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FORCED kickstarter
By , 6 November 2012 at 4:19 pm UTC

Done and Done

Steam Closed Beta Now Live!
By , 6 November 2012 at 4:07 pm UTC

Is it selfish of me to want them to delay the release? I still have to do some things this week!

Steam Closed Beta Now Live!
By tweakedenigma, 6 November 2012 at 3:52 pm UTC

I have never been so ready for anything in my life.

Submit your questions for me to ask the Interstellar Marines guys
By , 6 November 2012 at 2:26 pm UTC

What are the plans beyond release? Free DLC, paid DLC, or actual proper expansions (think Shadow of the Death for Heroes III or Bloodmoon/Tribunal for Morrowind, that kind of stuff)?

Submit your questions for me to ask the Interstellar Marines guys
By Liam Dawe, 6 November 2012 at 1:44 pm UTC

Awesome guys keep them going be sure to share this to anyone who may be interested.

It will have no DRM btw they state that openly.

Submit your questions for me to ask the Interstellar Marines guys
By , 6 November 2012 at 1:43 pm UTC

and...
What requirements will be, they think?

Submit your questions for me to ask the Interstellar Marines guys
By , 6 November 2012 at 1:42 pm UTC

Will there be any DRM?
Single player?
Do developers have a dream of making other game and what would it be? Any plans after this game?(i know, i know, this game is in Alpha stage or smth, but we all can dream, right?)

Submit your questions for me to ask the Interstellar Marines guys
By , 6 November 2012 at 11:32 am UTC

Will we be able to make mods?

Last Reminder - Help Monster RPG 2 get open sourced!
By trentg, 6 November 2012 at 4:19 am UTC

It could happen! We're at $1231 now. Anyhow, thanks for posting this and the continued support throughout this campaign and before.

Steams Linux support section is live and the linux icon is here
By Ultimoore, 6 November 2012 at 1:39 am UTC

I love towns. This is great News.

Steams Linux support section is live and the linux icon is here
By , 5 November 2012 at 9:39 pm UTC

Also, two new games on the CDR - Unity of Command (+ demo) and Towns. The second one is already native but it's only now been greenlit for Steam. Guess that's the next greenlight release.

Steam CDR Recap
By Liam Dawe, 5 November 2012 at 7:43 pm UTC

Unity of Command just got added.

The list just keeps growing, awesome work

OpenXcom 0.4.5 released!
By Bumadar, 5 November 2012 at 6:24 pm UTC

ooh thanks for ufo-ai, did not know about it, looks great

Vote For Star Citizen on Linux
By , 5 November 2012 at 6:22 pm UTC

New on Kickstarter, with a Linux version from the start (Goal: $139,000): Pier Solar HD an RPG for XBOX360, PC, Mac, Linux & Dreamcast. Link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/573261866/pier-solar-hd-an-rpg-for-xbox360-pc-mac-linux-and

OpenXcom 0.4.5 released!
By , 5 November 2012 at 5:55 pm UTC

I played original one many years ago.
see into ufo-ai. Nice graphics, prolly 80% of original game content is implemented, some improved(autosell, networked games, etc), rest 20% will be done at some stage(no minitanks on map yet, no smart bombs, no reaction fire for bazooka).

graphics based on original 1 quake engine, that was strongly modified.

Last Reminder - Help Monster RPG 2 get open sourced!
By , 5 November 2012 at 5:36 pm UTC

I hope they stay on top for those 16 hours, so because otherwise I do not see it getting funded.

OpenXcom 0.4.5 released!
By Bumadar, 5 November 2012 at 4:46 pm UTC

time to dust of the old cd :)

Steam For Linux Beta Survey Is Live
By Cheeseness, 5 November 2012 at 3:47 am UTC

If I were to guess, I'd say they're on the cusp of getting the beta out, and that's taking precedence.

I've been in a couple of projects where we've wanted to coordinate a lot of stuff with a release date, but that date slipping has caused other things to hang in limbo.

Since the beta is only going to be accessible to a tiny portion of Linux enthusiasts, too much beta news probably wouldn't be a good thing. That said, I'm surprised that there wasn't a corresponding blog entry talking about the survey - I guess they'll be continuing to ask people to fill out the survey after the initial limited beta has gone live.

Distance (Nitronic Rush spiritual succesor) Confirms Linux Support
By Cheeseness, 5 November 2012 at 1:27 am UTC

Trackmania + Tron + arcade flight sim. I'm almost frothing at the mouth :D

Steam CDR Recap
By Cheeseness, 5 November 2012 at 1:18 am UTC

Quoting: "Anon, post: 6101"What kind of threads? What are their titles?

One is titled "hello?", which has three or four comments in it, and one is titled "test", and appears to have one comment in it.

Quoting: "Anon, post: 6102"Looking at http://marlamin.com/cdr/search.php?s=linux&searchby=all there are a few other things with Linux in them. Any idea what OB could be? Also, Nuclear Dawn?


