I also hope this doesn't follow too close to FTL.
I want something original but also something less crazy in terms of runs.
FTL was just too crazy and chaotic for the length of a run. Especially since the damned boss has 3 separate forms.

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Quoting: etonbearsIt is notable that any "philosophical advantage" of open development does not yet seem to have produced a significant body of high-quality games.

If I may , wouldn't this have more to do with lack of other professions joining in also ?
Sure we have coders who can script a great game.
But without artists , musicians , composers , art directors , voice actors and so on , how far can we truly get towards a great game.
Just my two cents.

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Shame it doesn't have online play, could have been an amusing game to livestream. Even so, with single-player and local multi-player it will still appeal to many of you.

Wait , local co-op ?
You could stream with Sin. :)

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Maybe I'll gift you and Samsai a copy for the lols.
Or is the dev providing any review keys ?

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Quoting: AsuEA should just winewrap up all of their old games and put it on steam. Start with the DOS games...

Uhm ... wouldn't the old ones use Dosbox instead ? :P

But yeah , would be nice , though I think some of the early C&C stuff is abandonware by now.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: razing32Ok , tried it , currently on Arch with Nvidia.
No go , does not start :

$ ./Everspace.sh 
/home/razing/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/EVERSPACE/RSG/Binaries/Linux/RSG-Linux-Shipping: error while loading shared libraries: __vdso_time: invalid mode for dlopen(): Invalid argument

Anyone else get this ?

Yes, just read the comments above or the discussion on Steam [External Link].

Yup , that did it.
Mouse is still a bit wonky with clicks in-game but it does work.
Reminds me of Tachyon the Fringe a little bit.

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Ok , tried it , currently on Arch with Nvidia.
No go , does not start :

$ ./Everspace.sh 
/home/razing/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/EVERSPACE/RSG/Binaries/Linux/RSG-Linux-Shipping: error while loading shared libraries: __vdso_time: invalid mode for dlopen(): Invalid argument

Anyone else get this ?

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Quoting: jens

Quoting: razing32What are you talking about ?

Well, I'm talking about a (hopefully) very small but very vocal part of the Linux community that is nearly blind due to ideology and principles and can't even see anymore when they get presented with a gift.

I'm truly happy and grateful when I'm behind my Fedora box with NVidia closed source driver and able to enjoy games like Hitman, Tomb Raider or CIV VI etc. purchased and started from Steam with just a few clicks. It is close to unbelievable that this is now possible on Linux. But instead of being very grateful to the companies and people behind it for making this possible and letting the market slowly grow, I'm constantly reading arguments that the parties that made this happen but obviously also want to earn money are evil and hostile against Linux:

- Steam is bad, they offer a closed source distribution platform
- Steam is even more evil because they seem to have lost they Linux focus and won't bring VR to Linux
- Gog is hostile because the abandoned their plans for Galaxy on Linux
- Nvidia is bad cause they don't open their driver and don't participate in upstream development
- Publishers are bad because they don't port game x or y
- Porting Studios are bad because because they use kind of wrappers and haven't yet completely embraced Vulkan
- Smaller Studios are bad because they don't want to deal with Linux support
- Newcomers on the complex Linux platform will be openly attacked when they can't get everything right the first time.

I could go on and go on :(

Really, I think Linux had they peak regarding to gaming. I sincerely hope that I'm wrong, but I fear we are shooting our self in the foot due to not seeing our chance and due to completely unrealistic demands for such a small market.

Coming back to the article this is about. It is actually fantastic news that some employees in the background of the big player EA do consider Linux in the future. But the overall response here is mostly: they are evil due to actions in the past, I wont buy from them, full period. I wouldn't blame the people that fought internally within EA to have some resource freed for Linux to throw the towel in the ring and give up on Linux entirely after reading this.

Please, just be a little bit grateful when companies and people behind it are reaching out a hand.

I understand where you're coming from.
But different people come to Linux for different reasons.
For me it was the EULA of Win10 that made me give up. I knew MS had scummy business practices before but that was the nail in the coffin.

Other people might hate closed clients like steam.
Others may hate anything closed source like Nvidia binary blobs in their kernel.

And almost all of us have criticisms to one business practice or another.
Yes we cannot be un-resonable and expect publishers and devs to flock to our platform.
But at the same time we should not accept being throdden on just to get a few games.
In my opinion a lot of these bug publishers have some really scummy practices (case in point I recently found out that Division2 published by Activision will have one time use cosmetic paint locked away behind loot crates , as well as item mods which affect gameplay)
Yes the games are good , but after all the cancerous mass attached to them to draw in an extra buck are they still good ??

My only point was , yes , we do need to entice publishers to our platform ,but at what cost ?

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Looks nice.
Doesn't really remind me of Lemmings since you seem to only control 3 cats and you change the environment around the cats rather than the cats themselves.
Still , nice graphics and fun gameplay it seems.

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Quoting: jens

Quoting: BeamboomGeez, a lot of religious fanatics here.

Thank you, exactly my thoughts. The big boys are very carefully exploring our market and we are burning them immediately at the stake instead of welcoming them with open arms :(

I would definitely buy an EA game if its a game of my taste. No matter of Steam, DRM, always online only, Nvidia closed source only, I don't care what. I wish that people would only want to play some cool games instead of fighting a holy war and hunt for every disbeliever.

What are you talking about ?
We dislike EA for very specific reasons.
They treat their developer studios badly , butcher a franchise with anti consumer practices and then burn said franchise in the ground , blame devs and close studios.

Yes the games are cool. When they are first made. After the likes of EA or WB get their hands on them , not so much.

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