Really looking forward to playing this one. :) And the sequel is planned for Linux too.

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Quoting: muntdefemsThanks for (partially) restoring my sanity! :D

Hehe. Glad I could help. ;)

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Quoting: fleskIf I may ask, what is it that you don't like about The Cat Lady?

I’d have to try it again to make a list. From what I remember it was mostly the lack of polish and poor ergonomy.

The art style is kind of rough, some character sprites are reused and there are some issues with foreground objects. I don't know what's caused by a limited budget and what is just the design direction, but I can understand not liking that. I think it works though, and the main reasons I like the game is because of the story and atmosphere. When it comes to egonomy, I think The Cat Lady has every single point-and-click in history beat, since you don't use a mouse at all to play it. That's rarely something that makes or breaks a game for me though.

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Quoting: fleskI try to include a link when I cover a crowdfunded game I know has been mentioned on TFC, but I might have forgotten to look it up a few times. :S: Were you thinking of a specific game?

As a matter of fact yes, I was thinking of a recent article of yours in which you initially failed to mention the game in question had been covered in TFC, hence the teasing. But for the life of me I just can't find it, so either a) my memory is messier than I thought or b) I spotted the missing TFC reference when said article was still in draft mode and the exchange took place in private, and not in the article comments section.

Really hope it's b)... :S:

Going over my older articles, I can't really figure out which you might be thinking of either, even though I suspect you're probably right. Could you be thinking of CO-OP: Decrypted, which I hadn't heard of until it was made available for Linux?

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Quoting: GuestI was interested until you mentionned The Cat Lady… But hey, still looks pretty good.

Don't let that put you off this game. They are very different from what I've played, but I mentioned it because I thought they might appeal to the same people. If I may ask, what is it that you don't like about The Cat Lady?

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Quoting: fleskThe game was funded on IndieGoGo [External Link] almost two years ago, and was featured in The Funding Crowd 9 while the campaign was running.

I see you've done your research homework this time around, good boy. :P

Really looking forward to this one, and more so if it's coming DRM-free to GOG! I ended up not backing it on Indiegogo, and I can't remember why... :S:

I try to include a link when I cover a crowdfunded game I know has been mentioned on TFC, but I might have forgotten to look it up a few times. :S: Were you thinking of a specific game?

Quoting: BladderbloatYay, thanks for spreading the news to the linux community!

My pleasure. Thanks for making the game! :)

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I played the Steam version of The Raven a while back and I also experienced a lot of graphical glitches and path-finding issues. The most noticeable graphical issue for me was that some characters would sometimes be missing the top of their head. When I first started the game, it was set to a much too high resolution, so that I couldn't see any of the options in the start menu. I had to click around blindly until I managed to set it to a lower resolution. There were areas on the train and on the ship that I didn't even know I could walk to initially, and I was sure I was missing the solution to a puzzle when I was unable to progress for a while. And even after finding those areas, I had problems going back, since clicking in just the right spots was so difficult. Even with those issues though, I still really enjoyed the game, and it was a pretty neat twist towards the end (even though you'll probably be able to call it a while before it happens).

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The game now has a firm release date of 11th August:

https://twitter.com/AirscapeGame/status/624202838403473408 [External Link]

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Thanks for the thorough review. I bought the game a while back, but haven't gotten around to playing it yet.

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Quoting: CybaCowboyI'd be more excited if it was Lego Jurassic Park...

Me too. I envy Mac users their selection of LEGO games. Would buy most of those games full price if they were made available for Linux.

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Really looking forward to this one. It took me a while to get into Gone Home, but once I did, I was hooked and loved the experience. Those doors though... ;)

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