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A brief sum-up for those who didn’t see the conference live.

The conference is over and it was a great success: TheEnigmaticT has announced three indie day-one releases, an exclusive sneak preview, the return of the most famous archaeologist in gaming, and he slow jammed a Love Letter to Developers. Because of the amount of greatness from yesterday there will be no new releases today. If you didn’t see the show, watch the video embedded below or go to our YouTube channel. We’ve also prepared a short written summary for you.

Let us know what you think about the releases, conference, Love Letter, and GOG.com in general in the comments!

Tomb Raider is the most popular action-adventure franchise in PC history thanks to Lara Croft--Indiana Jones-style archaeologist adventurer and a pop-cultural phenomena with a sexy physique and deadly arsenal. The three first games of the series are available in a bundle--for the first time remastered for Windows!--for only $9.99.

Sid Meier's Colonization is a turn-based strategy in which player becomes the conquistador of the New World. Based on the strategy classic Civilization, it builds on and improves the original ideas to deliver a strategy gem that can be replayed forever. Colonization is available on GOG.com for only $5.99.

Retro City Rampage is a parody of everything classic and holy in video games. It's a shooter, arcade racer, platformer, adventure, and a lot more--open-world packed in an authentic 8-bit experience. With 50+ story missions, 30+ arcade challenges, 25+ weapons & power-ups, and an amazing retro soundtrack featuring virt, Freaky DNA and Norrin Radd, Retro City Rampage is truly a "blast from the past", and a guaranteed retro hit.

Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers is a weird and humorous platformer, which features small tech-nerd Tiny, equipped with a with a laser cutter, a gripping-device, rockets, and the determination to find the only heritage grandpa left him: his underpants. Tiny and Big features great characters, a truly bizarre setting and story, a completely destructible, immersive environment, and unique sandbox gameplay based on slicing, grappling, pulling, pushing, and jumping. Tiny and Big is available for pre-order now with a 10% discount for only $8.99 until its release on June 19, 2012.

Resonance is an adventure game from Wadjet Eye Games, publishers of Gemini Rue and the Blackwell series. It's a an atmospheric sci-fi thriller with wonderful retro pixel-art graphics, great storyline, original soundtrack, and a few unique twists to the adventure genre. The game is available for pre-orders right now on GOG.com at 10% off for just $8.99, and anyone who picks it up before the game launches on the 19th of June will be able to experience the Playable Preview of the game, with 4 different playable characters to keep you occupied for the first 4 hours of this promising adventure game's story. This is not just for the people who bought it from GOG.com--gamers who pre-ordered the Resonance physical boxed edition from Wadjet Eye Games for $25 will get GOG.com codes and access to the Playable Preview as well.
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gameon: Lol, If you do a song every press conference, maybe you could release an album for GOG as a christmas extra.
I wouldn't generally call the noises I make "singing". ;)
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gameon: Lol, If you do a song every press conference, maybe you could release an album for GOG as a christmas extra.
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TheEnigmaticT: I wouldn't generally call the noises I make "singing". ;)
This is not the time for modesty. You've beaten Bill Shatner by a mile. ;)
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MichaelPalin: Just a thing, I think you'll gain a lot of attention if you start offering games on Mac and Linux. In fact, with Linux you'll be the first games store doing so, I think. Although I'm afraid the benefit to effort ratio could be very low. Have you give it a though though?

And since I'm asking, you really should secure Frictional Games and Ice-Pick Lodge. At least FG since they are among the most popular indie developers right now and they have planned two releases during the following months.
Already tried to convince them to support Linux. Desura has a fully functioning Linux client and with Steam entering the Linux scene as well now, GOG will likely get left behind, despite the almost 3,500 votes this request has gathered. If you include the request for Mac support, we have over 4,200 votes in total. I hope GOG get to it soon!
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Future_Suture: Already tried to convince them to support Linux. Desura has a fully functioning Linux client and with Steam entering the Linux scene as well now, GOG will likely get left behind, despite the almost 3,500 votes this request has gathered. If you include the request for Mac support, we have over 4,200 votes in total. I hope GOG get to it soon!
If Steam gets into GNU/Linux before gog, I'm going to cry, :'(
I would like Omikron:The Nomad Soul!
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaassssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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Ogamihito: I would like Omikron:The Nomad Soul!
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaassssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
You can never have to much Bowie, i second this!
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Ogamihito: I would like Omikron:The Nomad Soul!
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaassssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Damn right! Omikron: The Nomad Soul was awesome!
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TheEnigmaticT: I wouldn't generally call the noises I make "singing". ;)
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Psyringe: This is not the time for modesty. You've beaten Bill Shatner by a mile. ;)
Now there is a claim to be proud of ... :p
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Future_Suture: Already tried to convince them to support Linux. Desura has a fully functioning Linux client and with Steam entering the Linux scene as well now, GOG will likely get left behind, despite the almost 3,500 votes this request has gathered. If you include the request for Mac support, we have over 4,200 votes in total. I hope GOG get to it soon!
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MichaelPalin: If Steam gets into GNU/Linux before gog, I'm going to cry, :'(
Me too. The current situation is absolutely ridiculous.
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MichaelPalin: If Steam gets into GNU/Linux before gog, I'm going to cry, :'(
Steam is known to be working on it, and GOG already confirmed it would be too much work for them.

