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Meltdown Tactical Arcade Shooter Confirmed For Linux By The Publisher
By , 8 March 2014 at 7:28 pm UTC

Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: gamer
QuoteLinux version will come later.
It's a trick to milk money from us, Linux gamers, and then say "sorry we didn't had time or enough interest".
Then don't buy until it is out, it's very simple.
I know, I just got irritated by the fact that they treat linux as a "3rd world citizen". I'm currently making my own game and porting the game from my Ubuntu system to Windows took me like 50 minutes (recompiled libs, fixed a few missing functions).

PS. For Unity engine it's a matter of one click (and in some _rare_ cases change some code) to get game working on Linux.

The Wine Development Release 1.7.14 Is Now Available
By Swater96, 8 March 2014 at 7:25 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestThe list of bug report numbers in these Wine news is not very useful, it’s a pain to hover every one to see what it’s about. Much better to simply point at the official announcement that has a proper bugs list!
Lol true. I get about 3 in and give up. Easier to just copy the winehq buglist imo.

Meltdown Tactical Arcade Shooter Confirmed For Linux By The Publisher
By Liam Dawe, 8 March 2014 at 7:23 pm UTC

Quoting: gamer
QuoteLinux version will come later.
It's a trick to milk money from us, Linux gamers, and then say "sorry we didn't had time or enough interest".
Then don't buy until it is out, it's very simple.

Meltdown Tactical Arcade Shooter Confirmed For Linux By The Publisher
By , 8 March 2014 at 7:23 pm UTC

QuoteLinux version will come later.
It's a trick to milk money from us, Linux gamers, and then say "sorry we didn't had time or enough interest".

Duck Marines, A Free Software Remake Of Team Sonic's ChuChu Rocket
By , 8 March 2014 at 6:55 pm UTC

Amazing - Chu Chu Rocket is still one of my favourite Dreamcast games, especially (but not only) when playing in Multiplayer. I'll definitely check this one out!

Tropico 5 City Builder Gameplay Trailer Available, Will be On Linux
By Danny, 8 March 2014 at 4:31 pm UTC

is it just me, or they are deleting Linux-related comments from steam news entry?
I posted on it along with few other folks a couple of days ago and now I cant see any of it.

The Wine Development Release 1.7.14 Is Now Available
By , 8 March 2014 at 4:06 pm UTC

i tested this wine and for example on facry 3

with wine 1.7.12 + nvidia 334.16

View video on youtube.com

and now with Wine 1.7.14 + nvidia 334.21

View video on youtube.com


lastest nvidia driver 334.21 on my case show considerable performance boost, for example on assasins creed brotherhood on multiplayer (this mode runs very slow)


This progression is on lastest wine + lastest nvidia drivers


with wine 1.7.11 + nvidia 331.38

View video on youtube.com



with wine 1.7.13 + nvidia 334.16

View video on youtube.com



with wine 1.7.13 + nvidia 334.21

View video on youtube.com


^_^

TinyKeep Dungeon Escaping Action RPG Coming Soon To Linux
By , 8 March 2014 at 3:32 pm UTC

seems it will have a lot of things to interact with.

Race To Mars Space Company Simulation Released Into Early Access On Linux
By , 8 March 2014 at 3:25 pm UTC

Quoting: lainiwakuprice is too much for indi game
i take it under 10€ no more !

well Kerbal Space Program is still in Early access and costs $27

You set a price which you think will generate enough ROI.

The developer of Loren amazon princess also had some words about this topic.

So anything indie =/ less than 10€

I would personally spend more than that on something I enjoy and spent enough time on.

What you meant is not attractive for your budget and in that case is ok to wait for some sales.

The Wine Development Release 1.7.14 Is Now Available
By , 8 March 2014 at 2:58 pm UTC

no new direct3d stuff? that's a shame

7 Days To Die Zombie Survival Game Hitting Delays, Linux Still Being Worked On
By , 8 March 2014 at 2:52 pm UTC

Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: Half-Shot
Quotebut it definitely is still being worked on.
Oh thats reassuring.
My thoughts exactly.

What is holding it up? Why have they been silent?

Because it's not enough of a priority and not enough people are complaining to warrant any kind of explanation. You think it's on the front page because of Linux gamers? I think not. Priorities.

Race To Mars Space Company Simulation Released Into Early Access On Linux
By Half-Shot, 8 March 2014 at 11:17 am UTC

Quoting: lainiwakuThe price is too much for indie game.
I would take it for under 10€ but no more !

I agree, its an ambitious price which means I will probably wait for a Sale.

Fight The Dragon Hack & Slash RPG Hitting Linux This Month
By Pic, 8 March 2014 at 11:04 am UTC

Anyone else hears Skyfall in the background?

