Nightdive Studios are making a System Shock Linux demo after gathering feedback

Quoting: Zelox

Quoting: liamdaweYou can see their Steam forum post here. They stated later they are now doing it as they have heard us. Mac apparently is a lower priority as Linux has been in higher demand.

That's interesting, and that's got to be a first for me at least.
Hopefully the demo can be solid.

The second project in just a few days I've seen Linux put ahead of Mac by developers. The other being Zed, I believe. This is a trend I can get behind.

Just an FYI, the Enhanced Edition runs fine in Wine, and of course the DOS version runs fine in DOSBox.

If you think the updated graphics (and more modern engine/controls in general) make a remake worth it, you can get all the level design and many of the same mechanics from those versions.
Looks almost identical in layout.

"Well on their way to the linux stretch goal" ... Yet they haven't even hit their goal for the Windows/XBox One version?

They need to raise another $150,000 in less than a month just to hit that initial goal, doesn't really seem like they'll hit the £1.1m target (another $300,000 on top) does it?

Since I am not sure if I want that game, if the demo is good it might convince me into buying..

Well ...

Quoting: KungFuMonkey (developer)

Quoting: ToastSounds great! Out of curiosity will you be using the new Vulkan API? It'd make the transition easier if so. Thanks for the update, happy developing.

Not sure. We basically just hit the button in Unity to make a build. What Unity does under the hood is "magic".

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Last edited by crt0mega on 4 July 2016 at 12:35 pm UTC

If its Unity you can try using the Unity Linux runtime and put the game file in place, it may work native.

http://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/windows-unity-games-on-linux/

I was trying to get Dues Ex the fall working this way, it works but without sound. I compiled every version of the wwise audio library on their site for linux but still no sound.

If they aren't using plugins that are incompatible Linux it will probably work.

I'm going to mess it with it later. I downloaded the demo a little while ago and extracted the files. It looks like the only plugins used is the wwise aksoundengine. The same plugin used in Dues Ex the Fall, maybe one of my compiled linux aksoundengine files will work.


Last edited by m2mg2 on 8 July 2016 at 10:36 pm UTC

Tried it didn't work. Got Unity errors about unsupported shaders.

Set current directory to /home/****/Desktop/unity/5.4.0b15/test
Found path: /home/****/Desktop/unity/5.4.0b15/test/systemshockdemo.x86_64
Mono path[0] = '/home/****/Desktop/unity/5.4.0b15/test/systemshockdemo_Data/Managed'
Mono path[1] = '/home/****/Desktop/unity/5.4.0b15/test/systemshockdemo_Data/Mono'
Mono config path = '/home/****/Desktop/unity/5.4.0b15/test/systemshockdemo_Data/Mono/etc'
displaymanager : xrandr version warning. 1.5
client has 4 screens
displaymanager screen (0)(DP-4): 1920 x 1080
Using libudev for joystick management


Importing game controller configs

Selecting FBConfig
GLX_FBCONFIG_ID=167
GLX_BUFFER_SIZE=32
GLX_DOUBLEBUFFER=1
GLX_RED_SIZE=8
GLX_GREEN_SIZE=8
GLX_BLUE_SIZE=8
GLX_ALPHA_SIZE=8
GLX_DEPTH_SIZE=24
GLX_STENCIL_SIZE=8
GLX_SAMPLES_ARB=0
GLX_SAMPLE_BUFFERS_ARB=0
GLX_STEREO=0
GLX_CONFIG_CAVEAT=NONE

Desktop is 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
Initialize engine version: 5.4.0b15 (795ddb5a8482)

WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Hidden/Internal-DepthNormalsTexture' - Pass '' has no vertex shader
WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Hidden/Internal-DepthNormalsTexture' - Setting to default shader.
WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Hidden/Internal-Halo' - Pass '' has no vertex shader
WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Hidden/Internal-Halo' - Setting to default shader.
WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Hidden/Internal-Flare' - Pass '' has no vertex shader
WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Hidden/Internal-Flare' - Setting to default shader.
WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Sprites/Default' - Pass '' has no vertex shader
WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Sprites/Default' - Setting to default shader.
WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Legacy Shaders/VertexLit' - Pass '' has no vertex shader
WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Legacy Shaders/VertexLit' - Setting to default shader.
WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Legacy Shaders/Diffuse' - Pass 'FORWARD' has no vertex shader