I enjoyed layers of fear, scary and small enough to go through in one sitting.

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Awesome! Unity Engine support easily broadens the game horizons.

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Finally! Left 4 Dead 2 without rebooting to windows

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Quoting: "toor, post: 4546"I must say that every exemple you are refering, where games whose the source code was released much later after the game launched.

Considering all the DRM they are adding to prevent copying, releasing the source code while the games are relevant will just make them a whole lot easier to crack.

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[LEFT]This is very interesting concerning licences for tools and libraries and the open source vs proprietary software developers[/LEFT]
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http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html [External Link]

I never got this gospel-like ideas of FOSS, like there's a war going on. LGPL or less restrictive style licenses seem more ideal to me and feel "free-er" as in "free to do whatever you want with it".

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Well the irony is that Limbo runs smoothly on my machine and Bastion which is sort of native (XNA mono) crashes on click.

Edit: Got it!

Ubuntu 12.04
You have to edit
/usr/local/games/Bastion/OpenTK.dll.config (or the path you installed at)
and add the line


Now it runs fine. Slower than on Chrome (!) but it's ok

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Not to exaggerate but this to me is definitely the best bundle ever! Totally worth going above the average!

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I'm actually more interested in L4D2 for linux than Steam initself, but I can see the benefits of having it native.

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20.000 to develop a port in Linux while already developing a Mac version? That's insane.

Banner saga looks promising.

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Well, since you ask, the truth is that I read through the entire thread, and while they were not expressing themselves in the best way possible (they were being jerks/trolls/whatever), their main concern was that the video and the game didn't have much to show at this point.

I think that your post was posted while you were pissed off at the comments. While I can definitely understand how you felt at that point (I bet you were really pissed at the "they threw it all together in a week" style comments), I think you should have focused more on what they were saying instead on how they were saying it. So, in your response you should try to address relevant issues mentioned (that not much was revealed by the video at that point) while ignoring the obviously spiteful ones in a more calm way. After all, your goal isn't to beat the trolls at their own game, you should be trying to win them over.

As for the nothing productive part, I have to confess that I personally had no idea that you guys would follow these threads so much. I mean it makes sense now, but when I first posted on the relevant thread in this site it never crossed my mind that the developers might actually read what I'm saying. Same as me, many others are used to the idea that most comments will go unheard of, so you should expect to see unproductive comments all the time. As you can see for your self, the thread took a different turn right after your post, where replies were trying to rationalize previous posts and in a way got more productive. The same happened at the relevant thread in this site. But in phoronix the later replies are focused more on your reaction instead of the problems with the game presentation which they saw.

I'm not sure is my post sounds preachy or aggressive in any way, I can never tell, but I really hope it doesn't.

Just to be sure, here's a smiley :p

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