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Aspyr Media state no news about the 'feasibility' of Civilization VI on Linux until after the holidays
22 December 2016 at 8:28 pm UTC

Quoting: RussianNeuroMancer
Quoting: rustybroomhandleGot this email from Aspyr:

QuoteThe criminal underworld of Mafia III is coming soon to Mac! Travel back to 1968 and explore the large open world of New Bordeaux as Lincoln Clay. When his surrogate family, the black mob, is betrayed and wiped out by the Italian Mafia, Lincoln builds a new family on the ashes of the old and blazes a path of military-grade revenge through those responsible.
No mention of Linux. Could very well be that Linux is just not priority for them any more.
It's Mafia III after all, so who cares?

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/mafia-iii

Completely irrelevant to the point.

Aspyr Media state no news about the 'feasibility' of Civilization VI on Linux until after the holidays
22 December 2016 at 4:47 pm UTC Likes: 3

Got this email from Aspyr:

QuoteThe criminal underworld of Mafia III is coming soon to Mac! Travel back to 1968 and explore the large open world of New Bordeaux as Lincoln Clay. When his surrogate family, the black mob, is betrayed and wiped out by the Italian Mafia, Lincoln builds a new family on the ashes of the old and blazes a path of military-grade revenge through those responsible.

No mention of Linux. Could very well be that Linux is just not priority for them any more.

Iron Sky Invasion now has a Linux beta on Steam, uses Wine
16 December 2016 at 8:12 am UTC

Time to put on some Laibach.

Inner Chains, an incredibly brutal looking UE4-built FPS that's coming to Linux shows off some gameplay
2 December 2016 at 1:34 pm UTC Likes: 1

This looks good based on that video. Although I suspect I'd prefer it more if it were just a "walking simulator" sans shooting.

It looks like more classic Topware Interactive games are coming to Linux
2 December 2016 at 11:43 am UTC Likes: 11

This is great for game preservation purposes. These may be Windows titles, but one day when they stop working on Windows, they'll still work on Wine, since it's open source and they can maintain the compatibility.

Kith: Tales From the Fractured Plateaus, a free short adventure made on Linux
1 December 2016 at 4:54 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: chimpy@rusty

Just curious; you used a lot of open source software to make the game but used Unity as the game engine; were the other open source game engines like Godot not up to scratch? Is it a personal preference? Or is it a bit of both?

It's just what I am used to. No specific reason really.

Kith: Tales From the Fractured Plateaus, a free short adventure made on Linux
1 December 2016 at 12:10 pm UTC

Quoting: tuubiassuming the game wasn't built on the new Unity 5.5.

It was, and since a lot of what's in the game will form part of some future projects, I don't think it's wise for me to downgrade it unfortunately. So yah, I will add a note to the itch.io page.

Kith: Tales From the Fractured Plateaus, a free short adventure made on Linux
1 December 2016 at 9:13 am UTC Likes: 3

Thanks all. "Earn living from free games" is the worst business plan though. But whatever - never said I was smart. :P

Kith: Tales From the Fractured Plateaus, a free short adventure made on Linux
1 December 2016 at 5:59 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: LeopardUnfortunately,it doesn't even started.

What Cheese said.

I'm also pushing a new build this morning built with the latest Unity - right after solving some screen/window/monitor goofiness. Wondering if it's not a 32bit/64bit thing. Latest build has a proper launch script too that might solve that.

EDIT: Try now. You itch.io app should kick off an update.

We are testing out a new open source social network for our news called 'Mastodon'
23 November 2016 at 10:47 am UTC Likes: 1

I'm on Mastodon - it's a happy place thus far. :)