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Helena the 3rd now available to buy from the Ubuntu Software Centre
By , 6 October 2011 at 12:40 am UTC
I Donated for the game already on 6th of June where should I be getting that :)
Helena the 3rd now available to buy from the Ubuntu Software Centre
By KIAaze, 5 October 2011 at 11:43 pm UTC
Quoting: "Rustybolts, post: 2402"Cheers for the article. For those that dont want to be tied to 1 distro you can purchase the full game from our website for Windows and Linux until its available from other stores.

http://www.helenathe3rd.com/

Mmh, where exactly is the "buy" button? O.o
Or maybe I'm just too tired.

Also, I remember the game being open-source. What is the current status?
Helena the 3rd now available to buy from the Ubuntu Software Centre
By Hamish, 5 October 2011 at 5:18 pm UTC
Or for those that happen to use one distro that is not THE one distro... :rolleyes:

Seriously though, good show. :)
Helena the 3rd now available to buy from the Ubuntu Software Centre
By Rustybolts, 5 October 2011 at 5:07 pm UTC
Cheers for the article. For those that dont want to be tied to 1 distro you can purchase the full game from our website for Windows and Linux until its available from other stores.

http://www.helenathe3rd.com/
Cardinal Quest free for 24 hours!
By , 5 October 2011 at 10:44 pm UTC
Update: This promotion has now ended. Over 1000 copies of the game have been given out. Thanks to everyone who's supported us today.
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By , 7 December 2011 at 6:12 am UTC
Well, I for one pre-ordered SS2 because I became aware of the series via HiB. I haven't actually played Steel Storm yet, but it seems well-made and I like the idea of more games on Linux.
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By Liam Dawe, 3 December 2011 at 12:24 pm UTC
I'm not sure exactly how it worked before for Alex but upon looking into DoD on Humble you can actually set how much you pay to them, they are directly included into the Developer bit where you chose where your money goes to, so for DoD it may work out better, I don't know if that was also the case for Alex.

Picture to show what I mean for the Humble Introversion Bundle:
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Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By , 3 December 2011 at 12:04 pm UTC
I can tell you that being a bonus game or game at all in HiB is not everything it is cracked up to be. Developers should pretty much expect that to be the end of life for their games. Once a HiB sale is over sales of those games afterwards are pretty slim pickings. Being an add-in game for a small fix price, I'm sorry, but that is insane. The only way it works if you can sell a different game and use an old one as a lead in to the newest game anything else is suicide, and even then I am not sure that would even work.
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By Liam Dawe, 4 October 2011 at 7:15 pm UTC
Yeah learning how Alex was treated by HIB was quite shocking really, not as good as they make themselves out to be eh.
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By KIAaze, 3 October 2011 at 10:55 pm UTC
It was interesting to finally get a little bit of insight on how the HIB money is split between devs, notably the bonus games.
They added a slider to choose how much you want to give to the HIB2 games, but not for Steel Storm if I remember correctly. :/

As for Gameolith sales being low: I think it also has to do with the fact that the game was out for a while before Gameolith started, and then there was the HIB. So most people interested in the game probably already had it.
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By Liam Dawe, 3 October 2011 at 10:09 pm UTC
Added a note to say it's an old vid :)
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By , 3 October 2011 at 8:11 pm UTC
No worries Liam, it's a video of the internal prototype of another game I had in mind, but "Tomes of Mephistopheles" can be counted as it's spiritual successor, but with First Person view ;) Keep the vid, just maybe note it's not the "Tomes of Mephistopheles" game.
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By Liam Dawe, 3 October 2011 at 6:43 pm UTC
Gah i thought that was the right video...oops what is the video i put in from?

I will remove it.
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By Bumadar, 3 October 2011 at 6:05 pm UTC
have to agree with you on some of your comments, I got SteelStorm 1 and did find it very bland. It was only because of the HiB3 that I came into contract with SteelStorm 2 and was pleasantly surprised. Feel a bit sad though that your cut was so little. New missions will be a must buy though :)
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By , 3 October 2011 at 5:11 pm UTC
Btw, the video featured in the interview is not the video of "Tomes of Mephistopheles" :P
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By , 3 October 2011 at 5:10 pm UTC
I can't say for sure what engine we will be using. We are performing internal testing after which we can conclude which engine is most suitable for the project.
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By Hamish, 3 October 2011 at 4:55 pm UTC
I assume that "Tomes of the Mephistopheles" is going to be using their Unigine license?

