Here's a great-looking point-and-click adventure game that I hadn't seen until today:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sebastian-frank-the-beer-hall-putsch#/

It has a Linux demo and is a fixed funding campaign, so if it doesn't make its goal, you don't pay anything. Unfortunately, it doesn't look likely to make it at this point. If you like the demo though, it might still be worth backing it just so you get updates from the campaign.

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Thanks. :) I'm curious to hear what you both think once you've given the demo/game a try.

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The developer has posted an article on Gamasutra where, among other things, she explains the art style of the game as something called "digital matte painting".

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Thanks for highlighting the issue to the AGS and Allegro devs, Shmerl. :)

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Quoting: Blackthorne519Thank you for the review, flesk! I'm looking forward to finishing up the second OotT game, too! Fortress of Fire should come out later this year. Again, thanks for playing and for writing about our game. It's a labour of love, for sure.

Glad to hear that. Thank you for making the game!

Quoting: mr-eggWhat about KDE , Kwin forcing borderless fullscreen in the window settings ?

Doing that while also using one of the graphics filters to scale up the game, I get a borderless "fullscreen" that covers most of my screen from the upper left corner. Invoking xrandr to resize the screen and kstart to force fullscreen from the launcher script might be a workaround though, but I haven't tried that (yet). I'm open to suggestions though.

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Sounds and looks very interesting.

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I'm disappointed by the lack of communication (I'm a Kickstarter backer), but I'm also a bit amused by the absurdity of the situation. I guess we can take it as a validation of the merits of Linux as a gaming platform? I'm not mad at the developers though, and they're already dealing with some of the absolute worst crap I've ever seen on the Steam forums; especially considering the subject matter of the game. That's the Windows community for you. ;)

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One of the best ever stories in a platformer. Great to finally have it on Steam, though like km3k, I don't understand why it took so long.

Both versions have the same version in BuildVersion.txt, so I diffed the md5 hashes of everything in both versions out of curiosity, and the contents are identical, except that the Steam version doesn't have the uninstaller or the .mojosetup directory.

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There has also been a blue information box about the nominations at the top of the front page for the last couple of weeks. Maybe it would have been better if it was red and blinking though. :)

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Are we doing this again?

Games go over budget all the time. Games get cancelled all the time. Yes, the cancellation of Spacebase DF-9 could have been handled better, but it didn't sell and development had to stop.

I don't put to much value in a video posted by a guy who "thinks #GamerGate are OK", and there's nothing new in this video.

If you don't like taking risks, avoid crowdfunding, Early Access and investments.

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