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Steel Storm 2 crowdfunding kicked off
By alexThunder, 22 December 2012 at 3:09 pm UTC

Backed it, but I have some questions:

- How long will it approximately take to play through a chapter?
- How many chapters are planned?
- In what time intervals do you plan to release them?

I guess you can, at best, provide very vague estimations, but I'd still like to have a basic idea of the scale of this game.

Steel Storm 2 crowdfunding kicked off
By Liam Dawe, 22 December 2012 at 3:02 pm UTC

Have to say personally im with xpander still dissapointed by ToM as I loved the look of it and we have enough fast paced shooters in my mind.

Goodluck though and I hope you deal better with criticism and trolls nowadays :)

What will you do if you do not hit the full funding? According to the site you will get any funding so you dont have to hit the whole goal just curious because of the ToM issue. Did ToM supporters get a refund? If I back anything it needs security.

Steam Linux Beta now open to all! Plus other bits of Steam.
By berarma, 22 December 2012 at 2:27 pm UTC

I want to give it a try but I don't think it'll be easy to install in Debian. The propietary software integration syndrome. Hey Valve, it's easier to make it distribution neutral than what you've done. One thing is they don't offer support to other distributions, but giving a fuck about cross-distribution standards... This is not Windows.

Cultures : Northland now available on Desura, another may follow
By , 22 December 2012 at 8:22 am UTC

RuneSoft has updated its WebSite :

[URL='http://www.rune-soft.com/News/Current_News/News-256/news=Cultures_Northland_now_released_for_Linux_-46']Northland on Linux[/URL]

Steam updates...
By Hyeron, 22 December 2012 at 8:03 am UTC

Mh, I won't say no. Just reinstalled to check whether any optional dependency was listed, but nothing showed up.
==> steam dependencies:
- bash (already installed)
- desktop-file-utils (already installed)
- hicolor-icon-theme (already installed)
- curl (already installed)
- dbus (already installed)
- freetype2 (already installed)
- gdk-pixbuf2 (already installed)
- ttf-liberation (already installed)
- lib32-sdl (already installed)
- lib32-libvorbis (already installed)
- lib32-alsa-lib (already installed)
- lib32-libgcrypt (already installed)
- lib32-gtk2 (already installed)
- lib32-nss (already installed)
- lib32-openal (already installed)
- lib32-libpng12 (already installed)
- lib32-libpulse (already installed)
- lib32-libcanberra (already installed)
- lib32-glu (already installed)
(...)
(1/1) upgrading steam                                                [#######################################] 100%
if you are running x86_64, you need the lib32 opt depends for your driver

But it may very well have been listed at any point in time. I tend to check those and install whatever seems of interest, but my memory's a sieve, unfortunately. Anyway, here goes:
[hyeron@Daemon ~]$ yaourt -Qs libappindicator
local/lib32-libappindicator 12.10.0-2
    Library to allow applications to export a menu into the Unity Menu bar (GTK+ 2 library)
local/libappindicator 0.4.92-1
    Library to allow applications to export a menu into the Unity Menu bar (GTK+ 2 library)
local/libappindicator3 0.4.92-1
    Library to allow applications to export a menu into the Unity Menu bar (GTK+ 2 library) (GTK+ 3 library)
local/perl-gtk2-appindicator 0.14-1
    Gtk2::AppIndicator - Perl extension for libappindicator

All of them are from AUR (and all 0.4 versions could do with an update as the latest version is 12.10 indeed, I'll have to do just that, you never know what may happen - unlikely to help though, as Steam is an x86 app). :)
Final edit - Just updated them. No change, as expected.

Steam updates...
By Bumadar, 22 December 2012 at 6:35 am UTC

Quoting: "Hyeron, post: 7211, member: 223"[URL='http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=886941yoyo4.jpg'][/URL]
KDE SC 4.9.4
Obvious Arch is obvious (x64 FWIW)
Steam build: latest (don't ask, I don't watch their release dates THAT closely. xD)
So yeah, fugly blank icon (as pictured), but still better than no icon at all. Missing dependency maybe?

EDIT - Just checked. Built: dec 19 too. Weird.

intresting, no missing dep as far as I know and yes x64. did a few more searches, seems to be hit and miss and needs libappindicator from AUR on arch.. ?

Steel Storm 2 crowdfunding kicked off
By motorsep, 21 December 2012 at 11:09 pm UTC

Np, Xpander. Would you care to help spreading the word?

Steel Storm 2 crowdfunding kicked off
By Xpander, 21 December 2012 at 10:57 pm UTC

sry but i wont back thisone.
i preordered ToM and see that its now at frozen state now.

too many games backed also, i dont even remember whichones i backed and zero games have made it out yet. so i hold my wallet for some time.

Steam updates...
By Hyeron, 21 December 2012 at 8:22 pm UTC

Quoting: "Bumadar, post: 7210, member: 93"KDE 4.9.4
Steam dec 19 build

no tray icon (blank or anything)

[URL='http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=886941yoyo4.jpg'][/URL]
KDE SC 4.9.4
Obvious Arch is obvious (x64 FWIW)
Steam build: latest (don't ask, I don't watch their release dates THAT closely. xD)
So yeah, fugly blank icon (as pictured), but still better than no icon at all. Missing dependency maybe?

