Ah, I got the impression they were uploading their build to make it live on Steam. I'll check out their website then.

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And it's 75% off in the summer sale now too! Looks great. The moment the penguin symbol appears on Steam next to their title, I'll be buying it.

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Still no support for Amazon payments on UK kickstarters. Sigh.
The project willbe getting Paypal up and running later apparently, so I can pledge then.

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Jesus, I want to like games that release as Alpha and improve, but sometimes I think they shoot themselves in the foot. The video you linked to was like proof that I'll just be frustrated by how alpha this game is. Maybe later in the cycle, I'll have another look.

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I got the survey for the first time, ever, during the linux beta - been a steam user since 2005'sh, actively since early 2012 (on Windows). So yeah, these stats are skewed beyond belief. They're a sampling of a sampling, of a tiny sampling. I can't see how they're useful as is.

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Could maybe use a link to the campaign? Or is it not live yet?

edit : Here it is - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doublefine/double-fines-massive-chalice/

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Waiting what feels like a very long time for this. Will purchase this weekend. Sweet!

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Magic news. I've pledged to this one. As you say, quite a unique game and definitely worth a look, even if it's not your normal "thing".

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And from Cheese's website, this also relevant : http://cheesetalks.twolofbees.com/linuxStretchGoals.php. This article talks about why launching linux as a stretch goal is often a bad idea. But not as bad as launching on other platforms first, then launching for linux at a later date.

That's also why I tend to avoid iPhone hand-me-downs that appear in the Play Store. Some developers get it right, but more often than not, those titles are poorly ported, buggy, ad-ridden shadows of their iDevice counterparts. And who wants that?

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The Ubuntu Software Centre downloads for paid apps are very low, so getting 100 users from that alone might be challenging. But the success of the Humble Indie Bundle would point to hundreds of thousands of linux users willing to support their platforms (source : http://cheesetalks.twolofbees.com/humble/

For what its worth, I only kickstart projects that have linux support AND as a non-stretch goal. Although early days, I did support some projects that were linux-as-stretch. It's good to see that this approach is becoming fairly rare.

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