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Wolfire Games seem to be another recent arrival to the itch.io store
6 May 2019 at 1:31 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Alm888What a twist!

And some time ago have I considered getting Overgrowth from Humble Store!

Nice to see icth.io grow. Maybe, it can become something Humble Store failed to (namely, an indipendent DRM-free store, not a steam-key reseller).

I hope so too, but there's nothing stopping publishers from using Itch.io as a Steam key reseller. See for example Plug in Digital, who have a vast number of "games" on Itch.io in the form of "How to get Steam Serial.pdf", and no other downloads.

Backbone: Prologue, a taster of the full noir-inspired detective adventure to come to Linux later
26 April 2019 at 12:22 pm UTC

I remember the Pendulo games as being pretty hit and miss. I played through the Runaway trilogy and Yesterday, and of those only the first Runaway game and Yesterday were memorable (in a good way), if I remember correctly.

I also remember a scene from the second game well, where the protagonist takes a break from looking for his kidnapped, possibly dead, girlfriend to sleep with another woman, and afterwards do a silly victory dance on the beach.

If they make a Linux game, I'll give it a new chance, but otherwise I'm not so interested in what they're doing these days.

Backbone, on the other hand, looks very cool. :)

EDIT: I managed to track down some stuff I wrote about the two first Runaways in 2012:

Spoiler, click me
I played Runaway when it first came out and I remember enjoying it very much. Last year I bought the trilogy and replayed it. I still liked it, probably somewhat due to nostalgia, despite some pixel hunting annoying me a bit more this time around. Dream of the Turtle was also slightly entertaining and had some good puzzles, but the English voice acting was just plain awful. Especially so in the pirate segment of the game. It wasn't top notch in the first either, but it was a lot more apparent in this one. Also, it's more apparent that Brian isn't a very likeable character, and this doesn't help the game either. I've had to take a break from the trilogy after this game to be able to give the third instalment a fair chance.

Murder mystery adventure 'Lord Winklebottom Investigates' heads to Kickstarter again, gets funding this time
26 April 2019 at 12:08 pm UTC Likes: 3

I backed the first campaign, but hadn't caught wind of this one yet. I hope she's able to acquire additional funding somehow, while not having to make too many compromises.

NVIDIA are continuing to work on PRIME GPU offloading, with a new GLX Extension
26 April 2019 at 12:04 pm UTC

Glad to hear progress is being made. :) Having to reboot to switch graphics is certainly not ideal, so most of the time I just leave my laptops on Nvidia. :S:

Overcooked! 2 has a big content DLC out with 'Campfire Cook Off' and a new Season Pass
25 April 2019 at 10:52 am UTC

I played through the entire game and DLC with a single friend online, and it's definitely doable. Some of the levels are very difficult though.

Overcooked! 2 has a big content DLC out with 'Campfire Cook Off' and a new Season Pass
24 April 2019 at 3:39 pm UTC

Overcooked! 2 is by far the best co-op experience I've had on Linux. I look forward to playing the new content.

Dark adventure game 'Little Misfortune' from the maker of Fran Bow now has a demo available
22 April 2019 at 10:52 pm UTC

I loved Fran Bow, so I'm happy to hear that Little Misfortune is (probably) coming to Linux.

Godot Engine awarded 50K USD from Mozilla, more exciting features planned for Godot Engine 3.2
12 April 2019 at 1:47 pm UTC

Quoting: chris.echozAll these news about Godot make me want to make a game.

The ongoing Linux Game Jam could be a good start:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/linux-game-jam-2019-is-officially-live-go-make-something-cool.13924

Linux Game Jam 2019 is officially live, go make something cool
10 April 2019 at 1:50 pm UTC Likes: 1

I have an idea for a small game, so I'll try to make something this year too. It usually doesn't amount to much though, so I'm keeping my expectations low.

Quoting: GoboI like what I've seen so far, but t
Any recommendations for copyleft tilemaps and spritesheets other than kenney.nl and opengameart.org? Should I pick up a cheap Wacom tablet or are there better alternatives?

Those are my go-tos, so I'd be interested to know that as well. I was looking around for some 9 slice tilemaps for autotiles the other day, but I couldn't find much, so I'm thinking of making something with Inkscape instead.

Robot Wants It All, a metroidvania compilation of the Robot Wants series is out with Linux support
8 April 2019 at 3:08 pm UTC

I gave it a quick try this weekend, and it seems good. Couldn't figure out how to start a new level after I finished the first one though.

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