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Drifter Open-World Sandbox Space Trader Now On Steam Early Acces
By , 4 March 2014 at 7:28 pm UTC
There is a new trailer for early access btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF6OF6xY_IU
The UnEarth Initiative, A Strategy Game About Colonizing Alien Worlds
By HadBabits, 4 March 2014 at 7:25 pm UTC
Surely you wouldn't back something unless it supported the platform you intended on playing it, right? Unless you have a massive holes burning through your pockets. Maybe I'll back this once it hits said stretch goal, but I fail to see this being an effective way of determining "sufficient interest".
Crawl Has The Best Trailer You Will See Today
By , 4 March 2014 at 6:58 pm UTC
The lack of online MP is certainly a bummer...none of my friends are gamers...but the game looks solid nonetheless.
Shelter & Pid From Might and Delight Are Being Ported To Linux
By HadBabits, 4 March 2014 at 6:57 pm UTC
Looks like an excellent couple of additions, can't wait :D

Being a platformer fan, I very much like the look of Pid.
Star Conflict Beautiful Space MMO Looks Like It May Come To Linux
By , 4 March 2014 at 5:49 pm UTC
I've been playing this game since the winter holidays. Now it's headed for linux. Hope this news is concrete. I'm also waiting for the CS:GO linux version. Hopefully I'll be able to stop dual booting all the time just to play games. Linux games FTW!
The UnEarth Initiative, A Strategy Game About Colonizing Alien Worlds
By , 4 March 2014 at 4:23 pm UTC
Looks nice. Please, remind us, if they ever hit that goal, I still have some cash to spare :)
Shelter & Pid From Might and Delight Are Being Ported To Linux
By leillo1975, 4 March 2014 at 2:24 pm UTC
It's a great new!. I have Pid in my Steam Library and is an awesome platform game.
Shelter & Pid From Might and Delight Are Being Ported To Linux
By , 4 March 2014 at 2:19 pm UTC
I got Pid as a freebie from one of the bundle sites, be nice to have a Linux version as well.
Shelter & Pid From Might and Delight Are Being Ported To Linux
By scaine, 4 March 2014 at 2:03 pm UTC
I wanted to buy Shelter when it came out, so this is great news. I hadn't heard of PID, but it looks superb. The animation is jaw-dropping. Two essential purchases, methinks...
The UnEarth Initiative, A Strategy Game About Colonizing Alien Worlds
By , 4 March 2014 at 1:48 pm UTC
"Unfortunately, Linux is not one of our current development or testing platforms."

"Peter determined that getting the game running on Linux would take enough extra effort that we didn't want to commit to it without sufficient interest."

To me that reads there will most likely not be a port. And if there is, it will have a ton a issues due to not being properly tested. I'll pass
Valve Games On AMD Foss Drivers
By Half-Shot, 4 March 2014 at 12:01 pm UTC
Quoting: SolidarityInteresting work! I wonder how well it deals with unvanquished

Well, from what I've tested it works very well with non-valve games ironically :D. Unigine Tropics actually ran at 60fps with the newest update and Xonotic already ran great so you can expect great things in that area. Also since unvanquished is OpenGL 2.1, that area is already very mature and so stability will be flawless.
Valve Games On AMD Foss Drivers
By , 4 March 2014 at 8:04 am UTC
Interesting work! I wonder how well it deals with Your text to link here...
Starbound Has A Huge Content Update
By HadBabits, 4 March 2014 at 4:27 am UTC
Quoting: NadirI'd just love to be able to play my copy. Maybe next year it becomes available to people who don't use Steam. What's a couple of years between friends, right? AKA The Story of How I Never Preordered Another Indie Game Again.

I could be mislead, but isn't it available DRM free on Humble Store?

edit: I just saw the notice about those builds being available later. Sorry, friend.
Unvanquished FPS/RTS Hybrid Releases Alpha 25, Out With The Old
By , 4 March 2014 at 2:59 am UTC
nice work
Star Conflict Beautiful Space MMO Looks Like It May Come To Linux
By , 4 March 2014 at 2:06 am UTC
its a good game and i would love it to come to Linux but as far as i'm concerned it has gone down hill since they changed the interface
Toy Soldiers: Complete May Come To Linux If The Interest Is There
By , 4 March 2014 at 12:14 am UTC
Quoting: minjI am starting to resent statements like these. It does not mean we have different game tastes just because we run Linux. We run the same hardware and input devices ffs. Countless studios have already witnessed that the market exists.

If the devs are not sure their game is worth our attention perhaps they should not be making it in the first place. All new games should start with OpenGL from day zero. This will save dev time and other resources, prevent frustration, theirs and ours, and as Valve has shown will even increase performance.

I currently own many more games than I've actually played. This means that THEY need to come to us with their product. Time for begging is over.

Depends how big the game is, but sometimes the port might simply cost more than than it would likely make.
Dust: An Elysian Tail Hits 1 Million Sales, Linux Stats Included
By Half-Shot, 3 March 2014 at 9:43 pm UTC
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: leillo1975
Quoting: Half-Shot
Quoting: leillo1975I bought this game last week and think it's really good. It's strange to see the logo of Microsoft in my Ubuntu.
Tell me about it, I was worried for a second... then relaxed when I saw the D:AET logo :)
Editor: Microsoft Studios (XBOX Live Arcade)
Was that a note to me as the editor? I don't get what you're wanting?

