You can always find the current build for all OSes here:
http://www.allheroesdie.com/upgrade
For now, you will need to enter your registration key each time you download it. Very soon now we'll have the keys integrated to your Macguffin Games account, at which point you'll be able to access the page as long as you're logged into the system.
Thanks!
Scott
When are you going to add the option for the Linux users to buy AHD ?
I see the Linux build is very low on your priority list, yet you have seen how much we contributed to the Humble Indie Bundle "project" , and you know that we are worth supporting.
I can't wait to test your future builds natively (once I'll have the option to buy the game that is...)
Thanks
MaximB.
Romtos
Member
I can imagine that a linux build wouldn't be high on the priority list. Despite a steady rise in popularity and accessibility, linux is still rather obscure in daily practice. Also, the total revenue of the linux users to the humble indie bundle constituted around 25%, similar to the mac users (despite a higher per capita contribution). Windows users still form the major market.
I'm not very familiar with linux, but I do understand that you can actually play it? Or do you need a native build for that?
If you looked at the Humble Indie Bundle results, you will see that Windows contributions are only about 55% despite the higher market share, Then come Linux with about 25% despite the incorrectly assumed 1% desktop market share, and then MacOS.
There are ways to play Windows games on Linux but those ways are not perfect and won't gonna cut it thus Linux users will need a native Linux build.
So if the developer wants our support he will have to create a native build for Linux.
My advice is to start the development with cross platform in mind, but I see you already in the right way with the MacOS version.
Most games that already have a MacOS support are much easier to "convert" to Linux as they are in a similar family (Linux,BSD,MacOS).
I completely agree with you, Maxim, that we need to get Linux out there. The position of the port is only so low on the list because that list is organize in terms of "how important is this to gameplay". In terms of our business decisions and community goals, it's a hell of a lot higher.
The main reason this hasn't happened yet is because of a couple conditions that are slowing us down. The first is that Whitney isn't on the project full time any more - the second is that I'm the only one with a working Linux partition (Ubuntu). I've been totally slammed, and in order to do that port I really need to just take a day or two and beat on it.
The game has been built with cross-platform in mind; the language we're using, BlitzMax compiles natively on all three OSes. The only issue is me sitting down and making it happen. We are using some middleware that I know will need some specific conditional-to-linux- tweaks, and right now it's still a question mark how difficult they will be.
So yeah, the upshot is, I'm the only one who is currently set up to do this, and I'm totally slammed. Since that's a terrible excuse, I will simply say thank you for the reminder, and see if I can't carve out some damn time to do this. :D
Romtos
Member
If you looked at the Humble Indie Bundle results, you will see that Windows contributions are only about 55% despite the higher market share, Then come Linux with about 25% despite the incorrectly assumed 1% desktop market share, and then MacOS.If I looked? You just repeated what I said. Of course I looked. :P That's why I gave you those numbers. It's a (poor) indicator what you can expect. As I said Linux ~ Mac in that regard.
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