I don’t normally blog about gaming on Linux but I think I should mention the Humble Indie Bundle 4!. You can pay whatever you want for the bundle!
As a avid Linux user I am always in the look out fo native games for Linux and the humble pack bundles never fail to deliver. This time around they have 7 Linux native game, 7!
- Shank – 32bit (.bin)
- Super Meat Boy – 32bit (.bin)
- NightSky – 32bit (.zip)
- Jamestown – 32bit (.tar.gz) (.rpm) (.deb)
- Bit.Trip Runner – 32bit & 64bit (.tar.gz) (.deb)
If you pay more than the average, currently sitting at $4.92 (£3.16) you get these 2 games add to the bundle.
- Gratuitous Space Battles – 32bit (.tar.gz)
- Cave Story+ – 32bit (.zip)
It would be good to see more 64bit games added to the bundle at launch but they so sometimes add them later on which is always welcomed. Also it is good to see Super Meat Boy also released on Linux after the developers had a few unfavorable words about Linux games a few years. I don’t think they understood that you don’t have to release source code for games or applications under Linux which seems to be a common perception. Here are a few select quotes from a interview they done:
There’ll also be a Linux version, because (laughing) we’re gonna waste our time with a Linux version (laughs). Linux is garbage.
I can’t wait for some Linux programmer guy to e-mail me and say “I’ll port this for free”, because I already have the e-mail already written that I’m going to send back to him, and basically tell him to fuck off, indefinitely.
The source belongs to me, alright. So open source, no way. Linux, Linux can fuck off for all I care.
Update 1.: Jamestown does support 64bit however, it seg faults when you try and run it hehe
Update 2.: None of the 64bit games work, how frustrating!