I wonder if they will be out in time for Christmas

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Quoting: HadBabitsLooks fantastic! I wish kickstarter followed Indiegogo's lead and allowed you to put the money up on the spot. Oh well, guess I'll just have to set a reminder.

I don't understand -- a reminder for what? To keep some money in your account for when the pledge actually gets charged, a little after the campaign closes?

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Quoting: tweakedenigmaI am really looking forward to seeing how the Steam Box shapes up. I have no plans on buying a PS4 or Xbox One, but I would still like to have something in the living room. 

I really like our setup with a MythBox to run Linux games on a TV, so I think a Steam Box has lots of promise

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Heh, "sipping the gamma juice".

Too bad beta can't be ready for the previous weekend instead of midweek, but oh well...

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Thanks for doing this Samsai, I've never recorded gameplay yet myself but it would come in handy for bug reports sometimes

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Oooo this looks like a winner -- played the wizardry 8 demo a while back under wine and wanted more, but wasn't willing to buy windows-only games any more.

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It is too bad that crowdfunding games is harder outside those countries, thanks to kickstarter policies. I don't know why Kickstarter makes it so hard, considering IndieGoGo was also started in the US and yet manages to be international.

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IndieGoGo is a very hard place to get much funding for Indie games; there don't seem to be many Indie game enthusiasts among the members. Look at how badly Constant C is doing on IndieGoGo
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/constant-c [External Link]
compared to how Paranautical Activity did on kickstarter
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1125357480/paranautical-activity-old-school-fps-meets-rogueli [External Link]
where both were well-known enough to get Greenlit in the last batch of games.

An even more obvious example is how Frontiers struggled on IndieGoGo and really took off on kickstarter
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/frontiers [External Link]
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/railboy/frontiers-explore-discover-survive [External Link]

So good luck on your upcoming kickstarter! We will definitely cover it here at GoL in the crowdfunding roundup. Keep up the PR work in the meantime -- much better chance of success if you can get the project known in advance.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Quote from SpeedsterP.S. gentoo is my favorite distro, so I'm not saying this as an Ubuntu fanboi -- it's just the sensible choice for out-of-the-box support since Valve and Unity already picked it. I have no problem with dual booting to Ubuntu if I can't get something working in my favorite distro!

I don't think Ubuntu has an edge over many other distros. They PR themselves like that, but one should not make choices based on PR. I actually like the fact that GOG doesn't look at the hype and chose Debian amongst the distros to perform their tests on.

Steam solves part of these updates problems by providing a massive unified runtime which I think is an overkill on one hand, but on the other hand simplifies many issues which GOG representative was talking about. I suspect GOG moves in the same direction.

I wouldn't complain at all if they picked Debian either, but the point was that Linux gamers already need to have an Ubuntu LTS partition if they care about "official support" on many commercial games. I'm sure that bothers some who are annoyed at Ubuntu for various reasons, but in reality we know that it's usually not hard to get stuff that runs on Ubuntu to run on other distros. I would start buying GOG games if they supported just about any distro other than Android.

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Quoting: HamishAnd DOSBox does not count as Microsoft has nothing to do with it.

Yeah, DOSbox counts as free software devs providing backward compatibility with old games!

GOG is taking full advantage of DOSbox as open software, without bothering to lift a finger to serve the kinds of people who made DOSbox possible. DOSbox and SDL projects were started by Linux users!

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