Serious Sam 4 Action Packed FPS Coming Q4 This Year For Linux
By , 8 March 2014 at 10:49 am UTC

The most recent updates to SS3 have killed the frame rate for me, where before I was getting a consistent 30 frames per second I'm now getting between 7 & 12, not impressed at all & I love the Serious Sam games.

Journey of a Roach Adventure Game Now Officially On Linux
By , 8 March 2014 at 10:45 am UTC

I just spotted this in my list :D Now to get it installed & have a play.

Kingdom Rush Strategy Game Exits Beta, Now Officially Available On Linux
By , 8 March 2014 at 10:28 am UTC

I got this game from one of the Humble Android Bundles and played it quite a lot. While the graphics and levels are almost identical to the Android version, it's definitely not as challenging. Seems like they changed a lot in the balancing. Still, a very fun game!

Kingdom Rush Strategy Game Exits Beta, Now Officially Available On Linux
By drmoth, 8 March 2014 at 9:14 am UTC

Well I'm Australian as well and we actually use British spelling. Any deviance from this is actually laziness or due to American influence (TV, books etc).

In case you had any doubts - http://www.defence.gov.au/

And I agree with Liam, tower defence is a genre, not a proper noun, so it can be spelt either way depending on your heritage.

The game looks good. Excited that more and more developers are turning to Linux (and glad we agree on THAT spelling).

Race To Mars Space Company Simulation Released Into Early Access On Linux
By , 8 March 2014 at 6:46 am UTC

price is too much for indi game
i take it under 10€ no more !

Spine, 2D Skeletal Animation For Games With Linux Support
By commodore256, 8 March 2014 at 5:36 am UTC

Screw this, I have Spriter and yes, it's for Linux.

Journey of a Roach Adventure Game Now Officially On Linux
By s_d, 8 March 2014 at 3:16 am UTC

What game engine are they using?

Edit: It's Unity3D.

Spine, 2D Skeletal Animation For Games With Linux Support
By adolson, 8 March 2014 at 12:41 am UTC

Quoting: Linux owns all?this is unneeded for unity3d+blender developers as all the plugs to do this are build in
Unity3D isn't available for Linux... So... Not exactly relevant.

Kingdom Rush Strategy Game Exits Beta, Now Officially Available On Linux
By neffo, 8 March 2014 at 12:36 am UTC

I am Australian (we use some sort of US/British hybrid spelling), and after reading these comments, both those spellings now look wrong and weird.

THANKS GUYS

7 Days To Die Zombie Survival Game Hitting Delays, Linux Still Being Worked On
By Orkultus, 7 March 2014 at 11:32 pm UTC

Sounds like another Interstellar Marines issue...Just wish developers would stop saying that they want it to be on multiple platforms, but still create it to work for windblowz only. Sure the product will be finished and ironed out from bugs for (Windblowz); but then when they go to make a Mac / Linux version, they are left with an entire new set of bugs for each of those platforms to work out. Sounds better to make sure all your plugins are multiplatform to begin with.

Also, The entire Unity - Linux port thing isn't all as easy as pushing a button. They should have an option when you start a new project that says "Is this project going to be for Multiple Platforms?". Then after that gives you a list of all plugins that work on all three platforms, that you could integrate into your game.

Spine, 2D Skeletal Animation For Games With Linux Support
By , 7 March 2014 at 11:08 pm UTC

this is unneeded for unity3d+blender developers as all the plugs to do this are build in

Kingdom Rush Strategy Game Exits Beta, Now Officially Available On Linux
By Liam Dawe, 7 March 2014 at 10:40 pm UTC

Quoting: Anonymoushttp://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/Tower%20Defense/

Like I said before, American.

I am British, I use the British term.

Anymore comments on this will be deleted, plain and simple.

Kingdom Rush Strategy Game Exits Beta, Now Officially Available On Linux
By Samsai, 7 March 2014 at 10:25 pm UTC

[quote=Anonymous]
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: Anonymoustower defense not defence
Afraid not.

http://grammarist.com/spelling/defence-defense/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/246420/ listed as tower DEFENSE, I don't care how you Brits spell shit that's not the genres name.
*genre's

Thank you.

Fight The Dragon Hack & Slash RPG Hitting Linux This Month
By Mambo, 7 March 2014 at 10:25 pm UTC

Looks lovely, and I like their priorities: short coop sessions (though I hope solo will be good as well) and a really usable level builder.

Kingdom Rush Strategy Game Exits Beta, Now Officially Available On Linux
By Liam Dawe, 7 March 2014 at 10:21 pm UTC

[quote=Anonymous]
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: Anonymoustower defense not defence
Afraid not.

http://grammarist.com/spelling/defence-defense/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/246420/ listed as tower DEFENSE, I don't care how you Brits spell shit that's not the genres name.

And I don't care what you think it is. Go bug someone else.