Dear Esther, a first-person adventure game that has caused quite a stir so far in the gaming community, is being ported onto the Linux platform. The game is being developed by thechineseroom, an independent game studio based in UK which is responsible for other titles, such as Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs.
Story driven, atmospheric 3D first person exploration and adventure game Dear Esther can come to Linux. Made by Indie Studio thechineseroom, Dear Esther game has received both critical acclaim and commercial success.
About Dear Esther
Dear Esther is a ghost story, told using first-person gaming technologies.
Wadget Eye Games is looking to bring some of their games to Linux. The game studio is well known for creating incredibly popular point-and-click adventure games 'Gemini Rue' and 'Resonance'.
These Linux ports will be most likely based on open-source Adventure Game Studio game engine.
YoYo Games' popular 2D game engine GameMaker will soon have an option for exporting games to Ubuntu. Similar to what Unity 4.0 game engine is doing, developers will be able to export their games to Linux platform.
GameMaker can build both native apps and HTML5 versions.
Last week, a friend of mine from Italy (who is an aficionado of indie games) introduced to me Linux Tycoon, a Linux distro building simulator game. And being a fan of Linux myself, Im obviously very interested. Yesterday, I decided to pay $4 to get this game and have spent more than an hour playing it since then.
Unigine is a cross platform, real time 3D game engine. The engine is capable of producing advanced realistic 3D effects and game physics.
Oil Rush, the first game to based on Unigine is quite popular and it runs really well on Linux.
Tribal Trouble is a real-time strategy video game for Linux.
The game pits natives of tropical islands against invading Vikings.
The game was developed by independent studio Oddlabs, and has won several awards, including four top 5 positions in indie game review site GameTunnel's 2005 awards in the categories of best multiplayer game, best graphics, best strategy game and best game overall.
Indie real time strategy and shooter game McDROID has been released for Linux.
In the game, you control the McDROID, a farming/combat modular robot and defend your shuttle against mutants while farming strawberries at the same time.
McDROID is based on Unity game engine and it supports 4 player co-op.
Legends of Aethereus is a 3D Action RPG being made using Unity3D game engine. The game features single player campaign, co-op and multiplayer game modes, customization, crafting, PVE and PVP combat etc.
Legends of Aethereus Windows beta was released last month.
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