To my knowledge Sound, Art & Video Assets are in no way locked into a platform.

Most game developers wrap methods & functions that access dependency libraries to a local API to make porting greatly simplified. It just sounds to me like their code is a trashy piece of evolved procedural code instead of pre-designed modular masterpiece.

If Linux developers ported Unreal Engine in 24 hours then seriously, how hard would it be in the hands of someone competent? Take a $75,000 Yearly Programmer Salary and divide it by 12, if a programmer had 1 month to complete the port it would only cost $6,250 wages.

They're telling us that out of the $828,000 they made they're unwilling to pay $6,250 to port to Linux? How sad.

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H E L L Y E Z ! ! !

My girl & me collectively have over 1,000 hours logged in developing a single Terraria map. Since we're exclusively both on Linux we've greatly missed playing Terraria for quite a long time now.

I seem to be infectious as I got 10 friends into Terraria, so this news is like winning the lottery since Starbound is intolerable to play to me - boring, unfun and nothing like the awesome Terraria experience.

Starbound is Decaf and Terraria is Dark Roast Coffee, they may look like the same thing to the untrained onlooker but Terraria is so much better!

Viva Terraria, come to Linux soon my fine Terrian Friends. No more TShock or broken Wine Multiplayer BBY, no more SSH Tunnels for 7777. Viva Redigit.

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Quoting: EKRboiAnyone have some DOTA2 advice for me?

DOTA2 is like drinking beer & spirits, best when done with friends.

Try heroes that are fun for noobs:
Viper (Most Evasion), Sniper (Most Range), Natures Prophet (Lane Pusher + Teleport Ult), Ursa (Stacking Damage), Rikki (Invisibility) are fairly easy for noobs
Axe is like Darius from LOL,
Techies is like Teemo from LOL,
Drow Ranger is like Ash from LOL

Luna is a great support & tank if you have trouble dying.

Wraith King's ult gives him a resurrect making him a good noob hero Choice.

** If you make a custom DOTA2 game you can enable cheats to skip to level 25 and give yourself as much gold as you want in case you wanna see champions abilities quickly.

** Only play bot games with/without other people, there isn't much difference between bot AI from easy to hard, I find Hard Bots easier than Easy Bots because Easy Bots run away too often and somehow bots seem to have inhuman boot speed helping them get away.

** Get a BKB which gives you 10 seconds invulnerability when activated to spells if you're a ADC and you wanna charge the enemy team without being stunned, silenced or vaporized.

** Understand the differences between Strength, Agility and Intelligence and build your hero according to which of those attributes is their dominate feature.

** Understand how to use the courier to stay in your lane at all times to soak up EXP.

** Understand turrets won't protect you from being Ganked, you need cunning to use the shadows of the forest to get away from Ganks, blink dagger, or shadow blade.

** Always carry a TP scroll to let you teleport to other lanes if yours gets dangerous to farm.

** Last Hitting minions is much more important than in other MOBAs like LOL and Jungling is much more lucrative than LOL too.

** Buy a Salve and Tangos at the beginning, Tangos will restore HP even when hit by minions, Salve will cancel when hit by enemies. A good starter item is a Ring of Basilius as it gives AOE mana regen to allies & self.

** Never take minion damage, they hit much harder than LOL and can actually kill you.

** Dying in Dota2 matters a lot more than LOL as you loose $200 - $400 often when you die. So spend your money before you die.

** The Map can be moved from right to left if you prefer it like that, scoreboard can be hotkey, shop, etc... in the top left gear icon to whatever key you like. I hotkey my F1 hero select to spacebar and Courier to C, Scoreboard to Tab, and shop to I or P. I also hotkey Items to 1-6 instead of Z-N.

