One of the best ever stories in a platformer. Great to finally have it on Steam, though like km3k, I don't understand why it took so long.

Both versions have the same version in BuildVersion.txt, so I diffed the md5 hashes of everything in both versions out of curiosity, and the contents are identical, except that the Steam version doesn't have the uninstaller or the .mojosetup directory.

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There has also been a blue information box about the nominations at the top of the front page for the last couple of weeks. Maybe it would have been better if it was red and blinking though. :)

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Are we doing this again?

Games go over budget all the time. Games get cancelled all the time. Yes, the cancellation of Spacebase DF-9 could have been handled better, but it didn't sell and development had to stop.

I don't put to much value in a video posted by a guy who "thinks #GamerGate are OK", and there's nothing new in this video.

If you don't like taking risks, avoid crowdfunding, Early Access and investments.

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Many indie games on Steam are developed as hobby projects, and only a few actually make a profit on their games. I can't blame anyone for taking an opportunity such as this when one arises, even though in this case, it sucks for us.

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Happy new year! :D

Here's to more user submitted articles in the new year! ;)

...and surprise ports of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Beyond Good and Evil, Alice: Madness Returns, the LEGO games, Mirror's Edge and Deathspank.

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I really appreciate his work for Linux. So many great games. Eversion got full controller support a few weeks ago, by the way, but I forgot to write about it/wasn't sure if that was something people would be interested in. Anyway, it goes to show how much care he puts into his ports, even long after he's finished porting.

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I have been hoping for a Linux version of Ori, but even though I'm disappointed that it probably won't happen, I can't blame the developers for signing a publishing deal with Microsoft. There's not as much money in crowdfunding as many still seem to believe, and most developers have to ask for much less than the actual costs of developing their game if they're to have any hope of reaching their funding goals. Polygon [External Link] posted an article about the problem in May. If Ori hadn't been published by Microsoft, it might not even have been made.

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Quoting: HamishSorry for turning this into a mere back and forth between me and Cheese flesk.

I think it's good to have a discussion about what itch.io has to offer, so I don't mind. Like I said before, I don't think it needs to curate content like other distribution platforms to be a good option for customers, since that role can be filled by specialist sites like http://buysomeindiegames.com [External Link] and http://metroidvanias.com [External Link], and maintainers of itch collections. Like Cheeseness mentioned though, it's unfortunate that you can't filter by the state of games, since it's needlessly difficult to find complete games, and the popularity of a free game isn't necessarily comparable to that of a paid game if it's only a comparison of number of downloads over a certain period. A

Quoting: HamishSorry for turning this into a mere back and forth between me and Cheese flesk.

I think it's good to have a discussion about what itch.io has to offer, so I don't mind. Like I said before, I don't think it needs to curate content like other distribution platforms to be a good option for customers, since that role can be filled by specialist sites like http://buysomeindiegames.com [External Link] and http://metroidvanias.com [External Link], and maintainers of itch collections. It's needlessly difficult to find complete games though, and I suspect their popularity filter is just based on downloads over a certain period of time, which gives free games of all types an unfair advantage, and drowns the good paid content.

Another issue, which isn't itch's fault, is that I've seen at least a couple of developers completely abandon itch.io and their only DRM free option once they get on Steam.

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I loved RA2 back in the day. Will definitely give this a shot once that's supported.

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Yeah, I think it's more important that itch.io gives creators the means to distribute and promote their games and provide the tools to make it an interesting place to find and play games for users. We already have several good curated DRM free stores, like GOG, FireFlower Games and IndieGameStand, and itch.io is a more democratic approach that I think fills its own niche.

Browsing the store front for games for a user who expects to find games of the same quality as on other store fronts is less than ideal though, and even after they made it possible to combine platform filters with tags and other filters, I still find it difficult to find anything I want to play there. Even though I knew that both Blocks that Matter and Tetrobot and Co., neither showed up even after spending well over an hour looking through the most popular Linux games from top to bottom.

I don't want to limit the collection to my own taste, and I figure if at least one person can say that they enjoyed a game, it's worth adding, even if it doesn't have a high Metascore or user ratings on other distribution platforms.

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Quoting: fleskThanks. :) I have a couple of of those in my "staging" collection [External Link] of games I haven't checked out properly yet...

You can safely move the Zork series out of staging, they were one of the best-selling games of their time, but I wonder if they're legit...

I seem to recall that for some bizarre reason, Activision chose to renew the copyright on Leather Goddesses of Phobos, but not the Zork series.

Yeah, the reason why it's in "staging" is because I couldn't figure out if it's legit.

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