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? I was genuinely asking what platformers I was missing. I love platformers.

I have: BEEP, BTM, Braid, Cave Story, Project Black Sun, Trine, SoR, VVVVVV, and Gish.

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Keep it chilled guys :)

It was just a passing comment thats all. I love all indie games including platformers, i just personally want more of a bigger variety but as Hamish said we are still a small user base...for now!

I wouldnt feature it on gol news if i wasnt interested in it somewhat :)

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Hey, I was not beating on platformers, just that there seems to be a bit of an indie preoccupation with them.

Anyway, I just played through the first episode of the original Duke Nukem a few months ago through Dosbox. :)

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? *glances at Desura* I've got... 7 "platformer" games. Where are these plethora of platformers I'm missing? 8 if you count BEEP which isn't on Desura.

Either way, I for one love platformers/sidescrollyshooters. Maybe that's just because I grew up playing Super Metroid and Mario.

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Quake style shooters are there thanks to there being a lot of easy code available and solid tools to build them mostly thanks solely to John Carmark. If you want more variation, blame the developers of other titles for not being as community minded. Thankfully that is one of my favourite genres, so I am well covered.

As for the platformers, well, they have been the quintessential "indie" game since Cave Story. I must admit I am a little tired of hearing about some "innovative" Indie title which is just a rehash of a classic shareware platformer. I am fine with them being there, but I do not care if you added some funky physics effects or time control or metaphysical f**k ups , it is still basically Duke Nukem, Commander Keen, or Mario.

As it is though, I would find it in bad taste to complain to loudly about such things, as we are not yet in a position that we can demand developer attention as loudly as that. Every developer we get we must all be grateful to. Especally since the reason we are stuck in these moulds are because these developers are the only ones to give a proper s***t about us.

Pardon my self-censored language. :p

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Quoting: "Brandon Smith, post: 2585"I'd be interested to see what Venn says if he does a B-Reel on it. He's always complaining about the number of platformers on Linux.

With good reason, it seems to be the in thing at the moment. I'm all for games coming to Linux but we seem to be overflowing with quake style shooters and indie platformers.

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I'd be interested to see what Venn says if he does a B-Reel on it. He's always complaining about the number of platformers on Linux.

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Quoting: "Kame, post: 2580"You say "It's another platformer game" like that's a bad thing.

Not a bad thing at all, but i would like to see more RTS games with a story personally :) and i said another because we have had a flux of them come to Linux from indies recently.

This game does looks really good though.

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It's definitely got that SOTN thing going on. Looks nice.

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You say "It's another platformer game" like that's a bad thing.

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looking at the gameplay video, it looks uglier than Zero ballistics.
but on the other hand it seems kind a same..
is that some fork of Zero Ballistics?
Zero ballistics is available for free on desura and i played it a little, seemed quite fun but missed a lot of potential features.

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Update on desura for Blue Libra:

ADDED
new missions in campaign
zooming
FIXED
crash bug related to AI
scrolling issues on some resolutions

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Desura keys are up to the developers and not the Humble people according to the folks at Desura.

I hope they do add Desura keys as I'm a big fan of Desura.

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just remember the bundle running now has no desura key, just steam so far. Steam key only got added after the 2 other games got, so maybe desura will get added at the end in case more games get added......... dunno, just thinking :)

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Because I would never download anything over 30 MB over my bandwidth restricted internet connection?

I downloaded most of my Humble Indie Bundle titles at my uncles as he was somehow lucky enough to get unlimited. I would mostly try to redeem them on Desura just to play with the thing when it is released. As it stands, actually using its services properly is in many ways inaccessible to me. But I still want to play with it. :P

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Why would you add them to not download? Confused.

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Ah, okay, nifty. So I could add the games to an account and not download them with the client.

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It adds the game to your account for you to download and install via Desura at anytime.

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Ah, thanks for the link Bumbadar.

Slightly Off Topic: When you redeem a Humble Bundle purchase on Desura, what happens exactly? Does it add the game to your account and does Desura try to download its own copy, or what?

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Quoting: "Hamish, post: 2565"Still, any word on when Desura for Linux is finally going to be out of Beta?

1st comment in this post might give you some indication: http://www.desura.com/groups/linux-gamers/news/desura-linux-super-mega-game-update

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Quoting: "Kame, post: 2566"Blue Libra is pretty fun, like Galcon but with deeper gameplay.

have to agree, its good fun, bit short but :)

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Blue Libra is pretty fun, like Galcon but with deeper gameplay.

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Hmmm... Thunder Fleets looks rather naval novel. Still, any word on when Desura for Linux is finally going to be out of Beta?

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It is important to note that supporting the Gameolith project automatically gives you an equal amount in "credit" to get games, so I would call this an investment not a donation ;-)

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Its because i forget there is a 1 oops but i personally think it sounds better ;)

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I think I actually kind of like the name just Ensign, vs Ensign 1. Good call.

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Thanks for the clarification Xpander (and Cheesness). It makes a bit more sense now.

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on irc.freenode #steamlug channel

Nov 02 01:40:47  I gots me a reply from Jeffrey Rosen
Nov 02 01:44:33  oh boy
Nov 02 01:44:37  herewego.tif
Nov 02 01:44:49  (yeah, right...)
Nov 02 01:46:40  There's a lot of stuff in the response, but the basic gist is that the "Humble Indie Bundles" are meant to be separate from the not-"indie" bundles (Frozenbyte, Frozen Synapse, Voxatron)
Nov 02 01:46:53  They recognise that there's a branding issue
Nov 02 01:47:37  Apparently they're keen to do 1 - 2 big bundles a year, but want to do smaller stuff every now and again
Nov 02 01:50:06  I think I'm going to ask him if he wants to do an interview

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Why could they not just get these games into the damn thing in the beginning? Or maybe they could have held out on the last Bundle and had both the games in this one and the last and had one proper Bundle? I really am beginning to wonder...

Considering the last full Bundle made over 2 million, they would not even have lost any money. I really do not understand this.

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Depends what java lib it uses? If like minecraft it may need updating, i forget what the libs called though it's not a very easy to remember name.

lwgjl or something.

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