The Away Team, a sci-fi text-based adventure game by Underflow Studios, has officially been released on Linux. The minimum requirements according to the game's Steam page mention "Hannah Montana Linux", so it's a safe bet that no matter what you've got under the hood, it'll be plenty to run this interactive fiction game.
The Away Team puts you in the role of an AI piloting Earth's final interstellar spaceship, leading your small human crew in search of a new home. Along the way, you'll navigate your way across multiple dynamically-generated space sector maps as you track down the crews that have journeyed into the unknown before your own. Each journey is unique.
Within each system you visit, select the planet or station you want to check out, then select an "away team" from the available crew, each with their own particular set of strengths and weaknesses which might help or hinder them on the mission. Then guide your crew through life-and-death decisions as they explore the planets in search of secrets, food and fuel.
The Away Team features over 85,000 words of interactive fiction, spread out across over 30 planets, stations and special situations including starvation and out-of-fuel events. With four paths to victory, three difficulty levels, ten Steam Achievements, and trading cards to collect, there's plenty of reason to play again and again, if only to see how many different ways you can kill your crew off.
Check it out on Steam or learn more at http://awayteam.space/
Editor Note: From the release announcement, it sounds like the developer rather likes Linux! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
The Away Team puts you in the role of an AI piloting Earth's final interstellar spaceship, leading your small human crew in search of a new home. Along the way, you'll navigate your way across multiple dynamically-generated space sector maps as you track down the crews that have journeyed into the unknown before your own. Each journey is unique.
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Within each system you visit, select the planet or station you want to check out, then select an "away team" from the available crew, each with their own particular set of strengths and weaknesses which might help or hinder them on the mission. Then guide your crew through life-and-death decisions as they explore the planets in search of secrets, food and fuel.
The Away Team features over 85,000 words of interactive fiction, spread out across over 30 planets, stations and special situations including starvation and out-of-fuel events. With four paths to victory, three difficulty levels, ten Steam Achievements, and trading cards to collect, there's plenty of reason to play again and again, if only to see how many different ways you can kill your crew off.
Check it out on Steam or learn more at http://awayteam.space/
Editor Note: From the release announcement, it sounds like the developer rather likes Linux! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Micromegas 24 Mar 2017
"Hannah Montana Linux" - lol. Never heard of that distribution. ;-)
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Crazy Penguin 24 Mar 2017
"Hannah Montana Linux" - lol. Never heard of that distribution. ;-)Here! Check it OUT! It's real! :D
http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/
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nullzero 24 Mar 2017
Lovely release announcement ^_^
Last edited by nullzero on 24 Mar 2017 at 7:53 pm UTC
Linux has given me so much and with that I am happy to announce that I can give something back to it. Although small and niche The Away Team grows the Linux game count by one. Something I could not be more proud to do
Last edited by nullzero on 24 Mar 2017 at 7:53 pm UTC
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Cybolic 25 Mar 2017
That indeed was a lovely announcement, so lovely in fact that I bought the game purely based on it. I don't think I'll have the time to play it any time soon, but Linux love is Linux love :)
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PublicNuisance 25 Mar 2017
Sounds like an interesting game and the developer sounds worth supporting. Onto the wishlist it goes.
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