I presume he was talking to me about Microsoft being the publisher of Dust:AET. In that case they barely were after the Xbox Days and its been 2 years since then. But yeah I know where the MS logo came from; with his involvement with XNA.
Dust: An Elysian Tail Hits 1 Million Sales, Linux Stats Included
By Liam Dawe, 3 March 2014 at 9:39 pm UTC
Quoting: leillo1975
Quoting: Half-Shot
Quoting: leillo1975I bought this game last week and think it's really good. It's strange to see the logo of Microsoft in my Ubuntu.
Tell me about it, I was worried for a second... then relaxed when I saw the D:AET logo :)
Editor: Microsoft Studios (XBOX Live Arcade)

Was that a note to me as the editor? I don't get what you're wanting?
Toy Soldiers: Complete May Come To Linux If The Interest Is There
By Liam Dawe, 3 March 2014 at 9:38 pm UTC
Quoting: leillo1975You can show your support to a Linux Version in this post:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/262120/discussions/0/540734792339498446/

That post was linked as the source link FYI.
Starbound Has A Huge Content Update
By , 3 March 2014 at 9:34 pm UTC
I'd just love to be able to play my copy. Maybe next year it becomes available to people who don't use Steam. What's a couple of years between friends, right? AKA The Story of How I Never Preordered Another Indie Game Again.
Dust: An Elysian Tail Hits 1 Million Sales, Linux Stats Included
By leillo1975, 3 March 2014 at 9:19 pm UTC
Quoting: Half-Shot
Quoting: leillo1975I bought this game last week and think it's really good. It's strange to see the logo of Microsoft in my Ubuntu.
Tell me about it, I was worried for a second... then relaxed when I saw the D:AET logo :)

Editor: Microsoft Studios (XBOX Live Arcade)
Toy Soldiers: Complete May Come To Linux If The Interest Is There
By leillo1975, 3 March 2014 at 9:14 pm UTC
You can show your support to a Linux Version in this post:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/262120/discussions/0/540734792339498446/
Dust: An Elysian Tail Hits 1 Million Sales, Linux Stats Included
By , 3 March 2014 at 6:31 pm UTC
so about 30k to 70k copy's sold for Linux? i know i get it from the humble bundle store
Toy Soldiers: Complete May Come To Linux If The Interest Is There
By , 3 March 2014 at 6:25 pm UTC
haha now i know why the thread has taken off ;)
Dust: An Elysian Tail Hits 1 Million Sales, Linux Stats Included
By Half-Shot, 3 March 2014 at 6:01 pm UTC
Quoting: HadBabitsGot this a while back. Very pretty, but the writing and voice acting became unbearable. I came off with the impression that this is for anime fans.
I didn't think it was thaaaat bad. I think the story could have dome with some more polish, a bit more linking together and following up on previous events but I felt the voice acting was plenty good enough for a indie game, one which didn't actually have plans for voice acting until MS requested it.
Dust: An Elysian Tail Hits 1 Million Sales, Linux Stats Included
By Half-Shot, 3 March 2014 at 5:59 pm UTC
Quoting: leillo1975I bought this game last week and think it's really good. It's strange to see the logo of Microsoft in my Ubuntu.
Tell me about it, I was worried for a second... then relaxed when I saw the D:AET logo :)
Dust: An Elysian Tail Hits 1 Million Sales, Linux Stats Included
By , 3 March 2014 at 5:27 pm UTC
Well I purchased it, but haven't even installed it yet.

from the bundle:

About 10 to 12% from linux.

$2,220,309.00 = ~220k

almost 473,000+ bundles sold.

so That could be like 40k linux users.

As for Steam, would probably be like ~400k copies sold since launch. Probably like ~100k copies on the Humble store.

Add all and you get ~1M copies sold.
Toy Soldiers: Complete May Come To Linux If The Interest Is There
By scaine, 3 March 2014 at 5:02 pm UTC
I can't stand Wine. I've had precisely zero success with it, except for a vaguely disappointing success with Half-Life 2 years and years ago. I'm not interested in investing hours of my time for a second-rate experience. If there's no native client, I won't be buying it.

And yep, I have to agree with Minj - if the dev hasn't done their research on their target markets, it shouldn't be on us to say "yes, please" over and over. The need for that approach is diminishing rapidly and unless it's a AAA title that I'm desperate for, I'm not going to play the begging game.
Star Conflict Beautiful Space MMO Looks Like It May Come To Linux
By Roman0, 3 March 2014 at 4:55 pm UTC
TotalBiscuit's first impression of Star Conflict, if someone's interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-lOWGFoMUU
Toy Soldiers: Complete May Come To Linux If The Interest Is There
By , 3 March 2014 at 4:48 pm UTC
Added to this the fact that if there is no Linux offer, how can you be sure that there's an interest?

I often read :"Only 1% of our players are running Linux. It's not enough to release a Linux client."

This 1% of players must be running Wine then. In this case 1% is awesome! It's not everybody that likes to tweak wine to get a game running.
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