God damnit. I wanted this game to make it!
However, I didn't back it... because I barely ever back anything.

Maybe I'm jaded by all the broken 'promises' and butthurt by all the pathetic "apologies".

Maybe I need a proven track record before I spend any of my money on eventual Linux releases, especially from developers who don't normally release games for Linux.

Maybe I'd be content with chucking money towards a Linux friendly dev simply because they care about our preferred operating system.

Maybe these crowdfunding shenanigans are simply 90% hustlers who profit on our innate proclivity to wish for things, and the remaining 10% actually get products to market.

I'll just leave this little snippet from one of my all-time favorite fantasy series The Sword Of Truth by Terry Goodkind. It's worth thinking about. BTW, the TV show was pure excrement, do NOT watch it. Read the magnificently brutal books!

This is the Wizard's First Rule:

“People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.” -- Zedd

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Instant crash here too. Launching the game in terminal with Steam client running, 1st error:
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; no appID found.
Either launch the game from Steam, or put the file steam_appid.txt containing the correct appID in your game folder.
[SteamWrapper] SteamAPI is not initialised.
[SteamWrapper] Failed to launch game through Steam.

Added steam_appid.txt to the game folder. 2nd error:
Initialising SDL Audio:
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1099:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
FATAL ERROR : Failed to open audio output device: "ALSA: Couldn't open audio device: No such file or directory"
Failed to open audio output device: "ALSA: Couldn't open audio device: No such file or directory"./PrisonArchitect: line 59: 11083 Aborted                 "$base"/PrisonArchitect.x86_64 "$@"

The solution: Change line 52 in the file .../Steam/steamapps/common/Prison Architect/PrisonArchitect to use PulseAudio instead.
export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=PulseAudio

Works for me.

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John Romero playing Sigil.
Good ol' Romero being himself, still long haired, black painted fingernails, chugging Dr. Pepper and chitchatting about stuff. Good stuff.

https://www.twitch.tv/theromero/videos [External Link]

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Doom? Doom!? DOOM! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

I love DOOM.

Spoiler, click me

DOOM!

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Quoting: fedotixWho is Lord Soth ??

Dragonlance! Check it out if you enjoy fantasy. :)

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Quoting: Luke_Nukem:><::'(:D^_^:O:S::woot:

I'm just running the full gamut of emotions right now. I've never been pissed off at a developer team before as much as I have Stainless and their troll employees.

Monumentally agree. Much anger wasted on those bottom-feeders, all in vain.

OG Carmageddon is one of my all-time faves.
Such fond memories of multiplayer madness... and the revelation of playing it with Glide on a 3DFx card (Voodoo2 anyone?)... even the campaign mode was crazy with the AI making very bizarre choices... and the police happily smashing your car to a pulp with their blasted supercharged murder-tank... or driving a insane dragster that could barely turn at all... I could go on! :D

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Quoting: massatt212i hope its a fighting game

Them's Fightin' Herds [External Link] maybe? :wub:

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Old time RCT fan here, been following Parkitect for a long time and watching dev streams now and then. Pure awesomeness. I'm thinking about buying a copy for my sister too just because! :D

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Mmmmm, getting all kinds of good SNES Zelda vibes from this one. ^_^

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Quoting: Xpander...and for the people who bought it and want to play with acceptable performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFiNNneul3s [External Link]

Did you install something in your Wine prefix to get it running, or tweaked some specific settings in Lutris? Only get black screen here with both Proton and Wine staging, like the intro videos refuse to play and game won't continue.

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