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Penny Arcade: Linux Screenshots

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Hothead Games together with Penny Arcade released a very interesting game called “Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness”. It can be purchased at $20 in Greenhouse Internet store, which is a counterpart of more known Steam Games. Nothing peculiar, you say? And you’d be right if not for one small detail: the game is available also for GNU/Linux. PolishLinux has a short review with screenshots.

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jacog ·
Firstly for supporting Linux, and secondsly, for actually releasing an adventure game (well, hybrid). It takes moxy to release a game in an out-of-fashion genre on a platform that's not exactly in fashion.

Big game developers usually don't see any value in Linux versions of their product because of the small market share, but Penny Arcade will likely sell fewer copies of their game than most of the big publishers, but still somehow saw value in packaging across platforms. Yay them!

Now we just need slightly more family friendly material. ;)

I was playing with some game APIs just recently in an attempt to brush up on my C++, and took my little test project back and forth from work (WinXP) to home (Linux). It compiles and runs perfectly fine on both sides. And I am a complete novice. It's not nano-physics to write portable apps, guys, c'mon.

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