Quoting: lucifertdarkIndie Bundle 11 was how long ago? 2 years? time flies faster & faster as you get older.:dizzy:

Not that I disagree about time, but:

From: Humble Bundle <[email protected]>
To: seamoose
Subject: Your Humble Bundle order is ready
Date: Tue Feb 18 12:42:32 2014

Thanks for supporting Humble Indie Bundle 11! To access your purchase just follow this link:

It's great that this coming out for Linux - been waiting to play it.

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"A Growth Is A Growth.... Right?"

It could be cancerous, you should have it looked at...

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I'm pretty certain that LOG was ported to Linux by Humble Bundle for HIB7 and that Almost Human had nothing much to do with the actual Linux port. So as other people have said, if they don't want our money now, play something else for the next year or so and pick up LOG2 for a dollar in HIB20 or whatever.

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From a financial point of view, he's right. Given the number of Linux gamers right now (never mind just the ones who would actually buy the game) his company would not make their money back. So you either do it for the love of Linux or cross-platform compatibility or because you want to get it in a Humble Bundle (who may end up porting it anyway).

The bigger worry here is there simply aren't enough Linux games to justify a game port and our numbers are simply not growing fast enough. The Steam hardware survey may not be the best indicator but I would have thought that we would have broken 2% - 3% by now given the attention Linux gaming has been getting the last year or two.

As Beamboom said above, SteamOS and the Steam Machines are pretty much the only path to growth. And until (if?) that happens we'll have to live with the chicken 'n' egg problem: not enough users to justify porting and not enough ports to attract users.

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Quoting: MightyTrollzorAwesome! Good thing i got a few keys when they where free on humble. :D

This is Warlock 2. The game that was free on Humble was Warlock (1) which is Windows only.

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I game on Linux because I've been using Unix since the late 80s and have been on Linux pretty much exclusively since the 90s. I'd rather struggle with Wine daily than actually have to use Windows.

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Looks like 64-bit only too...

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Quoting: flesk@seamoose: You sir have excellent taste in games.

Thanks! I love reading these "what are you playing now" articles (RPS does them as well). They're even better when people write mini-reviews (one or two lines at most) about their impressions instead of just listing the games they play.

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Portal 2, which is as good as the first one, but only in short doses: it does get harder later on, so I don't fancy doing more than a few rooms each session.

Electronic Super Joy, which is SMB-hard but the amazing soundtrack just makes you want to keep going.

The Swapper, which was nice and relatively relaxing until this $&#!ing room on Asteroid Excavation Site 7 which has had me stumped for over a week now (and I'm too proud to look at a walkthrough).

Many of the Artifex Mundi adventures, which are a quite good mix of traditional adventure and hidden-object game - always play on expert mode for a semi-decent challenge.

Blue Toad Murder Files (under Wine) which is fun because of the voices (all done by one guy) but it's already getting a bit boring in part 2 out of 6.

Still trying to summon the energy to go back and finish a bunch of games that I've left half-done or almost done: Hexcells Plus (amazing puzzle game, just like the original Hexcells), Avernum (99% done) & Avadon (~50% done and don't want to start over), Bard's Tale (still has an occasional graphics glitch which slows the game down), Stacking (man, I gotta stop starting new games before finishing older ones...)

And finally trying to resist the urge to start Witcher 2 until it's out of "beta" - I really liked the first one so it's hard.

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Incredipede for Linux (non-Steam DRM-free download) is free from the dev: http://www.incredipede.com/linux.html [External Link]

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