Archive for June, 2012

Epic Action RPG “The Real Texas” Released !

Posted: 27th June 2012 by Maxim Bardin in Uncategorized
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The Real Texas is an action adventure game that plays like a mashup of Zelda: Link to the Past and Ultima VI. Sam, an ordinary Texas rancher, is on holiday in England when he falls into a blue portal and lands in The Strange Texas. While holidaying in England, an ordinary rancher from Texas is […]

Chris Gianelloni, the guy who made the point and click adventure flash series Reincarnation (which is available to play for free from the browser), wants to finally create a full scale Reincarnation game which is called “Reincarnation: The Root of All Evil” . Reincarnation is about a Vile demon who is sent to earth to […]

Unity4 Will Have A Native Exporter To GNU/Linux Desktop !

Posted: 18th June 2012 by Maxim Bardin in Uncategorized
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After many requests, and a bit of help from inxile  (who are working on Wastelands2 and need a GNU/Linux exporter from Unity as part of their commitment at Kickstarter). The upcoming popular game engine Unity4 will have a native exporter to GNU/Linux desktop (before you could only play Unity games via the Chrome browser) ! […]

4 Days To Fund Word Realms

Posted: 17th June 2012 by Maxim Bardin in Uncategorized
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Word Realms is a very unique RPG in which you need to put up words from the letters you are given in order to attack, depending on the word and number of letters you will get stronger attacks. Out of the stretch goal of $100,000 ,already ~$96,100 have been pledged – so there is a […]

I pledged for The Curse of Shadow House from the start, but I could not post about it as it only had Android and iOS ports planned. But today it was finally funded with 25 more hours to go. The funding goal is 8k (achieved), and the GNU/Linux port is at 12k , it’s a […]

HeXit is a kickstarter point and click adventure project with awesome graphics that recently committed to a GNU/Linux port if funded. While their goal of $75,000 is high, it’s reachable within the 32 days we have left. So if you are a sci-fi and adventure fan, this project is for you ! The Game HeXit […]

Lodestar: Stygian Skies is a Kickstarter try for a “GNU/Linux 1st” / Open/Free source later project that currently far from it’s funding goals. While the concept sounds great,  sadly as many other projects the developer went for the “retro” graphic style (AKA “I am not an artist and can’t hire a good one”). So it’s […]

Update ! Stainless Games wrote in the comments : “We WILL be supporting Mac and Linux in the longer term, no matter whether we reach the stretch or not. As I mentioned in my last post here, the stretch goal helps us towards the target of accelerating how soon this stuff gets done – not […]

Manor Of The Damned Released !

Posted: 4th June 2012 by Maxim Bardin in Uncategorized
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Dan Kennedy from “The Hideout” informed me about their game “Rijn the Specpyre in… Manor of the Damned!“ Manor of the Damned is a retro inspired action RPG that invokes the childhood memories from great console RPGs of times past. The game artwork is unique yet inspired by the SNES and Sega Genesis. Coupled with […]

Voxeliens Is Being Ported To GNU/Linux !

Posted: 2nd June 2012 by Maxim Bardin in Uncategorized
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A very small indie gaming company called “Volumes of Fun” are now porting their first game “Voxeliens” to GNU/Linux ! One of the developers Matt Williams, let me know that is should take about 1-2 months to finish the porting. He also was happy to tell me that use the FOSS (free open source software) […]