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I find this game overpriced for what it is. Also, it's not an AAA game, so don't expect great sales.

Just curious, what are the sales for Mac?

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Pro Pinball!!!!!! OMG OMG! A must buy for me!

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Quoting: PlayXI hope this time they say the truth.
I still remember UT3.

Me too. But now the circumstances are different than before.



PS : Now that I recall, the Unreal 3 thing was a very strange episode yet to clarify.
I remember to see in-game images and interviews with Icculus where he stated the game develoupment was almost complete. But the game never saw the light for not explained reasons.
And giving more wood to the fire, 3 or 4 years later, was released a Linux version of game that uses UE3 : Dungeon Defenders. Strange.

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Just to be clear :)

OpenFL is *not* a replacement for the Flash Plugin. It's not like Gnash or LightSpark (both plugins that render SWF content), or even ShumWay (which renders SWF content as HTML5).

Instead, it's for coders. It's basically the Flash API in Haxe. So you port your ActionScript code over to Haxe (which is a very similar, but superior, language to ActionScript), and you can still make the same method calls.

Then, when you compile, it's like Unity -- you can target Android, iOS, Desktop (Mac, Windows, Linux), Blackberry, Tizen, and now HTML5.

I'd also like to point out that on many of those targets you're building NATIVE binaries -- Haxe will output your game to C++ source files and then compile them again into a properly configured native executable for that platform.

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Can't wait to buy The Witcher trilogy for Linux. ;-)

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Again, fantastic week of great news!

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Good to see Tower of Elements on there. I pledged to that Tabletop Simulator too - I didn't realise they were aiming for Greenlight!

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Feel free to vote here: https://secure.gog.com/wishlist/games/to_cd_projekt_red_bring_witcher_3_and_your_other_games_to_linux_please

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Cd Project has decided to report the release of The witcher III. Now, there is "possible" release on Linux for TWII + Gog.com available on Linux...

So, maybe that Cd Projekt has reported TWIII to port the game on Linux and release the game on Console + Windows + SteamOS ?

It will be great :D

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I hope this time they say the truth.
I still remember UT3.

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Quoting: neorribleYou forgot McDroid!

No I didn't, that was on a previous list.

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HTML5 sentenced Flash, Adobe executed it and wisely started working on HTML5. I think Youtube keeps Flash mostly because of IE users.

Quoting: mannyhopefully adobe will just adopt openFL or html5 once and for all and drop their closed plugin.

Why? Is that necessary to stop using it?

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You forgot McDroid!

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Quoting: IamNotAHumanSurely they could take some code from the PS4 version? (unless that's using directX as well?)

That can help, since it's supposedly POSIX based. But graphics APIs there are not portable (PSSL): http://twvideo01.ubm-us.net/o1/vault/gdceurope2013/Presentations/825424RichardStenson.pdf

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Nooo and I just finished it on Windows lately :'(

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Quoting: Shmerl@s_d: Making Witcher 2 port seems like way less work for them. They already had an OS X native build of it. Witcher 3 on the other hand uses new version of their engine, and there is no indication that it supports OpenGL yet. And using the same D3D -> GL translation trick like they did in the Witcher 2 won't work, since they are using DirectX 11 there.

Surely they could take some code from the PS4 version? (unless that's using directX as well?)

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News just getting better and better!!!

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Quoting: Joe5% of revenue is actually a lot if you have a successful title. On the other hand a pricing model like this makes it affordable for individual developers or small teams to pick it up without worry.

If I remember correctly, it was 30% before this announcement so 5% is way better.

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@s_d: Making Witcher 2 port seems like way less work for them. They already had an OS X native build of it. Witcher 3 on the other hand uses new version of their engine, and there is no indication that it supports OpenGL yet. And using the same D3D -> GL translation trick like they did in the Witcher 2 won't work, since they are using DirectX 11 there.

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But... it's a port of a game they already made?! They... they didn't have to do that... they could have simply held off until The Witcher 3, we would have totally waited... but going back and building this for us? I'm taken aback, to be honest.

I suppose that the right and prudent thing would be to buy it from them on GOG when it comes?

Was it us in the community? Was it further research? Damn it Liam, get us a freaking interview because WTF is happening in this bizarre world :O

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What?!

:O :O :O :O :O

Again... WHAT??

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T_T SOOOOO I WILL BUY THE GAME FOR THE THIRD TIME I GUESS

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Really great news! Let's hope Witcher 3 is coming as well :D

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It's worth noting that it started as a flash game here: http://not.vlambeer.com/luftrauser/

I'd give it a try before you buy :)

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Omg, tears of happiness. :'(

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Big interesting news indeed. Thanks!

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5% of revenue is actually a lot if you have a successful title. On the other hand a pricing model like this makes it affordable for individual developers or small teams to pick it up without worry.

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Great news. Very excited.

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That is great news indeed. I've told my colleagues that this was one major hurdle for gaming on linux and glad to see Epic doing what unity should of done in the first place.

Cannot wait!

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Quoting: philip550cI'm guessing since they are supporting ubuntu/mint that it will be deb files.

I certainly hope not; as Ryan Gordon said in his Steam Dev Days talk, it is never worth the trouble for game developers to actually integrate themselves into distribution's package managers.

Integration would mean getting their packages in the distributions but that's not possible in this case, and I think most distributions don't like the idea. Good installers already exist, and tarballs are awesomely simple to use, why bother themselves and us?

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