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Quoting: Anonymousi'm wondering if it's not better to run it in wine? performance and stability wise?

No.

Except the answer is currently, definitely yes. In 12 - 15 months that'll be a different story I suspect.

Morrowind was my favourite of the ES games, despite it's flaws it just seemed to be more immersive - but I might just be getting older. I have completed less and less of each successive ES game. I am a terrible person.

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Quoting: drmothWell I'm Australian as well and we actually use British spelling. Any deviance from this is actually laziness or due to American influence (TV, books etc).

In case you had any doubts - http://www.defence.gov.au/ [External Link]

And I agree with Liam, tower defence is a genre, not a proper noun, so it can be spelt either way depending on your heritage.

The game looks good. Excited that more and more developers are turning to Linux (and glad we agree on THAT spelling).

Unfortunately, the original spelling post was a bit offencive to Liam, and everyone seems to be getting very defencive and territorial about this. I am not one to criticise though.

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I am Australian (we use some sort of US/British hybrid spelling), and after reading these comments, both those spellings now look wrong and weird.

THANKS GUYS

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Quoting: Glog78Sorry Humble Bundle ... i would fight for you ... but basically you screwed up all your advantages over steam and other sides for me as a linux user. So let me know why i should keep fighting for you and always paying more than windows and mac users if i get treated worse than them ?

You can buy 10 great indie games for less than the price of a single full priced one. They are DRM free, and they run on the operating system you use (or, in the case of a single game, will in a month or so). And a whole lot of that money you gave goes to charity (default is 20%).

Have some perspective, you are getting a really great deal. All this talk of HB having sold out is nonsense. How many of the linux games you own were HB ports, would they have ever happened without HB?

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Quoting: liamdaweOh I'm not dismissing that at all, I just think it should be part of the contract to have all ports ready that's all.

I am sure they would have clauses in the contract that say just that. I would think there would be penalties (or rather disincentives) to not having the port ready.

Maybe they lose 5% of their gross, who knows? I haven't seen the contract, neither have you. However you called him cocky for talking about something that you don't know anything about. I think that is really unfair.

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Quoting: liamdaweI don't think I wash harsh enough personally.

If you are going to use a tagline of "cross-platform" then be cross-platform or:
a) Use a new tagline
b) Wait for the next bundle

I don't think it is crazy for me to expect "cross-platform" to actually mean it.

That is my main point.

I think you are dismissing my point about contracts. And this is a *single* game in the bundle having it's port delayed a *month*. On the other hand if you were a two person indie team and you were told you'd be in the next HIB, despite your best attempts at getting the port done. (the devs spend money, time or both to get the ports done, to get into the HIB.) you bump them 6 months and that is going to hurt them. a lot.

"March is planned, but you know, developers and planning.... But shouldn't be too long"

It's made entirely apparent on the HIB page that the game isn't ready yet, and it's one game of probably 10 games of which 9 will be probably be available. Hell we have to wait a week until the BTA games are released, as it is.

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Liam, I think you have been way too harsh on HIB here. Also, I think you should have disclosed you were a beta tester for them in the past.

I don't think that Jeff's answer was cocky at all. (And with all due respect, if you think that was cocky I think you should re-read your news post.)

The game in question is likely only being ported due to inclusion in the humble bundle, and it's supposed to be launched in March. As someone who follows game development you should appreciate that it takes time to get games finished, the same goes for ports. It's hard, there are unforeseen problems that will arise. It's almost certainly the first time they've ported to Mac and Linux.

Quoting: liamdaweHumble feel it would harm their reputation to ask a developer to sit out and wait for the next bundle for the sake of a Linux version.

They would have signed contracts with the developers in question. For some developers the money they make from the bundles makes a big difference to their incomes. You may not be aware of the clauses in those contracts, but I suspect that there are protections built into them for both parties. Upsetting a subset of your customers may well hurt HIB, but HIB being in breach of a contract would hurt them a lot as well. (HIB needs gamers to support them, but they also need developers to trust them or else they wouldn't exist.)

Quoting: annonyThere doesn't seem to be lot of the humble spirit left in these Humble Bundles. How the cross-platform requirement can be painful for Humble Bundle and their reputation when it once was one of the main points of the whole thing.

I'm thankful for their work and impact on the business. I just feel that these recent bundles haven't been as fun as they should be for everyone involved.

I think the two most recent bundles have had some of the most fun games, actually. Hoard, Reus and To The Moon were great. In the current bundle Guacamelee is truely brilliant, and the rest of HIB11 is really good too. (And Papers Please might well be the Tuesday BTA release...)

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Quoting: WorMzy:huh:

Objection! It was called UFO: Enemy Unknown on the Amiga, and that version of the game was definitive. :P

I'm looking forward to this. I completed it on Windows when it first came out, and it was good fun. It's nowhere near as tactical or interactive as the original games -- base building is very cut down, you only get one, and your facilities and research are severely cut down; ship to craft battles are optional, and rely on you building boosters ahead of time; and ground missions are very formulaic, and there's much less reliance on luck.

Still, like I said, it was good fun. I'll certainly be playing it all the way through again + the DLC when it comes to Linux.

I remember reading a fantastic retrospective from the guys who created the original game. (I can't for the life of me find it on google though.) It was an great look into what game development was like, and how that mirrors a lot of what indie gamer developers experience now.

I love XCOM, and it is definately one of my gaming shames (haha) that I never played the original. The new game is truely brilliant though, a throwback in a lot of ways, but also remake that can stand on it's own. For anyone who hasn't played it, don't miss your opportunity now that it is imminent on Linux. You won't regret it.

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Quoting: Guest]As a French who is running Steam in English (well, it didn’t ask me which language I wanted… I suppose it picked up my system’s language, which is English), I’m not very fond of this. I’d like to be able to tag and comment in French if I want to. However I suppose the vast majority of French users have Steam and their system in French and I’m an exception.

Edit: BTW the « recommended by steam » menu just tells me: « your friends aren’t recommending you anything! »… meh.

You'd think they might be able to offer second languages in the tags options somewhere. So your tags are automatically thrown into the default language, but you see secondary language tags also. English as a default second language would be a clever idea, surely. (And this would make also make a lot of sense for users who speak something a bit more exotic than say French or English. There's really no reason why a Korean wouldn't want to see a "RPG" tag for example.)

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SteamOS is CANCELLED.

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