** Buy Boots of Travel as a mid to late game item to decrease time getting back to the lane after dead.

** Watch the championship and pro DOTA2 games to see play strategies, item builds on heroes, etc...

DOTA2 Item system is much better, I regret buying lots of items on LOL, but my girl & me have spent at least $60 on DOTA2, Items can be sold in the Community Marketplace for real Steam Wallet money which you can use to buy other games, or you can buy items from the marketplace sometimes for less than they cost in the DOTA2 store from other players. You can also trade/gift items & skins from one account to another, 99% items are not account-locked. Also, a lot of the couriers and items are made by the Steam Community. If you 3D Model, you can sell your 3D modeled items in DOTA2 and Valve will split the profit with you, there are people who quit their jobs making creating DOTA2 Item Creation their new Job for real money.

** Also, the balancer for DOTA2 is from DOTA1, balancing is done around the Pro games and not Noob / Tween complaints. The idea behind champions is that every hero should be able to get OP and rampage if feed enough cash, exp and kills. The balancer is a single person and he doesn't cater to teenager baddies that b1tch and moan about XYZ Champion OP nurf Nidalee, Draven, Kassadin, etc...

Obviously DOTA2 > LOL, plus DOTA2 set a record high prize to the champions of the 2014 DOTA2 E-Sport Championship this year - $10,9000,000 was given out in July. Nearly 500% more than any other MOBA.
http://www.esportsearnings.com/tournaments [External Link]

Before the 2014 Championship, DOTA2 made 40+ Million Dollars in only a couple months from Compendium Digital Championship Book sales in only about 3 months. Since I started playing nearly 6 months ago DOTA2 has seen 3,000,000 new unique players currently around 9 Million.

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Looks light-years ahead of Desura and it's barely even Beta.

Looking forward to more news on this, Burnout Paradise on NIX as seen in their screenshot is only a dream for me.

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I hope CS:GO surfing has improved to match CS:S. Surfing is the only reason I play CS:S

This is good news for PC gamers everywhere.

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Desura is crap. I contacted them 2 years ago asking them to step it up, I bet if hackers wanted to they could break into their server in no time at all.

The Linux Derurium client is buggier than a house infested with termites. Too bad Desura, your lackadaisicalism has left me disappointed, our love was not meant to be. I've moved on to a sexier and funner girlfriend and her name is Steam.

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According to IGN there are 75 Million Steam Users.
According to the Steam Linux data 1% of Steam users are on Linux.

That means the maximum potential sale count for a developer selling a game on Linux / Steam is about 750,000 sales per game if 100% of Steam Linux users bought a game.

If 1% of us bought a game at $9.99 that means $749,250 for a game developer from a measly 1% of users of 1% steam.

I seriously doubt they only made $12,000 as most linux users already owned their game from the Humble Bundle. Also, I bought their games, but their games really aren't that fun - that game RoboCraft is more likely to get my money because the free to play model pulled me in and I desperately want in game content.

My experience with Puppy games can be described as "disappointed" and "mediocre".

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I've had great success with G.Skill brand Ram in my last 5 PC builds.

EVGA GTX 750 Ti SC drivers and performance are pretty good for me on Linux games.

However if you're going for the most economical you should really promote this website as they help you find the cheapest high quality parts available.

http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/video-card/#c=142&sort=a8 [External Link]

Their GTX 750 Ti is 120$ although not OC. Also, their step up the GTX 760 start @ $220 if you really want to build a Steam Machine that will last longer.

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@Liam - You do what you think is best for yourself, but you should know I always looked forward especially to GOL articles in my RSS feed every day along side with OMGUbuntu.

Whatever changes you make, try to maintain balance, I find that I have to balance my computer work with exercise to maintain a healthy mindset and feel good, and if/when you do come back you'll be more than welcome by all of us internet peoples & GOL supporters I'm sure ;).

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For anyone interested in a DX vs OGL contrast this is a great read on "The Network Effect" and the Market Lock Microsoft & Apple try so hard to achieve with Metal and Direct X
http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/01/Why-you-should-use-OpenGL-and-not-DirectX [External Link]

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