Hello, I made a few months ago a steam community discussion about Spiral knights on Linux trough Steam Client, we are now about 60 people and more people every day. Please, we know that Spiral Knight is written in Java, and works on Linux trough the official site, but on steam is Steam wallet and achievements and so on. Please add Spiral Knights Linux on the Steam client.
P.S.
Link to the Steam discussion: http://steamcommunity.com/app/99900/discussions/0/864971660983502729/
Well, not 60 people, but possibly many more who wishes for a Linux client on Steam. Just that most don't head to the Steam Community forum.
And yeah - not having the Linux client on Steam is quite of a bummer.
I personally stopped playing SK because switching between a native Linux Steam client and the Windows client on wine just to casually pop onto the game a bit is just too much of a nuisance.
In the name of the Linux cummunity, I ask this: Please, please, pleeeaaaase bring a Linux version onto Steam! Thank You!
EDIT:
>An add-on for Spiral Knights on Steam is the Steam overlay, maybe that's the problem?
Knowing how the overlay is implemented, very, very unlikely to pose any kind of trouble whatsoever.
java works on linux, so it's just steam that must say to its server "its the same game, trust me". it's (most probably) not OOO fault.
>java works on linux, so it's just steam that must say to its server "its the same game, trust me". it's (most probably) not OOO fault.
Things aren't exactly as simple as that.
It's OOO who have to "package" a platform specific version for steam (even if the contents are identical between platforms), define package settingings and whatnot and then enable it on steam, among other things. And it's in the end their call whether enable in for Linux or not, not Steam's.
TL;DR
OOO's responsibility, not Steam's/Valve's.
wasn't there an exact same topic last week?
and OT... steam is releasing their own OS based on linux... so it will probably get done in the near future...
I really hate having to use windows to play this game, I can run spiral knights through steam in wine on linux and it runs BEAUTIFULLY, max graphics and im still getting high fps and no lag, the problem comes in that the time between keystrokes and actions in the game is highly delayed because of the way wine works. A linux client on steam wouldn't be that hard to make and it would improve gameplay experience for a lot of people. I play a lot of games on linux as opposed to windows because of its incredibly high level of performance and sincerely hope that my favorite game, SK, will eventually come to linux.
fact is, if SK works on linux, so the "package" is already done. since it's not so much to ask steam for putting it up, I presume they have already done it. have you tried contacting steam support? I suppose it is so. what did they say?
>fact is, if SK works on linux, so the "package" is already done.
no, it isn't.
First of all working on Linux != being done. Secondly, I looked at steamdb.info and it doesn't look all too good for the Linux version. Although, it does show signs of there possibly being at least some tinkering for a Linux version.
Gotta wait more and see. Though it long overdue, I'd say.
When I had my own desktop machine all to myself, I used the official linux client for SK and it worked flawlessly as far as I could tell. That was months and months ago, so I'm rather curious as to what the holdup is for the version for Steam under linux, esp. given that according to the Steam website it seems to be available for the Mac OS version of Steam as well.
I'm particularly interested due to the upcoming Steam OS, for the prospect of better performance due to lower overhead; I'm using an old notebook, so any significant upgrade on the hardware side would be a whole new PC, which is more than I can afford any time soon. I'm also interested in that curious gamepad which Valve recently announced, and hope it will have either drivers for all common operating systems or, better yet, full HID standards compliance, being seen by a non-Steam-box computers as a USB hub and a handful of HID devices. I'm very much hoping it lets the user switch between distance input and speed input at will, with the push of a button. If it also has a text input scheme available so handily via a similar but separate mode switch, it will be a must-have for me.
I believe the problem might mostly be with Steamworks integration. The Steam for Linux client only supports a new[er] version of Steamworks API, without too much backwards compatibility with games using the old[er] version[s], it seems. Some Linux games on steam have issues with that, too. And need fixing / upgrading by the devs. Some games still don't work with achievements and whatnot...
So I can image SK needing a bump in the Steamworks integration, too. It can be that OOO might have chosen to not push a version that won't work with achievements and other Steamworks features. Along with not allocating much workforce [if any at all] to work on it. I hope the work is being done, even if it moves slowly. Slow progress is better than no progress.
At this point, I don't care.
They've had long enough to make a Linux version for Steam.
I'M FLIPPING THE TABLES NOW!
Just for lulz, I added "Spiral Knights" as a non-supported game.
The "target" is : "/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre/bin/java" -jar getdown-pro.jar .
The "start in" is : "/home/<.username>/.getdown/spiral/"
I can successfully also relocate the fles to be located in the .steam folders (where it normally installs games) instead of the default install directories listed above.
The steam overlay (with working web browser) functions when this runs.
The only thing that doesn't work is... allowing the steam handshake to login to my account tied to steam (or making purchases via the steam overlay).
Edit:
For clarification this was on Linux Mint 16 (an ubuntu variant) on a 32 bit system below minimum specs (dual 1.8G CPU, 2G mem, nvidia G730M integrated graphics). SK was installed both via the website (for the native install) and through wine (so that the windows version of steam that can actually link). The process above links SK to be used in the native linux version of steam.
@Skepticraven
Well, what you've done is kill half the cow. It can be done, just we need OOO to finish it. (How sick that sounds.)
@Snarbi
I recall reading in one of the many linux steam threads from a mod that this is not on their list. It is on a "we don't care" list. In fact, there were quite a few changes in the past year that actually went backwards on supporting linux steam. [They disabled a way of manually telling the game to ping steam to login.]
Hooo, so that is why the .so file isn't appearing any more, they removed the feature.
Back to wine I guess? Even if it does not work nicely? Meeeh?
An add-on for Spiral Knights on Steam is the Steam overlay, maybe that's the problem?