I've played around with Simon a little. There's also Sphinx and Jasper, but none of them are complete systems on their own. Voice stuff on Linux is pretty immature (have a look into it though - it'd be pretty awesome).

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Muchly liking the new cockpit.

New explosions look great too.

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Quoting: "Bumadar, post: 4723, member: 93"right, first of all there are only negative answers in the poll, which is a bit silly.

One thing that may not be immediately obvious about me is that I'm an exceptionally silly person :D

Quoting: "Bumadar, post: 4723, member: 93"secondly, what I do miss a bit in part one a refrence to the history if neverball, to me the game was new and it was only through this post that I saw the link to the history, I know now its also on your side to the left but somehow that little menu does not work very well on an android tablet and its default browser :)

Actually, there are three links to RLK's full response on the first page of the interview. I'll see what I can do about making them more obvious and maybe put a link on the interview's second page.

Quoting: "Bumadar, post: 4723, member: 93"thirdly, a nice and interesting interview and I enjoyed it.

Thank you very much. It was a joy to put together ^_^

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I can't even get the site to load >_<

Ah here we go. This loads for me: http://unity3d.com/unity/4/faq#linux [External Link]

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Makes me wish I had a little more porting experience :/

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You can't really count Rage since it's not native...

There's nothing wrong with a) being happy to run games on the lowest settings, and b) seeing developers take advantage of/test with open source drivers.

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Hmm, so is that 33,333 sales in total, or 33,333 sales from now? It'd be nice to have an idea of how far away that is (or at least how far away the countdown is).

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Quoting: "MyGameCompany, post: 4576, member: 68"That's not quite true. I went to GDC back in 2004, and I was pleasantly surprised at how open and helpful game developers are (both indies and AAA devs).

I think bararma was talking about the kind of user<->developer collaborative aspect that helps drive most non-game open source projects (I think I know what one of the major contributing factors for this is, but that's probably a discussion for another time), which is what an open source game would need to be able to have to thrive (at least so far as being an community driven project goes). You're right though - game developers are often (though not always, of course ;) ) awesome, open, genuine people.

Sofox, thanks for sharing that link. I hadn't come across it before. It's particularly interesting to see that they've had some small positive outcomes from bootleg versions.

An example that I find interesting is Jack Claw. Frozenbyte had hoped to build a community driven project that could benefit from a collaborative development model, but still fall back on direction and support from an established development studio, but it didn't quite reach critical mass and fizzled pretty early on.

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Sorry, Liam - I should have mentioned that stuff like Frozenbyte's source releases were done so under non-free licences.

As berarma says, the big thing is making sure that a source release (or a Free Software release) must be in line with a developer's goals and visions, and they need to understand the implications are as well as what the impacts (both positive and negative) will be for their users/communities.

It's relatively unexplored territory, and understandably, many of those developers who are aware of and see positive aspects are still wary of the unknowns (mostly relating to whether or not it's possible to draw a revenue stream from an open sourced game). For most developers who have gone down that path (again, as berarma has pointed out), the way to mitigate those unknowns is to wait until a game has either recovered its development costs or passed its peak of profitability, and then release source. I'd be very interested to see how Doom 3's sales have been after their source release - I know that's when I bought it ;)

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Quoting: "Bumadar, post: 4458, member: 93"Its a bit sad that the HiB guys are looking at none native Linux games as an option, I do fully see where Hamish and his petition are coming from but to be honest I think we passed that junction already.

I think if you have real concerns, it would be worth emailing the Humble Bundle guys and explain them in an honest and rational manner.

Also for the "normal" user if I may call them that, in the end what counts is the fact if it works and not how it works and more games on linux is a good thing in the end.

See, this is where it starts to get complicated. I like to hope that the Humble Bundle promotions lead to some level of continued interest in Linux support by developers who have been included and encourage other developers to consider it. It's great that the games included in the bundles are ported, but (hopefully) the real value lies beyond that.

If using wrappers like Wine is seen as an appropriate way to satiate the Linux market by developers, then I think that longer term, this would mean less developer attention for Linux and *less* Linux support (even for "normal" users). Obviously this isn't an issue for Limbo because CodeWeavers are looking after it and making sure it's maintained, but as I say, the bigger picture is stuff that's outside the Humble Bundle promotions.

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