Vertigo Games today unveiled World of Diving , an online multiplayer dive game for PC, Mac and Linux that supports (but does not require) the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. A crowdfunding campaign is underway on Indiegogo. Over the coming month, Vertigo Games will be raising a total funding amount of $75,000 for the development of World of Diving.

What is World of Diving?

Game Features

• Visit astonishing real-world diving spots, manually brought to life by our design team.
• Explore the Earth’s oceans without limitation thanks to procedurally generated environments.
• Customize your character, from body type, face and hair style to clothing and accessories.
• Team up and explore with friends or one of your NPC companions.
• Over a hundred collectable species, many of which add their unique benefit to your diving skill.
• Compete with friend and foe over ancient treasure and in exciting diving challenges.
• Discover rusty ship wrecks, World War II submarines and eerie underwater caverns.
• Take part in the community and direct the development of the gameplay and in-game items.
• Play using the Oculus Rift for the full immersive experience, or use a traditional monitor.

Free-to-play online computer game developer and publisher Wargaming is putting its money where its mouth is, as the saying goes. The company has announced it will be financially supporting three key open-source development foundations. The Linux Software Foundation, the Django Software Foundation, and the Wikimedia Foundation will all receive such support.

Primarily known for gaming titles such as World of Tanks, Wargaming utilizes a wide array of open-source technologies to power their successful gaming titles. Corporately, Wargaming strives to support those technologies that the company regularly leverages, not only to support existing development, but also to help grow and evolve those technologies for future use.

“Wargaming relies heavily on a number of different open-source technologies to help us create our legendary MMO universe, whether it’s using Linux to power our servers, Django to build our web project frameworks or Wikimedia to help us in our research efforts,” said Maksim Melnikau, Solution Architect at Wargaming. “As a company, we’d like to say thank you to all the developers, testers and users who’ve helped create these awesome tools and that we’re extremely honored to hopefully help them continue their great work moving into the future.”

Wargaming found its initial success in 2003 with its turn-based strategy computer game Massive Assault. Currently, the company is working on two upcoming PC titles, World of Warplanes and World of Warships, and mobile game World of Tanks Blitz.

The folks behind the Unity engine – Unity Technologies – have announced that the engine will support the Linux-based open source smartphone operating system, Tizen. The company will release deployment tools that will allow developers to make games for smartphones and tablets running on Tizen.

“Unity and Tizen have a lot in common in that they both aim to make the creation and the deployment of games and other apps as easy as possible for developers,” said Unity Technologies CEO David Helgason.



Unity has been making quite a push for development in the mobile scene. Recently, Helgason had announced that the engine will be free to game developers on iOS and Android. According to the company, the decision was made in an attempt to push the “democratisation of game development further than ever before.” Earlier, licensing the engine for game development on Android or iOS would cost $800 (approximately Rs 44,376), but it has now been made completely free.

This, of course, is a great move for game developers, especially because of the popularity of the game engine. A wide variety of different games have been made with the engine, ranging from DOS-styled management games like Organ Trail: Director’s Cut to turn-based RPG Knights of Pen & Paper and even full-fledged 3D games like Surgeon Simulator 2013.

“We were able to make Unity free for the web and for desktop computers a while ago, but have been dreaming of doing the same for mobile for what seems like forever,” said CEO David Helgason. “Mobile games development is possibly the most dynamic and exciting industry in the world, and it’s an honour to be able to help so many developers be so successful in fulfilling their visions and in building their businesses.”

Heavy Gear Assault, a game developed Stompy Bot Productions on the Unreal 4 engine, will arrive on Linux, if they manage to raise enough money on Kickstarter.

• E-SPORTS — Compete in tournaments and organized matches for fame and fortune. Spectate and sponsor other players. Vote on performances. Put bounties on poor sports and pay their enemies to take them out.
• DYNAMIC COMBAT — Rip apart the arena with fully destructible terrain. Blow an opponents limb off and use their weapon against them. Pull the trigger at range or melee up close. Play as your pilot and move freely in and out of Gears.
• CUSTOMIZATION — Stealth or armor? Guns or melee? The choice is yours. Customize your weapons or powerplant, sensors or CPU. Fine-tune your performance, and hire a support staff to keep your Gear in the fight.
• SOCIAL INTERACTION — Create a profile and cultivate your fan base. Stream your matches and highlights to your favorite social media site. Rate players and spectators on their sportsmanship, teamwork, cooperation and style.
• FREE-TO-CHOOSE — Choose your level of involvement to pay and play how you want. Play entirely for free or pay for premium membership that doesn’t break the balance of the game. The free-to-play model has evolved.
• UNREAL ENGINE 4 — Battle for dominance in photo-realistically beautiful arenas. Enjoy performance that scales to high- and low-spec PCs. Watch fully destructible environments and Gears rip apart, changing the shape of the fight.

