Maia, the colony building simulation from Simon Roth has a huge update which includes Lava and colonist relationships. It’s sounding more and more like a heavily simulated version of ‘the sims in space’.
Fumiko! An incredibly strange platformer was sent in by the developer, it was developed on Linux so I was keen to take a look.
I think the premise of this title has a lot of potential, and I hope the developers prove capable of offering a good story in upcoming episodes. In the mean time, the demo is available on itch and GameJolt.
If you enjoy exercising your reflexes with games like 'Velocibox', then you can't miss this new and good-looking action game which is available on itch since a few days ago, under the Pay What You Want scheme.
If you like your fast-paced futuristic racers, you may want to know that Super Pilot could gain a Linux version with enough support.
The developers at itch sure do put the effort in to make their store and client as good as possible and it shows with this latest update.
I had the pleasure of talking to Simon Roth, a developer I've followed for quite some time now about his game 'Maia', about Linux and other bits. Linux sales for Simon are 'approaching ten thousand', which is impressive.
This was confirmed by Polytron on Twitter. All the money will be sent to an American charity called American Civil Liberties Union.
Sad news, the survival game 'Raft' that really caught my interest for doing something very different has decided to drop Linux support.
The guys over at itch are doing some truly interesting work. The itch store is open to all developers, they have an open source client and they talk openly about their work. A developer of their games client has written up about how they compress data for downloads.
Sleeper games announce "Hyperspace Dogfights", a fast-paced aerial rogue-like action game. Set in the same story universe as their upcoming "Hyperspace Admirals" game, Dogfights is aiming for a Linux beta early this year.
For fans of the awesome itch games website, the client has been updated once again with a number of bug fixes.
I came across Raft thanks to games store itch and it’s a brilliant prototype I hope to see developed further!
I recently saw 'MidBoss' pop up in my Twitter feed and after seeing how amazing it looked I shot the developer a message. Turns out our friendly neighbourhood porting machine Ethan Lee is doing it and it should be day-1!
One store you really shouldn't look past is itch, as they have an open source client and I never hear a bad thing said about them.
The itch developers sure do work fast, as another two versions of this open source game client has been released.
The client for the game store itch has been updated again and it has some really useful stuff this time.
The developers of 'Urban Pirate' have announced that their turn-based, urban crime simulation is heading to Linux.
BUTCHER, the gory and totally brutal 2D shooter that's really quite good has a free DLC which enables an easy mode.
SHENZHEN I/O is the new simulator/puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of other excellent games like Spacechem, Infinifactory and TIS-100. After being on Early Access for some time, it's now available on Steam since November, 17th.
