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Interview with Keith Poole from Desura Part 3
By KIAaze, 9 July 2011 at 11:27 pm UTC
I just noticed something: There doesn't seem to be any Mac version of Desura.
I don't have any Mac, so I don't really care about it, but am I seeing this right: Desura coming to GNU/Linux BEFORE Mac?! :confused:
Or is it just being developped in a cross-platform way so that it will work on both at the same time? (That would be slightly disappointing. :p)
Interview with Keith Poole from Desura Part 3
By , 7 July 2011 at 4:02 am UTC
Desura for Linux sounds very exciting. I'm grateful Keith has given so much time to answering questions.
Interview with Keith Poole from Desura part 2!
By Hamish, 3 July 2011 at 8:54 am UTC
Well, I understand his reasons for not doing the mod support, but I still hope that at some point they can get that working on Linux. That said, I am still interested in Desura and they responded to my question well. So well done Keith and Scott and of course well done Liam for the interview. ;)
Interview with Keith Poole from Desura part 2!
By MaximB, 3 July 2011 at 8:03 am UTC
Nice interview, I can't understand the companies that insist on DRM (even months/years after their games release), look at GOG - they sell games without DRM and it's seems to work great for them.
I've bought many games from them for the major reason being NO-DRM, they got over $100 from me over the past 1-2 years.
First teaser trailer for Dirk Dashing 2 and July Newsletter
By MyGameCompany, 2 July 2011 at 5:20 pm UTC
In case anyone is interested in why I chose to do a pre-order for the game, I just blogged about it:
http://www.mygamecompany.com/forums/showthread.php?t=635
First teaser trailer for Dirk Dashing 2 and July Newsletter
By Rustybolts, 1 July 2011 at 5:25 pm UTC
Looking forward to its release, I love old skool platform games.
First teaser trailer for Dirk Dashing 2 and July Newsletter
By Brandon Smith, 1 July 2011 at 5:05 am UTC
I was going to say you're shooting people! But then I realized they were tranq darts :)
First teaser trailer for Dirk Dashing 2 and July Newsletter
By MyGameCompany, 1 July 2011 at 4:11 am UTC
Yeah. Unfortunately, I don't have the new music yet. So I clipped a bit of music from the original game. The first draft of the new music should be arriving within the next week or so. It's from the same musician that did the music for Rick Rocket, and he did a phenomenal job with that game, so I have high expectations for his Dirk 2 soundtrack. The next trailer will probably have the new music.
First teaser trailer for Dirk Dashing 2 and July Newsletter
By Hamish, 1 July 2011 at 3:12 am UTC
Interesting, though I can not help but feel the music undersells it a bit. Just a suggestion, but in my experience an active music track helps any side-scroller. :)
Gameolith The Linux® Game Download Store
By Rustybolts, 12 July 2011 at 3:37 pm UTC
Quoting: "KIAaze, post: 1936"I'm really amazed by how many games there seem to be for GNU/Linux now.
Of all the games listed, I hadn't heard of SpaceChem, Beep and BOH before.

Of course, most of them are indie games, but in a certain way, that makes it even more interesting. :)

Yes it is! thats exactly why I solely game on Linux as I play games I would not even consider if I was still on Windows and many of them are quite original in design.
Gameolith The Linux® Game Download Store
By KIAaze, 12 July 2011 at 2:34 pm UTC
I'm really amazed by how many games there seem to be for GNU/Linux now.
Of all the games listed, I hadn't heard of SpaceChem, Beep and BOH before.

Of course, most of them are indie games, but in a certain way, that makes it even more interesting. :)
Gameolith The Linux® Game Download Store
By Hamish, 12 July 2011 at 8:46 am UTC
Well, they seem to be serious, they now have a list of the games they will be selling at launch and a timer indicating when their service will open it's doors for good. I like that they seem to be big on making sure that they cater to as much as the major distributions as possible, even though I tend to prefer to keep my proprietary games separate from my package manager. Still, compared to the closed nature of the USC it is kind of refreshing.
Gameolith The Linux® Game Download Store
By Hamish, 3 July 2011 at 8:57 am UTC
Well, I remember reading an archived LinuxGames post from about five or six years ago where many people were complaining that there was basically nowhere but TuxGames to buy native gaming titles. That has thankfully been changed somewhat.
Gameolith The Linux® Game Download Store
By MaximB, 3 July 2011 at 7:54 am UTC
Interesting, although I already bought most games I like.
Recently we have many Linux gaming stores - hard to decide from where to buy ;)
Gameolith The Linux® Game Download Store
By Liam Dawe, 1 July 2011 at 12:49 pm UTC
Yeah i had a look at that today, looks to be a very good service, could do very well if it pays off since it allows .deb .rpm and tarballs (tarballs being my favourite as i can then store the games wherever i want!).
Gameolith The Linux® Game Download Store
By Hamish, 30 June 2011 at 10:18 pm UTC
Looks to be a bit more fancy than Tux Games or Wupra, judging by this page:
http://partners.gameolith.com/
Freesynd v0.5
By Liam Dawe, 29 June 2011 at 9:02 pm UTC
Woohoo it's still alive! :D
Interview with Keith Poole from Desura Part 1
By Liam Dawe, 4 October 2011 at 7:20 pm UTC
Yeah that is true there is that, they will also auto-update for you. It's more of a convenience thing.
Interview with Keith Poole from Desura Part 1
By , 4 October 2011 at 10:49 am UTC
Quoting: "MaximB, post: 1859"Nice interview, but I've already bought most Linux games that I want directly from the developers or with the Humble Indie Bundle.
Also I bought many games from gog.com that run on Linux, so at the moment I don't really know what games Desura can offer me.

