Linux / SteamOS support?

[glub♥Linux]

When will there be a GNU/Linux build availble for purchase?

I feel that this game could sell well for Steam Machines.

[Radioactive Hamster]

Theoretically, I can totally do this.

Realistically, I need time to set everything up to do this when I'm not juggling a thousand other things.

So it's a probable yes, but I don't have a time scale for it as I only get a few hours a day to work on stuff at the mo, so it's finishing off this update first then seeing where I'm up to then maybe.

[Hobbes]

I now have this image of Rob juggling bombs, chainsaws, furry hyenas, chattering teeth, and other deadly objects...

[🚀 I saw the moooon boy 🌙]

Originally posted by Rob-otron 2084:

Theoretically, I can totally do this.

Realistically, I need time to set everything up to do this when I'm not juggling a thousand other things.

So it's a probable yes, but I don't have a time scale for it as I only get a few hours a day to work on stuff at the mo, so it's finishing off this update first then seeing where I'm up to then maybe.

Please, do it. This game is very cool.

[vinniegnsb]

I am confused. I thought with GameMaker: Studio you could export straight to linux without any problems. Are there additional issues I am not aware of?

[Radioactive Hamster]

Yeah, my time mainly.

I'm sure it's not that much of a technical hurdle all told, but I need time to install Linux, find my way around a bit, fix up anything that doesn't work/any incompatibilities and make sure I'm in a place where I can support it as well.

Most years? Wouldn't be an issue at all.

This year? I've been working inbetween recurring infections and illness/family stuff so the time I'm able to work on stuff is tight enough as it is. Just throwing a relatively minor update together is already taking enough time without me committing to anything else right now after getting a flu bug mid October which I'm only -just- picking back up from.

Chances are it'll happen but as I say, I need a good few weeks clear to make sure there's no problems/everything works and I dunno when I'm going to have that this side of the new year so I don't want to promise.

[Ari El Uno]

+1 for a Linux port.

[МихаилZ]

+1 for linux

[Radioactive Hamster]

Hi! I have a nearly ready port to go, I just need to fix it not exiting on escape and also sort a bug I seem to have created in the last update which I need to fix on Windows too.

It's a weekend's work at a push to get those ready, I just need a clear weekend where I don't have to be doing something else right now.

[Radioactive Hamster]

No worries. I'm sorry everything is running a lot slower than I'd like, it's been a fairly rough six months lifewise so finding the time/energy/enthusiasm to work on stuff when there's so much else going on right now is pretty difficult. I'm chipping away at things slowly and it is getting there, it's just all very, very slow.