Hacker News Reader

Comment by ZenSwordArts | Hacker News Reader

That game looks really great. I've played so many roguelikes and was instantly interested. Reading a good post mortem was another plus to check it out.

Then I remembered the general problem with commercial games.. went straight to the FAQ and searched for "linux".. bummer.. I guess somehow I expected a roguelike to work on Linux :)

I will observe the game and hopefully someday a Linux version will emerge. Good luck to your quest as indie dev!

View on HN

Yeah, it's an unfortunate limitation of the custom engine :'(

But the alpha does have a rather large number of Linux players since it works great under Wine.

And thanks!

Installing (and using) Wine on OSX is a major pain in the rear. A bundled installer would help with that.

I'd love to read more about the custom engine :)

Yeah, I want to eventually have a wrapper to simplify installation for those players. For now there are step-by-step guides on the forums that keep the process pretty simple with regard to Cogmind.

I may one day write more about the engine. I've written small bits here and there in the past, though nothing comprehensive. Getting busier and busier after release, so less time to write and publish articles :(

By the time you are ready to release, you could probably compile to WebAssembly and ship with a bundled webkit/chrome app wrapper (like how Slack's native clients build on a bare bones browser that is bundled with it).

It's crazy how much JS is out-competing Java in some areas.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com