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They have a good track record of fixing Linux issues and *trying* to keep their "1%" happy with relatively quick fixes when they update and break compatibility.

Battlefield 6, Call of Duty, Fortnite, and Apex Legends are all on the anti-linux side of the fence. You'd think the Finals devs would want to keep that 1% from complaining on social media (and huge niche websites dedicated to linux)?
The Linux Finals players are VERY loud (I might be one of them) and that 1% of the player base is probably a lot more than 1% elsewhere.

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@Purple Library Guy, @scaine

Thanks for trying out the demo! If you're interested in playing more, we're running a closed playtest though our discord server (linked on our steam page). We're always looking for more Linux playtesters -- you guys give the best bug reports and we want to support as many distros as possible at launch!

- Daniel, Snake Tower Games

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This looks pretty neat! I've just recently finished Split Fiction with a friend and we've dived into It Takes Two right after, but LEGO Voyagers looks like right up our alley up next

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Thanks for bringing this to our attention. It is simply disgusting. I don't want to play anything generic created by a machine. Our world and a lot of people living in it are already heartless and emotionless lacking empathy. I don't need anymore of that in my life, but instead lovingly and carefully crafted games and experiences which ooze craftmanship and passion in every line of code.

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Thanks a lot Liam for sharing another very interesting indie title with us!
Keep them coming! 🔥

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The best (and admittedly only) board game based on a computer game I played so far is Dorfromantik.

I'm a total sucker for a good board game

Then bring them on :-). I guess at least if they have some relation to computer games in general. I doubt one could construct a relation to gaming on Linux, but why not look at some other topics once in a while.

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Great! Love to see that getting an HD boost. Why tho have they to integrate such unpleasant white flashes in rapid succession in the trailer? Makes me feel very uncomfortable

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Thinking of Finals, I am starting to think the developers didn't study hard enough for theirs.

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In Dutch you have to use the spitting sound for proper pronunciation of Gif.

So, first you do GRgrgrgr and then just add -if.

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Paypal is really irrelevant these days, there is other ways if you are trying to avoid getting your card binned. Some banks provide virtual cards that can be used only one time.

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🐦‍⬛

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If we're gonna be docked, at least buy me a drink first. I'll be gentle. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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Good, I almost want to call this the Steam Deck's "miracle port". The dev team actually put in effort to make Shadows playable on it, and the game has no business looking as good as it does while keeping a steady 30fps on the handheld, but it does!

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But I liked the GIFs... Now a bunch of links are probably broken across Discord. lol

Also, just FYI: the creator of the file format says that it's a "J" sound in GIF. I already pronounced it that way, but I'm gonna go with what he says. That being said, I'm just saying and not trying to correct anyone. Say it how you want, just don't try to correct me either. :P

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Oh, please have minis I can use for D&D.

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Gotta be honest here.

Proton devs (both inhouse and upstream from WINE) are doing an insane job, both as amount of things fixed, and speed at which fixes go out.

Not to mention they have to deal mostly with closed-source games they cannot tweak, and they "fix" by changing their side of the equation.

Do anyone knows how many people Valve has on payroll whose job is to patch Proton to work with as many games as possible?

I'm frankly impressed.

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I'm confused. I thougth Fanatical was a renaming of GMG.
Édit: it was bundle star. My mistake.

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Meanwhile, EGS has nothing but worthless giveaways.

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For Germans, there is no debate at all.

Its just GIF, like in Giftinfomationszentrum.

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OK, so I tested the demo with ETS2 (got some very annoying stutter, which might be due to—forcibly—using the Proton version instead of the native one) and rFactor2 (couldn't get it to work yet).

Judging by their Game Guides (https://lookpilot.app/game-guides), very few of the supported games are "surely" working on Linux. After being turned off by TrackIR for years due to their lack of Linux support, I'm very interested in LookPilot, but might wait for the software to mature a bit more before purchasing.

That said, ETS2 with 6DOF head control is next level

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Just add bethesda game support man

As if that's easy. There's not exactly a button that, when pressed, magically adds Bethesda game support to this in-development tool. Bethesda games are notoriously finnicky, but they're also the most popular games to mod, so they're probably holding off on them and working on easier games to mod until they're confident they can properly support Bethesda games.

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Anyone remembers Battle Painters? Reminds me of that game but modernized

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@Kimyrielle

I understand what you're saying ... however!