Steam has to only make sure their client + software + updates and other Steam things are working with Linux.

GOG would have to test all their games on many different computer + Linux OS combinations. And by tests, I mean play through whole games.

The only thing I can imagine they could do is to make a difference for new games with Linux versions supplied by the devs. Other than that, it won't happen.
Post edited June 04, 2012 by SLP2000
GOG doesn't have to perform a thorough testing. It's enough if they just give an option to buy Linux versions of the games which are released like that by developers. Most of them already "just work". And Linux users are less scared to ask questions and configure their system if something doesn't work out of the box. GOG can also work out a way with developers to package games in distro agnostic fashion. Just look how nicely Qt SDK is packaged, and it installs very smoothly on all Linux distributions.

I don't think there is any point in packaging Windows games in some Wine wrappers and shipping those as Linux packages. It's a waste of effort for GOG. Those who use Wine on Linux can perfectly take a Windows version already (i.e. if the game is working good with Wine). As an option GOG can link to WineHQ applications DB to the entry with the corresponding game's experiences under Wine.

Native Linux versions of the games (those which have them) however is a different story, and GOG can pay more attention to them. Leaving Linux behind would be a bad choice for GOG. Linux gaming is on the rise now, and with all the new restrictions from Microsoft, hopefully more developers would prefer creating OpenGL based games. You can see that request for Linux games on GOG already gained quite a lot of votes. Don't hesitate to add yours if yo care :)
Post edited June 04, 2012 by shmerl
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MichaelPalin: If Steam gets into GNU/Linux before gog, I'm going to cry, :'(
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Skunk: Me too. The current situation is absolutely ridiculous.
Then again, GOG could just argue Valve Time and be done with it. They would have a bit of a point as it seems.
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shmerl: GOG doesn't have to perform a thorough testing. It's enough if they just give an option to buy Linux versions of the games which are released like that by developers. Most of them already "just work". And Linux users are less scared to ask questions and configure their system if something doesn't work out of the box. GOG can also work out a way with developers to package games in distro agnostic fashion. Just look how nicely Qt SDK is packaged, and it installs very smoothly on all Linux distributions.

I don't think there is any point in packaging Windows games in some Wine wrappers and shipping those as Linux packages. It's a waste of effort for GOG. Those who use Wine on Linux can perfectly take a Windows version already (i.e. if the game is working good with Wine). As an option GOG can link to WineHQ applications DB to the entry with the corresponding game's experiences under Wine.

Native Linux versions of the games (those which have them) however is a different story, and GOG can pay more attention to them. Leaving Linux behind would be a bad choice for GOG. Linux gaming is on the rise now, and with all the new restrictions from Microsoft, hopefully more developers would prefer creating OpenGL based games. You can see that request for Linux games on GOG already gained quite a lot of votes. Don't hesitate to add yours if yo care :)
Any Dosbox games should be useable in Linux with little fuss
http://www.gog.com/en/mix/games_using_dosbox
Post edited June 06, 2012 by CVert
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CVert: Any Dosbox games should be useable in Linux with little fuss
[url=]http://www.gog.com/en/mix/games_using_dosbox[/url]
Yes, as well as ScummV ones. So it would be good if GOG could offer just a zip package with the game, without all the Windows wrapper around it (like Abandonia does for example). Windows installer can be always provided as an additional small file (thus avoiding double packaging and disk space wasting), so users can either download both (if they aren't willing to set up Dosbox and Scummv themselves), or just the game alone. GOG already splits many games in parts for downloads, so this can be easily doable.
Post edited June 05, 2012 by shmerl
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CVert: Any Dosbox games should be useable in Linux with little fuss
[url=]http://www.gog.com/en/mix/games_using_dosbox[/url]
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shmerl: Yes, as well as ScummV ones. So it would be good if GOG could offer just a zip package with the game, without all the Windows wrapper around it (like Abandoina does for example). Windows installer can be always provided as an additional small file (thus avoiding double packaging and disk space wasting), so users can either download both (if they aren't willing to set up Dosbox and Scummv themselves), or just the game alone. GOG already splits many games in parts for downloads, so this can be easily doable.
The Linux community seems to have so many good ideas regarding the matter with more likely to come. It's all down to GOG now. Are they are willing to listen to a very helpful crowd or let Valve get ahead of them, even with Valve Time accounted for?