I wonder if some devs being lazy is actually fine in the long run. After all, it remains that even with the boom in native Linux games, largely thanks to Steam, the perception that we don't have very many games is still one of the big barriers to "regular people" adopting Linux. So if this goes any distance to overcome that, then it increases the market share of people taking up the platform and gaming on it the same as the rest of us already do. Newcomers don't care how they get their games, just that they can play them.

Which in the end gives us more leverage to convince devs to give us proper ports rather than rely on Wine and the like. Perhaps that's overly optomistic, but I think that's the sort of strategy that's in Gabe's head right now.

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The frantic bullets-everywhere bits and jumping about reminds me oddly of Drunken Robot Pornography, at least what I've seen in the trailers.

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lol, of course the Canadian expansion would be all about snow. Canada only exists in the winter.

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Really been looking forward to this, although I probably won't be picking it up until later in the year for various reasons. Good for them getting to the full release stage, further updates notwithstanding!

Hopefully they fixed the deck of the ship so it doesn't kill the framerate like in the demo. :D

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Oh, these are the folks who made FarSky. I could never get that to work on my old system. Wonder if it'll run on my new one.

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It looks like this is a teaser for a game called "Ellen", not "Ellen Teaser - The Fall". "The Fall" seems to be the title of the teaser, not the game.

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I tried playing it on a tablet, and honestly I don't recommend it. While the mechanics work quite well, the smaller screen makes the already cluttered map look incredibly cramped, and it becomes much easier to make a fatal misclick. Seems good otherwise, although I'm no fan of the mission timer.

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"Top" down in space. :S:

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The last time I took a look at this on Itch.io, it was more a vocabulary game than actually learning how to speak a language. It told you what a few things were, quizzed you on a few words, but that was about it in the end. Nothing about grammar or anything but "this is the word for tree" level stuff.

Hopefully the full release version will have a bit more depth to it.

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Quoting: GuestI'd say cut them some slack, it's not like they raised more than 1 million dollars and then just basically went with "fuck you linux (and mac) users" [External Link]...

No, they raised $660,126 and threw it down a hole with almost nothing to show for it and extremely little communication with backers. I'm confident that they would have said much the same thing if they came anywhere close to making a playable game, especially given that they're trying to twist their way out of a port for the one they did make.

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