Quoting: TheSHEEEPWhat are the choices?

Anything your imagination can come up with.

Be prepared though that e. g. Bethesda games are less likely than say 2K games.

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Quoting: ScooptaI'm personally a bit disappointed that wine won. I believe wine is terrible for Linux gaming as a whole and I don't believe it should be used but oh well.

First, I think the project is an amazing feat.

For Linux gaming, I'm not 100% sure. I guess it makes Linux users buy Windows games, which is a bad thing. On the other hand, I've seen people on the forums switching to Linux who asked how they could run the games they own and love, and WINE is the answer to this question.

I don't use WINE for gaming, though.

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Quoting: tumocsNo, I won't play with you Liam.

I would! :D
(In fact, I already did play with Liam... Rocket League.)

That was a nice suprising answer indeed, and the game looks interesting.

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Quoting: Dunc...like Adams's Infocom adventures from the '80s, it's not really all that good.

Correct about Starship Titanic. Incorrect about the Infocom text adventures. They're excellent, that is if you enjoy text adventures. They can be a bit of an acquired taste if you weren't of game-playing age when they were among the best games on the market.

... but I'm not sure Douglas Adams' game was among the better Infocom games. Weren't you supposed to

Spoiler, click me

rescue something like a fly from a dog in the beginning, so you could survive in a miniaturized spaceship attacked by the dog in the end

? This was stupid even by eighties' standards...

By the way, googling for the time I found you can legally play it for free now:

http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html [External Link] (Doesn't work for me.)
http://iplayif.com [External Link]

And by the way II: There are at least two new (professional) text adventures for Linux, Thaumistry and Hadean Lands.

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Quoting: throghWow, let's celebrate proprietary client-software with saving on someone else's computer! Better building ScummVM from source-code with "free as in freedom" and disabling support for network / cloud. :-)

Steam is the only cloud service I'm using. It's just very useful for me (as I sometimes have to use another computer for gaming) and I consider how far I got into a game (and when) less secret than, say, what I'm posting here. And you can still use the game bought with the ScummVM of your liking and building if you so desire.

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Quoting: UltraVioletWouldn’t be better to have all the games in all the sections?

Thaumistry in Best Audio?
Rocket League in best FOSS project?
Cheeseness in Best Game?

No, seriously: some games qualify among the best in some categories, others don:t. That's what the nomination phase was good for.

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Quoting: DuncWhat you don't mention is that it was written by Douglas Adams.

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Quoting: DuncAll that said, I've heard that, a bit like Adams's Infocom adventures from the '80s, it's not really all that good. But hey... it's still Adams. :woot:

I remember having had sort of a love hate relationship with the game. When seem and heard over and over again, the voices and animation got on my nerves. But I think I played through it.

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Quoting: BeamboomBah - DRM blablabla - not to start another discussion on that topic but it's a closed binary blob you're putting on your PC. It could contain all the spyware in the world and still be "drm free" should they want to.

DRM and spyware are two different things.

But which one do you consider worse?

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Quoting: Aspyr_BlairWe thought so too. I started chasing these guys at PAX South last year. I literally floated to their tiny booth, staring at the game screen, barely looking down to talk to who would soon be my partners in crime for the next 12 months. Its just that beautiful.

Thanks for the work! I'll have to take a look at some videos to find out what this game is about, I guess. :-)

Did the developers consider Linux and Mac versions already before you "chased" them?

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Crytek has struggled financially (and Star Citizen producers have taken over some of their developers).
But I don't see a reason to wish them anything bad.

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