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Quoting: DrMcCoyWhile I love icculus for what he's doing, why isn't he answering mails? O_o

Because he is busy with porting?

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I do wish people would stop saying ~PC~ when they actually mean ~Windows~.

Hey devs, I'm using a ~PC~, it just has ~Linux~ on it.

*grumble grumble*

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While I love icculus for what he's doing, why isn't he answering mails? O_o

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Also very annoying that we have to run after the developers to actually tell us what happens, at least us non-backers. Apparently, the information was inside a backer update, but why make that a backer-exclusive information and not tell anyone else? :/

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It's sad that we get treated like a second class citizen still.

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They've been saying this about Cognition, too. And the forthcoming Gabriel Knight game. I am... decidedly sceptical about this.

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now they got my attention. They'l probably be the digital distributor of my choice soon.

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nice ;-)

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Here, here bones. Good to see a voice of reason amongst the drivel.

No doubt Spock would deem the selling to Bookface as a logical choice, yet as we proved to him in countless episodes, logic does not always dictate the greater outcome.

I can see great harm coming to the ability of any such future endeavours of this sort on kickstarter.

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I'm really enjoying this news ! Finally some good Linux native FPS games !

Since Quake Live is no more "native" (you have to run it through wine) and it's like ten years old... I'm willing something new ! :)

This game might be really fun !

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I played the original quite a lot and watched a few videos on the sequel; definitely will be buying once they have a date.

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I'm playing some of the BBS levels every now and then - some of them are actually quite good :-)

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Quoting: liamdawe"Although Valve's Source Engine 2 should be using OpenGL directly rather than some sort of translation layer."

Hi Liam, do you have a source for this (or anyone else)?

Quoting: philip550c

Quoting: ....some one needs to make a OpenGL>DX for Xbone so developers can no longer fear not being able to develop for Xbone

Does the Xbone not support opengl?

Ha, M$ has been restricting their XBox platforms to use DX/D3D for quite some time now (like all of them), which is why a lot of developers used DX to start off with - they wanted to go on XBoxes. M$ obviously did this to try and lock people into their own proprietary rendering engine with D3D as opposed to OpenGL (and similarly DX vs SDL).

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YEAH, Goat time!

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QuoteGetting tired of Unity and their engine crap.

It's not the fault of Unity3D! I've personally used Unity, and besides a few differences in how it handles textures between the OS's, it really is just click to Export. These developers are the ones waiting till the last minute to click that button and then do QA for Linux.

Don't bite the hand that feeds. They may not have a native Linux editor, but we sure as hell wouldn't have the library of games we have now if not for Unity3D. Give them time. If CryEngine and Unreal decide to bring their editors to linux natively (and not an empty promise), then I'm sure the folks at Unity3D will feel the pressure and do the same.

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Quoting: GuestIncredipede works fine in Firefox. It’s pretty and original, but possibly tedious.

Defender’s Quest does not start.

Offspring Fling tried to use a non-existant « sensible-browser » command, but you can just open the swf in Firefox… It works but the keys cannot be remapped which is not ideal. Also it looks bad.

Neo Scavenger works… but it changes parts of my desktop background on other workspaces and also some parts of Offspring Fling (if I run the two games at the same time on different workspaces).

Anodyne wants to install Adobe AIR in /opt… not sure I want that.

No problem with Magical Diary and Planet Stronghold (ren'py games).

(Arch Linux 64 bit, nvidia blob)

Defender's Quest is in Adobe Air. Archwiki explains how to run such programs on Arch Linux here. Basically, install adobe-air-sdk, and run /opt/adobe-air-sdk/bin/adl -nodebug Air-app-directory/META-INF/AIR/application.xml Air-app-directory/
I actually uploaded AUR packages for Defender's Quest and its demo version a while ago. They are probably out of date though.

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I liked the look of the game when I saw it on Greenlight, but they were giving out keys in exchange for votes and I consider that bad practice.

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Quoting: HamishWell, after going through this thread I built my Roccat wishlist:
http://products.ncix.com/detail/roccat-kave-roc-14-500-real-5-1-c3-63947-1360.htm
http://products.ncix.com/detail/roccat-kone-xtd-turbo-core-79-79158-1360.htm
http://products.ncix.com/detail/roccat-alumic-roc-13-400-anodized-aluminum-15-63946-1360.htm
http://products.ncix.com/detail/roccat-ryos-mk-pro-cherry-5f-87110.htm

Shame I will never be able to afford them... :S

That mouse and keyboard combination makes everything so much better. I love them. I find myself using the blue side more.

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Glad Leadwerks is coming out on Monday. Getting tired of Unity and their engine crap. Soon we will be seeing Native day 1 game releases on Linux that just work. CANT WAIT! I myself have no experience with game creation, but i will be purchasing leadwerks to start learning.

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Also available at ShinyLoot.

EDIT: And yes, I like to check the shops from time to time :D

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Quoting: RobertAlso available at FireFlower.

Thanks, updated!

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Also available at FireFlower.

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Heh, thanks. Now they got a tweet each from both of us. :P

I wasn't quite as civil as you, though.

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Okay I have poked them too: https://twitter.com/gamingonlinux/status/450036758550691840

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And relatedly, on a down-side again:

No Linux demo for Moebius here, and the Moebius website now only says:

QuoteRelease Date: April 15th, 2014 (PC, Mac)
Coming Soon: iOS, Android

And that despite the Moebius kickstarter campaign passing the $400,000 Linux stretch goal.

Combine that with the GK1 remake kerfuffle, and I'm angry.

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Hellz yeah!

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This game looks soooooo good.
I supported it several years ago (Humble Voxatron Bundle).
Think it will take some more years until it finally hit the shelves. :D
(Yes, I know it's already playable and has some community stuff)

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Grml...

Relatedly, on the somewhat up-side, there this: https://twitter.com/larianstudios/status/449580328093761536

Divinity: Original Sin is currently on early access on Steam, Windows-only. In a Kickstarter update a few months ago, they said they're working on the Mac version; it'll be up soon. And now they said, Linux will come right after that, which should be also relatively soon, hopefully.

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Yay! :)

I was already a bit miffed when I saw there's no Linux support for this game.

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Quoting: MinkihnSo the mysterious Unreal Engine 3 title he was working on only proves to be a cheap sandbox game. Disappointing...

Who says it is this game ;)

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