Latest Comments

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.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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.

:)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Seems I have another game to get :)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

QuoteUbuntu games forum Originally Posted by Ufogos [URL='http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10239110#post10239110']

To protect your privacy, external media requires approval to load. Source: ubuntuforums.org
View cookie preferences.
Accept & Show Accept All & Don't show this again   Direct Link

[/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

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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. :(

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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

How much is everyone contributing?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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

You will have an equal chance to anyone else.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

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.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

What if i make a logo AND a new theme?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I can dig that, kudos!

Glad Felix included the F12 in M.A.R.S. I bugged him about the multiple resolution option. He delivered so I made a quick and dirty overview video http://linuxgamecast.com/2010/12/l-g-c-b-reel-%E2%80%94-m-a-r-s-0-6-1-alpha/

Throw that in if you like it.

Cheers,
Venn
L.G.C.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

As posted on reddit (really again no need to comment twice).

The jist of my comment - I won't credit UG for 2 lines of code to add a ppa, anyone on Ubuntu generally knows how to do that.

Anyway i removed it as we are a general site not just Ubuntu related, i shouldn't have listed the ppa in the first place.

Also I forgot to link to your site as a source for the video, added it below the video for you :)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

You can reset here http://www.gamingonlinux.info/chill/index.php?lost-password/

Thanks for the two entries so far :)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I forgot my password and there's no way to reset it o_O



install instructions:

Replace the header image by the following:
Gaming on Linux
and add style="border: none !important; text-decoration: none !important;" to the A HTML TAG surrounding it.
Please upload the logo and replace the image url too :)

or use a cheap image that contains text

png-withtext: [http://img808.imageshack.us/i/golcheap.png/
png: http://img143.imageshack.us/i/goll.png/
svg: http://ompldr.org/vNmc4Zg

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I got the idea when reading the reddit post, not sure how it came out though. The right hand side logo looks a bit off, but oh well :)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Thanks for linking the video! The video is not so random with the intended page [URL='http://linuxgamecast.com/2010/12/l-g-c-ep07-%E2%80%94-supertuxkart-0-7-rc1-first-look/']http://linuxgamecast.com/2010/12/l-g-c-ep07-—-supertuxkart-0-7-rc1-first-look/[/URL] :D

You might care to give my friends at Ubuntu Gamer some credit for noting the [URL='http://www.ubuntugamer.com/2010/12/supertux-kart-release-candidate-ubuntu/']PPA repo[/URL] :)
Cheers,
Venn
L.G.C.

View this comment - View article - View full comments