Thanks!

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I *think* Fig was their only crowdfunding bit for this game, but it's actually been in development quite a while. It was on Steam Greenlight back in 2014 and I bought a copy when they were at the Louisville Arcade Expo that year. Playing it with others was pretty fun. They had rumble hooked to the chairs so if another player tagged you, you felt the hit :).

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: GuestI hate this kind of hypocricy :"Due to the large variety of Linux versions".

It's not hipocrisy, it's reality. It's true that you can make a game only guaranteed to work in e.g. SteamOS and Ubuntu, but you think Fedora and Arch users won't complain in the forum if the game does not work on their distros? It will add to the low score anyway. Heck, even in different releases - Shadowgrounds, shadowgrounds survivor and all the Anomaly games don't work on current Ubuntu releases.

Yes, there are a variety of solutions to the libraries and distro problems, but they are not known and they are not obvious to people who do not have the "Linux culture" and just want to have "just another build" for a minority platform. Also, they know that in practice they'll have to have knowledgeable support in most distros to satisfy their linux users. This is neither easy nor cheap!

I am as frustrated as anyone by the "large variety of distros" but this is not a lame excuse from the developer, it's the harsh reality. We could do much better if we just suggest a few workarounds to the problem and assist the developer with it.

Sorry - but that excuse simply doesn't hold water. I use Manjaro (Arch) and don't have any issues running stuff made for SteamOS or Ubuntu. That holds true of other distros as well. As for stuff not running on current releases, that holds true of the MS Windows world as well. Stuff made for Win 95/2000/ME(gasp!)XP may/may not work on current MS Windows versions.

I've used other distros in the past and if it works on one, it can be made (sometimes with a bit of effort), to work on another. It's one of the things I love about linux - stuff either works outright, or can be made to work - even old stuff.

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I hate this kind of hypocricy :"Due to the large variety of Linux versions".

Oh yeah? Go F yourselves you worthless hacks who can't code a single hello world in c and you claim to be game makers... It is fine if you don't want to support the platform, but at least stop with the filthy excuses. There is no "large variety of Linux versions", there is only one Linux, the kernel. And you don't have to support every distro, as long as you support some common libraries. But you wouldn't know that because you never made the effort.

As i said in another comment recently, those devs don't care because they expect their indie-level games to be playable on WINE, thus they get to keep the money without providing official support. Everything else is just excuses.

By the way, Myst was overrated garbage even back in the day. People were mesmerized by the graphics, but the game was nothing special. So we don't miss anything anyway.

I also don't like seeing the "Due to the large variety of Linux versions...." bit either. It's not a true obstacle and never has been.

That being said, do what I did - use the 'Contact Me' on the Kistarter and write them a polite message explaining all they need to do and offically support is a single distro. I suggested Ubuntu. While I don't use it myself, it's a good base, many games are developed using it, and I've never had any issues getting a 'Ubuntu' game running on Manjaro.

Again - while this is a frustrating stance, being polite and well thought out in a message to them can go a long way and will have much better odds for changing their minds.

Beemer

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Thanks - grabbed one here as well!

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Thanks! I'll give this a whirl!

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That really sucks. I happened today on a craigslist post for www.gameboxhero.com. Some guy in Ohio selling a 'black box' system. From the video on the site, it looks like it's RetroPie for the front end and probably RetroArch on the back.

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Games reporting site buys gaming store site. Gee - minor conflict of interest perhaps? Is this the start of GamerGate v2.0?

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Quoting: razing32I'll buy it when all episodes are out and IF it truly works on Linux. :P

Agreed. When a Linux port is a 'stretch goal', it is never made a priority. As much as I would love to back this game, I can't. I'll wait until there is an actual Linux version for sale. (Still fuming about Carmageddon - First backed project on KS).

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Insta-buy - Been waiting for this for a long time.

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