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Engaging Destiny

Follow the story of a new knight and his mentor as they go on a mission for the king. · By WolfBite Interactive LLC

Any chance for a linux build?

A topic by Eppy NWS created Oct 04, 2023 Views: 97 Replies: 4
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Greetings,
I prefer linux for most of my VN/Semi-smutty gaming and it looks like this is built in a flexible engine that can do linux builds.

Is it a matter of "We tried and it broke horribly [or had terrible performance] and there wasn't enough Linux users and they probably have another device" or "We thought about it but nobody had any Linux machines to test on".

If it's the latter, I'll be happy to try a linux-build demo, test to see if there are any issues, and then buy an itch download and show the receipt to get a linux port of the full game and test that too.

Cheers, and thanks in advance.

Developer (1 edit)

We initially wanted to do a Linux version, but there were actually a bunch of issues that popped up when we were doing the testing phase.  Due to the amount of time needed to troubleshoot and fix it  compared to the number of Linux users I've had on past projects, we decided it was better for us not to do a Linux build for this project.

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(I am guessing that last sentence is meant to be "It was better for us NOT to do a linux build for this project")
Alas, it was the former situation.  Oh well.
Thanks for the reply/explanation, and cheers.

Developer

AH, yes.  Sorry about that!  It's something we'll hopefully handle with better planning next time.

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No worries!  This game seems a lot more involved than the standard "click to read the comic" VNs and that, I feel, really shows some of the dissonance in the supported default libraries.  A whole bunch of "Just because it builds, doesn't mean it will work properly/good."

And I'd much rather have the "the testing showed it was ass so we scrapped it" than the "here's the build... what do you mean you can't see the CG's because it crashes when you click on the mcguffin!?"