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Dark Horizons: Lore Available for Linux

Posted by Zonk on from the penguins-and-shotguns dept.

Thanks to Garage Games for their submission of "Dark Horizons: Lore is available for all Linux distributions. Dark Horizons is a breakneck-speed first-person shooter based in a universe where the unfolding history of a war-torn Earth is revealed before the player's eyes."

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  1. Welcome to Lore by FozzieCDN · · Score: 5, Informative

    As one of the developers of this product I just want to say that it's good to finally have a Linux release candidate available. It is something that we promised long ago and I am certain that many of you will appreciate it what this game offers and the many great things that are to come in the future.

    I certainly hope that you enjoy the "Early Adopters" release of Dark Horizons - Lore, please let us know if you have any questions, comments or suggestions (as Indie developers we are actually allowed to listen to, communicate with and fine tune the game based on what you guys tell us).

    I (and probably others) will be lurking here to answer any questions you guys have, I hope that no one is offended by that.

    1. Re:Welcome to Lore by FozzieCDN · · Score: 4, Informative

      You can download a unlimited time demo (some features are limited though) for Dark Horizons Lore for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows. Download demo from GarageGames.com.

      In regards to Heavy Gear 2, it's been a while since I played it. From my recolection there are definately similarities between the two in the sense that they are very much FPS games more than Simulators. I feel that Lore plays a bit faster than Heavy Gear though.

  2. Re:Interesting game by FozzieCDN · · Score: 5, Informative

    I will try to give an objective (though probably slightly biased) feedback to your questions...

    GamePlay - The game is a FPS-Mecha hybrid game. So essentially it's the fast paced action and easy controls of a FPS game with some of the more mechanical feel of a simulator. We intentionally did this so that the game would be more about action and team combat than wandering about aimlessly in some lumbering mech on your own.

    Community - As an independantly developed game, Lore doesn't have the massive multi-million dollar marketing campaign. Instead we have word of mouth and whatever kind support that the online news sites for Linux, Apple and Windows gaming provides us. The community itself is small but always growing as time goes on. Everyone is very helpful (to one another and us devs) and loves competition. Overall based on my past experiances in other communities it really is one of the best experiances I have seen.

    Ranking - Ranging is done bunch of different ways in that any Core Server (a machine we authorize to report to our battle system) will report the results of each mission to our DB. From there you can sort via kills, deaths, kill to death ratio, points, etc.. As you gain more experiance with the system you are allowed to increase your influence (one example would be being allowed to have a larger squad that you are in command of).

    Moding - Yes you can mod to your heart's content.

    Similarities to BT 3025 - Yes we have heard this comment from a lot of people who have played Lore. This game was very inspirational to us and did influence us a lot with our online Comcent system that one uses to keep track of how the online faction war is going.

    Other - As mentioned this is an "Early Adopters" version of the game, as such there is still room for it to grow and expand (much of that is based on the feedback we get from our community). We have a lot of cool features that are always being added to help keep the game fresh and entertaining.

    If you have any other questions, just feel free to ask.