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The infectious commitment to life.



<span class="bold">Shardlight</span>, the post-apocalyptic adventure of a young woman desperately looking to cure herself, is now available, DRM-free on GOG.com with a 10% launch discount.

Amy was five when the bombs dropped. This broken, severely oppressed, and hopelessly depressed world is all she knows. Now, twenty years after the catastrophe, people are still dying in the streets stricken by poverty and disease, while the corrupt aristocrats control the regulation of the cure in exchange for cheap labor and obedience.

Amy is sick herself but she is not about to go out with a whimper. She'd rather rattle the shaky foundations of a government that has people like her slaving away for a chance at a vaccination. All around her, among the ruins of what humanity once was, people are scavenging for scraps of a better tomorrow that seems to keep moving further and further out of reach. But not Amy. She is determined to fight for her life, even if she has to pay the ultimate price.



Point'n'click at the bowels of a terminally ill world and find a cure to your ailment in <span class="bold">Shardlight</span>, DRM-free on GOG.com. If you have the bonus fevers, go ahead and grab <span class="bold">Shardlight - Special Edition</span>, which includes the game's OST, voice-over outtakes, a concept art gallery, wallpapers, and other delicious goodies, or opt to <span class="bold">upgrade</span> later. The 10% launch discount will last until March 15, 4:59 PM GMT.
Just to make note of it here as well. Shardlight (as expected) runs perfectly via Wine on my Mac without futzing around with winetricks. I imagine it should run equally well on Linux.

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maladr0Id: ...narrative-driven adventure games...
Frankly, I can't think of any point-and-click adventures games that aren't of that kind. Some more than others, but ultimately the stories are always the most important parts of these games. Clever (and hopefully logical) puzzles don't hurt either. ;)
Really? Piss and Shart?
What is with these names?
Is it using AGS? If so, where is the Linux version?
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shmerl: Is it using AGS? If so, where is the Linux version?
Yes. It should be coming at some point.
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maladr0Id: Random Ben Chandler fanboy comment incoming: anyone who appreciated the unassuming bleakness of PISS should totally go ahead and try Shardlight.

Actually scratch that: anyone who loves narrative-driven adventure games should try Shardlight. I'm quite taken with it. Yep, I said it, I meant it, I'm here to represent it.

And I think I'm in love with Amy's voice too.
Btw, will it hurt GOG a lot to get PISS in freeware section? ;)
Dave Gilbert on Twitter: 11:57 AM - 10 Mar 2016

Dave Gilbert
‏@WadjetEyeGames

@grumpygamer I know GOG is going to make a WINE version. We don't offer it ourselves because we don't like selling things we can't support.
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HypersomniacLive: Looks and sounds right up my alley, but no can do at the moment.

Am I correct to assume that the extras are not pre-order exclusive?

Also why no FLAC for the soundtrack? Technobabylon, which is the only other Wadjet Eye game with a Special/Deluxe edition release here, does come with both FLAC and MP3.
Maybe the composer reserved the right to have the FLAC edition so they can sell on bandcamp

https://bubblepipemedia.bandcamp.com/

Hmm I was confused by this thread as I could see the special edition was more expensive, just realised I had completely missed the fact this game is now released. Guess life took over.
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gixgox: Dave Gilbert on Twitter: 11:57 AM - 10 Mar 2016

Dave Gilbert
‏@WadjetEyeGames

@grumpygamer I know GOG is going to make a WINE version. We don't offer it ourselves because we don't like selling things we can't support.
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gixgox:
Alright. Actually simply building AGS from source and running the game with it will also work. GOG should do that instead of using Wine.
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shmerl: simply building AGS from source and running the game with it will also work.
I'm secretly hoping that one day I'll buy an android tablet, get AGS on that shit, and just have to copy the binaries from the GOG versions there and can have a good ol' time with the 320x200 games :-)
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shmerl: simply building AGS from source and running the game with it will also work.
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AlienMind: I'm secretly hoping that one day I'll buy an android tablet, get AGS on that shit, and just have to copy the binaries from the GOG versions there and can have a good ol' time with the 320x200 games :-)
Not sure how AGS supports Android, and regular Linux running on tablets (Sailfish / Plasma Mobile) now uses Wayland, and that would have issues too, since AGS is using Allegro which doesn't have Wayland support. They had some plans to switch AGS to SDL, but it's probably far away.
Post edited March 10, 2016 by shmerl
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shmerl: Alright. Actually simply building AGS from source and running the game with it will also work. GOG should do that instead of using Wine.
Don't they usually? Wine version would be for OS X.
Post edited March 11, 2016 by Gydion
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shmerl: Alright. Actually simply building AGS from source and running the game with it will also work. GOG should do that instead of using Wine.
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Gydion: Don't they usually? Wine version would be for OS X.
Usually developers do it. In this case they don't want to build it for Linux.
All right, the little girls freaked me the hell out, no spoilers intended. :)

I love it up until now!
I am not gonna spoiler either but I wholeheartedly recommend this game to anyone on the fence about it.
Of course it's not Resonance, but seriously, what is?
Speaking of Ben Chandler's PISS, can anyone tell me what the most recent version is and where to get it, provided it's distributed as freeware?

I got the game with The AGS Summerbatch Bundle in 2012, and I'm ashamed to admit I haven't gotten around to playing it yet, despite being a fan of his work. Now I'm unsure whether that version was final or whether he released an updated version somewhere on the internet later ...