Verdun Game Trailer

Pros: Enjoyable multiplayer shooting experience. Good graphics & sound.

Cons: Game’s dashboard can be a little confusing. Wait time can take

After clearing its $70,000 goal more than a week in advance, the A.N.N.E. Kickstarter has concluded at $100,272. The total is enough to unlock three of ANNE’s stretch goals, namely Mac & Linux versions, gender swap mode and achievements, and New Game+. While stretch goals for Ouya, PSN/Vita and Wii U versions were not met, creator Moise “Mo” Breton promised in a previous update that these versions will still be made, though it will take longer.

Mo, whom JoyStiq interviewed back in April, also posted an inspirational thank you video on YouTube, which retells the whole experience and, more importantly, heavily features his adorable children. “From now on, it’s all about making the game,” said Mo, thanking supporters for allowing him to develop full-time. He is planning to make monthly updates throughout development. ANNE is planned to launch in early to mid 2014.

Reptile Games’ electro beat-‘em-up platforming game, Megabyte Punch,will see a launch on Linux alongside Windows PC and Mac, according to Reptile Games’ official Twitter account.

In the game, players can customize their own fighter, compete in tournaments and collect parts in order to upgrade skills and abilities. The game features six different retro worlds, PvP destructible arena, 128 parts to collect, an electro soundtrack, and four player local co-op and versus mode.

Through its website, Reptile Games is currently offering DRM-free beta access for Windows PC and Mac platforms for $7.50, which also includes all futures updates for free. Megabyte Punch is collecting votes on Steam Greenlight. The game was featured at PAX East in March as part of the IndieGameStand.

From Linuxaria


Some time ago Mark Hadley (AgentParsec) created a game that captivated gamers around the world. Slender: The Eight Pages, available for free on Windows and Mac this was a short, experimental game that helped to breathe new life into the horror genre through its use of pure, uncensored fear.

Inspired by this game and its success Haunt (formerly known as Haunt: The Real Slender Game) is an adventure/horror game released for Linux, Mac and Windows that bring you in these terrifying setting.

Synopsis

The gameplay

Installation

mv Haunt_1_Data/ Haunt_1.1_Data
chmod +x Haunt_1.1.x86_64
./Haunt_1.1.x86_64

Every once in a while we come across a really intriguing game that sets the stage for something new. One that will present a new dynamic and different type of adventure. Such is the case of the up and coming Tangiers from Andalusian.

What is Tangiers?

The Game Features:

• Tense Stealth Game-play
• Sandbox, non linear approach to all situations.
• Abstract approach to interactions – Eavesdrop conversations – watch the words materialise, then collect them, using them as distractions when needed.
• World that constantly evolves in response to the player – unique with each play through.
• Unique setting, building upon the works of 20th century avant garde – Marcel Duchamp, William Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, Throbbing Gristle amongst others.
• Full length, dark ambient soundtrack.

What about Linux support

“A Linux build is definite - we’re using the Unity3D engine, and while they’ve only got a preview build of their Linux platform up at the moment, I’m fairly comfortable that by the time we come close to release in a years time, a full platform will be released. The popularity of Kickstarters such as Wasteland and Torment, Steam coming to Linux and the Humble Bundles gives us confidence that the vicious circle of lack of support for Linux gaming is being broken. Indeed, as support improves, we would like to envision ourselves moving to an entirely open source development base, something that I can see as a definite future possibility even with our limited technical knowledge of the platform.

The game’s been in slow development for around 6 months now - we’re at the point where all the underlying elements have come together and we can start to release regular previews of the game. The idea for the game came from my love of 20th century avant-garde, and wanting to explore many of the concepts behind it in a new medium. Equal to my love of art are the more mature game designs such as Thief - it came across as natural to bring the two together.

Given the small team, I don’t see it as a realistic possibility to bring it to consoles. We do hope that the Ouya is in a healthy state this time next year - if it is, I think that it’d be very interesting to tweak and adapt the game to suite a 10 feet away, more relaxed living room environment.”

Alex Harvey
Andalusian

Who are Andalusian?

Hotline Miami, a 2D action game developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital, will arrive on Steam for Linux.

Hotline Miami is a brutal action game that relies on hard-boiled gunplay. It’s built on 2D engine, but it features over 1,000 different sprites and benefits from a story than spans over more than 20 levels.

According to its developers, the game is set in an alternative 1989 Miami. The player will take the role of a mysterious antihero on a murderous rampage against the shady underworld.

The information about the Linux version is taken from the CDR database and by no means is it completely certain. The CDR Database is a record of data that describes every Steam game and subscription provided by Valve for the Steam service.

Usually, the new entries in the Steam database are first visible in the CDR Database before their official launch.

There are thousands of Kickstarter projects asking for your money, and it can be difficult to decide to which ones you should donate. With only 5 days left on the campaign, its time to get in on the action, if you have yet to do so.

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