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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?
Announcing Ensign 1!
By Hamish, 2 October 2011 at 5:25 pm UTC
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... ;)
Announcing Ensign 1!
By , 2 October 2011 at 1:14 pm UTC
[COLOR=#000000]Is it commercial game?[/COLOR]
Trauma added to HIB
By Bumadar, 1 October 2011 at 1:06 pm UTC
strange game, intriguing though and quiet enjoyable
Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle!
By Bumadar, 29 September 2011 at 5:59 pm UTC
got it because I like the game but not to impressed with the bundle itself... as its not a bundle (unless you did not get the frozenbyte bundle before)
Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle!
By , 29 September 2011 at 5:41 pm UTC
I think they are just wanting people to spend more than $1.
Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle!
By Liam Dawe, 29 September 2011 at 7:26 am UTC
I think this game looks great, my brother gave it a good little review to me as he got it via Steam when it came out for Windows.

I agree though in that they should have waited...
Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle!
By Hamish, 28 September 2011 at 8:37 pm UTC
Frankly, I am underwhelmed. They should have waited until they could include more games. And I am not particularly interested in the one new game they are offering. :confused:
Marball Odyssey $1+ (not quite pay what you want)
By Hamish, 22 September 2011 at 4:55 pm UTC
QuoteAn interesting note here is that Mac sales in our own store did not go down as a other online outlets like Steam started to provide mac versions; meaning it did not steal our customers but opened up to a new market. We think it is a good incentive for other stores to support Linux as well! - Frictional Games


http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/2011/09/amnesia-one-year-later.html
Gameolith gives more info for game developers.
By Liam Dawe, 21 September 2011 at 8:51 pm UTC
They said it is a planned feature, but Gameolith is only one person...
Gameolith gives more info for game developers.
By Hamish, 21 September 2011 at 4:31 pm UTC
While they are at it, they should really add screenshots to their game pages.
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Hamish, 1 October 2011 at 4:45 pm UTC
I think we have a spam bot...
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Hamish, 24 September 2011 at 6:02 pm UTC
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Xpander, 24 September 2011 at 11:22 am UTC
the custom game searching doesnt work for me.
i see there is option under settings that u can find games u have installed and even point the games to correct folders. but sadly it doesnt work.
ahh well its beta afterall :) really happy with it anyway.
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By KIAaze, 24 September 2011 at 12:12 am UTC
I'm in as well now. :)
Redeemed all my humble bundle desura keys, except HIB1, which didn't have any unfortunately.
Most HIB games seem to work, except a few like "Machinarium" and "Revenge of the titans" which crash Desura.
I also tried Urban terror, which worked without any issues.

So overall, very satisfied and very happy. :)
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Liam Dawe, 22 September 2011 at 1:02 pm UTC
Yeah they all have their place, but for now I'm not holding any hope on Steam, all my hopes go to Desura and Gameolith.
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Xpander, 21 September 2011 at 10:19 pm UTC
we can hope for both. they are little different.
desura is mostly indie games and addons/mods for games.
while steam has all different stuff.

i really like the desura thingy but i still hope that steam will come to linux some day.
the more choices the better it is imo. like linux itself: freedom of choice.
i would use them both.
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Liam Dawe, 21 September 2011 at 8:50 pm UTC
He didn't mention Steam for once, that is a shock....although a lot of other people are now jumping on a "steam should take note" bandwagon...i disagree with them, we should support Desura not hope for another service.
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Hamish, 21 September 2011 at 5:24 pm UTC
Looks like Larabel is a little late to the party, guess he managed to clear his head enough of beer to read his inbox:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTkyOA

And you should be happy Liam, no mention of Steam for Linux this time.
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