Dear Esther: A Source Engine Game On Linux

[RussianNeuroMancer]

Why do I get the feeling people are confusing the Source Engine with the Steam platform itself?

Because we discuss Half-Life 2 mod here.

[Ancurio]

Why do I get the feeling people are confusing the Source Engine with the Steam platform itself?

[entropy]

Dear Esther "just" tells a story. There are no puzzles to solve, there is no inventory and nothing/nobody to shoot.
You cannot jump nor run. Interaction with the environment is practically non-existing and limited to more or less
obvious trigger points which drives the story.

Having said that, *I* loved it - not only for its beautiful artwork.

Dear Esther ist different.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

That trailer told me nothing about the game... I bet its some kind of generic fps with a spooky plot :P

It's something like Trauma.

[Nevertime]

That trailer told me nothing about the game... I bet its some kind of generic fps with a spooky plot :P

[FourDMusic]

Does this game remind anyone of myst?

[RussianNeuroMancer]

Source of this information: http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...7&postcount=41

[downer]

I don't know what they mean by "wrapper." I wish Valve would just offer something like a native version of old WON for Linux, if they are so against fully supporting Steam on Linux.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Opponent_Network

[Dragonix]

To be fair to Michael, he made no mention of Steam here. And he has not even mentioned it at all for the past six months.

You don't read his tweets, do you^^?

[Prescience500]

To be fair to Michael, he made no mention of Steam here. And he has not even mentioned it at all for the past six months.

As for Postal III, well, RWS has been having a rough time of it. Both Akella and Valve have been giving them some headaches.

We are still in their thoughts, as was demonstrated by the first rate treatment they gave us with the Postal Desura releases (including updated Linux binaries and some new support work), so hopefully something can be done in the future.

But as I said, they are having a rough time of it at the moment.

"Besides Dear Esther, another Source-powered game that was on its way to Linux was Postal III, but at the moment its state is uncertain. Valve's native Steam client for Linux is also still to be released. Below is the official trailer for Dear Esther."

It was only a joke. If it were me, I'd have stopped bringing it up long ago, hoping people might forget I'd said anything about it. I actually don't know one way or another whether or not they are working on or will release it, but he keeps on going even after all of this time. I guess in a way you have to admire his courage...or ability to get people to tell him off the record information...depending on how things turn out.