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Quoting: KIAazeI still haven't gotten Anomaly to run on my PC, but I'm really happy to see this new fully-DRM-free fully-GNU/Linux weekly bundle. :)
Looks like I will have to try getting it to run again.

Run flawlessly out of the box for me (Ubuntu 12.10 64bit). However, I had some troubles getting Funky Smugglers to work. It complained about not finding libcurl-gnutls.so.4, and since the game is distributed as a 32bit binary it seems to require to 32bit version of that library. In my system I only have the 64bit version in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ so it refused to run. Until I created a symlink to a random 32bit library and it magically worked! The only problem is that the game crashed afterwards once I finished my first play. I didn't try it anymore and I don't have access to my regular PC right now so I cannot test it further.

Anyone else had problems with that game?

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Updated the article again to include a new bundle on Amazon's Indie Games section and to speculate about the new Build A Bundle that's coming after all.

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Quoting: s_dWell, we do have our own resident Linux gaming Let's Player, here in the community!  His name is Sabun, and if you haven't checked out any of his longish LP's, you ought:  http://www.youtube.com/user/PenguinRecordings

Ehem... ;)

By the way, LP's are usually a full playthrough (or a series of videos for endless games like Minecraft etc) rather than a brief look (even if the video is 40-50 minutes).

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Retweeted! :)

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Just as an aside for the gog purchasers.  You can get a steam key from the unepic site http://www.unepicgame.com/en/myzone.php .  You can get your serial number on your gog games page.  Assuming that once it get ported it will be available on steam.  I know its a round about way,  but until gog lets us get the linux binaries somehow its something.

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Quoting: Mike FrettReal nice thing you're doing there Liam, It's why this is my favorite site. ;)

Thanks I do try :)

Quoting: EtamIf I do it on identi.ca, do I have a chance to win?

Afraid not.

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If I do it on identi.ca, do I have a chance to win?

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Real nice thing you're doing there Liam, It's why this is my favorite site. ;)

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I still haven't gotten Anomaly to run on my PC, but I'm really happy to see this new fully-DRM-free fully-GNU/Linux weekly bundle. :)
Looks like I will have to try getting it to run again.

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Quoting: s_d(...)
Anyway, Unepic looks like a pretty cool, and very weird, Castlevania-ish RPG w/roguelike elements.  I've heard it's pretty funny, too, but that the humour is "quirky" (or something?).

I recommend it heartily to anyone. I finished the demo version on Wine (works great!) and absolutely loved it!

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Quoting: HyeronWelp, the only problem is... "A friend" of theirs has been "going to port" the game to Linux (as stated on their page and in this article) for AGES now (IIRC over a year). So I wouldn't hold my breath until I see actual proof.

(don't get me wrong, I'd love to see it happen. I just DON'T see it happening any time soon or late)

FINAL EDIT: Close enough. August the 3rd, 2012 according to the Wayback Machine.

Hmm, I thought it was much more. In November 2012 I exchanged few emails with Fran (Unepic developer) about the Linux port. It was like:

Quote2012/11/30 ***ME, HARDPENGUIN***
Hello there.

Some time passed since information that Unepic is gonna be ported to Linux got spread. That info is still present in Unepic website. So... How is the works progress? Is Unepic on Linux gonna happen anytime soon?


Best regards,
HardPenguin

30.11.2012 15:43, Francisco tellez de meneses wrote:


Hello,

You are right, I have to update news about Linux.
I the guy that was supposed to port the game did not port it due to lack of time. I have recently contacted another one who could do it, but it asking some money. Since the game did not sell enought, I can't afford this cost but today Steam will say who are the next 10 games to be selected, Unepic is #9 in GreenLIght. If Unepic is selected I will be capable to deal with him and have the game ported.

I must publish this. Will do next monday.

So the facts are: he still cares about porting Unepic and did not change his mind about that. From what we see, Greenlight was the priority and perhaps since the game got it the port will come in next weeks after the game will be released - and not only as Steam Early Access, but full featured version. However, the game won't go outside Early Access until they will finish multiplayer mode (currently in beta).

We are really looking forward for Linux release!

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Nope, the sound was fine all the time until it crashed. About the core dump I'm sorry, I was only testing the game and I deleted everything aftwerwards. :(

I didn't know you were involved with AGS, I'll make sure to keep any future core dump I get (and I'll pester you about any bug I find :D).

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Quoting: muntdefems

Quoting: s_dUnless people hit that audio corruption bug w/Pulse... :(

Hmm... How does that bug work? Does it occur randomly? Because yesterday after testing the Richard and Alice demo I also had a go at Primordia and I got a core dump as a result of some sort of audio crash. I restarted the game and it happily didn't crash at the same point again.

