April 12, 2011 by Mikael | Category: Jack Claw is a Frozenbyte project from 2006-2008 that has now been released in the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle and also the source code is available in the bundle.
Currently the demo that is available in the bundle is only available for Windows and only playable with a controller. This will of course be changed soon. We have an outside team that is working very hard on this and will continue to support the community so we can get the game development of the ground.
The first updates will be mouse/keyboard support and Mac/Linux ports. Most of which are actually already done but we still need to test them a bit more to make sure we can publish them.
In the future we hope that we can gather up a community where we can all have an impact on how this game will develop. We intend to have competitions for making music tracks, voting on boss designs and even featuring the most prominent community members in articles and such.
In the end this project will live or die by the support it gets, so I really hope we get it going, because I still think it is one of those very dear projects that we here at Frozenbyte would have always wanted to see finished.
- Mikael
Keyboard/Mouse support posted by a friendly HFB user
http://frozenbyte.com/help_humble/jackclaw_keyboard.html
Comment by Mikael — April 13, 2011 @ 12:13 am
pretty cool!I just bought the bundle for mac, but I’ve no idea how to copile it
keep it up!!
Comment by Alan — April 13, 2011 @ 8:25 am
Looking forward to further versions of this game!
(Just played through the prototype 2 times)
…and thanks for the Keyboard/Mouse support file
Comment by PixelProspector — April 13, 2011 @ 3:04 pm
[...] Jack Claw 钢爪杰克 （曾经被开发商放弃的游戏，重新完善中，会有 Mac 和 Linux 的版本，并且支持鼠标和键盘，详细信息参见 Jack Claw） [...]
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Glad to hear you guys are enjoying Jack Claw.
Comment by Joel — April 13, 2011 @ 8:03 pm
So basically, this is becoming a community driven, oepn source game backed by Frozenbyte?
Comment by Kame — April 13, 2011 @ 8:12 pm
Looks like a very interesting game I cant wait to see how it turns out. Kinda looks like an early prototype (like from EA not a prototype in the regular sense of the word).
Oh and if you are making games on linux you can add them to the Ubuntu software center which has a purchase section for the past 2 releases (we had ours before the mac store
) If your interested I can give you the email of the person to talk to. We dont have a form or anything just a guy who you email 
Comment by Shane Fagan — April 16, 2011 @ 8:04 pm
[...] Pomimo tej niedogodności pracownicy Frozenbyte zapewniają, że pracują na linuksową wersją Jack Claw. Ponadto Splot również będzie posiadał wersję linuksową (pomimo wcześniejszych plotek, [...]
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