Honestly, I liked Fandango quite a bit more than DoTT. The latter had a lot of colourful characters and art, but I found the puzzles pretty difficulty and quickly resigned to my usual routine of "rub everything on everything, then check game-FAQS" (Which admittedly just became "check Game-FAQs" after I discovered you could send items through the time machine :P)

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This is from the makers of Surgeon Simulator, a game I had a lot of fun with. I don't think this game is a cash grab like grass simulator. I feel like the creator understands how to make a comedic game the proper way: game mechanics that are both fun and funny, not just broken; *cough* Goat Simulator *cough*

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Honestly, I never thought this game looked very interesting; survival/zombie/crafting is nice and all, but we've had that since Minecraft. I'd rather support a more pleasant developer :P

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It's definitely a king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) if this chart can be trusted: http://www.polartrec.com/files/members/alex-eilers/images/mon_penguin_photo_id.jpg [External Link]

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When I downloaded the 64 bit demo I had to change the extension to "tar.gz", otherwise my archive manager gets confused and extracts an unusable file.

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Ah, thanks for pointing that out, Badber. As for as I can tell (judging from my steam search), PixelJunk Shooter is probably the 2nd game (considering the GOL release article coincides with the original PC release date), PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate being the first.

Ok. I do respect PixelJunk Shooter. It was a solid game on a gameplay level(albeit with a superfluous story), keeping in mind I couldn't play on my old laptop with AMD graphics. But it does make me sad that it didn't do better. That said, the audience looking for Arcade-y co-op games are probably more on consoles.

As for Monsters Ultimate... Tower Defense? How many people are looking to pay for a tower defense game these days unless they really shake it up? Looks like the same stuff I played on little flash websites years ago with incrementally nicer visuals!

Anyway, I may be getting too personal here, so I'll end with this. If a dev doesn't think it won't make it's money back for porting, that's a valid reason and I understand. However, in light of some of the commenters, it sounds like they have a community willing to bring that cost down and hopefully they reconsider.

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What's with Linux and strategy games? I just wanna shoot things in high graphical fidelity :S: *whine whine*

edit: At least I'm good for platformers!

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Quoting: mrdeathjrAs commented before for example this is results with FFXIII*, lego batman 3 and others

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*in this title load character textures since begins without problems, in before wine version can appears troubles with this (sometimes have restart title for solve)

Maybe more later add more results

^_^

I gotta ask, Mr. Death, which do you enjoy more: playing games, or benchmarking them in WINE? :P (No judgement either way!)

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Eh, a bit of a shame, but I'm not heartbroken. Frozen Synapse had some solid gameplay, but it felt a bit unfinished, and the verbose exposition led me to just skip the dialogue after a bit. But fine, whatever, I thought, until I read this:

"On our next title we were day 1 with all 3 platforms, sales were still atrocious."

After a bit of searching, I found said title: Frozen Cortex. It's a $25 early access, turn-based sports game. Not to be rude, but COME ON. It's an interesting concept, sure, I remember thinking I might check it out once it's released fully, because how many people (Linux or Windows) avoid pricey early access games? Quite a few, I imagine. Especially since we Linux gamers have to be more scrupulous about buying games that have proper Linux support.

In short, I find this point unfair and unrealistic. And I'm not a dev, so I won't speak on the other points.

Edit: Apparently Double Eleven is the dev, not Mode 7. As for as I can tell, PixelJunk Shooter is the 2nd game, PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate being the first.

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GOL, indie games, and Linux are what got me back into gaming :) I used to be a console kiddy, but my interest had waned. However, in the Linux/indie world things are always moving, and it was a small enough community that I felt significant in my involvement. And I would've never been able to keep up if not for GOL, I'm really glad the site is still around :D

I'm also really digging Aspyr! It's great to have such a great company to provide us games. They do solid work and actually (*gasp*) talk with their community. Like GOG, they've learned the best way to get loyal customers is to turn them into fans; mission accomplished :)

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