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game looks fun. why does the player/ship looks like a teapot?  ;)

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i'm interested. just hope the thing will install without going to dependencies hell....   :)

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This game looks really cool!  What a neat concept!

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Larger games like those cost more to make, in terms of both time and resources, especially for an indie. Puzzle and platform games are a bit cheaper and easier to make - especially nowadays, when people seem to only want to pay a dollar or two for a game. At that price, all I can afford to make anymore are Pong clones.

Still, I've been considering making a RPG. People seem to be willing to pay more for those. But I'm concerned about the time it would take me to make the kind of game I want to make. It takes me 2 years just to make a single Dirk Dashing platformer game!

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It can be a bitch keeping a Wiki up and still making it open to everybody. I have the Recent Changes page for some of mine permanently open from my browser just so I can keep an eye on things. ><

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Thanks! ^_^

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The problem is in my eyes 90% of indie games are very very similair maybe not in setting but in terms of general gameplay, like we have had a massive influx of puzzle and platform, but not many good RPG, RTS or FPS games.

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Hmm that's annoying, I have removed that then. Hopefully the other measures will still help (no one but me can create pages now). So if anyone wants a page they will have to ask me to put it up.

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Quoting: KIAazeBut the main thing I'm surprised about, is that they never got onto Desura, except for a small announcement there, i.e. no game page.

Releasing on Desura might not have helped their sales. My Dirk Dashing and Rick Rocket games have had minimal sales on Desura, despite generally positive comments and reviews.

I agree more promotion might have helped, but it seems to be a lot harder for indie games to get exposure these days - at least in my experience. They might very well have been submitting their game to various sites, like I have, but running into the same result I have been - nobody wants to report on my games.

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Liam, I see you already deleted all the spam pages on the wiki but you may have to reconsider some banning you did, because now I can't edit the crowdfunding page, nor create an account. When trying to do any of those things it says my IP has been blocked by DNSBL:

QuoteYour username or IP address has been blocked.

The block was made by DNSBL. The reason given is Your IP address is listed as an open proxy in the DNSBL used by GamingOnLinux.com Linux Games Wiki..

I'm connecting from Barcelona (Spain), and IIRC some of the junk pages were about holidays in Spain, so that could well be the origin of the spam.

Could you please do something to refine the ban so I can continue editing the wiki? If you need my IP or details about my ISP we can discuss it via PM. ;)

Thanks!

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I'm in

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Strategy games always appeal. Count me in.

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Ha, finally had a chance to go to steam greenlight, I'm voting despite being turned off by 3 typos in their own trailer.

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I really hope they do make it!  I am going to make an attempt to play their open beta right now...we'll see if it works.

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In many countries a dynamic IP is used (the IP in my house changes every time I reboot unless I actually buy and pay a monthly fee for a static IP).

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Wow, when I checked yesterday they were around the $125,000 mark, so in a few hours they've managed to gather another $25,000. At this pace they'll make it for sure!

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Hmm I will look at deleting them and banning every author of those pages :)

I have locked the wiki front page to admin only so at least that won't get botched.

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By the way, there also seems to be an awful lot of spam pages on the Gaming Wiki. I discovered them by clicking the Random page link.

Maybe you should make the wiki editable only by registered users?

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Hmm i need to ad getting IP on comments so i can ban that IP next time it tries it...

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Those bots/spammers are getting smarter ;)
Hope my posts helped a bit, I see you got some new hosts suggestions on reddit and you even tried one: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/17fij5/4_days_left_to_fund_gamingonlinux_hosting/
Hope your new host will be cheaper and better.

BTW yesterday I have received yet another offer from a casino site to post their banner for a year on LGN.
But I guess they didn't agree for my offer of a modest $100,000 a year ;) (I'm tired of declining their offers all the time).

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Quoting: alexThunderSeems legit. Still, I think he could have told this earlier.

Completely agree.  Lots of developers don't "get" Kickstarter.  They aren't sure if us backers are "pre-order forum denizens" or "mini publishers".  They don't want to "dump boring technical details on us" for some reason... and in reply, a dozen backers will post comments stating that they, too, are programmers, and would like all the low-level details that the developer is willing to provide!

I tossed him a few dollars... I hope he keeps us in the loop, technically.  It looks like it might make it now (they need another $50K in four days, not remotely unheard-of on Kickstarter), and I'd be interested in some updates regarding the pitfalls of porting a complex and stylized GUI from Unity3D v3.5 to v4.0... then I can pass on pointers and tips to other developers interested in porting to Linux! :)

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Done!  Hopefully, this is what Digitilus needs to build a really solid piece of the puzzle... perhaps they can build on this momentum, and this code, to get a more sizeable Kickstarter (or their own crowd-funding platform on their website) up to the required levels to get SKYJACKER completed.

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Quoting: HamishThis makes it more in-line with LGP's prices. Wondering when we will get more from either of them out on Desura?

Hamish, I've been in contact with Runesoft (last September), and they claimed that their path forward will depend on how well Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood, and their other two Desura games (Airline Tycoon Deluxe & Cultures: Northland) do.  Those are both priced, currently, at $14.99 USD.  I got the impression that they're seeing reasonably good success in their "porting-to-Mac" business, and are ready to return to their Linux roots, but that their resources are constricted somehow.  They have stated that if these releases do well enough, they'll be bringing the Ankh games (including one which has never been on Linux) and a new Jack Keane game they're working on.

For what it's worth, I think it's their porting engineer ("rettichschnidi") on Desura who is supporting customers directly, on the game's comment thread.  He seems like a nice guy, and has posted a public bug tracker for customer reports (as opposed to a faceless contact form, or worse... nothing).[url=http://www.desura.com/members/rettichschnidi][/url]

I have no further knowledge beyond that, but they must know that these releases are long in the tooth (64-bit ports are out of the question), and that response amongst even the most devoted fans will be somewhat lukewarm compared to a new game.  I hope that information is factored in to their expectations (or perhaps they're hoping that sales of those three games would, ideally, break even on the cost of updating/patching and earn enough to pay for the porting cost of new games).

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I bought this game, but am constantly turned off by the ridiculously long intro level.

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Is €4500 at all that bad for a _first episode_ of a pixel side-scroller with little promotion, without iOS/Android version, without Desura, without HIB (or any other indie bundle), without Steam?

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Thank you very much!

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I was having problems trying to donate through the Indiegogo page so I just sent my contribution directly to you.

Long live GoL! :)

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No game will "Just Work" but the ones on Desura are updated. I'm betting any pirate version would have been an old one, also we don't support piracy here if you are going to mention it be sure not to link to anywhere.

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I've played this game on Linux (pirated) and its a great game but very VERY unnestable, so I wouldn't recommend buying it. I've tried the same binaries in Kubuntu 12.04 and it didn't work at all. Right now, I would buy it (I've been buying a lot of games recently) but only if I have a warranty that it will actually work (and without breaking)

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Quoting: GanooToo bad they didn't go for the humble bundle submission, it could have saved them.

I feel as if in this case the lack of promotion killed them.

Too bad they didn't win the lottery, that was stupid of them! The Humble Bundle is probably the most difficult platform to get on, Steam is easy compared to that, even before Greenlight.

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