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Leisure Suit Larry remake is coming to Linux!
By Cheeseness, 12 January 2013 at 2:47 pm UTC
Fantastic. I'll have to put that on Game Club's to-play list :D
The Sad State About Japanese Devs And Linux
By Cheeseness, 12 January 2013 at 2:43 pm UTC
Is this a dominant culture amongst Japanese developers, or just one dev who doesn't quite understand things (there are plenty of Western developers who think that there's no market for Linux games)?

Since they're talking about domestic (local) market, there's nothing any of us who aren't in Japan can do, I suspect.
Here's what I think - Organ Trail and the troubles of Steam Greenlight
By hardpenguin, 12 January 2013 at 12:48 pm UTC
Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 7598, member: 1"Send them a tweet about it, may help :)

What if I dont use Twitter? Nevermind probably, I spam their Desura profile regularly xd
The Journey Down: Chapter One adventure game released on Steam
By Cheeseness, 12 January 2013 at 3:01 am UTC
If anybody's interested, there's are chat logs from our Game Club sessions with developers Theo and Henrik from SkyGoblin here: http://www.doublefine.com/forums/viewthread/7662/
(sorry for the spam ^_^ )
The Journey Down: Chapter One adventure game released on Steam
By eldersnake, 12 January 2013 at 1:29 am UTC
+1, I bought and played it yesterday, it's a great little game.

Can't wait for part 2. Also ran flawlessly on my Arch box.
The Journey Down: Chapter One adventure game released on Steam
By Cheeseness, 12 January 2013 at 12:28 am UTC
This is a great game. I played it for the first time last year in preparation for Game Club. Very much looking forward to part 2.
The Journey Down: Chapter One adventure game released on Steam
By Bumadar, 11 January 2013 at 7:28 pm UTC
I loved this one, good humour and puzzles, got it via desura several months ago, well worth it if you like adventures. Looking forward to part 2
Here's what I think - Organ Trail and the troubles of Steam Greenlight
By Liam Dawe, 11 January 2013 at 7:23 pm UTC
Send them a tweet about it, may help :)
Here's what I think - Organ Trail and the troubles of Steam Greenlight
By hardpenguin, 11 January 2013 at 4:49 pm UTC
Quoting: "Bumadar, post: 7596, member: 93"got it on desura myself, it fun game, but i do hate the way you need to aim and shoot, i simply cant do it fast or really very good

Because it would be too easy if aiming was put in any simple way.

Organ Trail: I have it, is very nice. However I cant save/load the game in campaign mode. Said it to the developer, even sent an email, didnt get response. Few days later there was an update, but it didnt fix it to me.
Here's what I think - Organ Trail and the troubles of Steam Greenlight
By Bumadar, 11 January 2013 at 3:49 pm UTC
got it on desura myself, it fun game, but i do hate the way you need to aim and shoot, i simply cant do it fast or really very good
Forgotten Elements officially released
By , 10 January 2013 at 11:53 pm UTC
Thank you for posting, but I am fairly sure that I am missing something obvious. The downloaded file doesn't seem to be a Windows executable, tarball or other archive, or work with basic binary execution, with or without flagging it as an executable. Again, I'm fairly that I'm overlooking what any user would know. The OS here is Kubuntu 12.10.

Regards,
mc
GearCity An Automobile Manufacturing Business Simulator
By , 10 January 2013 at 8:48 pm UTC
Oh, there have been great car manufactoring simulations before, they are quite old (1993/1994) however :-)

Known to me are [URL='http://www.mobygames.com/game/detroit']Rüsselsheim[/URL] (aka Detroit) and [URL='http://www.mobygames.com/game/motor-city']Oldtimer[/URL] (aka Motor City). In fact the trailer looked exactly like Oldtimer with 3D graphics, and also most of the game description could be taken from this game ;)
Btw: The developers give credit to both of these games in their FAQ!
Steam working towards better supporting other distros!
By Bumadar, 10 January 2013 at 4:26 pm UTC
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/631

seems next update will sort of fix it a bit, as it will copy the bootstrap into the steam directory so no longer hardcoded with a path.

but yes, like you I wonder why they going down this road, lets hope they slowly notice it was not smart.

and software in general should not need root to be installed, there is no reason for it, and if you want to start package kit to add dependencies you can do a gui sudo box and explain why/what you want to do
Steam working towards better supporting other distros!
By berarma, 9 January 2013 at 11:57 pm UTC
I tried to share my thoughts in the Valve thread but I can't create an account because I can't install Steam. Please someone, tell me I'm wrong.

The recipe is simple, make a tar.gz with the Steam client and all needed libraries for both the Steam client and the games, including libraries needed by other libraries, everything down the software stack until you reach the kernel (excluded) or SDL (included). Anything under SDL is conveniently abstracted so it shouldn't matter what it is, and the kernel is completely binary compatible backwards. The Valve software would interface with the outer system thru SDL and the kernel. That's what SDL what's meant for, abstracting system details. Games developers wouldn't ever need to worry about distribution and version their game will run on, just worry about the library set Valve is providing. And our system and packages would be kept safe and under our control.

