Archive for July, 2012

The Other Brothers

Posted: 31st July 2012 by Maxim Bardin in Uncategorized
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Robert Cummings from Simian Squared, co-developers of  The Other Brothers ,sent me a message asking me to spread the news about their kickstarter project which will have a GNU/Linux client if the campaign is successful. The Other Brothers is a family fun adventure game of running, jumping, collecting, racing against the clock, all in retro […]

Castle Story

Posted: 30th July 2012 by Maxim Bardin in Uncategorized
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Castle Story is a strategy castle building game in which you control Bricktrons and build your castle brick by brick. You need to gather resources and prepare your defences because when the night comes – beware !   Castle Story managed to reach it’s goal of $80k in under 5 hours, and as most games […]

Detective Grimoire: Adventure Game

Posted: 26th July 2012 by Maxim Bardin in Uncategorized
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Detective Grimoire: Adventure Game is a detective adventure game for GNU/Linux and all other platforms, even mobile ! The objective of the game is to find the murder by investigating and talking to interesting people. It features great voice actors and interesting combinations of commands you can create, not only “click a person to talk […]

3D Dictionary SanJiten

Posted: 24th July 2012 by Maxim Bardin in Uncategorized
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3D Dictionary SanJiten is a game that teaches you new languages. Already $21,774 have been pledged of $12,000 needed, so you can join in and help to fund the support for even more languages. 62 hours are left to pledge ! Level up your language skills by playing a video game! It’s the most fun […]

As I wrote earlier,   Legends of Aethereus is a co-op (and solo) action RPG game. I was hoping that they will get more more of the modest 25k they asked, but as long as it’s funded (~28k) it’s good enough. Also I want to point out the interview my friend Todd from LinuxGameNews.com had […]

Heroes of Newerth (HoN)  is a DOTA inspired game that has a native GNU/Linux client (some say it’s much more stable than the Windows client). HoN begun in 2010 when it officially came out, as a pay $30 , play forever (no monthly fee). At 2011 HoN went free to play, but new players (with […]

Jack Houston and the Necronauts is a traditional point & click  adventure game being made with stop-motion animation using physical models and made sets, like in the old days of movie making ! $38,262 already been pledged of the $56,000 goal with 24 more days to go. I’d say it’s a sure bet that this […]

Devil Gene R – Episode I

Posted: 15th July 2012 by Maxim Bardin in Uncategorized
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Devil Gene R – Episode I is an upcoming free visual novel that is being developed using the cross platform Ren’Py engine. It’s very hard to get pledges when your project is going to be free, but they managed to reach their goal of $3k with 3 days left. So if you want to help […]

Legends of Aethereus – Action RPG

Posted: 13th July 2012 by Maxim Bardin in Uncategorized
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I was planning to write about this great game today, but other GNU/Linux gaming websites managed to do it faster…;) So in case you somehow missed it, Legends of Aethereus is an excellent looking hack-n-slash-n-shoot-n-bomb-n-throw-n-destroy cRPG game that will have a GNU/Linux client. $15,000 of the $25,000 already been pledged, and this game deserves much […]

Z. is a Zombie vs Survivors (digital/physical) card game that will be released on GNU/Linux and Android (as well as some other platforms). It will feature celebrity cards such as Tim Schafer, Ron Gilbert, Tex Murphy and more… Currently $75,000 of the $100,000 have been pledged and only 62 hours to go, it’s difficult – […]