Quoting: PozzuoliI don't have a problem with no issue tracking; that's their prerogative. But I have no idea how to actually run the game. Some minimal instructions might have been nice! Has anyone had any success?

I got things working with mono 6.12.0.90, msbuild and nuget installed from the upstream Mono repos: https://www.mono-project.com/download/stable/ [External Link]
(They actually don't support my distro Mageia but I can hack around to use the Fedora/RHEL packages.)

Then to build:

 
nuget restore
msbuild

And run:
cd Desktop/bin/Debug/
mono Desktop.exe

That's the debug version, which has debug tools but no music/sfx as pointed out in the readme. For those, build a release version instead:

msbuild /p:Configuration=Release
cd Desktop/bin/Release/
mono Desktop.exe

Hope this helps :)

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Amazing move! I'm a firm believer in FOSS gaming and I love to see commercial games release their source code (and even more so with all assets).

I hope it helps it reach a broader audience and actually get more sales - at least I picked up my own copy :)

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Quoting: xaviI am a table tennis player, and I did not understand at all!

I hope they do a more complete video or explanation :)

Maybe I am too focused on the game to understand this.

I admit I did have to play the tutorial twice to understand the mechanics.
A clearer visual feedback on what happens to the HP bar on each move might be necessary to make the mechanics clearer to the player.

But yeah, you can forget about table tennis in itself, it's a good pretext for a "turn-based but real-time" arcade game where you have to chain combos in a strategic manner to reduce your opponent's HP to 0 before you bite the dust. A "chop" removes 1 HP, a "topspin" removes 2 and adds a buff to the ball which cause any subsequent topspin from either player to do 3 damage, unless the buffed ball is debuffed by a chop, etc.

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Great news! I tried PoE briefly a few years ago and it filled my Diablo II cravings pretty well. I'll have to give it another try whenever I have enough time on my hands to dive into such a content heavy RPG (so, not anytime soon :D).

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Also worth noting: the "extra" DRM-free game this month also has Linux support: https://cosmoddd.itch.io/tales-from-off-peak-city [External Link]

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Quoting: acedogblastDoes this version require any code changes from v3.1?

A priori no, but there are a few APIs where the backward compatibility was slightly broken, e.g. around Skeleton/Bone handling code.

Best way to find out is to give it a try, and if any method you used changed signature in a non-compatible way, you should get compilation errors which would be easy to fix. So "porting" from 3.1 to 3.2 should typically take between 0 and 20 minutes, unless you were heavily using something that changed significantly (like bone global pose override).

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: AkienIt does seem to work great, I've played it 6 hours so far without any issue.

I can't seem to log into the wiki to edit the page though; my gamingonlinux.com website credentials don't work, and MediaWiki account registration seems disabled.

Thanks, I've added the game now.

It seems like your edit didn't go through, the page doesn't show it for me at https://www.gamingonlinux.com/wiki/Hidden_Linux_ports_on_Steam and says "last modified on 6 November 2019".

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: AkienApparently Dead in Vinland has a public Linux beta branch: http://deadinvinland.com/2018/12/18/linux/ [External Link]

This came as a surprise, I had this in my wishlist for a while but never bought it as it had no Linux support on the store page - but it actually has had a branch for close to a year. I'll give it a try and hopefully send a positive report to the devs to make them a bit more confident that they could consider it ready for production.

If you find it working fine, feel free to enter it here:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/wiki/Hidden_Linux_ports_on_Steam

It does seem to work great, I've played it 6 hours so far without any issue.

I can't seem to log into the wiki to edit the page though; my gamingonlinux.com website credentials don't work, and MediaWiki account registration seems disabled.

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Apparently Dead in Vinland has a public Linux beta branch: http://deadinvinland.com/2018/12/18/linux/ [External Link]

This came as a surprise, I had this in my wishlist for a while but never bought it as it had no Linux support on the store page - but it actually has had a branch for close to a year. I'll give it a try and hopefully send a positive report to the devs to make them a bit more confident that they could consider it ready for production.

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Quoting: GuestI've owned this for so long and never gotten around to getting into it, I really need to.

Same here, this update might be a good opportunity to finally give it a try.

Installing, let's see if I actually get to press "Play" :P

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