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After 12 years, InterAction studios decided to discontinue all games for Linux.
The company that created the Chicken Invaders series and Christmas Eve Crisis decided to give up on Linux games:
Chicken Invaders: Cluck of the Dark Side (Halloween Edition)
Chicken Invaders: Cluck of the Dark Side
Chicken Invaders: Ultimate Omelette
Chicken Invaders: Ultimate Omelette (Christmas Edition)
Chicken Invaders: Ultimate Omelette (Easter Edition)
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Chicken Invaders: Revenge of the Yolk (Easter Edition)
Chicken Invaders: The Next Wave
Chicken Invaders: The Next Wave (Christmas Edition)
Christmas Eve Crisis
You can read about it on their website:
http://www.interactionstudios.com/linuxgames.php
Last edited by gbudny on 6 December 2021 at 12:52 am UTC
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Well, everyone has a choice about how to spend their own money.
The availability of a source code is one of many factors that decide about availability of an application for a specific platform. For instance, MorphOS users have a better source port of AVP than Linux users.
Shadow Warrior is another example of when a company published a source code in 2005, and nobody created a playable version for Linux. Luckily, they decided to release a new version of this game in 2013 for Linux on Steam.
I can give you more examples, but every project should be treated as an individual case.
I want to point out that Christmas Eve Crisis is a freeware game.
Chicken Invaders is a popular game series that have started in 1999, and Linux users don't have too many games developed by so many years.
This is another obstacle for users that go back to using Windows or Mac instead of Linux.
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Last edited by damarrin on 6 December 2021 at 1:24 pm UTC
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Yeah, I think this is a point that FOSS activism often misses: source code (and the legal permission to change it) is a necessary* but not sufficient condition to actually do stuff with software. Add enough loops to jump through and you can make the source code useless on its own - which is a prime strategy that megacorps such as Google use to control platforms while pretending to give people "freedom".
*Sometimes we can decompile or reverse engineer stuff, so it's more granular than just possible or impossible, but you get the idea.
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/answers/7-4.html
Last edited by gbudny on 6 December 2021 at 5:57 pm UTC
There's a lot of noise around Linux on the desktop but somehow that just doesn't translate to market share ever.
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They decided to support Linux in 2009 before HIB and Steam, which was a brave decision. It's terrible that they were forced to drop support for Linux in 2021.
The first Linux version of Chicken Invaders (from 2002) was released in 2009.
Can you give me examples of a game series for Linux that have started in 2002 or earlier and was released for Linux before 2010?
Dominions and Conquest of Elysium are two game series created by the same company that still support Linux. I don't have any other examples.
Many people noticed this game series:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Invaders
Last edited by gbudny on 6 December 2021 at 7:22 pm UTC