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Interview with Keith Poole from Desura Part 1
By Liam Dawe, 4 October 2011 at 7:20 pm UTC
Yeah that is true there is that, they will also auto-update for you. It's more of a convenience thing.
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By Liam Dawe, 4 October 2011 at 7:15 pm UTC
Yeah learning how Alex was treated by HIB was quite shocking really, not as good as they make themselves out to be eh.
Interview with Keith Poole from Desura Part 1
By , 4 October 2011 at 10:49 am UTC
Quoting: "MaximB, post: 1859"Nice interview, but I've already bought most Linux games that I want directly from the developers or with the Humble Indie Bundle.
Also I bought many games from gog.com that run on Linux, so at the moment I don't really know what games Desura can offer me.

Desure offers you th integration with all humble bundles. So as soon as it is out, you can forget your humble bundle links :)
Announcing Ensign 1!
By , 4 October 2011 at 4:59 am UTC
Okay, Palpatine :)

This game isn't really for someone who's looking for a shooter, it's for someone who wants to play a space combat game where you can commandeer other ships.
Announcing Ensign 1!
By MyGameCompany, 3 October 2011 at 11:13 pm UTC
This looks cool. It's exactly what I was thinking of doing, except 2D instead of 3D - combining my Rick Rocket space shooter and Dirk Dashing platformer game engines for a new Rick Rocket game, where you can fly around, then land on planets or stations and explore. I'll be following this project with great interest.
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By KIAaze, 3 October 2011 at 10:55 pm UTC
It was interesting to finally get a little bit of insight on how the HIB money is split between devs, notably the bonus games.
They added a slider to choose how much you want to give to the HIB2 games, but not for Steel Storm if I remember correctly. :/

As for Gameolith sales being low: I think it also has to do with the fact that the game was out for a while before Gameolith started, and then there was the HIB. So most people interested in the game probably already had it.
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By Liam Dawe, 3 October 2011 at 10:09 pm UTC
Added a note to say it's an old vid :)
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By , 3 October 2011 at 8:11 pm UTC
No worries Liam, it's a video of the internal prototype of another game I had in mind, but "Tomes of Mephistopheles" can be counted as it's spiritual successor, but with First Person view ;) Keep the vid, just maybe note it's not the "Tomes of Mephistopheles" game.
Announcing Ensign 1!
By Rustybolts, 3 October 2011 at 7:47 pm UTC
Liams right there are not many Linux fps games that offer a single player campaign and what there is are quite old. So you have either played them before or they are not offering anything new.
I am pleased to be part of the team bringing a Space shooter game that will switch from a pilot at the controls of a spaceship, then being able to leave your seat and walk around your own ship or if you have docked with another vessel leaving your own ship on foot and being able to walk around that vessel also.
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By Liam Dawe, 3 October 2011 at 6:43 pm UTC
Gah i thought that was the right video...oops what is the video i put in from?

I will remove it.
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By Bumadar, 3 October 2011 at 6:05 pm UTC
have to agree with you on some of your comments, I got SteelStorm 1 and did find it very bland. It was only because of the HiB3 that I came into contract with SteelStorm 2 and was pleasantly surprised. Feel a bit sad though that your cut was so little. New missions will be a must buy though :)
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By , 3 October 2011 at 5:11 pm UTC
Btw, the video featured in the interview is not the video of "Tomes of Mephistopheles" :P
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By , 3 October 2011 at 5:10 pm UTC
I can't say for sure what engine we will be using. We are performing internal testing after which we can conclude which engine is most suitable for the project.
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By Hamish, 3 October 2011 at 4:55 pm UTC
I assume that "Tomes of the Mephistopheles" is going to be using their Unigine license?

I will hopefully be getting Steel Storm down along with some of my other HIB3 titles over Thanksgiving since my uncle is lucky enough to have unlimited internet. I can give a proper opinion of the game then.
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By Hamish, 3 October 2011 at 4:54 pm UTC
I assume that "Tomes of the Mephistopheles" is going to be using their Unigine license?

