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Humble RPG Maker Software Bundle (Linux)?
Since the Humble RPG Maker Software Bundle is available now. The games support a Windows mostly, with some Linux and Ubuntu support. Yet the Humble Team are calling all aspiring indie game makers 2017.
- Pick up a bundle of RPG Maker software and starter packs.
- Check out awesome games like Echoes of Aetheria, Skyborn, Last Word, and more for inspiration.
- Build your own game and enter it in the Indie Game Maker Contest!
Fumiko created in Unity3D Linux Editor launches on Steam
So #FumikoGameStudio #released the latest title in Linux #games, launching on Steam, including Mac and Windows PC. Pitting players in the roll of an artificial intelligence named Fumiko. While the character managed to escape the testing grounds, the voices tell the player where to go in the story-driven adventure. A surreal world is unfolding. So everything is unknown in the dystopian network of 2080.
Fumiko will be my first release and has been in development for 3 years. The main reason that it took me so long was that I was working part-time for 2 and a half of these years. I founded this little game studio in July 2016. Fumiko! is developed with the Unity3D Linux Editor. I’m putting a big focus of including as much open source software as possible into the development workflow. A short list of software used is Blender, GIMP, Audacity, FL Studio, Openshot, SimpleScreenRecorder, JACK, VIM, Terminator and Kanboard.
So it’s impressive to see such a game hitting Steam. Hence even more so where the Linux Unity3D editor is being used. While also taking advantage of other familiar open-source software for game development.
Check out the games Linux demo, available on IndieDB.
The games trailer:
Features:
- Your abilities are taking surreal forms over the course of the game as Fumiko is evolving
- The longest dashs and highest jumps you have ever seen
- Learn more about this virtual network of the 2080s and explore the lives of its inhabitants
- Break into threatful security systems in your search for answers
- Admire the beauty of a hand-crafted low-poly world
- Day-1 Linux and Windows support
- Supports the Xbox, Xbox360 and Steam Controller. Other gamepads are detected but might have wrong button & axis mapping. Using software to simulate an xbox controller should work.
Since this is a story-driven single-player adventure game, the player will enter a rabbit hole. Hence the network is preparing to stop you from becoming too powerful. Visit social hubs and protect the people from a threat yet unknown.
So Fumiko presents something different, a unique gameplay style. Now the story-driven adventure is available on Steam for Linux, Mac and Windows PC with a nice 25% discount until February 20th.
If you’re looking for more straight up action games, check out Neon Drive and Bleed 2.
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GameDev Software Bundle releases for Linux, Mac and PC
The GameDev Software Bundle is available now. So not only can you #create the #game you’ve been dreaming of. But everything you will need to get it together while you create. Hence this bundles comes with software to #build, design, organize, then secure your ideas. Since your game could be the next big indie hit.
Pay $1 or more for Clickteam Fusion 2.5, PyxelEdit Beta, and Spriter Pro.
Spriter makes it easy for anyone, regardless of experience, to create 2D game animations using a technique called Modular Animation.
Since traditional animation requires each you to draw each frame by hand. Spriter animations are made of individual sprite pieces. These pieces can rotate, transform, and tween along an animation timeline. This allows you to quickly create great looking animations in a fraction of the time while requiring significantly less art.
While you could pay more than the average price. So you would get the Clickteam FusionHTML5 exporter, Marmoset Hexels 2, a 1-year subscription to Todoist Premium, and PICO-8.
Since the $10 option is available for more. Including the Spriter Pro Art Packs, Spriter Pro RPG Heroes and Radius Wing SHMUP Art Packs. A SpriteIlluminator Lifetime License, Voxatron, and a 1-year subscription to 1Password Families for new users.
Check out this impressive Bundle, that has some solid Linux support, as well as Mac and Window PC.
CrossOver 15 now discounted 66%
By now, it is no secret that Linux, Mac and Windows PC are the three major dominating #operatingsystems in the market today. However, their #incompatibility often creates #issues for users for the inevitable moments when you need to use a Windows app on your Linux box, there’s CrossOver 15, now only $19.99.
Now with CrossOver 15, users can launch Windows apps, from productivity software to games, natively on your Mac or Linux PC. Users will be able to operate Windows software at native speed and integrate seamlessly with your native desktop environment, as well as backup your software and move it between machines with bottles.
CrossOver Linux 15 is the easiest way to run Microsoft Windows apps on Linux without buying a Windows license, rebooting or using a virtual machine. CrossOver Linux makes it easy to launch Windows apps natively on the desktop, and integrates Linux functionality like cross-platform copy & paste and shared file systems to your Windows applications.
CrossOver Linux runs Windows productivity software, utility programs, and games all in one application. And without the overhead of a virtual machine, programs and games can run as fast or faster than they would under a Windows operating system.
Normally priced at $59.95, purchase CrossOver 15 for only $19.99 today, nearly 66% off the retail price.
Itch.io gets blocked by Valve incompatibility on Steam Greenlight
A follow-up on our recent #story about Itch, the indie game store application trying to get votes on Steam Greenlight. Which is not going to happen.
After receiving a message from Valve. Since the Itch.io creators report that their #application is not applicable on Steam Greenlight. “This item is incompatible with Greenlight,” reads the header at the top of Itch’s Greenlight page. Itch.io shared a private message from Valve. Sent through a representative outlining that Steam is not available to handle that type of non-game software.
Here how Itch.io gets blocked in this message sent by Valve. As a result of their posting on Twitter by one of the Itch creator’s:
the @itchio app greenlight is no longer available 🙁 I guess @steam_games is not ready for platform inception pic.twitter.com/4UIJkg2cKM
— leaf corcoran (@moonscript) April 12, 2016
Before posting your game
Before you post your game to Steam Greenlight, you must agree to the following:
- Have a functioning build of the core mechanics in your game that can be demonstrated in a video
- Own the rights to sell the game you are posting, or you have specific authorization to represent the developer
- You agree to the terms and conditions of the Steam Subscriber Agreement
Additionally, you agree not post any item to Greenlight that contains the following:
- Someone else’s game, unless you have specific authorization to do so
- Porn, inappropriate or offensive content, warez or leaked content
- Cheating, hacking, game exploits
- Threats of violence or harassment, even as a joke
- Games using copyright material such as assets or intellectual property without permission from the owner
- Soliciting, begging, auctioning, selling, advertising, referrals racism, discrimination
There is a variety of software available on Steam. Hence some which does not necessarily fall into any of those categories. So the Valve reasoning could be a challenge. Mind you, expecting Valve to give the go-ahead to an application for another game store? Even though Uplay is been bundled with Ubisoft’s games on Steam.
