I can't stand Wine. I've had precisely zero success with it, except for a vaguely disappointing success with Half-Life 2 years and years ago. I'm not interested in investing hours of my time for a second-rate experience. If there's no native client, I won't be buying it.

And yep, I have to agree with Minj - if the dev hasn't done their research on their target markets, it shouldn't be on us to say "yes, please" over and over. The need for that approach is diminishing rapidly and unless it's a AAA title that I'm desperate for, I'm not going to play the begging game.

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I loved this game. Finished it - an excellent 12 hours. The voice acting was a high standard, I thought, so I'm not sure what annoyed you Babits...

You know, 1 million sales, 1% is Linux - that's 10k sales, £11.99 on Steam. If half of those were from the Humble Bundle and we ignore them completely (which is a bit unfair), that's still £60k in sales. It couldn't have cost anywhere near that to port, so I hope this is a developer who sees some value from the platform, even without the "Steam Machine" promise.

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I played the first for about an hour, but didn't like it. There seemed to be no plot, just an open-world sandbox. The graphics were also too Minecraft-y for me.

Something about 3089 clicked for me though. Once you start seeing the sky-scraper bots, it's like you've accomplished something. The underground race that contact you appear to be hinting at something greater too. There's just more substance to 3089, I think. And the grapple-hook / hyper-board combo is just superb fun. I didn't realise how much I'd missed grapple hooks since playing Quake 2 all those years ago. Every game can be made better by a grapple hook. Probably.

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That planetary sweep was practically photo-realistic! Incredible. Nice find.

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It was a lot of fun last time I played. A bit of a learning curve, then you'll be hooked.

To put this game into perspective, I played 9 hours before I gave it a rest (and for various reasons, haven't been back). I played Portal 2 on Windows a couple of years back for 10 hours!

So, yeah, despite the basic graphics, it's got a nice retro shooter feel, tons of loot, a variety of missions and a sporadic, but not-terrible plot. Worth a buy.

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Quoting: bcruz111thank you for another high quality funding crowd article, i have a really hard time tracking the good linux projects, i am pretty close to kickstarter burn-out but it is good to see the standards in the gaming projects get so high. please continue with posting these articles and the wiki because they are awesome.

Thanks! I hear you on the burn out angle. I was the same around Christmas, but I'm actually slowly getting more tuned again and even if I'm not pledging as often as before, I still love researching and writing about these projects, so the Funding Crowd isn't going away, I hope!

That said, I'm moving house tomorrow and will be offline for a fortnight, so I won't be contributing nearly anything to TFC#29... but I'm sure S.D., Speedster and Muntdefems will keep the flag flying.

And if you, or anyone else wants to get involved, drop us a PM! Even if it's just a write up for a project you love, even if it's just for one issue, we'll be happy to use the help.

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Yep, nothing to see here. And every time they put a release out that doesn't include a Mod API, you're left waiting for Bukkit to catch up.

I mean, I run 5 little worlds for my son to play on - every release of Bukkit from Alpha, to Beta, to Stable, often a version behind Mojang's official is a pain.

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Quoting: OrkultusThe Linux version of Cannons Lasers Rockets hit Steam for Linux today too!..Downloading it now. :)

So it did. http://store.steampowered.com/app/265770/ [External Link]

Never heard of it! Free to Play though, so it's gotta be worth a look, I suppose.

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Man, what a relief - this is great news. Portal 2 to play again is superb... once I get my house move out of the way and have a computer again. Argh!!!

And Stanley Parable should be hot on its heel. Amazing news. Superb!

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Biggie or not, with only 11 days left, it's clear that Shattered Time is doomed to fail. Such a shame.

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