Comments on: Intermittant downtime over the last two days/2009/09/26/intermittant-downtime-over-the-last-two-days/ Commercial gaming for Linux Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:18:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Max/2009/09/26/intermittant-downtime-over-the-last-two-days/comment-page-1/#comment-763 Max Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:01:56 +0000 /?p=349#comment-763 So it's me again. This ain't quite connected to the blog entry, but this is also almost the only place to write such things. Did you ever consider porting Majesty 2? I've just seen a few videos of it and it looks like something I'd definitely enjoy to play. I don't know whether it was made by the same developer as Majesty or if someone just bought the rights... but if it was the same developer, you should already have some connections there, eh? I'm also still waiting for X: Beyond the Frontier and Startopia. :P Since you already said that both won't be ported by LGP (understandable for X obviously, Startopia is something that doesn't quite age though :P[but you did not say anything about the reasons either, so it might have been MF not being reachable or MF not being willing to agree on a port or some other rightholder not agreeing or you being xenophobic with those poor poor aliens]), I contacted Mucky Foot a while back, concerning their position to a release of the Startopia source code, I did not receive an answer though. It was about 8 weeks ago. Either they don't read their mail anymore, not too often or they did not bother to respond... (its also very unlikely that they release their source code because someone asks, generally source releases are initiated by employees of the concerned company) If the Startopia source would be released, I'd gladly sacrifice my free-time to port it. I'm almost feeling like a little child on Christmas eve, waiting for the announcement of that yet unannounced LGP title...I'm pretty confident that I'm gonna like it though. You seem to have a good hand in picking interesting titles. So it’s me again. This ain’t quite connected to the blog entry, but this is also almost the only place to write such things.

Did you ever consider porting Majesty 2? I’ve just seen a few videos of it and it looks like something I’d definitely enjoy to play. I don’t know whether it was made by the same developer as Majesty or if someone just bought the rights… but if it was the same developer, you should already have some connections there, eh?

I’m also still waiting for X: Beyond the Frontier and Startopia. :P Since you already said that both won’t be ported by LGP (understandable for X obviously, Startopia is something that doesn’t quite age though :P[but you did not say anything about the reasons either, so it might have been MF not being reachable or MF not being willing to agree on a port or some other rightholder not agreeing or you being xenophobic with those poor poor aliens]), I contacted Mucky Foot a while back, concerning their position to a release of the Startopia source code, I did not receive an answer though. It was about 8 weeks ago. Either they don’t read their mail anymore, not too often or they did not bother to respond…
(its also very unlikely that they release their source code because someone asks, generally source releases are initiated by employees of the concerned company)
If the Startopia source would be released, I’d gladly sacrifice my free-time to port it.

I’m almost feeling like a little child on Christmas eve, waiting for the announcement of that yet unannounced LGP title…I’m pretty confident that I’m gonna like it though. You seem to have a good hand in picking interesting titles.

]]> By: Max/2009/09/26/intermittant-downtime-over-the-last-two-days/comment-page-1/#comment-762 Max Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:24:14 +0000 /?p=349#comment-762 Good thing the games still worked, although I still dislike the DRM. :( I was already wondering why the LGP site was down. Btw. I just finished Shadowgrounds and it was pretty nice. Old style boss-fights, nice story, nice map design. And now that I've finished it I'm kind of curious about the story of Shadowgrounds: Survivor. The "Survivor" might be connected to the aliens, hm, who knows, soon I'll see. It also did not crash anymore, so it just crashed once while playing it through, in three days. It does not seem to close down properly though. I started it through the terminal and ended it through the game menu and the process is still there. When I first saw SG I though it was all just about shooting hordes of aliens and never though that it would have such a nice and planned through story. (although all the technical stuff that failed got kind of tiring after a while...) The relatively good voiceover also is a huge plus. Good thing the games still worked, although I still dislike the DRM. :(
I was already wondering why the LGP site was down.

Btw. I just finished Shadowgrounds and it was pretty nice.
Old style boss-fights, nice story, nice map design.
And now that I’ve finished it I’m kind of curious about the story of Shadowgrounds: Survivor. The “Survivor” might be connected to the aliens, hm, who knows, soon I’ll see.
It also did not crash anymore, so it just crashed once while playing it through, in three days.
It does not seem to close down properly though. I started it through the terminal and ended it through the game menu and the process is still there.
When I first saw SG I though it was all just about shooting hordes of aliens and never though that it would have such a nice and planned through story.
(although all the technical stuff that failed got kind of tiring after a while…)
The relatively good voiceover also is a huge plus.

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