> We […] will be making changes to the policy. We will share an update in a couple of days

How is making further changes any better?

Until they go back to being contractually obligated to sticking to past TOS and fee structure, there is no way to trust them. They don't honor past agreements and they will try to extort money from developers and players, if not immediately, as soon as they feel they can get away with it.

Background: around ~2022-08 they removed the TOS history they put on GitHub the last time (2019-01-16) they apologised for trying to retroactively change terms (2018-12-05): https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/16hnibp/unity_silently_removed_their_github_repo_to_track/ [External Link]
On 2023-04-03, they removed a clause about sticking with past agreements when developers stick to the SDK they were using at release time.

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Quoting: CatKillerRelease early, release often.

I'm getting the impression developers don't update the framework for their Unity games, similar to device vendors who throw their thing over the wall.

If you can't expect frequent post-release engine updates, games in the wild using many different releases is not likely to work out well for maintenance.
Part of the solution is care for API guarantees and backwards-compatibility, but there's a cultural issue as well.

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Quoting: belisamaI love this game! The settings panel for rebinding the controls doesn't quite work on the Linux version yet (it appears to not be registering the mouse), but if you're okay with the default controls it's great. (I'm not, I like swapping the right and left mouse buttons, so I went back to running it on Steamplay, which is also great!)

I think it's just poor design of the bindings editor that disallows reusing existing bindings, making it hard to swap; assigning an unused key first gets around the restriction.

If you still can't get it to work, add the following line:

<pref name="RebindOverrides" type="string">eyJiaW5kaW5ncyI6W3siYWN0aW9uIjoiUGxheWVyL0NsZWFyU2FmZUhleCIsImlkIjoiMGIxOGEzMDMtMzU1Zi00Yzk0LWJhMzktZWE2ZjgyMzNhZTQ4IiwicGF0aCI6IjxNb3VzZT4vcmlnaHRCdXR0b24iLCJpbnRlcmFjdGlvbnMiOiIiLCJwcm9jZXNzb3JzIjoiIn0seyJhY3Rpb24iOiJQbGF5ZXIvUGluSGV4IiwiaWQiOiI2ZGIzNzY3NS1jYjdjLTRmYWQtYjRiZi03MjRjMGI4NWQ5NWEiLCJwYXRoIjoiPE1vdXNlPi9sZWZ0QnV0dG9uIiwiaW50ZXJhY3Rpb25zIjoiIiwicHJvY2Vzc29ycyI6IiJ9XX0=</pref>

after the <unity_prefs version_major="1" version_minor="1"> line inside .var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.config/unity3d/ToastieLabs/hexceed/prefs (assumes flatpak Steam, otherwise use .config/unity3d/ToastieLabs/hexceed/prefs). This is base64 for {"bindings":[{"action":"Player/ClearSafeHex","id":"0b18a303-355f-4c94-ba39-ea6f8233ae48","path":"<Mouse>/rightButton","interactions":"","processors":""},{"action":"Player/PinHex","id":"6db37675-cb7c-4fad-b4bf-724c0b85d95a","path":"<Mouse>/leftButton","interactions":"","processors":""}]}

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Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47Is there an easy way to see which of these games have Linux-native support, aside from manually clicking on all of them?

Yes, now that the bundle is on ITAD (is there any deal) [External Link]

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Quoting: 14I can't wait for an updated doughnut tutorial.

Already here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIoXOplUvAw [External Link]

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Quoting: EikeWonder if they're using Simple DirectMedia Layer... ;-)

Yes, see the project history: https://github.com/cxong/cdogs-sdl#-what-is-c-dogs-sdl [External Link]

It started out as a SDL port of a freeware game, made after the original author open-sourced it.

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I've already fixed a few errors causing some saves to blow up in size by including game data as well.

Method:
du -ch --max-depth=1 ~/var/backup/ludusavi |sort -h

For games with overly large backups, find a discrepancy between OSes in ~/.config/ludusavi/manifest.yaml
For example, the "os: linux" selector may be less precise; or, to the contrary, the "os: windows" one may be less precise (it is still use by default, see the `backup.filter.excludeOtherOsData` setting).

Then, make the paths more specific on https://pcgamingwiki.com/ [External Link]
There's some more detail about the infoboxes here: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/PCGamingWiki:Editing_guide/Game_data [External Link]

The filters manifest seems to be rebuilt nightly (around 0-2 UTC); use the `--try-update` flag to refresh it.

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Quoting: scaineI was just commenting recently on another thread that The Witness was a similarly disappointing game that just dumps you onto an island full of incredibly repetitive puzzles with similarly bizarre spikes of difficulty. The Long Gate looks even prettier and appears to have more variety in the puzzle elements, but I completely agree - without some motivation or world building, it's really hard to keep momentum with these games.

I'll stick it on my watchlist and I might end up buying it as an afternoon's distraction, even if I don't come anywhere near completing it.

The Witness certainly worked for me, but I think that's because it does use, ahem, gating to teach its mechanics.

You can stumble on something you don't understand early on, but you do get gradual progressions close to the beginning of dedicated areas, and I can see a lot of thought and play-testing went into it.

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I'll try this, but I'd prefer if they tried to work from within Debian/Ubuntu nonfree repos, sticking closer to distribution policies.

For example,
- Debian and Ubuntu have sensibly split the udev rules into a DFSG-compliant (free software) package. Follow their lead, and go further by getting the rules integrated into systemd/udev
- The steamdeps script is an unused and unloved way to work around normal package dependencies. No wonder it's buggy. Admit it and get rid of it.

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The trailer video for the attack is gold. [External Link]

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