The corruption bug sounds like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrdhuNOOuO8

We haven't seen a crash to core dump due to audio trouble, though.  That's new :(

I don't suppose the core dump came from an unstripped build with debug symbols (i.e., you could fire up gdb on the core file and PM me a stack trace?)

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Quoting: s_dUnless people hit that audio corruption bug w/Pulse... :(

Hmm... How does that bug work? Does it occur randomly? Because yesterday after testing the Richard and Alice demo I also had a go at Primordia and I got a core dump as a result of some sort of audio crash. I restarted the game and it happily didn't crash at the same point again.

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Quoting: SslaxxWadjet Eye's Primordia is *also* an AGS game and thus the bit about the native AGS Linux runtime you mention with Richard and Alice applies there, too.

Unless people hit that audio corruption bug w/Pulse... :(

But that's neither here nor here, and will be resolved eventually, I promise!

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Article updated to include:

· Confirmation that Richard & Alice can be played with the AGS Linux port.

· The new Indiebundle.org's Deadly Dungeons Bundle.

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Yep.  GoG.com is not our friend, unfortunately.  Not yet, anyway.  It's simply the best (and often, only) way to buy Good Old Games... but less so, Good Not-So-Old Indies :P

I like their attitude, and would welcome them as another Linux game distributor, should they ever bother to listen to all of the folks voting for Linux support on their wishlist!

Anyway, Unepic looks like a pretty cool, and very weird, Castlevania-ish RPG w/roguelike elements.  I've heard it's pretty funny, too, but that the humour is "quirky" (or something?).

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Welp, the only problem is... "A friend" of theirs has been "going to port" the game to Linux (as stated on their page and in this article) for AGES now (IIRC over a year). So I wouldn't hold my breath until I see actual proof.

(don't get me wrong, I'd love to see it happen. I just DON'T see it happening any time soon or late)

FINAL EDIT: Close enough. August the 3rd, 2012 according to the Wayback Machine.

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A dish this hint out to all Linux users: Do not buy any newer games on gog.com leave them for really old titles that have no chance of a port.

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Damn, now I regret buying it on GOG :(:(:(

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Well you guys are lucky left it running for 20mins and it never started

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Alright, I edited the article as it could certainly be confusing the way it was before.

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Wadjet Eye's Primordia is *also* an AGS game and thus the bit about the native AGS Linux runtime you mention with Richard and Alice applies there, too.

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Quoting: s_dSadly, you were correct, Munt :(

What do you mean? The Be Mine 8 mysterious game? Well, it turned out to be Primordia, which technically is a Windows-only game but can be played using the AGS Linux port nonetheless.

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Quoting: s_dMuntdefems, something I didn't notice before is that you've mentioned Richard & Alice as AGS games which need the Linux interpreter to run, but you didn't mention that for the Blackwell Chronicles games nor for Primordia, which are in the same situation.

Well I didn't mention it this time around, but I did for sure in both the #3 and #4 issues.

Quoting: s_dAlso, regarding Richard & Alice, I'm contacting the devs to ask them what tool they use to package those installers.

Thanks! If all else fails, I guess it could be easily installed with Wine but I can't really bother to try it... :P

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Hehe, turns out this particular game has been on my list since it was launched on Indiegogo and I always felt bad about not featuring it in the crowdfunding column. I'll try to put things right with the next one.

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s_d, rest assured that I won't turn this column into a spreadsheet with numbers and dates (we've already got the wiki for that), I'll only talk about a slightly reduced number of games. I.e. before I made a note for every single campaign that was not outright shit, and then I had to go over all of them again before deciding which ones to pick and write about. This week I've been far more selective right from the start and the current list of noteworthy games is way shorter than before, so I expect to be able to start writing short reviews right away without any further research. But yeah, let's see how this one goes and we'll have time to judge afterwards. ;)


Wow, thanks Speedster! And also thank you (both) for helping me with the wiki! ^_^

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I hope it works out OK for this guy;  I picked up a key for this deal :)

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Quoting: kozecAhem... can I do little "adversing" here?
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And... well, to put it short, I pledged on indiegogo and dev later sent me thanking mail.
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So maybe some of you here can check it and vote on greenlight or something. I really don't believe there are only 4 people liking this kind of games.

So, this column is actually for super cheap deals & bundles, but there is a column on this site specifically for promoting crowd-funded game campaigns!  It's called The Funding Crowd.  Fortunately, the same person does both, and may read these comments.  If so, he might add Inverto to the list for the next issue.

Hmm... A Greenlight Spotlight sounds like another useful column.  It could probably be coupled with any new Desura Alpha-Funding games for Linux (since they achieve similar goals in the end).  I wonder if we could convince avarisclari to run a column like that, here, since he practically did it on his blog once already:  http://acbignews.blogspot.com/2013/06/small-news-greelight.html

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I'll try to give a shot at updates for this week's batch on Sunday, to give you some time to incorporate and tweak as desired. Let's see how that goes!

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