looks very well done. It's tempting even though I am not into deck-building

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Quoting: SslaxxAs I recall, isn't this somewhat inspired by Lords of Midnight?

Quite a lot actually, which is definitely not a bad thing. :)

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Quoting: FutureSutureHopefully this kind of stuff will happen on GOG as well. Capsized doesn't even have the Mac OS client on GOG currently.

It is almost completely up to developers whether they decide to sell Linux or Mac build on Steam, GOG or any other store. Often legal issues stay in way of doing so, often it is simple laziness. But if there is anyone to blame, it is developers.

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Congratulations! This blog really is the best source on the net for Linux gaming news, I check back here weekly. Really exciting times to be a Linux gamer these days.

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