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IndieCIty - New game store coming soon!
By Liam Dawe, 1 August 2011 at 2:15 pm UTC
I would rather leave it up to admins and mods to sort out honestly, so people don't end up deleting wrong posts of theirs.
IndieCIty - New game store coming soon!
By Brandon Smith, 1 August 2011 at 2:03 pm UTC
Not other people's posts, just my own. To clean up accidental double posts and the like.
IndieCIty - New game store coming soon!
By Liam Dawe, 1 August 2011 at 2:02 pm UTC
Hah, nah you're not as a security measure so if someone got it, they couldn’t start randomly deleting posts.
IndieCIty - New game store coming soon!
By Brandon Smith, 1 August 2011 at 1:36 pm UTC
When the server was down, I accidentally posted the same thing 7 times, but Rusty caught it and cleaned it up. By the way, am I not able to delete my own posts?
IndieCIty - New game store coming soon!
By Liam Dawe, 1 August 2011 at 9:12 am UTC
Quoting: "Brandon Smith, post: 2038"hahaha, a page full of the same post.


This confused me.

Quoting: "Hamish, post: 2040"Yeah, you can blame the hangover, I can blame the remnants of general anaesthesia and the novocaine. :confused:


As did this :P
IndieCIty - New game store coming soon!
By Hamish, 1 August 2011 at 8:59 am UTC
Excuse me? :confused:
IndieCIty - New game store coming soon!
By Liam Dawe, 1 August 2011 at 8:51 am UTC
What are you two on about, am i missing something?
IndieCIty - New game store coming soon!
By Hamish, 31 July 2011 at 8:30 pm UTC
Yeah, you can blame the hangover, I can blame the remnants of general anaesthesia and the novocaine. :confused:

So we are going to get Desura, Gameolith, and IndieCity all within a space of a year? It will be interesting to see how this turns out.
IndieCIty - New game store coming soon!
By Brandon Smith, 31 July 2011 at 6:58 pm UTC
hahaha, a page full of the same post.
IndieCIty - New game store coming soon!
By Brandon Smith, 31 July 2011 at 6:29 pm UTC
Yea, we're going to try to get Helena The 3rd on IndieCity.
IndieCIty - New game store coming soon!
By Liam Dawe, 31 July 2011 at 5:51 pm UTC
Gah sorry, blame the hangover.
IndieCIty - New game store coming soon!
By TheAncientGoat, 31 July 2011 at 4:24 pm UTC
Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 2032"Thanks to Ryan Stewart on google+ i got notified about [URL='http://www.indiecity.com']IndieCity[/URL].


It's Swart, not Stewart :P
Project Zomboid working on Linux!
By Brandon Smith, 28 July 2011 at 5:49 pm UTC
I did miss that. Thank you :) I'm going to need to get Rusty to play it now so we can talk about it. Such a good game, basically my dream zombie game right there.

Edit: And yea, Java is not as cross platform as they'd like you to believe. I keep telling people to use C++.... (using portable code)
Project Zomboid working on Linux!
By Liam Dawe, 28 July 2011 at 5:27 pm UTC
You missed it never working on Linux for a lot of people without work arounds, this works out of the box :)
Project Zomboid working on Linux!
By Brandon Smith, 28 July 2011 at 4:34 pm UTC
Hasn't this demo been out like a month? Was there something new I missed?

Amazing game by the way.
The Humble Indie Bundle #3
By Rustybolts, 3 August 2011 at 8:36 pm UTC
The Humble Indie Bundle #3
By KIAaze, 3 August 2011 at 7:02 pm UTC
The Humble Indie Bundle #3
By Liam Dawe, 27 July 2011 at 6:34 pm UTC
Actually Desura's Mark commented saying the lists still show Windows games, so take what games are listed with a pinch of salt.

Your last point is very valid though, you cannot get (from what i see) Aquaria from any other source which is a shame as it's a nice little game.

It's a good job Desura is being active though as this bundles games you can already buy directly from them :D

Time will tell what will be available, i reckon end of august we will see either the stable release or some form of testing release. I had a chat with Scott the other week and hopefully i can get a look at an early build :)
The Humble Indie Bundle #3
By , 27 July 2011 at 5:10 pm UTC
Hey, this is Hamish, but I am on a library computer.

Anyways, looks like I am happy, as both Braid and Trine (as well as the Shadowgrounds games, poor LGP :P) seem to be coming to the Linux Desura, if you study the latest screenshots released:

http://media.desura.com/cache/images/groups/1/2/1150/thumb_620x2000/Main_Form_Complete_Games.png

I already own all of the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle games (missed the second bundle due to problems with our credit cards, so I missed out on Braid) but I do want these games to continue to be available through other sources so those who miss out on the Bundle events can still enjoy them.

