Quoting: GuestAnyone with any shred of honor and dignity could see that.

Now, see, this was your first mistake. You're talking about Playdek.

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Oh yeah, Playdek! Those are the guys who mismanaged Unsung Story and frittered away all the Kickstarter money for it. They were consistently uncommunicative as to the status of the game and what work they were doing, abruptly changed the mechanics of the game without any consultation, and when they started running out of funds decided to try to make a quick knock-off mobile game to raise more. The new company that took over the project found that the design documents were a total mess and almost no useable work had been created.

Not surprised to see they continue to carry on business in that vein.

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Quoting: GuestAlso, all the hidden object puzzle games from Artifex Mundi are 70% off at GOG.

Hello!

Are they any good, do they have an interesting story or anything?

Storylines in the AF games tend to be a bit melodramatic, but to the point of being charming rather than repelling. Don't look for anything too advanced there, but do look for enjoyable puzzles and fantastic art, with a bit of variety in style from title to title.

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Reminds me a bit of Donsol [External Link], which does a dungeon crawl using a standard Poker deck. Although this seems to include a lot more tricks thanks to the format.

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Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: LeopardPeople on Linux don't buy games

Makes me wonder where those 417 Linux titles in my Steam library come from. Well, quite a few come from Humble Bundles, but apart from that I've bought 17 games so far in 2018. In they weren't even in the below-one-Euro pricing range: Helium Rain, Factorio, Skyforce Reloaded, RUINER, ROTR, Steamworld Dig 2,...

I'd rather say people on Windows don't buy games. They copy 'em.

Obviously that is not enough when you compare ports cost/ Linux staff cost vs sales.

Congrats for you man

Woo, look at those goalposts fly!

(232 Linux games on my Steam library, aside from a few freebies from Humble and the like all paid for with real money)

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Agree with the others. I got a bunch of Artifex Mundi games in a Humble Bundle a while back, including the Grim Legends series, and while the stories and acting can be pretty cheesy at times they're actually pretty charming for all of it. The puzzles are fun and the art is uniformly amazing, which is always a plus.

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Blah. The fish-eye lens effect of the faux CRT monitor is a huge turn-off. It didn't exactly make the game (or any game) better back when that's all we had, and I don't see how introducing a fake version of the same distortion makes anything better now. It seems weird for a dev team who talks about removing barriers to make the game more accessible to introduce a new barrier to make it less accessible.

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Quoting: razing32I actually picked up Postal 2 on a sale recently
Great fun till I got to the final boss on Sunday. That just felt impossible. Have to try the expansion.
But Postal 2 had life and color , and plenty of parodies/caricatures.
This seems to be Postal 2 with none of that.

Yes, that is the main difference between Postal 2 and this game. This is just edgy and violent for the sake of being edgy and violent.

From what I saw from a couple of streams, even the edgy and violent gets blunt and dull after a while. The "shocking" execution scenes quickly become a chore when repeated 5-10 times, and murdering partyers doesn't have much challenge when they forget there's a killer in their midst after about 15 seconds and just wander back into your line of fire.

Oh, and all the bugs and glitches. I think those had the most entertainment value.

Gotta appreciate the story and acting, though. It takes real skill to make Tommy Wiseau look like a dramatic genius by comparision.

The studio also did a shovelware wave shooter called IS Defense, based on a paranoid fantasy of shooting brown invaders coming to take over Europe. Samsai played it on the GoL stream a while back, it was really badly made.

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Wow, I really don't like the sounds in this. Way too harsh and often too tinny for my taste, it would drive me nuts pretty quickly. I'd pass on this based on that alone.

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Quoting: GuestI wonder what aspects of a university the developer will model. Most people who come to my alma mater come to try to find a way to avoid menial jobs, get drunk nay become alcoholics or find a mate.

The most dedicated drunks I ever ran into were law students, with engineers running a close second.

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