This looks like one of those games I'll be buying on principle, which is good, as I haven't found the notion of a point-and-click anything to be attractive, and this may as well be my entry into the genre. I'll be supporting Linux and and a good game and an enlightened developer in one go.

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Sweet baby Jesus in strawberry jam! We get a guitar as a weapon!?

My mind reels at the thought of what other Μotörhead songs this game will pay homage to ,,, March or Die? You Better Run? Devils? Born to Raise Hell? or ... Deaf Forever: [External Link]

Quoting: Deaf Forever"March or croak, flame and smoke, burn forever in eternal pain
Charge and fall, bugle call, bone splinter in the driving rain
Horses scream, Viking dream, drowned heroes in a lake of blood
Armored fist, severed wrist, broken spears in a sea of mud

Sword and shield, bone and steel, rictus grin
Deaf forever to the battles din"

Oooo chills.

In my heart I bought this expansion when it was announced way back when.

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Would this mean that we could finally use Steam Controller wirelessly on the desktop, sans Steam or SC Controller?

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Perhaps worth noting, too, is that Ziggurat and Pharonic are part of a larger Milkstone Studios Complete Collection [External Link] bundle:

• Little Street Racers


• White Noise Online


• Zigurrat


• Pharonic


• White Noise 2

Normally priced at $51.95, the complete collection is available for $19.71 through May 1st. Note too that all games Milkstone Studios have created are available to Linux gamers --- so everyone should consider showing a Linux love and loyalty by seeing if there's room in their library for one, some, or all of these excellent games!

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Ahhh. I'd forgotten about this one. I've got the "Overload: Teaser Demo," I think, but have yet to play it. At some point I'd love to see a comparison/overview of each of the six-degrees-of-freedom games available on Linux. (I know of three others: Descent: Underground, Sublevel Zero and NeonXSZ spring to mind, though there may be others, I'm sure.)

Quoting: QantouriscI counted only 5 degrees of freedom:
X Y Z Location, Z,X Rotation

I've always understood the "6 degrees . . ." to be UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, FORWARD, BACK. [External Link] Maybe it would have been more accurate if they'd called it "6 directions of freedom."

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Quoting: AnzaI would suppose there's difference if port is done internally or by external porter. If port is done internally, game developer can interpret the numbers as they see fit. They get exactly the same amount of money for each sale anyway. Though there's no absolute guarantee that port will ever leave the beta stage.

For external porters, it sounds like that at least Feral Interactive has contract where they get money only from Linux sales.

Thanks Anza, that answers part of my concern: who gets the money. But the other part of my concern --- who gets the credit? --- remains a mystery. What will the port be tallied as a Linux version on Steam and so add (however incrementally) to Linux's overall reported market share? Or will it add a drop in Window's already oceanic reported market share?

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That looks ... nice! Very, very nice. Third "person" underwater action with strategic cutaway noodling. I'm intrigued.

My one hesitation with this beta, as indeed with all Linux betas on Steam, is I simply don't want the purchase to count as anything but a Linux purchase --- but to be honest, I don't know if it would or not. I've been following the Brotherhood lads as they work to bring STASIS to Linux, but I've not bought that either, for the same reason. Now I'm wondering if (and frankly, hoping that) I'm all wrong and buying these games but only playing the Linux beta will count as a Linux purchase. Could someone please enlighten benighted old me about this?

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Your enthusiasm is contagious, and I'm going to re-examine this game (which has been on my wish list for a while now.) Do I misremember there being a combat element to this game as well?

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Morning reading updated:

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• Rock, Paper, Shotgun


• OMG Ubuntu


• Gaming on Linux


• >>>> Life on Linux <<<<


• Reddit: Linux Gaming


• The Register

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I'm really looking forward to this, Liam. There are a lot of general Linux blogs out there, but I've yet to find one that I enjoyed reading day-after-day for any length of time. I think Life on Linux will change all that!

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:/

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