s_d, rest assured that I won't turn this column into a spreadsheet with numbers and dates (we've already got the wiki for that), I'll only talk about a slightly reduced number of games. I.e. before I made a note for every single campaign that was not outright shit, and then I had to go over all of them again before deciding which ones to pick and write about. This week I've been far more selective right from the start and the current list of noteworthy games is way shorter than before, so I expect to be able to start writing short reviews right away without any further research. But yeah, let's see how this one goes and we'll have time to judge afterwards. ;)

Wow, thanks Speedster! And also thank you (both) for helping me with the wiki! ^_^

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Quoting: muntdefemsDISCLAIMER: I've never bought a single game in Amazon.com, but still you can tell by the download size (Steam key-only games are usually a 4kB or so download)

Correction: I've just taken a look at the various games on sale at Amazon and some of them do have download sizes far larger than 3kB despite being [Online Game Code]. So I don't know... Before buying anything I'd make sure by asking Amazon's customer service.

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Quoting: Projectile VomitYep- try not to miss your posts. I admit, I'm a game hoarder- and I'm cheap! I LOVE sales on games. I'm pretty sure I could use a 12 step program, but then you'd have one less psycho Linux gamer to cater to. We can't have that, now, can we?

Certainly not! :D

Quoting: Mike FrettSee, I read it. ^_^ Question, the Amazon's site only lists Mac and Windows, do they give you a Steam key or something?.

Yep, just make sure that the sale in question has the text [Online Game Code] in its name (and that it's a Steam code! I think I saw a couple of games with other types of keys).

DISCLAIMER: I've never bought a single game in Amazon.com, but still you can tell by the download size (Steam key-only games are usually a 4kB or so download)

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I see you two are not The Cheapskate's Corner regulars, are you? :><: :P

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Quoting: SpeedsterMuntdefems, how would one provide updates for next week's article?

Seeing that you've got an account here at GOL, I guess the easiest way would be to send them via PM to me.

About the column's format, it's clear that I cannot cater to everyone's wishes so I'll do what I feel best. Speedster is right: while I'm not at all burnt out, I didn't particularly enjoy writing this column. I don't know if it shows or not, but I'd rather write about less games (let's say 10 games tops, including both Biggies and Hidden Gems) and enjoy doing so.

So yes, I'd really appreciate Speedster taking care of the updates section every week so I can concentrate on micro-reviewing new projects. Are you up to it?

PS: I totally forgot to post on the wiki thread in the forum! I'm on it now... :O

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Quoting: SpeedsterLet us know if there does turn out to be some way in which others can assist you.

Sure! If anyone is very excited about a particular campaign and wants to send me a little write-up about it, I'll gladly accept it and add it to the next column. ^_^

About the wiki itself, there may be a couple of things I'd appreciate being helped on... But to avoid going off-topic I'll write about it later in the corresponding thread in the forum.

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By the way, I've added a new column to the Ongoing projects table of the wiki so anyone interested can easily check any project that he/she might have missed. ;)

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Hey, thanks for all of your comments and suggestions. I'm still not entirely sure about what to do, but I'm gonna summarize my thoughts on the subject:

· Keeping track of active projects isn't the matter here, really. As I may have stated before I'm a wee bit OCD-inclined and I like to check the KS and IGG pages at least once a day. That's why I began collaborating in the wiki in the first place. So anyway, you could say I've got a pretty good idea of how most of the relevant projects are doing anytime.

· I think the real problem is that, mainly because of what I said in the previous paragraph, I don't really know what most of the games are about. Sure, I first check if they'll be available for Linux and if so I put them in the wiki after collecting the data I need for it. The exception being, of course, the 3~5 games that really get my attention and that end up in the Top5 of the list.

· When time comes to write the article (after the initial procrastinating phase :P) I go over all the past week's new projects again to choose the 10~12 other ones to be featured in the column.

· Plus, English is not my native language and my writing is not as fast and fluent as I'd like. I think over almost every sentence before actually writing it, because I dislike repeating the same expressions and structures over and over ("this project was funded", "it reached its funding goal", "reached the base goal of..." ).

· So I usually end up spending a lot of time struggling to write paragraphs about games that I don't really care that much anyway. And, more often than not, at the expense of sleeping hours. :dizzy:

So, I think I will restructure the articles a bit:

1) I'll try to reduce the explanations about canceled and finished campaigns. They're finished after all, so there's no need to elaborate much on them.

2) Next, an equally brief update on the status of interesting projects (i.e. previous Hidden Gems and the like)

3) Yet another brief summary of not-so-interesting new projects (e.g.: name, genre, goal, Linux support... basically the info already in the wiki)

4) And finally, a detailed review of the (fewer) games that I liked or I found highly interesting, both Biggies and Hidden Gems.

Let's see how it goes this way. :)

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Hey s_d, thanks for sparing me most of my answer! ^_^

However, I think Speedster's got a point. There are some campaigns, e.g. Armikrog., that could certainly use every bit of help we give to them. And I could definitely put up a couple of lines to update the status of particularly interesting projects that had already been featured.

The main problem is, of course, where to draw the line. Which projects do get to be treated preferentially and which other don't? Because what I'm not going to do is keeping track of every single game I comment on the column. Mmmh... I'll give it a thought.

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Quoting: AnonymousIf anyone else needs help installing serious sam classic first and second encounter, just say so on this thread and I will respond with detailed instructions

Looks like there's someone having trouble with it: http://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/352

Could you please give him the details to run Serious Sam II natively? Thanks!

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