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Superfrog HD Platformer To Come To Linux From Team17 UPDATED

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Looks like Superfrog HD is to come to Linux via Steam thanks to the SteamDB. This is awesome it's a game that I played the original on Amiga back when I was younger and it's now coming to Linux in HD glory!

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Curses! The evil old witch has done it this time... She’s gone and turned the Prince of the Magical Kingdom into a bright green frog and made off with his loved one. Sometime life, even in the Magical Kingdom, just isn’t fair! However, life by the riverside was not to be all doom and gloom for our once regal, yet now green and warty chum.

As luck would have it a strange and powerful elixir floats down the the stream and catches our amphibious friend’s attention. Intrigued, our soon-to-be-hero take a huge swig. After a few minor explosions he becomes the legend that soon will be SUPERFROG!

With boundless courage and dizzy new heights of determination, he sets off towards the Magic Forest with one goal in mind - to get back his girl, vanquish the curse and give that nasty old witch just what she deserves!

Video - This is the orignal on Amiga in all it's glory!
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Imagine this scaled up a bit.

Looks like Team17 are getting Linux friendly, they also have Worms Reloaded listed on SteamDB, that still hasn't appeared yet so could these two titles be for a new Humble Indie Bundle maybe? Pure speculation of course but not impossible.

UPDATE: Looks like we/SteamDB was right as it's now on Steam! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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rick01457 Sep 11, 2013
Oh my god. This is the first game i ever put on when i'm loading up an amiga emulator
Lord Avallon Sep 11, 2013
Great news, I love this game, the music is awesome, I also played the PC version. I am glad to see Linux receiving not only new games but also classics like Shadow Warrior, Duke Nukem 3D, Chaos Engine, Wizardry 6 & 7 and now Super Frog.
Cheeseness Sep 11, 2013
Oh my wow. I still play this game in UAE. This is the coolest news on the face of the planet right now.

Edit: Hmm, after watching a gameplay vid of the Playstation version of Superfrog HD, I'm not certain how I feel about it. Graphics and audio feel weird and not quite superfroggy. Still, this seems to be a sign that Team 17 are looking at being serious about Linux support, which is awesome.
AmigaFan Sep 12, 2013
Here's a trailer for it. Looks great!
AmigaFan Sep 12, 2013
Cheeseness Sep 13, 2013
Quoting: AmigaFanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k08zeU2l2Tc
Well, that's definitely better in the music department than the one I watched.

Still not really a fan of Superfrog's animation though.
Anonymous Oct 31, 2013
Superfrog HD is now on Humble Bundle. Not impossible, hm? :)
This is very funny, because this game costs 8/9 euro on Steam, but on HB we've pay only one dollar :) 
Anonymous Nov 3, 2013
Not recommended. Team17 has a bad track record fixing bugs as it is, but apparently they are completely unable to support our platform. The Steam install does not supply all required libraries and as such won't run out of the box. Further, the process gets killed due to buffer overruns unless you manually export a "C" locale. It's not like that can't be overcome, but you shouldn't support a company which puts broken products on the market and never does anything in the line of fixing them.
Cheeseness Nov 3, 2013
Quoting: Quote from AnonymousNot recommended. Team17 has a bad track record fixing bugs as it is, but apparently they are completely unable to support our platform. The Steam install does not supply all required libraries and as such won't run out of the box. Further, the process gets killed due to buffer overruns unless you manually export a "C" locale. It's not like that can't be overcome, but you shouldn't support a company which puts broken products on the market and never does anything in the line of fixing them.

Have these issues been reported, do you know? I wasn't aware of them as I'm yet to experience a crash (though I've only spent maybe a dozen hours or so playing).
Anonymous Nov 3, 2013
Quoting: Quote from Cheeseness
Quoting: Quote from AnonymousNot recommended. Team17 has a bad track record fixing bugs as it is, but apparently they are completely unable to support our platform. The Steam install does not supply all required libraries and as such won't run out of the box. Further, the process gets killed due to buffer overruns unless you manually export a "C" locale. It's not like that can't be overcome, but you shouldn't support a company which puts broken products on the market and never does anything in the line of fixing them.

Have these issues been reported, do you know? I wasn't aware of them as I'm yet to experience a crash (though I've only spent maybe a dozen hours or so playing).
Hi Cheeseness. These problems have been discussed in several threads on the Steam forums (this is where I found the locale workaround) and have been reported upstream two months ago. This would lead me to conclude that they will likely not be addressed in the future, given Team17's reputation in these regards even on the Windows platform, and also given the trivial nature of the necessary fixes.

It bums me out to no end to see how half-baked the Linux releases by commercial publishers have been. In the end this hurts our platform much more than if those broken pieces of software had never been released at all. The lack of technical expertise on the side of fairly large developing houses and publishers just proliferates the false stereotype that Linux as a platform is defined by the need to do extensive tinkering before you get to run a piece of software.
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