That search includes stuff that doesn't have Linux listed in the "validoslist" property, and seems to include a lot of dedicated servers (rather than clients). OB stands for Orange Box, and in this case refers to the Portal/TF2 era Source engine multiplayer components.

I purposefully combined/truncated multiple CDRs that referred to the same game from the list in the first post, so it might appear to be short if you've seen the full list ^_^

The Nuclear Dawn CDR you see listed on that page is related to the Nuclear Dawn dedicated server. I know that they are looking into Linux support, but I have no idea how far away that is (hopefully Liam will be able to scrounge up some details :D )

Steam CDR Recap
By Liam Dawe, 4 November 2012 at 7:03 pm UTC

Well it is listed, i have contacted the devs of Nuclear Dawn just to confirm :)

Steam CDR Recap
By , 4 November 2012 at 4:30 pm UTC

Looking at http://marlamin.com/cdr/search.php?s=linux&searchby=all there are a few other things with Linux in them. Any idea what OB could be? Also, Nuclear Dawn?

Steam CDR Recap
By , 4 November 2012 at 4:27 pm UTC

What kind of threads? What are their titles?

Distance (Nitronic Rush spiritual succesor) Confirms Linux Support
By FutureSuture, 4 November 2012 at 3:57 pm UTC

It does look quite interesting. Will be keeping an eye on this. I am no fan of racers, but battle racers? Oh, boy!

Vote For Star Citizen on Linux
By FutureSuture, 4 November 2012 at 3:55 pm UTC

Voted. Linux is currently in 6th place, well ahead of Mac OS. All the other features have to do with what will be in the game. CryEngine 3 coming to Linux would be amazing.

Vote For Star Citizen on Linux
By Bumadar, 4 November 2012 at 10:38 am UTC

according to [URL='http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/chris-roberts-star-citizen-needs-your-money-to-get-more-money-and-promises-']this one[/URL] its a 10-12mil project with 2-4mil from crowd funding, so makes it 8-10mil private. so the crowd funding/kickstarter is just to show a 3rd party there is interest enough in the game ?

Vote For Star Citizen on Linux
By Cheeseness, 4 November 2012 at 9:02 am UTC

Quoting: "Bumadar, post: 6096, member: 93"why I kept it at allegedly :) what I could find is that is the 2mil is reached on the crowd funding then the private investors would kick in, not the amount though, but seen that number fly on the forums.

Ah. I'd take the speculation of fans on forums for detail on those kinds of numbers very lightly.

Vote For Star Citizen on Linux
By Bumadar, 4 November 2012 at 8:36 am UTC

Quoting: "Cheeseness, post: 6095, member: 122"Do you have a source for the private investment stuff? I haven't been able to find any information on that at all.


why I kept it at allegedly :) what I could find is that is the 2mil is reached on the crowd funding then the private investors would kick in, not the amount though, but seen that number fly on the forums.

Vote For Star Citizen on Linux
By Cheeseness, 4 November 2012 at 7:14 am UTC

Quoting: "Bumadar, post: 6094, member: 93"to be honest I am a bit dubious about this one, it allegedly got 20 million in private funding, saying they would not do one a few days later they had a [URL='http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen']kickstarter[/URL] where it took 872k, which was 372k more then needed, it added stretch goals like a repair robot which I think are just silly stretch goals, same goes for the stretch goals on this crowd funding...


Do you have a source for the private investment stuff? I haven't been able to find any information on that at all.

Apparently they launched a Kickstarter campaign in response to fan requests after their own site died under unanticipated traffic (some people also expressed preference for Kickstarter as a payment method as funds aren't drawn until the campaign is over, and some people prefer to only give their credit card details, etc. to Kickstarter).

Quoting: "Bumadar, post: 6094, member: 93"you gone get cockpit decorations...

From what I understand, this stretch goal represents ship interior customisation in general rather than just "bobbleheads".

Quoting: "Bumadar, post: 6094, member: 93"I will sit this one out, if it comes out for Linux and it's any good I will line up to buy it, but I feel a bit iffy about funding it.

Fair enough. Ultimately, whether it makes it to Linux or not will depend on Crytek rather than these guys, though I imagine that highlighting Linux demand in this survey (which you don't need to be a supporter to vote in) would be nice even if it's only to remind the Star Citizen community that people care about it.

Vote For Star Citizen on Linux
By Bumadar, 4 November 2012 at 6:33 am UTC

to be honest I am a bit dubious about this one, it allegedly got 20 million in private funding, saying they would not do one a few days later they had a [URL='http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen']kickstarter[/URL] where it took 872k, which was 372k more then needed, it added stretch goals like a repair robot which I think are just silly stretch goals, same goes for the stretch goals on this crowd funding... at 3.5 million (so 500k from the 3 million stretch goal) you gone get cockpit decorations..............

I will sit this one out, if it comes out for Linux and it's any good I will line up to buy it, but I feel a bit iffy about funding it.