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Also, the Linux version is not ported but made by the original devs, it's a fully crossplatform game, so quite nice.

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Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 6241, member: 1"Well i was enjoying Mars until it hard locked my whole system, nothing should do that :/

It also won't change screen resolution.

Sigh more buggy games.

Ah, it worked on RC2 and then they fixed multimonitor support, so I guess it broke that. Report it as fast as you can, please, just ask for a bug report link on the Humble Bundle Chat. Or send them an e-mail, but you know the drift.

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Well i was enjoying Mars until it hard locked my whole system, nothing should do that :/

It also won't change screen resolution.

Sigh more buggy games. Maybe i should start calling them Crash Bundles in my titles, they release them far too bloody soon every time!

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Haven't bought it yet (no cash, and I'd love to support those devs), but as a proud beta-tester - Splice works perfectly, except for the weird window management - should be fixed soon, according to the porter. Also, it's based on Unity3D. As for the game, it's short (only 10 chapters, and I got through 8 in 2-3 hours), but oh it's so much fun. I hope there will be unofficial levels for it.

Eufloria HD has had its port available for only one day, and so far I can tell you it works fine, but the main menu is very blurry, for whatever reason, and the windows scaling is not yet fixed. The second part does not work on any system correctly though, so not the fault of the porter. Other than that, great. I only played it this morning for an hour before leaving for school, but I love the game - it's slow to start, but after that, it's amazing!

Waking Mars has had many of its bugs fixed, and the latest build is pretty much flawless as well. Fun game, I think, but not the best of the bundle.

You know the rest, as they've been there before.

Also, there's one other nice thing - Vessel seems to be getting very close to release according to the dev - apparently the shader bug is almost fixed and there aren't that many in the alpha. I haven't been able to run it though, not yet at least.

Go and buy it, those are quality ports and quality games.

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Hopefully the operation will be successful for RuneSoft and other games will come.

I don't know what is the impact of this forum, and I don't know how popular Desura is among Linux users (I only discovered it few weeks ago thanks to LGP).

Good luck !

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Waking Mars is pretty cool, played until Chapter 2 so far, think it will be one of the few I actually complete as spacey sci fi stuff interests me.

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Quoting: "Cheeseness, post: 6230, member: 122"Well, it's more that you need the Steam client to download/install the games to begin with, and that's tied to your Steam account. For the ones that don't make use of the Steam DRM, you don't need Steam running to play them, but if you uninstalled them, and then for some reason weren't able to access your Steam account, you wouldn't be able to access those games anymore either.

Right, that's a dependence too.

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For sure getting shafted. I own already like up to 3 or 4 times the same games from the humble indie bundle, I think that's enough… yeaaa might be, 'specially if it's to give money to a bad copy of the humble indie bundle which not care about linux platform at all (I looked many times, I saw like… maybe 1/6 linux games which either suck, or were already released in the humble indie bundle before) But as you said… might be a way to get AT LEAST one cheap game for those who missed HIB

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I been playing with it under opensuse a bit and on one side I am happy, on the other side I feel a bit iffy, the whole hardcoded ubuntu12_32 in the scripts, the executable, the install directory and the ~/.steam make me feel that it is really build against ubuntu and not linux in general

Yes I know they said that from the beginning but "we" also all figured it would not last long till it runs against other distributions, and yup I got it working pretty fast but I also feel that there is no real guaranty it will work on my next opensuse release or that valve suddenly won't add some heavy dependency with unity in their next build, which they are allowed as they clearly stated ubuntu is their prime distro.

So I feel a bit iffy, with desura I know that it is not build against a specific distribution and with desurium I know I can compile it myself if I upgrade and desura won't match, so I feel comfy buying games there. For now I don't feel that same confidence with steam yet.

And yup I know it's early but I figured I share my thoughts :)

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Again, a little more expensive than it probably should be, but if it is true that RuneSoft has committed to some actual new ports being on the way, I am willing to cut them a little slack.

EDIT: Here is the confirmation:

Quoting: kratz00t[LEFT]All I can say for now is, we are working on Airline Tycoon Deluxe and Northland, they will be available on Desura really soon. Next up will be Jack Keane and the Ankh series. The Ankh series will also include Ankh 3 for Linux for the first time ever, but probably not this year. [/LEFT][LEFT]At the moment there is no final decision about all the other games yet.[/LEFT]

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Welcome back to the fold RuneSoft!

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Quoting: "berarma, post: 6228, member: 131"I'm concerned about depending on the distributor and/or being online to play my games.

Well, it's more that you need the Steam client to download/install the games to begin with, and that's tied to your Steam account. For the ones that don't make use of the Steam DRM, you don't need Steam running to play them, but if you uninstalled them, and then for some reason weren't able to access your Steam account, you wouldn't be able to access those games anymore either.

Most Steam games (including those that do make use of Steam's DRM can run in an "offline mode" that you can activate whilst Steam is online (so if your connection drops out unexpectedly, and you weren't already in offline mode, you'd need to wait until you could connect again before being able to enable offline mode).

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Thanks for the information. I've read that Steam may require you to be logged in to their service, thus online, but some games can be enabled to play offline. So from what I read and your responses I understand that you need Steam installed to play the games but not all games require you to be connected to the Steam service. Besides, developers may add other DRM measures.

QuoteSo far as Steam goes, your best bet (if having DRM free games is important to you) would be to try to by your games directly from developers who offer DRM free copies in addition to Steam keys (this is done by most developers using the "Humble Store app", such as Frozenbyte and the guys who made FTL).

