Fall?? FALL???

Looks quite fun. I'll keep an eye on it!

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Word of the day:

Quotemegalopolises

Plural of megalopolis, meaning a large, heavily populated urban complex.

Strong work, Liam. Every day is a school day, I find. Also, very satisfying word to say over and over...

Edit to note that this game looks like one that Ehvis will enjoy - massive manufacturing, research trees, building at scale. I feel a spreadsheet coming on!!

And a second edit to note that this is an incredibly bad time to launch, given that Metro Exodus is releasing the day before!

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I played this a little back in the day, but haven't ever tried it since it went open source. I admit that every time I see these articles, my heart skips a beat thinking that someone has open source engine'd the Battlezone series... which would be amazing (although the remaster works perfectly in wine/proton).

Still, I need to give this another chance!

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Fantastic news! I LOVED the demo when I tried it out a few months back and I've been eagerly awaiting a full release to really sink some time into this.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

QuoteReally sorry folks, I hope you'll have the chance to experience Narita Boy on another platform somewhere down the line.

Yeah... that's really not going to happen though is it? Who'd trust a dev team this incompetent, even on another platform? If it ever hits Humble Choice, I might play it, since I get all 12 games anyway. Give them actual money though? Nope.

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Quoting: Craggles086Will it be on Steam / will I get a Steam key later if I buy it now?

Putting the game on Steam is something I want to look at when the game is more or less “done”. It’s a complicated decision for various reasons – there are upsides and downsides, and it’s not something you can easily try and then back out of.

If the game ends up on Steam, and if Valve still allows developers to generate keys for this purpose, then I’d like to get keys to existing players. However, that’s too many ifs to make a promise, so I would recommend assuming “no Steam key” for any purchasing decision made now.

http://fractalsoftworks.com/faq/

Yep, it was this very (vague) wording on their FAQ that led me to post my question. Upsides? Downsides? Really odd, in this day and age, to sell your game directly rather than through a platform that boasts 100's of millions of active players every month. Can't really imagine what the downsides would be, other than risking a poor overall review rating, which would seem unlikely given how passionate people are about this one.

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This looks absolutely superb. Why on earth don't they sell through Steam, I wonder? I'd never heard of it until this article!

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Quoting: TermyDouchebag moves like this drove people like me away from crowdfunding - so good job in making future indie titles less likely to succeed!

Exactly my sentiment. I contributed to the Funding Crowd articles on here for years and was very bought into the idea of both Kickstarter and IndieGogo. I saw them as a way to promote Linux gaming at a grassroot level. But while (as Liam notes) it worked for a majority of titles, more and more I saw fraudsters emerging, announcing multi-platform support during the campaign, then immediately caveating it on successful completion, or removing it entirely.

Honestly, if Kickstarter had any integrity, they would be following on this fraud legally. But they have their money, so it's left to the punter to lose out. So yeah, tough time for the more honest indies these days.

I expected better in this case - Team 17 have had patchy Linux support over the years, but they've never been outright hostile to launching on our platform. So I suspect it really is just gross incompetence by the developer. I'll wish them well regardless, but they'll never get my money unless they support my platform.

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Like an isometric Oxygen Not Included. Without the vomit (hopefully). I'm not a huge fan of these games, but ONI was excellent and I'm getting a nice vibe from this one. Another one for my watchlist!

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: FrawoOh no, Web Browsers default to Windows? I didn't know that and now my pile of shame mostly consists of Web Browser purchases. Damn...

I remember this differently as well...

Just to make sure, I install every new game and start it up.
(That's also useful to make sure it actually runs.)

So I wonder what it counts as if you buy it in the Android App?

Pretty sure that's already covered - Windows.

Quoting: Liam DaweTo clear it up we have the info on the Steam Tracker:

QuoteWhen buying games from Steam, how is the desktop platform counted? From what Valve told us (February 2020), they first take the desktop Steam client platform used to buy it, then whatever has the most playtime in two weeks. However, Android and Web Browser purchases default to Windows and then what has the most playtime in two weeks. If you want to ensure developers see a Linux sale: play it only on Linux in the first two weeks, don't buy it and leave it.

Yep, as above, emphasis mine.

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