Likewise, I for one am peeved about Divinity: Original Sin. The alpha does not work on Linux, and no peep from then when or how, only "later".

At this point, I'm not even sure anymore that the final game will have Linux support at launch.

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it didn't even cross my mind that open-source games could also benefit from using Vogl

Of course. Just because you have the source doesn't mean you can immediately see things like memory consumption and in which sequence OpenGL calls are made. As such, vogl is kinda like valgrind [External Link] for OpenGL.

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Quoting: oldrocker99using a PlayOnLinux script, which I've already deleted

That might have been premature. By the reports on the Steam forums, there isn't yet an executable in the download, only the game data. Looks like the Linux version is still in (closed) beta, and the public push of the game data might have been by accident.

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Yeah, I played The Witcher for a bit. I just kind really can't stand Geralt...

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For some reason, today I'm very good at misunderstanding other people. :)

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It is built using "Ren'Py" looking at the .sh launcher script, if that means anything to you guys

Ren'Py [External Link] is a visual novel game engine, build in Python. It's actually quite popular for these type of games, at least with non-Japanese developers.

It powers, for example, the Winter Wolves games, like Loren the Amazon Princess and Planet Stronghold, or the Hanako games like Long Live the Queen, and Christine Love's games, like Analogue: A Hate Story and Hate Plus. Also, Dysfunctional Systems, which just reached its Kickstarter goal for a second chapter.

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Quoting: ShmerlHow is Xoreos project doing by the way? It was supposed to target Witcher 1 too.

I started changing the codebase to use Ogre (*) (ogrewip branch in the public repository on GitHub), but it's unfortunately stalled again at the moment, as my RL takes up time.

In either case, The Witcher is a potential target, yes, but it's not in anyway close to even consider the work to have been started. That said, resource loading works; videos, sound and music plays; and I even started reading the model files. But that's about it: currently, xoreos only shows a model and plays a sound when starting The Witcher.

(*) Something I'm still not all that happy about. I keep having to write around Ogre idiosyncracies, and apart from the general Ogre issues unrelated to OpenGL, I also lack the OpenGL knowledge to know whether what I'm doing makes sense there.

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Quoting: GuestIf they could release The Witcher 1 too

With my somewhat vested interested in games based on BioWare's Aurora engine, I'd be quite interested in that as well. :P

I'd especially like to see how they'll handle the Lua scripts. The Windows version was released with compiled Lua scripts, which are quite icky to work with.

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and get access everything, including the full source code

Keep in mind though, that despite what other news sites have reported, while this might technically be "open source", you're not getting free (as in speech) software. It will not be GPL (nevermind any more permissive licenses), and earlier engines won't be GPL'd either.

From what I've read, there's no info yet on how exactly the license will look or how code contributions will be handled.

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Quoting: micmonsyncs to the cloud

Apropos: I frequently start the Steam client on three different machines: My Debian system at home, my Arch laptop and my Gentoo system at uni. They should all use the same Steam version. Still, cloud saving for game categories in my library, i.e. when I put a new game in a category, or move on game to a different category, only works sometimes. Is there a trick you have to do, to force a change to sync to the cloud?

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