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I would rather see a LGPL2 Project to reverse-engineer Deus Ex.

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I checked itch.io recently and got overwhelmed for the odd stuff available for Linux. There has to be some hidden gems there.

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I'd like to see a nice d-pad. the rest looks good.

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Steve Ballmer got hold of the original innovative design and added buttons...

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"/home/username/"

You mean ~ ? :P

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wow

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I tried the demo and had no issues with text or the camera, so either the issue's fixed or I'm unaffected.

It's pretty neat, I'll probably purchase once it comes out.

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I'd be more excited if the rooster of characters wouldn't be almost exclusively male, and the only female one cleavage almost bouncing out of her top -.-

Not really surprised though, considering the whole team is only male, but still...

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for some reason when I play the demo none of the text shows up, but everything else works fine. Does anyone know a fix for this

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ermagawd those visuals

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I was terribly disappointed that the kickstarter was over before I could chip in, but definitely looking for to this :D

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Quoting: OrkultusI like how they make Linux a stretch goal, and say they dont have money / time / resources, but they replied to a comment on their kickstarter about tablet versions.

"We think this game would be awesome for mobile tablets. It's definitely on our priority list once we get past our initial funding target!"

This not needing a stretch goal.

That dosen't really mean that they are going to do it ither, for all we know that could mean the put it up as another stretch goal.

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Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: liamdaweFrom what I know only one guy is doing the Linux ports at RuneSoft, so don't expect quick releases.

It is actually at least two people, both of which are also involved with the liflg project.

Not currently, I speak to RuneSoft almost daily behind the scenes ;)

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I so cant wait for this...

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I like how they make Linux a stretch goal, and say they dont have money / time / resources, but they replied to a comment on their kickstarter about tablet versions.

"We think this game would be awesome for mobile tablets. It's definitely on our priority list once we get past our initial funding target!"

This not needing a stretch goal.

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Quoting: liamdaweFrom what I know only one guy is doing the Linux ports at RuneSoft, so don't expect quick releases.

It is actually at least two people, both of which are also involved with the liflg project.

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Ahhh, I remember visiting #rwr on Quakenet and nagging pasik, the RWR developer about Linux port :)

I totally support this one, it is hella entertaining, especially with friends, I played it quite much few versions ago. And the dev is a great guy really, always open and supporting towards community.

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The problem with stretch goals is that if you support the game based on Linux version promised as a stretch goal, and this goal is not reached, then you're left without money and without the game...

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Quoting: minjPlatform stretch goals?

Not unless they are reached early or you have access to other platforms that are supported.
Stretch goals should be used for perks. Being able to play a game is not a perk.

I read that due to high demand for Linux they atleast moved Linux support to the first stretch tier, so atleast the devs seem to care even if it would have been much nicer that they just had it right away.

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Almost like a proper version of BladeRunner - The Game!
I can't wait to play it.
Great job already.

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Platform stretch goals?

Not unless they are reached early or you have access to other platforms that are supported.
Stretch goals should be used for perks. Being able to play a game is not a perk.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: maokeiLover the art style! This could endup being a really cool game im not sure If I want to contribute yet though 88k is the streetch goal for Linux, "Hopefully" it will be reached otherwise it would be a waste of my money and time.

Well their current trending is to over 200K, so once it reaches 88K be sure to chip in ;)

I can garantee you that I will :) I just wanna vote for Linux with my wallet :)

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Quoting: maokeiLover the art style! This could endup being a really cool game im not sure If I want to contribute yet though 88k is the streetch goal for Linux, "Hopefully" it will be reached otherwise it would be a waste of my money and time.

Well their current trending is to over 200K, so once it reaches 88K be sure to chip in ;)

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Lover the art style! This could endup being a really cool game im not sure If I want to contribute yet though 88k is the streetch goal for Linux, "Hopefully" it will be reached otherwise it would be a waste of my money and time.

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Quoting: micmonThis only seems to solve the problem of game storage. The more interesting thing is to also share the savegames and settings which is easily possible on Linux. This way all of Steam can be put on an external drive and be used on multiple PCs.