My main complaint against the Bundles (you mean there is something you can complain about?) was that a lot of the ports sold through them seemed to not be available through other sources (in some cases), thankfully Desura is helping to relieve this.
The Humble Indie Bundle #3
By Liam Dawe, 27 July 2011 at 9:20 am UTC
Quoting: "Hamish, post: 1986"Does that mean that all the titles that were a part of the Humble Indie Bundle will be available for Linux through Desura? So Trine and the other Bundle titles not currently available will be available through there, and it will mean you can get Braid somewhere other than the Ubuntu Software Centre?


I actually meant it more in the way of the bundles you buy you can activate on Desura. But most of if not all of the games in the bundles are available on Desura anyway :)

The games in the current Bundle are all now available to buy on Desura as well :)
The Humble Indie Bundle #3
By KIAaze, 27 July 2011 at 7:36 am UTC
I think I should start counting how much money I spend on games now. ^^
I'm also hesitating between giving a lot to the HIB3 or a bit less + some to stuff like FOSS games/projects, opengameart, humanitarian charities, etc.
There should be an option to donate to other charities/projects through the HIB. :)

(child's play and EFF are very centered on the english speaking parts of the world... :/ Does the EFF act worldwide?)
The Humble Indie Bundle #3
By , 27 July 2011 at 2:44 am UTC
Quoting: "Hamish, post: 1986"Does that mean that all the titles that were a part of the Humble Indie Bundle will be available for Linux through Desura? So Trine and the other Bundle titles not currently available will be available through there, and it will mean you can get Braid somewhere other than the Ubuntu Software Centre?


In short? Maybe.

What I've been able to gather from the linux dev is that this is exactly what they would LIKE to do, but it's really up to the developers of the games themselves. Seeing as they're all indie devs however, I would assume most would give the go ahead to make it a one pay for all platforms.
The Humble Indie Bundle #3
By Hamish, 26 July 2011 at 11:23 pm UTC
Does that mean that all the titles that were a part of the Humble Indie Bundle will be available for Linux through Desura? So Trine and the other Bundle titles not currently available will be available through there, and it will mean you can get Braid somewhere other than the Ubuntu Software Centre?
The Humble Indie Bundle #3
By Liam Dawe, 26 July 2011 at 6:07 pm UTC
I will be buying as soon as i get home, such a good cause and as always it contains games I am interested in, even if it's only 1 or 2. I haven't finished any of the games from the other bundles either! So this is more fuel to keep me going when i am bored :D

Good job Desura is supporting them too, can't wait for the Linux client so i can have easy access to them all the time :)
Mini Spotlight: Balanced Annihilation Reloaded
By Liam Dawe, 30 July 2011 at 12:10 pm UTC
I think the main point was determining who was who at a distance which is why they chose team colour to be so prominent. At least that is what I remember, the models themselves look great though.
Mini Spotlight: Balanced Annihilation Reloaded
By , 30 July 2011 at 11:27 am UTC
Not very bad, but...
Too much team color on models: they should use more of team-neutral colors.
Models look like a mess: they should have bright differences, units and factories too.
I saw that thread on spring forums at first page, and people was talking right about design, but this result is unexpected to me because this problem of bright differences between models was longly discussed.
Mini Spotlight: Balanced Annihilation Reloaded
By Liam Dawe, 29 July 2011 at 12:48 pm UTC
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Achron updates
By KIAaze, 24 September 2011 at 2:51 pm UTC
ACHRON IS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
How did this get past GamingOnLinux and LinuxGamingNews?!!!!
-> http://www.achrongame.com/site/index.php

And you get one additional free copy if you buy it!

The bad news: 64-bit only and "experimental build", but still quite good news. :)
Linux: 64-bit GNU/Linux; it is a working experimental build that requires either the proprietary ATI or Nvidia graphic card drivers. We are planning to support Mac and 32-bit GNU/Linux in the future. 
Achron updates
By Hamish, 24 July 2011 at 5:49 am UTC
Indeed it was. It was also the one that showed that the Doom engine could actually have had fully implemented jumping, but id simply did not think of it at the time.
Achron updates
By Brandon Smith, 23 July 2011 at 6:01 pm UTC
Perhaps Archon was just the name my friend gave it, or maybe it was in the German version since that's the one he played. But I guess it would have been what you call the Arch-Vile, that's the one that did the flame spell right?
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