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The thing is this would not be the first time that a Kickstarter were to fail for having too high an asking price to be suitable for the platform. I am thinking of Interstellar Marines here, which got a lot of money and a lot of contributors but threw it all away by having too high an asking price. Certain games take a lot of money to develop yes, but there is only so much one can reasonable expect to get from Kickstarter. That is my fear with this, but they still could hit it if they get the word out enough.

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Thanks again to everyone who has been purchasing! Yesterday, I broke my all-time record for the most sales in 1 day, and I'm already half-way to that mark today (and it's only 10:30 AM here on the west coast of the USA).

Over 50% of my sales yesterday and today have been for the Linux version. So far, I've only posted the news here on GOL, and updated the game's LGDB listing. So I'm pretty sure my surge in sales has had a lot to do with you folks here. So thank you!

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I do like me some Legend of Grimrock. Im not sure about this one.

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@Hamish

Actually, considering the average budget for games this size I think its relatively modest and given the short history of this team (Scratches...so far) its realistic. They are at the 52% mark now. Remember that Death, Inc (Also being made for Linux) is asking for 300k POUNDS! From the looks of the campaign progress there, odds of success seem very low. At best I think they'll only get 50% of that. I think Asylum game is worth investing in because these guys have what appears to high level development and unlike most Kickstarter game projects, has a chance of being released on time (4 years of work, nearly done it seems), and their goal is actually within reach. (Being from Argentina probably allows them to get better developers at lower rates. :D ). Anyway, my thoughts there.

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@RustyBroomhandle
Yes you are correct! And the funny thing is, I own them both.

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That's a mono problem, poke the folks at Tripwire/power of 2 to fix it/switch to monokickstart.

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Quoting: mentoriousDoesn't work


Quotefailed to start game (missing executables)

any ideas? I tried reinstalling but still no effect.

Oddly enough, I had to reinstall the whole of Steam to get it to properly download (maybe due to the switch from ~/.Steam to ~/.local/share/Steam ?).
For now it doesn't run on my machine either, I get a crash at startup (and apparently I'm not the only one).

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It looks ok but it's not worth the price for me.

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Quoting: Orkultuseh......

Not a fan of this one then? :P

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Ah yes it has a paid and F2P version (with purchasable addons).

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eh......

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Not Shivers, Scratches. :)

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Wow, I guess I didn't put to much effort into looking but the download site for Steam basically stated "oh you can download it here native client style, or you can use PoL." I will give that a go then! I suppose I've just been too lazy to try ;)

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am still running it 100% local in my ~/Steam, still prefer that to any package via packagemanager

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The relevant info for anybody who's looking for it (sourced from Steam/steam_install_agreement.txt):

Quote       B. Limited Redistribution License.  Valve hereby grants, and you accept, a limited, terminable, non-exclusive license to reproduce and distribute an unlimited number of copies of
the Program; provided that the following conditions are met:
        (i) you must distribute the Program in its entirety;

        (ii) you may not modify the Program, except that, in the case of the Linux version of the Program, you may modify scripts and other documentary and graphical files, but not any f
iles containing the term “bootstrap” in the file name, provided that you do not modify any icons, change any copyright or other notices, or alter this or any other license agreement that
 is included with the Program, and provided further that any modifications you make are identified by you as modifications from the original Program provided by Valve;

        (iii) you may repackage the Program and distribute it with another software program, provided that you do not integrate the Program in any way with that other software program, o
r combine the Program with that other software program in a manner that would require you to distribute the Program under any open source or other license terms different from these term
s.

        (iv) you may not charge any separate fee or receive any compensation attributable to the Program;

        (v) you must include this License Agreement provided with the Program and ensure that it will display and be required to be accepted by the end user in the same manner as is requ
ired by the Program in the form received by you; and

        (vi) you must preserve in all copies of the Program all copyright and legal notices that are attached to the copy of the Program received by you.

Kurremkarmerruk: The native client can only download/launch/update native games. The Windows client can only download/launch/update non-native games. You can generally assume that you'll get better performance/stability out of a native title than one run through Wine :)

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Doesn't work :'(

Quotefailed to start game (missing executables)

any ideas? I tried reinstalling but still no effect.

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@ s_d
How that IS news!! Right On!!

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Biggest news here (and under-reported) is that the team is open-sourcing the engine it is based on, called "Dagon".  It looks really cool!

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PoL is Play on Linux, a wine frontend.

@Kurremkarmerruk

The native steam client is just that... native. Has nothing to do with wine.

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Quoting: JoeOf course Apple didn't "invent" the term PC, it would be nonsense to say that and that's not what I meant. I meant that they took that term "PC" and re-purposed it to replace the name "Windows" which people used to use when they were talking about a PC running Windows.

I don't think it was a matter of Apple re-purposing the term's misuse, but instead embracing that other companies were pushing their products as being distinct from Apple's offering. They definitely didn't come up with the notion that an Apple computer is not a "PC".

Quoting: liamdaweYeah it happened for me too, thought it was odd all featured items being cross platform.

It's weird. On first load of the store page, I get mostly windows only titles showing up, but then after a reload, it's back to cross-platform only.

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What is "PoL"?

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You should have the ability to click on an author's profile.
On topic, downloading this now!  Very excited!

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As far as KS videos go, I loved this one!  These games really scare me, so I might support, but I don't know if I will play XD

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Yeah it actually has a F2P version I believe which probably has a limited number of modes or something.

Love that you put the TotalBiscuit WTF right in the post!  Great idea!

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I've had so much trouble with the Steam client through PoL.  I don't understand if there really is a difference between using PoL (or just WINE in general) and using the native client.  Does the native client still leverage WINE to run or is it really "native"?

Anyone tried the native client?

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It already is F2P, that's always been there.

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>2013
>linux

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Thanks!

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This was actually mentioned on GoL before in August 2011, but things went up in the air with it. Glad to see they are committing to a DRM free release as for awhile it looked like it was going to be Steam only. The goal is a little high though, but they probably will still hit it.

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Wonderful news!

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