I will hopefully be getting Steel Storm down along with some of my other HIB3 titles over Thanksgiving since my uncle is lucky enough to have unlimited internet. I can give a proper opinion of the game then.
Announcing Ensign 1!
By Liam Dawe, 3 October 2011 at 9:08 am UTC
I mean in the grand scheme of things it's really not all that many, not many up to date ones anyway. I am looking forward to Ensign though since it should offer quite a lot from the look of it.

Also Enemy Territory - i wish they would release an up to date version now the source is out.
Announcing Ensign 1!
By Hamish, 2 October 2011 at 8:40 pm UTC
Well, of course there are the id games (Quakes, Doom 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein), Prey of course, there was Soldier of Fortune from Loki (still available from Fun4Tux and Amazon.com last time I checked), Shogo and SiN from Hyperion (although Shogo has sadly gone out of stock from TuxGames, and the SiN port sucks by all accounts), Postal2 with the various mods and expansions, plus all of those games with source ports. And that is simply off the top of my head.
Announcing Ensign 1!
By Liam Dawe, 2 October 2011 at 7:11 pm UTC
Quoting: "Anonymous, post: 2375" [COLOR=#000000]Is it commercial game?[/COLOR]

Yes it is.
Quoting: "Hamish, post: 2376"The game does look interesting, but since this is going to be commercial and we already have plenty of single-player non-death-match commercial shooters for Linux, I do not quite understand your aside. This game is a uniqe take on everything though, like Helena was. So it is nice and different.

I wonder how well Helena did for them in the end. Maybe they should try and sneak it into the current bundle... ;)

I haven't actually seen that many commercial single player shooters for Linux?
Announcing Ensign 1!
By Hamish, 2 October 2011 at 5:25 pm UTC
The game does look interesting, but since this is going to be commercial and we already have plenty of single-player non-death-match commercial shooters for Linux, I do not quite understand your aside. This game is a uniqe take on everything though, like Helena was. So it is nice and different.

I wonder how well Helena did for them in the end. Maybe they should try and sneak it into the current bundle... ;)
Announcing Ensign 1!
By , 2 October 2011 at 1:14 pm UTC
[COLOR=#000000]Is it commercial game?[/COLOR]
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Hamish, 1 October 2011 at 4:45 pm UTC
I think we have a spam bot...
Trauma added to HIB
By Bumadar, 1 October 2011 at 1:06 pm UTC
strange game, intriguing though and quiet enjoyable
Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle!
By Bumadar, 29 September 2011 at 5:59 pm UTC
got it because I like the game but not to impressed with the bundle itself... as its not a bundle (unless you did not get the frozenbyte bundle before)
Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle!
By , 29 September 2011 at 5:41 pm UTC
I think they are just wanting people to spend more than $1.
Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle!
By Liam Dawe, 29 September 2011 at 7:26 am UTC
I think this game looks great, my brother gave it a good little review to me as he got it via Steam when it came out for Windows.

I agree though in that they should have waited...
Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle!
By Hamish, 28 September 2011 at 8:37 pm UTC
Frankly, I am underwhelmed. They should have waited until they could include more games. And I am not particularly interested in the one new game they are offering. :confused:
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Hamish, 24 September 2011 at 6:02 pm UTC
Achron updates
By KIAaze, 24 September 2011 at 2:51 pm UTC
ACHRON IS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
How did this get past GamingOnLinux and LinuxGamingNews?!!!!
-> http://www.achrongame.com/site/index.php

And you get one additional free copy if you buy it!

The bad news: 64-bit only and "experimental build", but still quite good news. :)
Linux: 64-bit GNU/Linux; it is a working experimental build that requires either the proprietary ATI or Nvidia graphic card drivers. We are planning to support Mac and 32-bit GNU/Linux in the future. 
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Xpander, 24 September 2011 at 11:22 am UTC
the custom game searching doesnt work for me.
i see there is option under settings that u can find games u have installed and even point the games to correct folders. but sadly it doesnt work.
ahh well its beta afterall :) really happy with it anyway.
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By KIAaze, 24 September 2011 at 12:12 am UTC
I'm in as well now. :)
Redeemed all my humble bundle desura keys, except HIB1, which didn't have any unfortunately.
Most HIB games seem to work, except a few like "Machinarium" and "Revenge of the titans" which crash Desura.
I also tried Urban terror, which worked without any issues.

So overall, very satisfied and very happy. :)
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