Another fine article, Segata!

Go go Beamdog! Looking forward to BGE!

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Quoting: BeamboomWhat an idiot. If he's in any way representative for the indie scene, then I'm done with that part of the industry.

I'm happy I never bought this title.

I dare say he's not representative of Indie devs, any more than Linux gamers are represented by the jerks who like to harass Liam (they're way too noisy but in the vast minority, right???)

I've only heard of one other Indie company that basically self-destructed by its unbalanced owner stupidly alienating too many people; most devs manage to cope with stress better than this

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Lesson that some people will learn from this: similar to full-time patent trolls who produce absolutely nothing useful, online-harassment trolls take a risk in doing anything productive on the side, it ends up as a way to hurt them back :P

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Big welcome to Saleck :D

I think it's not a big deal that GOG "only" officially supports ubuntu and mint -- go back to the big long threads about how lame it was when GOG was refusing to carry any linux games at all, and you'll find there are lot of Linux gamers who agree with me.

• Installing a separate partition with ubuntu or mint to play games instead of using something else (Arch, Gentoo, SuSe, whatever) is not an onerous thing like buying windoze just to play games


• The situation is stil not bad for those who are die-hard other-distro users without drive space (or patience to reboot) for an ubuntu/mint gaming install:
  
  • normally serious bugs will not be specific to just one distro, so somebody who plays on the supported distro can always be the one to report them and get them fixed
  
  
  • those people are probably experienced Linux users who can do tricks like manually installing matching versions of scummvm/dosemu/shared libraries in order to duplicate the way the game runs on ubuntu and mint
  
  
  • having Linux supported at all allows collaboration with other like-minded users who will probably post such workarounds on the Arch wiki
  
  
  
  

Just having any distro officially supported properly has a big trickle-down effect on making it feasible to run something on Linux in general. I've even run professional tools that only wanted to run under RedHat on debian.

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Quoting: oldrocker99I got Covert Action, because I'd played the other two back in the day, and I was looking for a new experience.

What is the gameplay like? That's the one that looked potentially appealing to me.

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Quoting: Brian LinuxHope you guys make this available for later viewing

http://www.twitch.tv/gamingonlinux/b/576735171 [External Link]

Thanks. It's 1h48m though and I have a hard time hearing everything that's being said, so some kind of written summary would still be nice.

I bet there will be a followup article with the highlights. Wonder how many people were actually able to participate?

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I would never want to have an employee like that either, but on the other hand if all the internet bullies got fired then they'd be on unemployment followed by welfare, and end up with even more free time and hate with which to pick on other people :P

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Galaxy would be an alternative for those who prefer buying games from GOG over Steam. Those who don't already buy games from GOG are not likely to care.

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Hm this could be a fun thing to do for Halloween...

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