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Hothead Games will soon be launching a new title based on the popular online Penny Arcade comic strip. Even better, the new game will be available for several platforms at its launch, including Linux. The dearth of new, popular, commercial games for Linux has long been a sore point for Linux users. For the most part, Linux gamers have been overlooked, forgotten, or ignored. What drove Hothead to include Linux as a supported platform? Joel DeYoung, Hothead Game's COO and also a founder and producer of the upcoming "Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness," said, "At Hothead we have a philosophy that gamers should choose the platform they want to play a game on, rather than the publisher dictating that to them. So in general we're always going to try to get our titles on as many platforms as possible.
Adventure games have something in common with Linux: In their respective playing fields they are both in the extreme minority. A lot of newly released adventure games don't even get much coverage in the mainstream press where shooters, sports, and strategy games are par. A lot of people who "don't play games" may not realise that these games exist, and may even find they enjoy them since they don't require a twitchy trigger finger - just your wits and some patience.
My wife's first encounter with Linux was when we started to play Beneath a Steel Sky running under ScummVM. It was bundled with the distribution we were using at the time. Since then we've played through a plethora of new and classic adventure games.
The lack of these in stores mean we often have to go bargain hunting on Amazon.com and Ebay for them.
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Adventure games have something in common with Linux: In their respective playing fields they are both in the extreme minority. A lot of newly released adventure games don't even get much coverage in the mainstream press where shooters, sports, and strategy games are par. A lot of people who "don't play games" may not realise that these games exist, and may even find they enjoy them since they don't require a twitchy trigger finger - just your wits and some patience.
My wife's first encounter with Linux was when we started to play Beneath a Steel Sky running under ScummVM. It was bundled with the distribution we were using at the time. Since then we've played through a plethora of new and classic adventure games.
The lack of these in stores mean we often have to go bargain hunting on Amazon.com and Ebay for them.
I have a sticky thread at the Adventuregamers web site, listing some adventure games you can run under Linux in some way or another. You can find that here: http://www.adventuregamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19269