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Humble Indie Bundle 2 Extra Bundle
By Liam Dawe, 22 December 2010 at 9:57 pm UTC

World of Goo i have spent the most time on, hardly played any of the others.

Humble Indie Bundle 2 Extra Bundle
By Rustybolts, 22 December 2010 at 9:12 pm UTC

Out of the 2 Bundles which game has been the Standout game for you. For me it was Lugaru really enjoyed kicking bunny ass !! :cool:

Humble Indie Bundle 2 Extra Bundle
By tweakedenigma, 22 December 2010 at 8:59 pm UTC

Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 999"Looks like they are really going all out this time, really hope this is not the last humble indie bundle.


Well even if it is every company involved will have a long term customer in me (as long as they keep developing for Linux).

Humble Indie Bundle 2 Extra Bundle
By Liam Dawe, 22 December 2010 at 8:58 pm UTC

Looks like they are really going all out this time, really hope this is not the last humble indie bundle.

Humble Indie Bundle 2 Extra Bundle
By tweakedenigma, 22 December 2010 at 4:20 pm UTC

Quoting: "Rustybolts, post: 993"For those that have already purchased Humble Indie Bundle 2 you will now find the first Humble Indie Bundle on your download page.
For those that havn't you have 3 days left to purchase 10 great games for any price you want.


Technically its 11 games and anyone who buys it from here on out needs to pay more then the Average to get all 11.

Humble Indie Bundle 2
By MaximB, 19 December 2010 at 8:58 am UTC

Although I own most of the games I've donated $10 for the Bundle.

Humble Indie Bundle 2
By Hamish, 19 December 2010 at 8:23 am UTC

Well, they have reached over $1 Million USD now. Also, Braid got an update today:

Changes since original build:
- Added support for systems without S3TC support.
- Added support for PowerPC and 64-bit Intel Macs.
- Added support for amd64 Linux systems.
- Possibly fixed never-ending black screen that some Mac players experienced.
- Now attempts to choose correct language at startup, if a translation is available, on both Mac and Linux.
- Added notes on useful command line options to Linux README.

Notice anything in particular there? :D

Alien Arena 2011
By Rustybolts, 18 December 2010 at 1:21 pm UTC

When i ran windows one of my favorite realistic shooters was [URL='http://www.flashpoint1985.com/index.html']Operation Flashpoint[/URL] great game check it out if you have chance.

Alien Arena 2011
By Liam Dawe, 18 December 2010 at 12:09 pm UTC

While it does look quite pretty nowadays i still long for a realistic shooter!

Humble Indie Bundle 2
By Liam Dawe, 17 December 2010 at 10:44 am UTC

Just got myself a copy of the bundle, be sure to follow them on twitter for updates guys http://twitter.com/#!/humble

Humble Indie Bundle 2
By Hamish, 15 December 2010 at 8:25 pm UTC

Here you are folks, straight from the horses mouth:

QuoteMost people that are hitting this have s3tc support disabled in their video drivers, which means they can't run most modern video games. Use driconf to turn it on, I've been told.

Most of the other problems seem to be video drivers that fail on Braid's shaders. I think we'll shake these issues out over time, but I suppose the bulk of that work falls on the backs of the driver teams.

I don't know what anything but Braid is doing for installation, but I just installed it to "/home/icculus/Braid With Spaces" and it installed, ran, and uninstalled just fine.

If you're having an install failure with MojoSetup, though, please email me and we'll figure out what's going wrong: [email protected]

--ryan.

True Combat:Close Quarters Battle
By Hamish, 15 December 2010 at 7:33 pm UTC

Well, from the free ones at least Rusty, we do have plenty of commercial ones that offer good single-player.

Humble Indie Bundle 2
By Hamish, 15 December 2010 at 7:32 pm UTC

I see no reason why Braid would need to use S3TC, it is just a 2D platform game after all. For those of you who do not know the history, that particular patent on S3TC texture compression has been a thorn in the side of the free graphics developers for years. Hopefully the developer will smarten up and switch to something a bit more free, or maybe Ryan could make an alternative just for the Linux port. Though it is somewhat ironic that I am evangelizing a change for the benefit of the free drivers while writing from my Fedora 14 system running Catalyst 10.12... :p

Still, what GPU are you currently using then Rusty, still stuck on an Intel?

True Combat:Close Quarters Battle
By Rustybolts, 15 December 2010 at 6:31 pm UTC

Looks very nice, its a shame there is never no single player campaigns to go with linux shooters though.