Well, most games on Steam store any configuration (in-game) settings under the Steam folder designated as your default Download location, which is the location I utilize. There are odd-ball games like Organ Trail that stores some configuration details in a weirdly buried folder (~/.config/unity3d/TheMenWhoWearManyHats/Organ Trail). But, Organ Trail was not developed with Steam originally in mind, nor did they make full effort to make it to be configured easily in this regard. So, with Organ Trail, I need to venture to that weird configuration folder to even make it go to fullscreen mode in Linux (any distro), as you cannot do so via the game's GUI. So, I need to configure Organ Trail twice in both distros. I just want to remind everyone that Organ Trail in this situation does not follow the standard Steam file structure, therefore ~95% of your Steam games will work in sync by both distros if you follow my advice.

To repeat what I mentioned in the how-to, I advise you to not share the Steam client files themselves across two distros. This can lead to stability problems, simply because each disto manages things like their library files and core system programs (e.g., GCC) very differently (the Linux programming libraries, not the Steam 'Library' of games).

This is true regarding how Fedora and Ubuntu manage their distro as a whole. Fedora is more bleeding edge, so you usually have the latest of everything, but Fedora is not as extensively tested as Ubuntu. Likewise, Ubuntu typically has older libraries and core system programs. Just compare and contrast the repos between the various Linux distros, you'll see what I mean (and pick two distros different from each other, not Ubuntu and Mint).

Thus, even though this may be technically possible to do, most people today warn others to never share a /home directory or a program directly across two different distros (unless you compile and package everything yourself for such programs). Yes, there was a time where many said such a set up was good practice, but you are only asking for problems. Hence is the reason for my data partition that I called SweetData.

In the case of Steam, it may not be a big deal as the flagship .deb package created by Valve, for Ubuntu/Debian, gets repackaged into different package formats (.rpm [Fedora/RHEL], .tgz [Slackware], .pkg.tar.xz [Arch]) by lots of volunteers as Steam is a popular program. But you are depending on these volunteers to do so and, moreover, even if a new .tgz package may exist for Slackware, it may not get uploaded in a timely fashion to the Slackware repositories because these newer Steam packages often depend on other packages (and each Linux repo is normally vastly different). This may be a bad example, as I haven't used Slackware for ages, so they may have what Steam needs all the time, but the idea is valid since Valve does not maintain the other package formats, nor do they interact with any other distro (officially) other than Ubuntu. Also, you may get away with less problems with sharing Steam like this, as it does not have that many dependencies. But, I still warn you to not do this.

A better example would be regarding other common applications people might use, such as LibreOffice. If you share your LibreOffice configuration files between Fedora and Ubuntu, you will most likely have issues eventually. The LibreOffice version in the Fedora repo is newer and it is older in Ubuntu's repo. So, even the configuration files for LibreOffice, not the full program itself, could have complications as newer programs eventually switch to newer designs of their configuration files. It may not happen often, but like the famous phase illustrates, “The only constant in life is change.”

Moreover, if you directly share your latest Fedora version of LibreOffice, meaning the WHOLE program into Ubuntu (akin to the Steam client), I would be very surprised if LibreOffice would work correctly. This is because, on Fedora, this shared LibreOffice would be happy with its newer dependencies (which has MANY dependencies), but Ubuntu would not have these newer dependencies installed (via the default Ubuntu repos) and LibreOffice would likely fail to operate or run at all, as Ubuntu would be trying to reference newer library requests which may not have such programming functions defined in the older libraries.

So, what I am advocating (using LibreOffice as an analogy) is NOT to share LibreOffice Writer (the MS Word equivalent) directly between both distros, but to share your Writer documents themselves (.odt, .docx, .doc). Though, in the Steam client example, your game files are what takes up most of the space, not the client itself. Yes, you will lose an extra 1 GB of space to store another client on your secondary distro, but how much pain is this in today's sense of storage reality?

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Quoting: LinuxianThanks RuneSoft for bringing up new games to Linux through Desura. I wondered why the developers were quite silent on ongoing projects that seem dead today. Just look at their page :
https://bitbucket.org/runesoftdev/

Games still to be released :
- Ankh
- Ankh 2
- Anlh 3
- Pinball 3D
- Knight & Merchants

Hopefully they will be released soon (or never ?)

From what I know only one guy is doing the Linux ports at RuneSoft, so don't expect quick releases.

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As I have been told myself: "More is on the way but sadly one day only has 24 hours."

The guys working on the Linux releases have a lot on their plates, so it is best to be patient.

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Don't forget Rome Total War 2 that will be released in 2014!
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/11/total-war-rome-ii-coming-linux-early-next-year

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This only seems to solve the problem of game storage. The more interesting thing is to also share the savegames and settings which is easily possible on Linux. This way all of Steam can be put on an external drive and be used on multiple PCs.

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