Games: Smith and Winston, Unity, Snowtopia, Vintage Story, We Need To Go Deeper, Kontrakt, One Step From Eden, CHKN and Abstract Hell
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 11th of January 2019 03:11:36 AM
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The developer of Smith and Winston made an interesting blog post about supporting multiple platforms
I recently talked about the Steam release of Smith and Winston but I didn't realise until late last night, that the developer actually made a very interesting blog post about supporting multiple platforms.
Interesting enough, that it warranted an extra post to talk a little about it. Why? Well, a bit of a situation started when game porter Ethan Lee made a certain Twitter post, which is a bit of a joke aimed at developers who see Linux as "Too niche" while practically falling over themselves to get their games on every other new platform that appears. This Twitter post was shared around (a lot) and some developers (like this) ended up mentioning how Linux doesn't sell a lot of games and it continued spreading like wildfire.
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Unity have changed their terms of service, which has essentially blocked SpatialOS and streaming services
While not directly related to Linux gaming, this is still some interesting news to be aware of for those working with the Unity game engine. Especially so, since both the Unity editor and Unity games (if the developer makes it so) work on Linux.
The team behind SpatialOS, a "managed cloud services" provider just announced that "all existing SpatialOS games using Unity, including production games and in development games of all developers, are now in breach of Unity’s license terms" which doesn't sound good at all.
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Snowtopia, an in-development ski resort sim to keep an eye on has Linux support
One game that could be worth keeping an eye on is the ski resort building and management sim Snowtopia. Currently available free to test on itch.io, it's in the early stages of development.
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Vintage Story, the moddable survival and building game had a big update
Vintage Story might look a lot like Minecraft but it's a very different beast and it just recently had a rather big update.
I must admit, the many differences of Vintage Story do make it sound quite appealing. As it stands, Minecraft really is quite a ridiculously basic game in comparison. I won't list all the major differences, you can see for yourself more about all that here.
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We Need To Go Deeper could be a lot of fun but it needs to do a better job at everything
With thanks to a supporter, I was gifted a copy of We Need To Go Deeper. It's a 2-4 player co-op submarine roguelike and it's pretty rough.
It's in Early Access, so I will absolutely excuse some issues it has. A lot of games end up going into Early Access practically finished, which is firmly not the case here.
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Kontrakt, a hyper-violent action-adventure finally works properly on newer Linux distributions
Kontrakt actually released back in October last year, sadly it only supported older distributions but this is now fixed so I've taken a look.
It's another game that fell into the trap of "version `CURL_OPENSSL_3' not found", which I eventually found an easy enough fix for when testing out Psebay recently. Still, it's nice to see the developer of Kontrakt actually update their game to work properly on newer Linux distributions without messy workarounds.
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One Step From Eden, an action-packed deck-building roguelike plans Linux support
Inspired by the likes of Nuclear Throne, Slay the Spire, Risk of Rain and more One Step From Eden looks like a promising action-packed deck-building roguelike.
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CHKN, the weird yet surprisingly engrossing survival game has been updated although it's having a few issues
When I recently talked about the big update to the survival game CHKN, I was very impressed with the game mechanics and style. However, performance was an issue.
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Abstract Hell is like a twin-stick shooter Pac-Man and it's a lot of fun
Abstract Hell from developer Nathan Best released recently with Linux support and it's really quite good.
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