"none of those dotcoms ever made a profit, had tons of cash shoved at them, never had a marketable product, vague business plans"

Does any of that sound familiar? Because it's exactly the same!! Every single ai product out there today is dependent upon one single company on earth. Every single ai product out there has zero business plan to make a profit. Every single ai product out there is burning through billions in cash with not a profit even fathomable. And then add salt into the wound: they're also burning the planet down with them.

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A P2P payment option that I recently became aware of, for users in the USA, is Chime Pay Anyone.
I wonder if Steam, GOG, and others will at some point, officially allow purchases to be made with it.

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"As the industry has shifted towards more complex, feature-rich, lengthier games, we wanted to go in the other direction: providing a one-button shmup that’s fun from the moment you pick it up!" said Anthony Flack, Lead Games Designer at Claymatic Games. "You don’t need to learn any complicated combos or absorb a bookish tutorial teaching how you can have fun later. Instead, you get right to the action. Platypus Reclayed is designed to be something you pick up for 20 minutes before bed or on your lunch break, but you enjoy every second of it!"

Amen brother. Back then you could finish a game in 30 minutes and nobody were bitching about it. Now if a game last 10 hours "it is too short". Personally, I prefer a short game with real thought put in the stage and gameplay details, than 30 to 60 hours of boring stuff made by AI to artificially made a game longer.

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Got accepted in the play test a couple weeks back and was not impressed.

Some of the ideas look pretty fun and interesting, but after over 3h playing there was still none of that. Only slow, boring, resources gathering and survival which was about filling need bars every so often.

I really hope they work on the first impression/early game before releasing the demo. If your game is built around a core idea, don't make people grind for hours before experiencing it.

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@R Daneel Olivaw:

There are many people believing (or hoping?) AI is the next dotcom bubble waiting to burst. Well, maybe there is indeed no sane reason why NVidia should be worth four trillion dollars. But there is a huge difference between then and now. Most relevant AI companies are established for decades and are profitable, with or without AI. AI is just another new product for them. The dotcom implosion was nothing like that. It was caused by people shoveling billions at more or less shady startup companies that had absolute nothing to show other than a vague business plans that required at least nine planets to randomly align to work out. Most of them never created a marketable product. Most of them never showed a dime of profit. Of course that had to eventually blow, once people realized they might as well burn their money.

I really don't believe AI will fade. But even if it does, Meta will still be there. So will Google and Microsoft. And NVidia still has a monopoly on gaming GPUs. Maybe "Open"AI wouldn't survive that, but they're not even publicly traded, so no bubble waiting to burst here.

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Played the ending today, and man, what a ride...!
(And of course, the right way to play a point and click is the classic point and click device! )

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NEVERMIND ALL THAT OTHER STUFF, this time it's for real, I swear, you guys, you guys, just listen, AI will change the world!

AI is bloated, but it is gonna change the world (and already does).

And don't forget, we did have some world changing inventions, like the internet and mobile phones and smartphones.

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Regarding the bubble: omg it's gonna be a BLOODBATH when (not if) it bursts. If you go back and count for inflation, the bubble is worse now than it was in the 90s for the dot com burst, and that was world shiftingly huge. This is even bigger.

I see all this AI garbage as the HYPERoverbloated zombie corpse of "tech" shambling around in 2025 not knowing where to go or what to do so it just steals everything from everybody and vomits it back up. Very much like a zombie. And I say all that as someone who works every single day in tech. LOL.

Tech made a kazillion dollarydoos on creating the world's most nightmarish surveillance machine, and since then has shambled around without any kind of purpose or meaning or success anywhere near that.

BUT YOU GUYS, crypto is gonna change the world, I mean it ...

NO SERIOUSLY THIS TIME nft's are gonna change the world, you guys, I'm super serious ...

OH BUT WAIT vr is gonna change the world with metaverses everywhere, for serious this time ...

NEVERMIND ALL THAT OTHER STUFF, this time it's for real, I swear, you guys, you guys, just listen, AI will change the world!

... WHEN this current bubble bursts, it's going to be really really bad. I think AI has a future in our society, but in a very specific use case for each implementation. Totally 100% opposite of what's happening now with every single company on earth shoving it inside every thing they do without even understanding any of it, "just because".

@scaine - that's a really good article! Good read.

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