EDIT - Just checked. Built: dec 19 too. Weird.

Steam updates...
By Bumadar, 21 December 2012 at 8:14 pm UTC

Quoting: "Hyeron, post: 7206, member: 223"Tray icon KIND OF works in KDE now. It doesn't show the Steam logo. But it's a start.

KDE 4.9.4
Steam dec 19 build

no tray icon (blank or anything)

Steel Storm 2 crowdfunding kicked off
By motorsep, 21 December 2012 at 6:56 pm UTC

Thanks Bumadar!

Steel Storm 2 crowdfunding kicked off
By Bumadar, 21 December 2012 at 6:54 pm UTC

high goal, but done, hope it works out !

Torque 3D for Linux
By , 21 December 2012 at 6:49 pm UTC

One thing that set Torque3D apart from the arguably superior engines now supporting Linux is:
-Its open source
-They plan to port the entire tool chain, not just the engine. So games can also be developed on Linux (unlike Unity for example)


Also there are some really cool games being developed with Torque 3D:

-Dead State: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/70755535/dead-state-the-zombie-survival-rpg
-Age of Decadence: http://www.irontowerstudio.com/

Steam updates...
By Hyeron, 21 December 2012 at 6:17 pm UTC

Quoting: "Hamish, post: 7179, member: 6"Look, I understand that Ubuntu is their main target, but not supporting the FreeDesktop.org system tray standard (as far as I am aware that is the problem, could just be talking out of my hat) is a really stupid situation to be in. What about Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Kubuntu users?

Tray icon KIND OF works in KDE now. It doesn't show the Steam logo. But it's a start.

Torque 3D for Linux
By , 21 December 2012 at 5:28 pm UTC

As a counterpoint - the devs have taken an engine that worked on Linux and somehow managed to break that. There are by far many better and more cross-platform engines. So, keep that in mind

Steel Storm 2 crowdfunding kicked off
By motorsep, 21 December 2012 at 5:03 pm UTC

Thanks for pre-ordering! I don't think it's relevant to mention that. If we had number of preorders comparable to money that SS:BR sales brought it, then yes, I would mentioned that as a source of funding that dried up way before Steal sales dried up.

OpenMW v0.20.0 released!
By OpenMW, 21 December 2012 at 4:27 pm UTC

Not really, but there are of course a lot of bugs...
Would you like to post on our forums about the bug?

Torque 3D for Linux
By , 21 December 2012 at 3:36 pm UTC

But they write in the discussion that it will be 32bit only. That's quite disenchanting.
QuoteIt’s not that we are going to go out of our way to ignore other distros, but we will only guarantee Ubuntu 32bit for this campaign.

http://www.indiegogo.com/torque3d-for-linux?c=comments

Games on sale list!
By FireFlower Games, 21 December 2012 at 3:20 pm UTC

We have a couple of games for [URL='http://fireflowergames.com/product-category/games/linux/']Linux[/URL] on sale. :)

Steel Storm 2 crowdfunding kicked off
By , 21 December 2012 at 2:40 pm UTC

I pre-ordered your game over a year ago. Don't you think you should mention that you've had pre-orders on the indiegogo site?

BIT.TRIP Runner 2 will be on Linux!
By , 21 December 2012 at 9:57 am UTC

If it is, I'm preordering the hell out of it.

Steel Storm 2 crowdfunding kicked off
By motorsep, 21 December 2012 at 4:31 am UTC

Quoting: "gabsd84, post: 7196, member: 408"cool...backed it. :) Hope it goes well.


Thanks a bunch!

Steel Storm 2 crowdfunding kicked off
By gabsd84, 21 December 2012 at 4:22 am UTC

cool...backed it. :) Hope it goes well.

Games on sale list!
By motorsep, 21 December 2012 at 1:52 am UTC

Steel Storm: Burning Retribution is on Christmas sale on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/96200/

OpenMW v0.20.0 released!
By , 20 December 2012 at 9:47 pm UTC

Am I the only one who is experiencing hard system locks and catastrophic crashes with this game? It usually happens much faster when I enable collision.

OpenMW v0.20.0 released!
By gavlig, 20 December 2012 at 9:37 pm UTC

Quoting: "OpenMW, post: 7187, member: 145"thx, and urm, spread the word! :p

will do! ;)

OpenMW v0.20.0 released!
By OpenMW, 20 December 2012 at 8:52 pm UTC

thx, and urm, spread the word! :P

OpenMW v0.20.0 released!
By gavlig, 20 December 2012 at 7:12 pm UTC

awesome! It's nice to see you're making a progress! :) Thanks for the heads up

BIT.TRIP Runner 2 will be on Linux!
By , 20 December 2012 at 6:00 pm UTC

Hell yeah! I loved to hate the first game, and this one looks awesome!

I do hope it's day one support.

Steam updates...
By Bumadar, 20 December 2012 at 5:59 pm UTC

Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 7176, member: 1"After they really really polish it for Ubuntu I guess.


that would be really sad, as far as I know the tray icon on most desktop facilitate it via XEmbed, if unity does not then brrrrr