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Posted May 31, 2012
A brief sum-up for those who didn’t see the conference live.

The conference is over and it was a great success: TheEnigmaticT has announced three indie day-one releases, an exclusive sneak preview, the return of the most famous archaeologist in gaming, and he slow jammed a Love Letter to Developers. Because of the amount of greatness from yesterday there will be no new releases today. If you didn’t see the show, watch the video embedded below or go to our YouTube channel. We’ve also prepared a short written summary for you.

Let us know what you think about the releases, conference, Love Letter, and GOG.com in general in the comments!

Tomb Raider is the most popular action-adventure franchise in PC history thanks to Lara Croft--Indiana Jones-style archaeologist adventurer and a pop-cultural phenomena with a sexy physique and deadly arsenal. The three first games of the series are available in a bundle--for the first time remastered for Windows!--for only $9.99.

Sid Meier's Colonization is a turn-based strategy in which player becomes the conquistador of the New World. Based on the strategy classic Civilization, it builds on and improves the original ideas to deliver a strategy gem that can be replayed forever. Colonization is available on GOG.com for only $5.99.

Retro City Rampage is a parody of everything classic and holy in video games. It's a shooter, arcade racer, platformer, adventure, and a lot more--open-world packed in an authentic 8-bit experience. With 50+ story missions, 30+ arcade challenges, 25+ weapons & power-ups, and an amazing retro soundtrack featuring virt, Freaky DNA and Norrin Radd, Retro City Rampage is truly a "blast from the past", and a guaranteed retro hit.

Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers is a weird and humorous platformer, which features small tech-nerd Tiny, equipped with a with a laser cutter, a gripping-device, rockets, and the determination to find the only heritage grandpa left him: his underpants. Tiny and Big features great characters, a truly bizarre setting and story, a completely destructible, immersive environment, and unique sandbox gameplay based on slicing, grappling, pulling, pushing, and jumping. Tiny and Big is available for pre-order now with a 10% discount for only $8.99 until its release on June 19, 2012.

Resonance is an adventure game from Wadjet Eye Games, publishers of Gemini Rue and the Blackwell series. It's a an atmospheric sci-fi thriller with wonderful retro pixel-art graphics, great storyline, original soundtrack, and a few unique twists to the adventure genre. The game is available for pre-orders right now on GOG.com at 10% off for just $8.99, and anyone who picks it up before the game launches on the 19th of June will be able to experience the Playable Preview of the game, with 4 different playable characters to keep you occupied for the first 4 hours of this promising adventure game's story. This is not just for the people who bought it from GOG.com--gamers who pre-ordered the Resonance physical boxed edition from Wadjet Eye Games for $25 will get GOG.com codes and access to the Playable Preview as well.
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Posted June 07, 2012
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shmerl: Yes, as well as ScummV ones. So it would be good if GOG could offer just a zip package with the game, without all the Windows wrapper around it (like Abandoina does for example). Windows installer can be always provided as an additional small file (thus avoiding double packaging and disk space wasting), so users can either download both (if they aren't willing to set up Dosbox and Scummv themselves), or just the game alone. GOG already splits many games in parts for downloads, so this can be easily doable.
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Future_Suture: The Linux community seems to have so many good ideas regarding the matter with more likely to come. It's all down to GOG now. Are they are willing to listen to a very helpful crowd or let Valve get ahead of them, even with Valve Time accounted for?
The Linux community is very much into writing it's own tools. Would GOG allow someone to write their own unwrapping tool and release it?
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Posted June 07, 2012
Unwrapping tool would be needed only if GOG can't design the packaging to be more flexible. I don't think it's that hard to split Dosbox/Scummv based packages into the core, and Windows specific parts.
Post edited June 07, 2012 by shmerl
Posted June 07, 2012
I would love to play Heroes of Might and Magic 3, Neverwinter Nights, and Unreal Tournament 2004 on my Linux distro of choice. Nevertheless, what about all the newer games, especially indie titles, that have Linux support? Those are being supported by the developer and unless I am missing something, GOG will have to put little to no effort to do whatever they have to do to offer the games to us. I would rather not just get the Windows version off GOG when other sources can get me the Windows version as well as the Linux version for no additional charge.
Posted June 07, 2012
Let's hope GOG will get to shipping native Linux games soon. It must require some effort I guess, since it's a new feature for the site and service. Efforts require expenses, so GOG might have avoided that as insignificant because of the relatively small Linux market. But IMO it's growing now, and with Steam entering the scene, GOG shouldn't linger behind as well.
Post edited June 07, 2012 by shmerl
Posted June 07, 2012
I hope gog brings Imperialism II here for users. Great game that holds hours and hours of fun.
Posted June 10, 2012
The sad thing about GOG is that many of the games they sell just run on top of an unmodified, open source dosbox.