Desure offers you th integration with all humble bundles. So as soon as it is out, you can forget your humble bundle links :)
Interview with Keith Poole from Desura Part 1
By Liam Dawe, 28 June 2011 at 4:17 pm UTC
Hamish - Prepare to be dissapointed. Your question was answered in the next coming parts.

Troy - Steam for me is all about automatic updates without setting up repositories, about having the friends list communication, if i play a game they can see and join me. Steam does a lot of sales too, easy to pick up cheap games, etc etc.

I hope Desura can fill the void eventually.
Interview with Keith Poole from Desura Part 1
By MyGameCompany, 28 June 2011 at 12:38 pm UTC
As a developer, I look at it as just another distribution channel. On the PC side, I know people who buy direct from developers, and I know people who refuse to buy a game if it isn't on Steam. As a gamer, I personally don't see what Steam does for me, as I can always get the latest/greatest direct from the developers the very moment an update is released. But to each their own...
Interview with Keith Poole from Desura Part 1
By Hamish, 28 June 2011 at 12:33 pm UTC
Yeah, but if it is like the Windows version, even if you purchased your version from a different source, I believe you can still use Desura with many titles to manage the install and use it to install and manage mods for it. So if they offer support for say Doom 3 or UT2004, even if they do not sell them, that would be quite a few interesting mods.

This is just the impression I got, but I know for a fact that you can do this with Doom 3 on Windows, so I assume it will be the same with the Linux version (or I at least hope). :D
Interview with Keith Poole from Desura Part 1
By MaximB, 28 June 2011 at 8:34 am UTC
Nice interview, but I've already bought most Linux games that I want directly from the developers or with the Humble Indie Bundle.
Also I bought many games from gog.com that run on Linux, so at the moment I don't really know what games Desura can offer me.
Corsix Beta 7
By Liam Dawe, 25 June 2011 at 11:58 am UTC
Sweeet will be giving this one a good crack :D
Steel Storm Summer Special
By Brandon Smith, 24 June 2011 at 6:31 am UTC
That fits my budget a little better.
Revenge of the Titans + other puppygames hits coming to USC
By Hamish, 6 July 2011 at 4:45 pm UTC
Fair enough, I actually quite like the new XFCE myself actually, except for the fact I have a deep hatred of Thunar, so whenever I use XFCE I always continue to use Nautilus as my file manager. Since I always have Gnome installed anyway it is no big deal.

I just posted my thoughts on the Gnome Shell on the FedoraForum if anyone is interested:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1492745&postcount=19
Revenge of the Titans + other puppygames hits coming to USC
By MaximB, 6 July 2011 at 11:03 am UTC
Now that I've heard that the next Ubuntu release would have Gnome 3 and not 2 as an option - I don't know if I'll continue using it.
In the past month I'm actually trying to make myself comfortable with KDE4 and XFCE .
Gnome3 and Unity are just not for me.
Revenge of the Titans + other puppygames hits coming to USC
By Liam Dawe, 6 July 2011 at 9:29 am UTC
Well for that you could just install via the USC on your other computer? Unless USC has hidden DRM.
Revenge of the Titans + other puppygames hits coming to USC
By Hamish, 4 July 2011 at 9:29 pm UTC
Or computer to computer presumably. Can the USC offer that?
Revenge of the Titans + other puppygames hits coming to USC
By Liam Dawe, 4 July 2011 at 7:19 pm UTC
Well since anything in USC is installed into directories in / i don't think it's exactly easy to move them to another distro, if that is possible even at all.

This is why i like Desura, if you read the interview he tells you that Desura is portable, so you can take your games from distro to distro :)
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