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Indie Royale includes Lume for Linux

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The Valentines day Indie Royale bundle of 5 games includes native linux game Lume which can at the moment be purchased for a minimum of £2.71. Looking at the trailer below Lume is quite an attractive looking game and looks to be worth the £2.71 not sure if the other games can be played through wine, but its still not a bad price.
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QuoteWith a set built entirely out of paper and cardboard, and sumptuously filmed, Lume is an adventure game with a style unlike any other. Power to your grandad’s house has failed. What’s more, he’s nowhere to be seen. Immerse yourself in Lume’s photoreal world, solve perplexing paper puzzles to help restore the power, and uncover a deeper mystery behind the blackout. This game forms Part 1 of a larger, ongoing story. ***Nominated for Excellence in Visual Art – IGF Awards 2012***

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Other games in the bundle.
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    Hoard for: steam (pc and mac)
*BONUS* Includes individual keys for two DLC packs.
    Lume for: windows, mac, linux, desura, steam (pc and mac)
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We're providing a special bonusfor anyone who pays over the minimum price during the Valentine's Bundle - One Life Left's eclectic 'Music To Play


http://www.indieroyale.com/

UPDATE - Lume can now be purchased directly from Desura. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Hamish Feb 10, 2012
I am sorry, I would not support this. If it takes a bit more money to buy it straight from Desura itself, I would say go for it.

Still, you can all do what you want...
buschap Feb 10, 2012
Why wouldn't you, Hamish? Indie Royale is co-created by Desura, so they are still directly part of it. If you're worried about supporting Windows devs, send them a tweet or an e-mail saying you bought the bundle as a Linux user. If you're worried the dev will get less profit this way, they will probably make it up by people buying the bundle for Zeno Clash, for example.
Hamish Feb 10, 2012
Indie Royale is competition to Humble Bundle, which has firm policies about Linux support and brings new games over. Indie Royale only has a Linux game in its list due to serendipity. Plus, I think the Bundle clones are getting a bit out of hand.

I support Desura, it is Linux friendly. Indie Royale is not. I do not care if they are from the same company.
Xpander Feb 10, 2012
im with Hamish on thisone. Alltho i buy some windows games also and play them with wine.
This still is not a good sign for me.. i better buy it with full price off the desura than supporting the devs who dont make linux ports of their games.
specially those small indie games which allready have mac port and dont have linux port.
whizse Feb 10, 2012
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It's a Flash game, so it's not really a port.
KIAaze Feb 10, 2012
QuoteIt's a Flash game, so it's not really a port.



Yes, there have been quite a few flash games in the bundles. More games seem to be appearing through NaCl as well. And then there are things like OnLive.
Not sure how much I like this evolution... :/
None of those things are really "native".
What's the difference between playing a game through Flash or NaCl and using Wine? (Desura even sells GNU/Linux games using Wine)
If anything, Flash being proprietary, it's probably the worst of all options... (Unless the games run well with Gnash&co)
(Onlive is a special case, since it means the game is not even local)

As for the Royal Bundle, I probably also won't buy it. Although Lume does look interesting.
Beherit Feb 11, 2012
I can see not wanting to buy the Indie Royale Bundle mainly because of the bad games it includes, but not because it's in competition with Humble Bundle.

I bought this one to check out Lume since it was cheaper than buying it on its own, but other than that, I won't be playing any of the other games it includes.

Indie Royale needs better games to compete with the humble bundle.
Eddward Feb 11, 2012
I didn't see Lume pop on on Desura. I have to agree with the crowd that won't be buying from Indie Royal. I don't see the point in paying for games I can't play. It's rewarding developers for nothing. I don't have anything against those developers. They just haven't done anything for me to deserve my money. Lume's available on it's own. I'll buy it on Desura.

Being a flash game doesn't bother me. I assumed the game's already proprietary. I guess I don't care what they write it in as long as I don't have to know it. If I have to tinker with the flash runtime (or jvm or clr or grab a newer version of libstdc++ than my system provides) then I get irked. Open Source software get some extra leeway there that proprietary software doesn't.
Hamish Feb 11, 2012
Quoting: "KIAaze, post: 3321, member: 16"What's the difference between playing a game through Flash or NaCl and using Wine? (Desura even sells GNU/Linux games using Wine)


Well, NaCl is a bit different, as it simply launches from the browser. It then uses your native system to actually execute the game in a similar manner to QuakeLive. Or at least, that is the impression I got from what I read.
alexThunder Feb 11, 2012
Quoting: "Hamish, post: 3318, member: 6"Indie Royale is competition to Humble Bundle, which has firm policies about Linux support and brings new games over. Indie Royale only has a Linux game in its list due to serendipity. Plus, I think the Bundle clones are getting a bit out of hand.

I support Desura, it is Linux friendly. Indie Royale is not. I do not care if they are from the same company.


Agreed. Furthermore you would pay for a couple of games you can't play (as wine is not an alternative to native games, I don't count on it). In the End you wouldn't even (directly) support Linux Gaming.

But if the game will be released on Desura, I'll buy it :)
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