Going back and forth between the two themes, the dark theme doesn't work for eyes-resting purposes because there are still large, bright blocks of white: forms (and list dropdowns), the commenting textarea, the Twitter area, and quotes.

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Quoting: AlzarathI like it, though I hate that whole 'excessive whitespace' thing. I'm sure there are people out there that do like that, but I don't. It reminds me of a mobile app. Maybe that's your intention, to make it easier for mobile users to browse the site. I'll probably crop it down with greasemonkey anyways.

The newline between 'quote' and 'like' is superfluous, pages are sprinkled with unnecessary <br/>, and there is unnecessary whitespace around the pagination area and before the comment box. The site has that irritating bootstrap feel.

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Could you not have a sticky navbar, or at least make it much less tall? I hate that it eats 8% of my usable screen.

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That pic didn't seem like they were eschewing any clichés:
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/topimages/1924956644id3441gol.jpg

(the second greenlight video does attempt to justify what they mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCnETE5XXD8 [External Link] )

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Quoting: Maokei

Quoting: MamboA tip for downloading the beta: switch to the beta before downloading anything. I downloaded 700mb of non-beta, got a missing executable, and had to download 1,2gb again.

Read the post it's clearly stated that it's a beta filled with buggs.

Not my point, I posted a tip to save bandwidth.

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A tip for downloading the beta: switch to the beta before downloading anything. I downloaded 700mb of non-beta, got a missing executable, and had to download 1,2gb again.

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Unity has a similar, open-source compiler (derived from mesa): https://github.com/aras-p/hlsl2glslfork [External Link] . Unreal uses the same codebase, but they aren't publishing their proprietary branch at all.

Here's a good overview of cross-API shaders: http://aras-p.info/blog/2014/03/28/cross-platform-shaders-in-2014/ [External Link]

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You all have seen Valve's excellent OpenGL presentation at steam dev days, right?
The VoGL segment starts here [External Link].

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I've also been burned by game-like things with weak gameplay.
Pro tip for those in no hurry: use the positive/negative review filters on the steam store page. If there isn't anything negative it's probably too early. Read a bit of both until you know which way you lean. Try to buy good games less often rather than meh sales you may not care to finish.

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So Ren'Py can be extended to do point and click, that's new.

I've only played Katawa Shoujo [External Link]. Maybe the first chapter of Analogue [External Link] too, enough to know that wasn't going to be a very cheerful story.

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