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Quoting: Quote from Half-ShotThe devs seem very on the ball so a couple of days maximum.
Don't let the bugs stop you from buying it, its so close to working.

At the very least, if you're concerned, don't let beta bugs stop you from buying it once the Linux version is released :D

Yep, this. I don't tend to buy anything that doesn't have the tux logo on it now. Although I do make exceptions for a good beta. Shame I'm busy tonight and I'll be writing up the Funding Crowd tomorrow (and possibly Friday, since I have a busy weekend coming up), so I'll wait for the full release on this one! Looks great though.

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A slight clarification too - OpenGL does have "source", so it's not that OpenGL is not open source. It's how you go about living up the OpenGL specification that's important. The proprietary implementations are quite advanced, so they get to say "Supports OpenGL 4.3" or whatever. However the open source implementation, Mesa, is lagging a little bit behind.

Well, a lot behind, really!

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Yep, until Unreal add support for Linux to their engine, I'll usually refuse to write about any game that uses it. I'd like to see those devs pressure Unreal to provide that support, or take their business elsewhere, but it seems we're not quite at that tipping point yet! :)

Surprising though. Even Crysis appear to be buckling under the Linux pressure, and Unity is mopping up, so I think it's only a matter of time until all these Windows-only (or heavily Windows-focussed) engines sort it out.

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Quoting: Quote from q4aDon't forget to add After Reset RPG [External Link] to the next Funding Crowd.

It's going to be one of the few Biggies in Funding Crowd #24, q4a, definitely. It looks great and I'll hopefully be writing it up shortly. Sadly, it's also off to a really, horribly slow start and none of the predictors are giving it much hope! :'(

A lot of the big projects are suffering actually. Raindrop failed, The Mandate is struggling, 7th Guest 3, Dino Run 2, Dragons of Elanthia. I dunno if it's just the run up the Christmas season or what, but some of these titles should be run away successes and it's just not happening for some reason.

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That rambling 13 minute abomination is nearly enough to put you off this game! It's 2 minutes before they get past the logo and while I appreciate that English isn't their first language, I can't listen to that many "ums" before I turn off.

However, they have a great blog (http://robotality.com/blog/ [External Link]) and I just cannot WAIT for this to be released. If you want to know why, I think you're better off looking at the original, no nonsense alpha gameplay video [External Link] they shot back in September than bore yourself silly with that one.

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Quoting: Quote from liamdaweFor me I feel it was needed, most newbies who hear of Linux will probably think of Ubuntu anyway. Every single person I have ever asked in "real life" has only heard of Ubuntu and I talk to people about Linux quite regularly.

That's my experience too. But since I exclusively use Ubuntu at home and work, it's probably not that surprising! The people I talk to about Linux are usually only talking about it because of my association with it, against the company policy of Windows or OSX.

I reckon I'm creating my own little bubble there.

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It is the only distro Steam officially supports for a reason.

I'm not sure what their reasons were - Valve didn't really explain it clearly. And in the future, I'd expect them to drop Ubuntu as a base, if they want to stay in touch with the majority of the Linux world which said strong no to Mir, and will use Wayland.

So you shoot down one guess, Shmerl, that Ubuntu is the most popular distro, then fire off two wild guesses of your own, that Steam will drop Ubuntu as a base, and that no one else will ever use Mir.
Since we're speculating wildly, here's my wild guesses. Valve will continue to back Ubuntu for the simple reason that they're the only Linux distro which is both focused on the consumer space AND has a company/resources behind it.

Also, Mir. Yeah, now that's a super-heated topic, but really it's too early to tell. If I were wearing my cynical hat though, I'd suggest that Canonical's earlier backing of Wayland, only to drop it for Mir was suspiciously close to the point that Valve got involved with Linux after seeing how Windows 8 was turning out. I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that Mir was born so that Canonical can work more closely with Valve's vision of SteamOS in a way that they couldn't with a community run display protocol such as Wayland.

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Quoting: Quote from TheCycoONE

Quoting: Quote from Bumadar

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Quoting: Quote from BumadarAlso available as abandonware and runs perfect in dosbox

You obviously don't know what abandonware means... Anyway the new release has a number of improvements over the original. Personally I'd appreciate not having to pull out the booklet for the flavor text.

I do know what it means, but the simpel fact is the game is available on many of the abandonware sites thus my comment stands.

Bumadar, you're confused.  Abandonware has never been legal.  Some people don't consider it unethical because there are no legal alternatives for acquiring a particular product, but the publisher could still sue.  Now that Wasteland 1 is for sale again, any ethical defense is lost, and downloading it from an abandonware site is no different from downloading GTA V off a warez site.

Yeah... but, Bumadar never said it was legal. He just said it was available on abandonware sites. So "confused" is the wrong term there. :)

But nice clarification. I actually thought "abandonware" was a real, legal thing, not that I've ever been interested in using it. Good to know.

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Quoting: Quote from DrMcCoyI'm sorry to say, but you're far too late for Oceania, which failed to reach its goal 4 hours ago.

EDIT: They do have some weird pre-order on their website though...

Yeah, I'm not sure why they're still advertising an expected delivery of Sep 2013, since we're now nearly halfway through November.

Funnily enough, Oceania only got in after a recommendation from a reader commenting on the last article, so it's a shame we couldn't quite get the word out on it.

So, as noted at the start of the article, we were a bit late with this issue, and a couple of the projects were always going to be a close call. Scale, for example, had to be rewritten at the last minute as they got a big push today and hit their target, and have less than 3 days to grab the final $18k to nail Rift support.

[EDIT : $8k. Dunno where I got $18k from!]

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Quoting: Quote from adolsonSo, I've shown you mine - you show me yours! Shooter is #1, but what are a few others you liked?

I've not played TerRover, but agree that Braid and Limbo were superb. I'd still put Shooter above them though (although it's a tough call for Braid...).

I played Might and Magic:Clash of Heroes on Android and absolutely loved it. Epic battles, very, very strategic. Is it Indie? I didn't realise.

And I didn't realise that Sony published the PixelJunk series. Good to know.

Other notable, quirky games? Possibly not Indie, but Dead Nation was a lot of fun, Hydrophobia had a great atmosphere, Landit Bandit was just... fun, and the DoubleFine games - Stacking and Costume Quest, both of which are now available on Linux which is great.

But yeah, Shooter is still up there for me. It's in my top ten, I think. Just. And if you exclude the big names (Driver SanFran, Drake, Vanquish, Borderlands, Skyrim, Portal, Zelda, Mario), it's in the top three.

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