Quoting: HadBabitsAs for Leadwerks, I backed it, and have a copy of the Indie Edition. Unfortunately, when I tried it you had to do some serious workarounds to get it working on Mint (seems it was made with Ubuntu in mind). Hopefully that's been changed, otherwise I'd say they're being pretty short-sighted.

I would imagine that would have to be seriously Ubuntu tied if it were not to function well on Mint. :S:

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Quoting: AnonymousIts perhaps better if there is a game studio dedicated to do ports for Linux.

A group of people willingly to support Linux by helping other studios to port over their games so that they can only focus on their projects.

Porting games and working on other IP's isn't going to work especially for 3rd party studios that do console ports and PC and Mac ports. It takes time.

Yes, it might be time for a rise in professional porting houses again. At least for older titles that were not developed with cross-platform in mind.

Back in the day Loki Software made stellar ports of some very Linux unfriendly games. What they lacked was an effective means of distribution. That is not a problem anymore.

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What I do not understand is the assumption that AAA developers need to be baby coddled while Indie developers do not. With Indie games we expect quality native ports and by and large receive them, but when a AAA developer shows up suddenly we are all supposed to accept a sub-par effort from a company with far more resources than those Indie developers. This makes no sense to me.

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This is a real neat idea, but out of my reach, at least for the moment.

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It is also on Desura:
http://www.desura.com/games/the-last-door-the-collectors-edition [External Link]

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Quoting: Maquis196Whats the consensus here? People love/hate Civ5?

My brother still thinks that the original Civilization is the definitive version, although he will accept Civilization II as being acceptable. Anything later than that is crap as far as he is concerned. My uncle is more tolerant of the later ones, however.

Given that, you may have trouble finding a consensus on any of the Civ games from anyone. :P

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Quite frankly I have seen the same or worse by people trying to demand a Linux version of a game. The problem is people, and not a preference of license.

It should also be pointed out that the license in question is the LGPL, not the GPL itself as is claimed by the article, which is more in line although not the same as the MIT license which is Liam's preference in this instance.

Further, if he had gone to the FSF nothing would have come of it as they know their license, as was pointed out in the thread through this link with quotes from Eben Moglen:
http://lwn.net/Articles/61292/ [External Link]

About the only entity that could have actually threatened them based on that threat is Valve, and they seem rather slow on acting on more serious copyright violations anyway.

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I was going to get Hotline Miami as part of the Humble Store flash sale but opted for this instead.

I also got the current Weekly Sale for the Special Edition of Mark of the Ninja, even though I am still a little miffed that they did not just include it with Humble Indie Bundle 9

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There is also a problem with the Desura release apparently. It is not marked properly as an executable by default and you have to rename the paranautical activity_data folder to just Data in order to make it so it does not just simply freeze and crash upon launching.

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Quoting: hardpenguinIt would be much better if they even decided to bring Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader with Wine to Linux and call it official

My brother still pines for the one WINE version he had that managed to load Stronghold Crusader in a millisecond. He is still bitter about the regression.

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