Speaking of surround sound, I played my first game with it in 2004, it was Doom 3 with a SB Audigy 2 ZS.
Eleven (!!!) years later I still use the same audio card (lol), but we have just a handful of games that support positional audio under Linux.
I just bought A:I and sadly discovered that surround doesn't work under Linux. I don't need to tell anybody how important surround audio is for a survival horror game, do I.
So I had to reinstall the game under Windows and now I can play it in all its magnificency (is it a word?). What a game!

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Yet another indie sandbox game. Usually I find them boring rather quickly . Let's hope this one will be different, somehow.

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The intro of EOB2 is one of the best I've ever experienced in ~30 years of gaming...

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Embrace the proprietary drivers

Not in a thousand years, sorry.

Be friendly and supportive to proprietary software developers.

This I can do.

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I had no Windows partition on my PC till 4 months ago. Then I bought a GTX970, a new SSD, upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 and (god, please, have mercy of my soul) installed Windows 8!
Why?
Because of Skyrim (10€ on Steam, couldn't resist) and Elite Dangerous....

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Frankly, I'm not holding my breath.
I doubt it will go from the current 20-30fps to the 70-90fps that I can get under Windows with a single patch... we'll see.

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Gorgeous!
I like all those colors.

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Quoting: liamdawewell, I think it's a Unity game, so the source wouldn't be all that useful.

I don't see why you would comment that on this anyway?

Didn't know it's Unity based.
Anyway, I thought: it's free/gratis, has creative commons sounds, and it's clearly not a multimillion investment (the graphical assets are 3 little pngs)... it's the perfect candidate for an open source release on github.
It has an interesting retro style and it's well made, I think reading the code could be a good learning experience for some young developer...

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Nice little game.
Though the fact that it's not open sourced is beyond me...

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Out of curiosity I've installed the game under Windows and the comparison is humiliating. With my rig (i7-2600+GXT970) under Windows the game never goes under 60fps with ultra setting (vsync on). If I disable vsync it goes 70-90fps in outside areas. It's at least 3 times faster than under Linux.
LoL. The Linux version is horrible.

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