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Quoting: oldrocker99Looks vaguely roguelike with some nice graphics, and some (apparently) original gameplay features. Inasmuch as Desura has been crashing over and over for me, I'll wait for Steam to offer it.

Just use the stand-alone downloads from Desura, no need to use the outdated Linux client.

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Looks vaguely roguelike with some nice graphics, and some (apparently) original gameplay features. Inasmuch as Desura has been crashing over and over for me, I'll wait for Steam to offer it.

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Posted! Defo interested in playing this one.

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wow my radar has missed this one - looks super fun! I'll pick it up for sure.

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Cryengine is the single most interesting engine for upcoming games imo. That engine is capable of some *insane* visuals.

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Here's one for the next one guys: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/skyhill

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I found this website about OpenGL and support of various drivers. FOSS drivers are not tested besides Intel ones but there is an interesting article for candidate features for OpenGL 5:
http://www.g-truc.net/post-0652.html#menu

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2015 Linux Gaming year

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2015 will be an epic year!

Killing Monsters!

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Quoting: SvenWhy no Cube 3 instead of a fork?

Forks happen all the time, they probably just want to work on their own on different things.

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Why no Cube 3 instead of a fork?

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Looking good, bought it, hope it will work in the future :D

The game Pioneer does not look as polished and I suppose that development will go faster when money poors in. At least that's the excuse I have when buying this game..

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You can get Pioneer (the game Paragon is a fork off) for free at http://pioneerspacesim.net/
Builds available for Windows, Linux 64 and Linux 32.

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Missing executable on Linux... yeah:)

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wow looks splendid!

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Stronghold 1 & Stronghold Crusader were two of the best strategy games ever. Stronghold 2 and 3 had broken AI, that many times couldn't even attack you...

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Quoting: hardpenguinIt would be much better if they even decided to bring Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader with Wine to Linux and call it official

My brother still pines for the one WINE version he had that managed to load Stronghold Crusader in a millisecond. He is still bitter about the regression.

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@Anonymous (2 posts up) - You need to RTFA before spewing your poorly prepared thoughts all over the internet. If you RTFA you would have seen that #1) your assumption the he is new to OpenGL is false.

First 2 sentences from article:
"Here's a brain dump of the things that sometimes drive me crazy about OpenGL. (Note these are strictly my own opinions, not those of Valve or my coworkers. I'm also in a ranty-type mood today after grappling with OpenGL for several years now..)"

#2) You blaming game crashing on D3D is also absurd and shows your lack of understanding - any programmer can improperly implement an API and write trash code, it happens all the time - and you know what? When your API / Language is #1 most used the % of bad programmers goes up as the demographic includes more novices, students and hobbiests.

@Stan
"GL will not be treated as a second class citizen by devolopers who want to support Linux, OSX or any non-Windows platform. That leaves devs/publishers who don’t care about non-Windows (hobbyists), don’t care about increasing their revenues, and are stupid enough to lock themselves in Microsoft land."

Linux users makes up 1.26% of Steam's userbase. Like it or not, revenue and bill money are necessary for many folks to survive and contribute to open source. In fact, the Linux Kernel, The Linux Foundation, The OSI, Mozilla, LibreOffice and many other large projects recieve millions of dollars in funding for their continued efforts - so don't pretend that money doesn't matter otherwise you need to get your head examined and take your brain medication, unless of course you inherited some large sum of money from a relative and are a trust fund baby who has no concept of the real world and work.

If you want Linux to transcend and grow into the #1 Desktop OS used by anyone other than Nerds, Programmers and CIS Students you need to accept the honest evaluation of industry professionals on our APIs, Applications and Libraries and not see such constructive criticism as a stab at your pride for the work we all put into OSS.

We all our proud of our hard work, and these oppinions have no ill intent, so don't get so butt-hurt over it.

Accept Valve & other vendors help in improving our ecosystem.

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and the solution?
I have a suggestion

have 2 versions of OpenGL

one legacy that would be the last released (4.4) and create the new OpenGL 5.0 in partnership with Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Apple, Google, and Valve etc( kronos group ). this new OpenGL would have only the good features of OpenGL and adding new tools and better documentation and prepared for the future Having two versions of OpenGL would not be any problem, one legacy, and the other for new games. viable solution that does not create problems

any system could be upgraded with 5 OpenGL and OpenGL 4.4 to keep the legacy SteamOS ja might come with 2, the game would call what he was using

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QuotePersonally I have found Nvidia's closed-source drivers to be pretty good (if you use a recent driver version), while their open-source driver not so good at much at all.

I know this is nit-picking but I would like to just clarify that Nvidia does not make open-source drivers. The folks over at freedesktop.org have been managing the Nouveau project and only recently Nvidia has begun contributing some code to the project.

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It would be really nice to get a new and slick modern API that kicks OpenGL and DX's ass, but the chances of that happening I would think are somewhere around 0%. GL and Directx have been around for what 20-ish years? and they're still broken, they're still under active development.

Making an API is clearly a huge undertaking not just anyone could jump at. Valve has the funding for it, it does not however have the time (as in they need the solution to be fast because of SteamOS and Steam Machines)

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Definitely the worst game from the whole Stronghold series with tragic rating on Metacritic >.>

It would be much better if they even decided to bring Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader with Wine to Linux and call it official >.>

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I hope this game is like Section 8, if so that'll quench my need for a Halo style Linux FPS.

I love the editor, I'd love to see more of the weapons.

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I love the performance with it, where unity would be gasping for air this thing runs like a charm. And yeah I know that 770 should be able to handle a lot more than this; but really, good optimization something so rare recently:) I see potential here!

http://imgur.com/a/FGZcp - screen tearing is present as I turned off v-sync:)

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Oh My GOD! I WANT!

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Yes, The Witcher is a potential target.
Right now, xoreos can play videos and sounds, and partially load the models (enough to show a cat, or a dryad).

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Great news!!!!

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On Aurora is build also one of the best Poland game based on Sapkowski books - The Witcher (1). Maybe this project can run albo The Witcher :D

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To put it into perspective. Vendor A is nVidia, B is AMD, C is Intel with #1 being their Linux stack and #2 their windows one.

And now some truths. Excluding nVidia all the rest of the OpenGL desktop drivers out there are having questionable quality and there is a reason for that. OpenGL is huge, complex and all the extensions (start counting from 20year ago) interact in a very weird way with each other. That is a source for many bugs and redundancy.

Khronos group at some point created a cut down version of GL with core profiles. Valve, despite the love I have for them, in some presentations they recommended using compatibility profiles. That makes me angry because in a way they undermine all the effort Khronos had put into driving everyone to the core profiles.

I totally get AMD, writing OpenGL drivers with all this ***load of extensions is unimaginable tough (I know because I write OpenGL drivers myself). Trying to test all this combinations and interactions is an insanely huge vector of possibilities.

The solution IMHO? A new and slick and modern API.

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