The devs have confirmed Chronology for Linux now in the Steam forum post linked earlier.

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Quoting: Quote from stanSo I guess they will be expensive and there will be no demo to check the games, just like CK and EU, then… Too bad :(.

You don't know if there will be a demo or not. Maybe there will be. But maybe not - so then wait for a sale... I bought EUIV when it was on for $9.99. That's not too much, if you ask me.

There are many games with no demos on many platforms. If you can't tell from videos if you'll like a game, and don't want to gamble, maybe Steam Family Sharing will be able to help you in the future. Make friends with someone who isn't afraid to take risks with their game purchases, and then borrow a copy from their library.

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Quoting: Quote from n30p1r4t3They've already hit their goal and because of that; I'm a backer.

You know that Kickstarter doesn't charge you any money unless a campaign reaches their goal, right? If everyone waited for a project to reach their goal, nothing would ever get successfully funded.

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I can confirm that the beta branch allows the game to launch on SteamOS now. But trying to modify the control settings or gamepad keybindings at all results in a crash, and Steam hangs on a loading screen with the circle loading animation thingy.

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Comparing a AAA to an indie isn't really fair. Even so, the budget of a game is not always an indicator of the quality of the game. Even in AAA land, there have been many games with massive budgets that sucked complete balls. $60mil for Too Human??? $20mil for Enter the Matrix?!? And whatever amount was pumped into Final Fantasy XIII. I don't even know what Bethesda blew $85mil on for Skyrim. I loved the game and all, but really?

As relates to Warhorse, they certainly don't need to try and get $85mil to make the game they want to make. Just because Bethesda spent that much doesn't mean that the only way to produce a game equal to or better than is to spend as much. The Witcher 2's budget, including marketing, is probably around half that of Skyrim. Just for example.

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Quoting: Quote from mannyThis game is like a 2d diablo

That's exactly what it's like, and that's exactly why I love it... Although, the original Diablo was 2D as well. I don't find it as much like Gauntlet, like some people say.

Hopefully this means it runs on SteamOS without prompting to install packages. Yes, I could add Debian repos and such, but I am only interested in keeping my SteamOS install vanilla. A game console shouldn't require things like installing packages from a terminal window.

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It's a new startup, so of course they haven't shipped a game yet. But each member on the team has experience at big companies building games I've at least heard of, if not played. They've been working on this game for almost 2 years.

If you listen to the whole pitch video, they make it clear that their relatively low goal was chosen as a reasonable sum in order to simply prove there is customer interest in the game to their existing investor, who would then continue to fund development just as he has for the past couple years already.

I'd also like to point out that they clearly will offer a refund on the Kickstarter page in the event that they don't ship the game on your chosen platform, which is Linux for me. I fully intend to take them up on that if they fail to bring it.

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I'll buy it either way, though I hope Runemaster is not just another Diablo clone, but has more depth to it than any of them. How? I don't know, but it's Paradox - if anyone can do it, it's them. I don't need a 30-hour YouTube video primer as an introductory tutorial, but a little more than hack, slash, loot, rinse, repeat would be great.

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It's just the beginning. There is source out there for their modifications used in SteamOS. Go look for the tar.gz files in the repo. For instance, the compositor source is here: http://repo.steampowered.com/steamos/pool/main/s/steamos-compositor/steamos-compositor_1.15.2.tar.gz [External Link]

The fact that they've released a new ISO that has features pulled in from the unofficial Ye Olde SteamOSe project this early proves, at least to me, that they Get It(tm). It's still very early on, and SteamOS is literally Steam on top of Debian... There's not much code to share. But it's there.

Unless you mean opening up the Steam client, in which case, yeah that would be great, but unrealistic right now. Will they get there? Very possibly. Time will tell.

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We all knew that the Alienware machine wouldn't be upgradeable as soon as they showed us how tiny it is. You can't fit an old AGP video card in there, let alone a modern GeForce GTX PCIe card.

It's very likely not a Steam Machine I would buy, but the specs vs price could change that, as I rather like the design and size. True, I can't upgrade components, so the specs would have to justify that as well. I can't upgrade components in my Android tablet either, but I am free to upgrade to a new model down the road, and I can still play lots of new games. I don't need to buy a new tablet or new Steam Machine EVERY year if I don't want to. The old saying, "PC hardware is obsolete when you get it home" may be true on some level, but in practice you simply don't NEED the latest and greatest just to play new games. You can lower settings if you need to. And a first-gen Steam Machine should be fine as a secondary streaming box for another room of the house if you upgrade later on.

I'll probably build one myself, or buy a good upgradeable one. But I can see how this type of model can work. And luckily for all of us - it's not the only option.

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