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Good for you. I was about to buy it despite preferring Linux, but seeing all these comments on HN convinced me to save my money for when the developer releases
by null_ptr 13y ago
Good for you. I was about to buy it despite preferring Linux, but seeing all these comments on HN convinced me to save my money for when the developer releases a native version.
The developer's website [1] says that it uses OpenFL [2], which advertises itself as "an exciting cross-platform framework that targets Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Flash and HTML5."
So why no native Linux version then?
[1] http://dukope.com/ http://dukope.com/
[2] http://www.openfl.org/ http://www.openfl.org/
- rsynnott 13y agoHe's said he hopes to support it, but supporting multiple platforms can be a tall order for a single game developer, and not necessarily something they want to do. A quick visit to the Linux forums of almost any indie game that runs on Linux would put a lot of people off for life; there tend to be a lot of enraged users having trouble with their highly specific Gentoo configuration or whatever. (For Mac ports, it's usually mostly people who insist on using MacOS 10.6.8 for religious reasons)
- jeltz 13y agoMaybe I have been lucky but I have never seen any such threads. The such threads I have seen have if anything been more polite than the average with more details and explanations (since Linux users are on the average more technical). Care to share any example?