It'll be funny seeing how hard they can fail by messing with package managers and dependencies on multiple always changing distributions. Hehehe... :rolleyes:
Forgotten Elements officially released
By Liam Dawe, 9 January 2013 at 9:16 pm UTC
You need to click Play and then click in the checkbox to accept their terms of service, I will shoot the dev some advice on the website...
Forgotten Elements officially released
By , 9 January 2013 at 8:51 pm UTC
I do not see anywhere on the site where to download the client. So not sure what I am missing.
Forgotten Elements officially released
By Bumadar, 9 January 2013 at 7:09 pm UTC
that is mighty impressive as a single developer ! did a small test run, don't get music but for the rest its a fast game and looks pretty large and interesting :)
Valve's Gabe Newell confirms Steam Box!
By Gamerlv, 9 January 2013 at 5:07 pm UTC
This is great. Valve employ denies claims of a steambox while the CEO confirms it.
Guess the just want all the power we hamsters product running that rumor mill.
Steam working towards better supporting other distros!
By Bumadar, 9 January 2013 at 4:54 pm UTC
as of today update (8-jan) I am now getting:

couldnt start bootstrap and couldn't reinstall from /usr/lib/steam/boostraplinux_ubuntu12_32.tar.xz, steam still starts but this one worries me a bit, why oh why so hardcoded. Since can't use .deb I simply installed Steam in a home directory as normal user, worked flawless still this.
Valve's Gabe Newell confirms Steam Box!
By Bumadar, 9 January 2013 at 4:51 pm UTC
as posted in other thread: http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/08/valve-ben-krasnow-steambox/
QuoteFor example, it's true that we are working on getting Steam into the living room, and are planning for a hardware box, but we have no current plans to announce anything in 2013,"
Steam based console "Piston" shown at CES
By Liam Dawe, 9 January 2013 at 4:19 pm UTC
I am personally not that excited by this one, I will be waiting for the official Steam Box direct from Valve.
Steam based console "Piston" shown at CES
By Xpander, 9 January 2013 at 3:22 pm UTC
yep the Xi3 videos show that it has HD7000
so its probably AMD APU.
Linux based Steam console confirmed for this year!
By Bumadar, 9 January 2013 at 5:07 am UTC
[url="http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/08/valve-ben-krasnow-steambox"]www.engadget.com/2013/01/08/valve-ben-krasnow-steambox[/url] and now the linux steambox might or might not be.
Steam based console "Piston" shown at CES
By Alex V.Sharp, 8 January 2013 at 9:54 pm UTC
There are some specs listed over at LinuxGameCast, however I haven't check their authenticity. It in the show notes [URL='http://linuxgamecast.com/2013/01/the-steam-box-cometh-xi3-demos-piston/']here[/URL].
Steam based console "Piston" shown at CES
By Liam Dawe, 8 January 2013 at 8:21 pm UTC
I've seen reports that it may be AMD based yeah, that would be a massive fail, but their chip-sets are cheaper. Valve or the Hardware guys directly would need to work closely with AMD to get better drivers, the current ones would ruin the experience.
Steam based console "Piston" shown at CES
By Cheeseness, 8 January 2013 at 8:18 pm UTC
Is there any indication that this might run Linux at all? Somebody was telling me that it had an AMD graphics chipset (I can't check, their site is down), which makes that seem unlikely :/
Akaneiro: Demon Hunters Stretch Goal Confirmed
By , 8 January 2013 at 2:39 pm UTC
Quoting: "Jukka Palko, post: 7564, member: 421"I do understand the reluctance that exists still to start making software directly for Linux as well considering the ever dragged out market share arguments that people like to talk about.


It's a vicious cercle, the linux market is too small so they don't port games or other software to it, and then users don't use linux because "there is no game" (well I own thousand of them, but indies) or their favorite softwares "What?! Not photoshop?!" "-There is still gimp" "-Nope, wanna toshop, that's what pros use" :D
Of course there is still wine, but I'm not a big fan of it.
Galcon 2 reminder now only needs $99 to get fully funded!
By Alex V.Sharp, 7 January 2013 at 11:50 pm UTC
Update: As of this moment the game is funded with $25.000+ and only two hours left to get the early tiers.
Akaneiro: Demon Hunters Stretch Goal Confirmed
By , 7 January 2013 at 11:45 pm UTC
Omg, awesome, but I'll wait to get it once it will be closer to the stretch goal, I don't want to pay for a game that I couldn't play on linux.
On the controversies of Humble, Canonical and Team Meat
By Liam Dawe, 7 January 2013 at 9:31 pm UTC
Ah that's good then!
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