Humble Indie Bundle 2
By Rustybolts, 15 December 2010 at 5:54 pm UTC

Cortex Command - apareently the 32bit version works on 64bit (yet to try)
For Braid this fix located [URL='http://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4825#c13']here[/URL] comment 13. (tested and works for me)
Quote> I did some Googling, and apparently GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc is disabled
> on the open source drivers because it is covered by a patent and requires a
> licence.
>
> But if you live in a country were the patent doesn't apply you can enable it
> using driconf (apt-get install driconf) under the Image Quality tab.


Thank you Scott! I just want to confirm that this was indeed the issue. I've
enabled the option in driconf and now Braid runs flawlessly. I've given this
solution to others in ubuntu forums and blogged about it (giving you credit for
the solution) so it doesn't get burried here.
I hope they will eventually release an update that uses an alternate
compression for the textures instead of this patented algorithm.

:)

True Combat:Close Quarters Battle
By tweakedenigma, 15 December 2010 at 1:27 pm UTC

Seems I have another game to get :)

Humble Indie Bundle 2
By tweakedenigma, 15 December 2010 at 2:25 am UTC

I tossed in 7 (I am waiting for payday as well so a little short on funds) All the games worked for me without issue.

Humble Indie Bundle 2
By Rustybolts, 14 December 2010 at 10:44 pm UTC

QuoteUbuntu games forum Originally Posted by Ufogos [URL='http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10239110#post10239110'][/URL]
I found this in OMG Ubuntu in the comments.
dylan-m:
You may have trouble installing the Revenge of the Titans .deb package. If you do, run this:
sudo mkdir -p /opt/revengeofthetitans/full_length_music
…then the package should install fine.

It really works!


Tried and tested 2 more games to go! If I get Braid to work then ill be happy with purchase

Humble Indie Bundle 2
By Rustybolts, 14 December 2010 at 9:40 pm UTC

Well i ended up paying $5 for zero games lol both games i wanted do not work zzzzzz :rolleyes:

Humble Indie Bundle 2
By Hamish, 14 December 2010 at 9:38 pm UTC

As I said, I plan to kick in 10$, my brother is also going to put in some money, but we shall see how much we in the end do contribute to their coffers. The problem is we need to balance this around necessary vehicle repairs. :(

Humble Indie Bundle 2
By Liam Dawe, 14 December 2010 at 9:37 pm UTC

Will deffo be buying this on Friday when i get paid.

How much is everyone contributing?

Humble Indie Bundle 2
By Hamish, 14 December 2010 at 9:35 pm UTC

The developer himself originally tried to port it, but was not able to figure it out:

http://braid-game.com/news/?p=364

Some people were using it to claim Linux was not a suitable gaming platform at the time.

Humble Indie Bundle 2
By Rustybolts, 14 December 2010 at 8:08 pm UTC

I have put $5 for Braid and Cortex Command, downloading as i type. What was the Braid fiasco btw?

Humble Indie Bundle 2
By Hamish, 14 December 2010 at 8:00 pm UTC

Going to put 10$ CDN into the effort, even if things are a little tight at the moment. I already do own Osmos though, as Maxim is quite aware of course. And thank you Ryan C. Gordon for getting that whole Braid fiasco cleared up once and for all!

Humble Indie Bundle 2
By tweakedenigma, 14 December 2010 at 7:16 pm UTC

Going to get this as soon as I get home from work. I have heard good things about Braid and Cortex Command, and Revenge of the Titans looks great. I know my GF will like Machinarium. I Already Own Osmos But I don't mind having another copy :D.

Humble Indie Bundle 2
By Rustybolts, 14 December 2010 at 6:42 pm UTC

Anyone bought this yet? If so what do you make of Cortex Command and Braid as these are the only games i want Revenge of Titans is a bonus the other 2 I own.

Fancy winning a game of your choice?!
By Liam Dawe, 11 December 2010 at 3:18 pm UTC

Quoting: "BarnD, post: 919"Well yeah, but would you actually use it if it was anygood?

If it is better than what we have, for sure.

Fancy winning a game of your choice?!
By BarnD, 11 December 2010 at 2:13 pm UTC

Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 917"You will have an equal chance to anyone else.

Well yeah, but would you actually use it if it was anygood?

Fancy winning a game of your choice?!
By Liam Dawe, 11 December 2010 at 10:24 am UTC

Quoting: "BarnD, post: 913"What if i make a logo AND a new theme?


You will have an equal chance to anyone else.

Fancy winning a game of your choice?!
By tweakedenigma, 10 December 2010 at 11:30 pm UTC

Quoting: "Alexander Pataridze, post: 894"I'm back and i hope i'll get at least this game. I was one of the first :( (AKA alexandrius)


You'll have no competition from me, I have 0 artistic talent.