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Latest Comments by nullzero
What have you been playing and what do you think?
8 Oct 2017 at 10:26 pm UTC

So I took the free Jump trial to try Orion Trail and completed Ittle Dew, what a sweet puzzle game it is :D

Now I'm in puzzle mode so I'm going for Slayaway Camp that was in the Humble Gems Bundle. EDIT: This one is crashing frequently and there is a steam community thread [External Link] were crashes were reported by other linux users with NVIDEA.

Got the Thursday blues? Time to cheer up with a look at some Linux game deals going on
5 Oct 2017 at 10:24 am UTC Likes: 1

It's not exactly a new one but I'm quite found of Heroes of a Broken Land [External Link] which is 75% on Steam, a party-based turn-based dungeon crawler.

There's a brand new Humble Bundle with almost all the games on Linux, oh my
6 Sep 2017 at 9:39 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: Samsai
Quoting: Purple PuddingTo all the people complaining about these type of games, be smart: gift them.

Here some ideas:
-GOL staff
I'm sure Liam will appreciate any and all games sent his way. :P
I can also say that Liam would love these games and may even give a review :P

His last comment was all a lie :P
Liam.. its a trap!!!!

Some thoughts on 'World to the West', the standalone followup to Teslagrad
22 May 2017 at 7:04 pm UTC

Haha! Never thought that it was from the same crew as Teslagrad... but that teslamancer girl should have reminded me of something...

Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition officially announced with Linux support
28 Mar 2017 at 9:36 pm UTC Likes: 1

Finally!! But if it is like the other "enhanced" editions, it will be released with plenty of bugs, and it wil be worth wainting till they get it all sorted out.

Bit since I've never finished the original, and since it is not 100% in gemRB, this is one I'll get for sure! Also I plan to play this one fully before Torment: Numerara

The Away Team, a sci-fi interactive fiction game, now available on Linux
24 Mar 2017 at 7:52 pm UTC

Lovely release announcement ^_^

Linux has given me so much and with that I am happy to announce that I can give something back to it. Although small and niche The Away Team grows the Linux game count by one. Something I could not be more proud to do

Sickhead Games​ working with Chucklefish to port Stardew Valley to Linux
13 May 2016 at 9:36 pm UTC

I'm also big fan of Ethan Lee as some of my dearest linux games were ported by him, starting with his first port, Capsized, which I got on one of the first humble bundles, that was one of the major points into my full time Linux switch.

That said, user Crazy penguin had a point

Quoting: Crazy PenguinThat way Stardew Valley will not only be ported to Mac & Linux. (...)
If Sickhead manage the linux port well, then the console ports will be next. They also ported to the consoles (PS4 PS Vita) other games that Ethan Lee ported before, like Apotheon, Dust or Escape Goat 2.

That said, it is indeed sad that Ethan is loosing many ports recently. Maybe stepping up to the console ports too?

If a studio like Sickhead that is specialized in monogame ports to consoles, also gets experience in Linux/mac porting too, then it would have a full porting ability and that would be bad for specialized one man porters like Ethan. :(

EDIT: Spellchecking :S

The Itch app is aiming to get on Steam through Greenlight, lots of free press for them
7 Apr 2016 at 10:45 pm UTC Likes: 1

I sure would like it. Allowing natively to use another platform which games are not on steam. For SteamOS it would mean it got installed without any extra efforts of enabling desktop mode, add new repositories to install the app and then log out into steam again and add the application as a link with probably a lame icon in the store...

Just has I would love to have emulators, Kodi, Netflix and such others in the store. Basically what was needed was not having thtem as a 'game' but as a 'app'. But hey, if you have animation studios, game dev kits, programming IDEs and other software already on steam why not another game store. Also you would still be using steam seeing their game ads at launch so they'd win more than they would loose.

EDIT: Not to mention 1) the itch.io game would instantly get steam controller 2) you would get more DRM-games in steam that would could anyday download though itch.io and use on another computer and install offline if needed. ^_^

GOL SteamOS & Linux Survey results for February
20 Mar 2016 at 6:47 pm UTC

Quoting: TheBossOkay, here's the data for anyone who wants to use it:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/golsurveyfebresults.csv
Thanks! :)

By the way I see it has a Timestamp in the "2016/03/01 11:54:21 AM GMT" format, so one could figure out a trend of survey completion from 2016/03/1 until 2016/03/14 .

I was also hyped in trying to you see what happens to this trend after the news is spread out in reddit, but there is only "this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2016" without the exact hour :(

EDIT: found on Google that if you hover the post date it tells the exact day and time. So 1456858580.0 -> "Tue, 01 Mar 2016 18:56:20 GMT"

> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/48fwj0/new_linux_steamos_gamer_survey_for_march/ [External Link]

EDIT: how and besides being called golsurveyfebresults.csv it is actually this months march one :)

GOL SteamOS & Linux Survey results for February
20 Mar 2016 at 5:16 pm UTC

Quoting: lucifertdarkWow a 20% drop between December & February of people who bought games on Steam, that's not a good sign for Valve.
And another thing too: beginning of January a new "Didn't buy a game" option appeared which affected negatively all other stores buy trend.