I will hopefully be getting Steel Storm down along with some of my other HIB3 titles over Thanksgiving since my uncle is lucky enough to have unlimited internet. I can give a proper opinion of the game then.
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By Hamish, 3 October 2011 at 4:54 pm UTC
I assume that "Tomes of the Mephistopheles" is going to be using their Unigine license?

I will hopefully be getting Steel Storm down along with some of my other HIB3 titles over Thanksgiving since my uncle is lucky enough to have unlimited internet. I can give a proper opinion of the game then.
Announcing Ensign 1!
By , 5 October 2011 at 11:34 pm UTC
What can I say
Announcing Ensign 1!
By , 5 October 2011 at 9:52 pm UTC
Sometimes I don't feel like logging in.
Announcing Ensign 1!
By Liam Dawe, 5 October 2011 at 9:47 pm UTC
Why the two different logins? Heh
Announcing Ensign 1!
By , 5 October 2011 at 6:46 pm UTC
Oh and thanks for your comments Hammish, glad you approve of our game designs :)
Announcing Ensign 1!
By Brandon Smith, 4 October 2011 at 7:53 pm UTC
Also multi-player :) Someone mentioned the single-player campaign, but for now we're really focused on making the multiplayer work.
Announcing Ensign 1!
By Liam Dawe, 4 October 2011 at 7:22 pm UTC
Yeah the FPS aspect was more of a "oh look cool" sort of thing, space battles are awesome though which is what I am mainly looking forward to.
Announcing Ensign 1!
By , 4 October 2011 at 4:59 am UTC
Okay, Palpatine :)

This game isn't really for someone who's looking for a shooter, it's for someone who wants to play a space combat game where you can commandeer other ships.
Announcing Ensign 1!
By MyGameCompany, 3 October 2011 at 11:13 pm UTC
This looks cool. It's exactly what I was thinking of doing, except 2D instead of 3D - combining my Rick Rocket space shooter and Dirk Dashing platformer game engines for a new Rick Rocket game, where you can fly around, then land on planets or stations and explore. I'll be following this project with great interest.
Announcing Ensign 1!
By Rustybolts, 3 October 2011 at 7:47 pm UTC
Liams right there are not many Linux fps games that offer a single player campaign and what there is are quite old. So you have either played them before or they are not offering anything new.
I am pleased to be part of the team bringing a Space shooter game that will switch from a pilot at the controls of a spaceship, then being able to leave your seat and walk around your own ship or if you have docked with another vessel leaving your own ship on foot and being able to walk around that vessel also.
Announcing Ensign 1!
By Liam Dawe, 3 October 2011 at 9:08 am UTC
I mean in the grand scheme of things it's really not all that many, not many up to date ones anyway. I am looking forward to Ensign though since it should offer quite a lot from the look of it.

Also Enemy Territory - i wish they would release an up to date version now the source is out.
Announcing Ensign 1!
By Hamish, 2 October 2011 at 8:40 pm UTC
Well, of course there are the id games (Quakes, Doom 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein), Prey of course, there was Soldier of Fortune from Loki (still available from Fun4Tux and Amazon.com last time I checked), Shogo and SiN from Hyperion (although Shogo has sadly gone out of stock from TuxGames, and the SiN port sucks by all accounts), Postal2 with the various mods and expansions, plus all of those games with source ports. And that is simply off the top of my head.
Announcing Ensign 1!
By Liam Dawe, 2 October 2011 at 7:11 pm UTC
Quoting: "Anonymous, post: 2375" [COLOR=#000000]Is it commercial game?[/COLOR]

Yes it is.
Quoting: "Hamish, post: 2376"The game does look interesting, but since this is going to be commercial and we already have plenty of single-player non-death-match commercial shooters for Linux, I do not quite understand your aside. This game is a uniqe take on everything though, like Helena was. So it is nice and different.

I wonder how well Helena did for them in the end. Maybe they should try and sneak it into the current bundle... ;)

I haven't actually seen that many commercial single player shooters for Linux?
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