I agree, I buy games from the Humble Store or directly to developers. I might start playing my purchased games thru Steam, that's fine since I wouldn't absolutely depend on it. I'm concerned about depending on the distributor and/or being online to play my games.

Thanks!

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Quoting: "berarma, post: 6218, member: 131"As for the DRM-free games on Steam, where can I read more about it? Does that mean I can buy games on Steam and play them anywhere? Can I see if a game is DRM-free before I buy it?

Basically, the situation is that for game developers, making use of Steam's built in DRM is optional. Some (but not many) developers such as Kot-In-Action have distributed their games on Steam in a way that doesn't require the Steam client to be running. This isn't something that's shown on the Steam store, so unless you're looking at a specific game and are willing to search forums or contact the developer to find out whether they've done that, there's no convenient way of finding out - if there's a community maintained list somewhere, I'm not aware of it.

So far as Steam goes, your best bet (if having DRM free games is important to you) would be to try to by your games directly from developers who offer DRM free copies in addition to Steam keys (this is done by most developers using the "Humble Store app", such as Frozenbyte and the guys who made FTL).

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Quoting: "Ultimoore, post: 6191, member: 226"will this game bring my hair back? .... just kidding. How many players will a game session have up to for total player count?

It states on their kickstarter, 4 player coop.

Quoting: "Alex V.Sharp, post: 6225, member: 136"I would like to know what's their plan in case the Kickstarter doesn't reach the funding goal. Will they still pursue to finish the game and how? Will they re-think some aspect of the game? What will they change?

One of my first questions ;)

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I would like to know what's their plan in case the Kickstarter doesn't reach the funding goal. Will they still pursue to finish the game and how? Will they re-think some aspect of the game? What will they change?

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Apparently, Ankh 3 will be ported on Desura early next year. Ankh was never ported before, this is great news !

Also I hope other older titles will follow. RuneSoft has an impressive catalogue, but most of their titles are Mac OS only

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Quoting: "MeteorBlume, post: 6216"Also, Red Orchestra (1) and Killing Floor appear in my linux game section of my steam account. I guess those games will get Linux Versions as well...

Both have been known about for a while, I already own Killing Floor so it's great for me!

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Games purchased via steam can only be played using Steam.

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It's all good news and now I project I personally support to the point of gol doing an interview :D

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Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 6056, member: 1"So even though it requires no extra effort since they use Unity and I pointed that out to them in the conversation, it's still going to be a stretch goal, very dissapointing and a project i won't be contributing to.

Basically the issue was that the Coles' development partner is a hard-core Windows developer who found dealing with Mac issues to be a struggle in previous games, and found Android even worse due to all the variations in hardware, so didn't even want to think about adding another non-windows platform such as Linux. Finally they came to an agreement where Corey Cole will personally handle the Linux port and related bug-fixing, with Linux users among his backers to help out with pre-release testing. I think it is awesome that Corey cares enough about us Linux backers to handle it personally!

"I have decided to personally commit to bringing Hero-U to Linux. Originally we planned this as part of our first stretch goal, but I came up with a new plan. After Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption is complete and on the way to our Windows and Mac users, I will personally port the game to Linux and - with the help of some of our passionate Linux friends - make sure the game is rock solid.

See, there's a little part of my history that 5 or 6 of you might not have heard yet. Before I was a game designer, I was a system programmer. My first job at Sierra was to translate the SCI game engine to the Atari ST and port the first four SCI games to the ST. I'll just put on my software engineer hat for this task."

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At last some news. Humble Bundle has hired Edward Rudd full-time, and Ethan Lee will finish the Vessel port eventually. Read it [URL='http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/35091013624/humble-bundle-vessel-and-porting']here[/URL]. There's a link to a [URL='http://flibitijibibo.com/oh.html']post[/URL] on the Vessel port.

I like to know we're being taken seriously, faith restored. :-)

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I bought it in the humble bundle but couldn't play it until recently. It's a really good game. At the start, I was a bit confused by the game mechanics but once you're into it becomes addictive.

As for the DRM-free games on Steam, where can I read more about it? Does that mean I can buy games on Steam and play them anywhere? Can I see if a game is DRM-free before I buy it?

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Quoting: "Hamish, post: 6208, member: 6"Well, this is being done on Unity, right?

Great to hear, if it is so!

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Also, Red Orchestra (1) and Killing Floor appear in my linux game section of my steam account. I guess those games will get Linux Versions as well...

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Have you installed 32bit libs?

Ps. I got mine to work :D

Osmos says there is a missing executable i'm sure that's a known issue by now though.

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Oh, and I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. Apologies for the double post.

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I installed from the .deb, but whenever I try and run Steam from the terminal or quicklist it says that it cannot connect to the network. It works fine on Windows and WINE...

Here's the string I get in a terminal:

steam steam://open/games
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1352224866_client)
unlinked 0 orphaned pipes
[1107/125344:WARNING:proxy_service.cc(646)] PAC support disabled because there is no system implementation
Generating new string page texture 12: 48x256, total string texture memory is 49.15 KB
Generating new string page texture 13: 256x256, total string texture memory is 311.30 KB
Generating new string page texture 14: 128x256, total string texture memory is 442.37 KB
Generating new string page texture 15: 384x256, total string texture memory is 835.58 KB

Any ideas?

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I can't beleive that I did not notice this before, but it states that you are from Canmore.

Know a "Mike" by any chance? ;)

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works fine with Mint 14 Nadia (alpha) 64bit, MATE Desktop also.
but the tray icon is missing.

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