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Quoting: "Hamish, post: 7168, member: 6"I would appreciate the original Shank being offered as a bonus title since I missed out on HIB4.

EDIT: Also, who wants to place bets on whether Torchlight 2 is going to appear in a future bundle?

I'm willing to bet that the following games will get into future bundles: TL2, FTL, Bit.Trip, next game from Amanita, Trine2 in a year or so. Possibly Little Inferno later down the road.

Games I'd like to see get in: Awesomenauts. I love the game but it's so damn unstable under wine for me that I quite often can't finish a match even. Or they can just do a Linux port, whichever works for them.

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I would appreciate the original Shank being offered as a bonus title since I missed out on HIB4.

EDIT: Also, who wants to place bets on whether Torchlight 2 is going to appear in a future bundle?

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Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 7162, member: 1"Linux will just get more and more popular now and faster than ever before too :)

Yeah, honestly, with the recent sudden jump in support, it's looking great. Paradox is looking at porting games from their catalogue, icculus has his hands full, flibit has his hands full Rudd works fulltime for Humble, Valve is gearing up for more Source games releases, Many more ports, THQ considering, although now that they filed for bankruptcy this doesn't make much of a difference. Maybe once they sell off enough franchises we'll see whether they still will do something.

I just hope CD Projekt RED looks at porting to Linux, and that Bethesda will consider it as well.

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Linux will just get more and more popular now and faster than ever before too :)

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Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 7160, member: 1"I have emailed the porter Icculus to confirm if it means others will come, not sure if I will get a reply or not.

I do hope this means that so many years later, Epic finally greenlights the damn Linux port. Just so they actually go through.

Still this is looking nice: Unity, Source and now UE3. Things are indeed looking up,

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I have emailed the porter Icculus to confirm if it means others will come, not sure if I will get a reply or not.

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Exactly Dungeon Defenders is a first Unreal Engine 3 game on Linux (Killing Floor and Red Orchestra are UE 2.5 based).

This opens a possibility for many new games getting a native Linux version. I can already see Sanctum or Q.U.B.E. heading our way.

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Guys, I just realized the implications of DD on Linux. DD is an Unreal Engine 3 game. Finally, it's on Linux! This opens it up to so many more games!

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grimrock alone is worth it, played it via wine when it came out, now with the editor its even better.......... ooh the dungeon master days :)

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DD was very crashy for me.

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Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 7154, member: 1"Grimrock is just awesome. Been wanting to play it since i first heard about it.

Yeah, and the damn secrets. Secrets everywhere! There's even one right where you start!

Btw., where you (or anyone) able to play DD? I've enjoyed it for some time (but again, stopped playing because of Wine), and I'd like to know whether this works now. Also, does multiplayer work while we wait for it's Steam release?

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Grimrock is just awesome. Been wanting to play it since i first heard about it.

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Grimrock is mostly flawless - I've played it since yesterday and I'm loving it, especially since I originally stopped playing it because I didn't want to bother with Wine. Didn't really encounter any problems yet.

Snapshot's fun, and the port works great.

Can't say about DD since it hanged on me so many times that I just gave up. Probably will take a while before it's playable (unless a different version is in the bundle, because what was in testing could hardly be called playable).

Closure's very confusing and reminds me of LIMBO a bit. But it's nice.

Isaac is terrible as ever because of flash, don't expect to play it on a moderate machine.

Shank 2 is great if you liked the first one, the port is quite good too, but they're not adhering to XDG specs, argh!

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You know, I just played some of the flash version on their site, and I'd *really* like to grab this game, but I don't need another Adobe Air title in my library :(

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Glad you found a video :) I been playing with it last night and it looks identical on my machine as the video, the movement of the char feels a bit stiff still but that is about the worst I can find about the game, the voice acting is okay (heard better but also heard a lot worse).

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Ah, thank you Bumadar!

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^ Okay, well that does seem more promising. Whilst I won't get my hopes up, it's great Rubin is actually taking notice and considering it. That's way more than a lot of others do when it comes to commercial stuff on Linux.

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This seems fairly interesting: http://www.polygon.com/2012/12/16/3773718/thq-weighing-costs-and-benefits-of-linux-for-upcoming-releases

A bit more from Rubin on this, so they might honestly be considering doing such things.

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really looking forward to this, just dont understand the slow donation stream

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Quoting: "SimmyD, post: 7132"[URL='https://twitter.com/Jason_Rubin']Jason Rubin ‏@Jason_Rubin [/URL]
[URL='https://twitter.com/psygnisfive']@psygnisfive[/URL] Using Unity on one of our current projects.

sounds good going forward.

That may be the only reason for saying they're evaluating GNU/Linux ports.

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[URL='https://twitter.com/Jason_Rubin']Jason Rubin ‏@Jason_Rubin [/URL]
[URL='https://twitter.com/psygnisfive']@psygnisfive[/URL] Using Unity on one of our current projects.

sounds good going forward.

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For what it is worth, here is the map I made while testing Eureka:
http://icculus.org/~hamish/garden.wad

This took about an hour and a half to build and test, so do not expect anything that elaborate. The map itself is quite difficult as you have absolutely no cover, so you have to be fast on your feet and make sure you do not get stuck on trees

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Now that is pretty cool, i wish i had some free time to have a play at making some freedoom levels. I once had a dabble at wolf3d when I used windows many moons ago.

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I will just continue as I always do and not get my hopes up.

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Quoting: "Anon, post: 7118"Well, maybe that bundle wasn't such a terrible thing after all? If this is indeed happening, and they decide for it, then well, damn.

This still does not forgive the HIB guys throwing off their principles for them. If they do port games in a way that I feel like supporting them, I will though.

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sorry to say, but won't happen on their old games. THQ is in enough financial problems as it is, they won't port their back catalogue to linux at a cost and knowing that they would have to give the linux version for free to those who bought the bundle (if they don't then they in for a big storm). At most a future game will be made using unity 4 or another linux compatible engine.

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A pretty meaningless statement. Looking at it can mean a whole bunch of things and can can have a lot of different outcomes. Looking at it for which games? Which timeframes? How seriously are the considering it? Have they talked to any potential porters? Are they thinking of native ports or something using Winelib or the like, maybe both on a case by case basis? Lots of potential issues here. It could just be a loose thought by a couple of guys.

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Quoting: "Alex V.Sharp, post: 7121, member: 136"I just hope the Internet doesn't overreact like it has a tendency to do - especially if nothing comes of it. :(

Even if nothing comes of it, a big publisher considering Linux is a big thing.

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Honestly, if they weren't looking into stuff, it would have made much more sense for them to not say anything, to keep their head down and wait for people to forget about it. They've opened up a little bit of a can of worms here so far as expectation management goes.

It's hard to know what the outcomes will be, but unless they're immensely inept, I'd say they probably are looking into it.

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Venn from LinuxGameCast also retweeted this. Now Phoronix reported on it as well. I guess everyone's jumping on the bandwagon...
Personally I think it's way too soon to get excited about this. However it is definitely something worth keeping an eye on.
I just hope the Internet doesn't overreact like it has a tendency to do - especially if nothing comes of it. :(

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