I finished it over the week-end and I loved it. It is quite short (EDIT: I have 5 hours on it) and not very difficult for point-and-click veterans, but still very enjoyable and funny. That fullscreen bug is kind of a bummer, I don't like playing in a window, but it's not that bad.

The game mechanics are extremely simple, there are no verb-actions like in Monkey Island and the other Ron Gilbert games. It's literally just point+click. I don't think I had more than 8 items in the inventory at any point in the game. There's no walking either, your character always stands in the same place on any given screen. I rather like it as it makes going from place to place really snappy, you don't have to wait for the character to walk all the way across the screen.

I thought narration could have been more fluid, the game isn't in one cohesive piece but divided into 6 "case files" that take place in independent locations. They do manage to give you a sense of continuity though, with recurring characters and a general escalation of the weirdness from case to case.

The games seems to be doing well in sales, which gives me high hopes for a (hopefully longer) sequel.

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Quoting: calfretBut you say there is a mod?

Not really a mod, but an app that maps mouse axes to key strokes, so you could technically map the look-up and look-down keys to mouse-up and mouse-down. The app I read about on forums is called GlovePie and it's Windows-only, but maybe there's something similar for Linux.

You really don't need to look up and down that much, the game auto-aims vertically much like Doom. I mapped up-down to the R and F keys, so it's next to WASD.

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Quoting: EhvisThe early engines couldn't do vertical rotation. The first that I recall having that feature was Duke Nukem 3D (1996) and even then it didn't render properly (faked projection where vertical lines remain vertical).

Yeah there is a possibility to look up and down in this game, but it does look like crap, all distorted. Thankfully you don't need to do it all that often, which is why I didn't bother trying to make it work with the mouse.

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Quoting: Guestbreak alt-tab and other global keyboard shortcuts

I'm not sure, I don't think I tried it. There's a shortcut to go in-and-out of fullscreen though, Alt-Enter I think, so it's not too annoying if you need to go back to desktop or switch windows.

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I bought the GOG version a few weeks ago for nostalgia's sake. I was pleasantly surprised at how well it's aged, though it took a bit of tweaking to set up a modern control scheme.

2 problems :
- The mouse works for the left-right axis only. There's supposed to be a mod to make it go up-down but I didn't bother.
- In fullscreen, DOSBox turns off my secondary screen which is a little annoying.

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Personnal rule : If there isn't a playable Linux demo I'm not backing it.

If they mean to deliver a year from now (august 2018), dev is probably pretty far along. Let's hope they have cross-platform tools.

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Do you want to get to the top of my wishlist? Beacuse that's how you get to the top of my wishlist.

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Quoting: grozamoreiOnly type of mp we have is async (riding vs ghosts). So if you expecting real-time mp, sorry - we dont have it.

Oh well. It's not a big deal for me anyway and ghost-chasing is still fun at parties.

Thanks for the reply!

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Looks good! Trials Fusion was a lot of fun on Windows, and I have fond memories of Motocross Madness so I'll definitely pick this one up. No multiplayer though?

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Quoting: mrdeathjradd PhysX support for borderlands 2

I discussed this with someone from Aspyr on Reddit a while back, they can't do it because it would break cross-platform play. The version of Physx that supports Linux is more recent than the one in the Windows version of the game, so cross-platform coop wouldn't work anymore, unless Gearbox went back into their old code and updated the Windows version with a newer version of Physx... They wouldn't go to all that trouble just to give eye candy to Linux gamers.

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