The only thing preventing you from running them on Linux or Mac OSX is that they only distribute them inside a proprietary binary installer that only runs on windows. When I bought a game from gog I had to run the installer inside wine just to get to the ISO files inside. It would take them a day to put up a Linux/MacOSX version that is just a tarball/zipfile plus an instructions page on how to run it. Yet, they don't do it.
Source.
Post edited June 10, 2012 by Future_Suture
Posted June 10, 2012
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Faithful: I hope gog brings Imperialism II here for users. Great game that holds hours and hours of fun.
I would rather have the original Imperialism,since Imperailism has more issues with modern computers then Imperialism II, and needs the GOG treatment more.
Besides, there are already a number of games set in the Renaissaince era, but few in the VIctorian era like the first Imperlialism.
Posted June 12, 2012
YESSSSS PLEASE Nomad Soul BEST GAME and X-Wing and Tie Fighter whilst you are at it.... Also I think you should release the ID pack and Dark Forces series on Steam currently but do it properly... I hated with Steam when I bought the pack and then had find all the fixes to get them working... I know you guys could do better. I would even re buy it you did all your usual extras.
Posted June 12, 2012
Oh while I think about it Leisure Suit Larry collection would be nice...and complete the Sierra adventure game set nicely... Of course the Lucas Arts adventures would be fab to see here... Discworld games would be good...erm also Syndicate War and some Arcade, Amiga and Megadrive, Saturn, Dreamcast, ...

Also one thing I would absolutely love to see would be a 3D virtual arcade/den where we could design in a First Person 3D The Sims style crib and then buy arcade and classic games (Amiga, MegaDrive Spectrum etc (with actual machines)) oh and Pinball and Bagatelle. Personally I would happily pay for it as an alternative to your web page. You could even have it where you could not just buy the Arcade game but go to the Arcades and buy tokens to play them of course only if you buy it can you move the arcade cabinet to the crib you have designed. Actually this is the one thing I feel missing from digital sales is that feeling of ownership... it would be so cool to walk into a virtual room and see an old PC and on the shelves all the boxes of the games I have bought from GOG... Open them up and then flick through the instructions... Plus if you did it right..you could incorporate video adverts, clothing for avatar dotted around for extra revenue and even let people meet up and chat... The world wouldn't (and shouldn't) have to be huge or anything just a small paradise desert island and have the GOG store, Arcade Zone (think Sega World) a bar area (and venue room) and about three locations for the crib... the cribs could be multi dimensional in that thousands of cribs would occupy the same spot so no need to worry about space or different designs. and people can enter the house if a friend and know the dimension code number address . Of course leader boards and achievements would be essential dfor this all to work.

Finally add in some simple games like basketball hoop, pool table (could be paid for extras) and have strewn secrets dotted around to encourage exploration..Also have the collect-a-mania of Animal crossing and sense of community with it reading the actual date and you would have something REALLY special. I know there is 3D Arcade out there and Xbox Live did that overprice Arcade (but the games were too old to justify the price).

The above would be a great way to offer something different and unique..Encouraging us to buy only from you (and avoid piracy) because only buying through you can the game be linked into our 3D room...After all we all dream of having the ultimate den set in paradise full of arcade machines and the like...and for me like many this will be as close as I will ever get to that (sigh)
Posted June 05, 2013
Is there going to be one of these this year?
Posted June 05, 2013
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SpaceManThe: Is there going to be one of these this year?
No idea. There should be something during E3 but not sure if it will be a conference or a "We are excited to be here".
Posted June 05, 2013
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SpaceManThe: Is there going to be one of these this year?
Bah to your bump! I thought something was actually happening.
Posted June 06, 2013
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SpaceManThe: Is there going to be one of these this year?
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tfishell: Bah to your bump! I thought something was actually happening.
Didn't think, I was searching to see if they did anything for previous summer sales and came across this.
Posted June 06, 2013
OH fuck you... I see the title, I think "WHAT?! THERE WAS A CONFERENCE?!" and then see a necro.

JOB WELL DONE, NECROMANCER.
Posted June 06, 2013
Same here, for a moment I thought I missed some conference...
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