I had this game for a long time in my wishlist, great thing that they released a demo :smile:

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It reminds me a long time ago, when a friend and me tried to play House of the Dead in split-screen mode, with a 2 mice setup. It was a complete mess :grin:

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI can absolutely recommend PlateUp! [External Link] (sic). It's fantastic, especially with friends – a little roguelike restaurant management game where you have to serve customers and customize your restaurant as the difficulty ramps up over time. It's got very simple mechanics – just a few buttons – but combines them in all sorts of novel and interesting ways to represent making a huge variety of foods and performing various duties around the restaurant. It's also got some really fun automation aspects; as time goes on, the only way you'll be able to keep up with the increasing numbers of customers is by starting to automate your food-production workflow, and in extreme cases people have built restaurants that are entirely automatic, creating food and sending it around on conveyor belts to customers' tables and clearing and washing the dirty plates without having to lift a finger. :grin: (That remains my dream.) Plus, the lone developer is pretty active; the game released on August 4, and it's already had multiple content updates adding new foods, cosmetics, balancing passes, and themed updates for Halloween (where you could get guests who'd randomly set the table on fire after eating 😂) and Thanksgiving. Oh, and the music is absolutely top-notch too. I really can't praise this game enough. :smile:

I'll second that, PlateUp! is incredibly addictive :smile:

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyHow can turn-based combat reward quick decision-making? Is it not the nature of turn-based that you have time for your decisions?

Maybe you have a timer on your turn, like the Worms series ?
Or, they use the same mechanics than in Final Fantasy series, with the action bar filling up over time...

Let's call this "real-time turn-based combat" ! :grin:

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumNice! I'm thinking.. you go out fishing overnight at a lake, and while you freeze your butt off waiting to catch real fish, you can play your steam deck catching virtual fish in this game! :grin:

"Yo Dawg, I heard you like fishing..." :grin:

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I am very tempted as well... :wub:

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: LightkeySimplified Chinese users (where Linux usage is near zero)

Really, someone's gotta do something about that.

I had this idea a few years ago to make a campaign to build cheap short ads for Linux and advertise the hell out of them in China and India. You target a third of the world population with just two languages, and they are generally countries where things are cheap (including advertising).

Brains are neural networks, so you repeat "Upgrade to Linux" enough, it's gonna get learned. Unfortunately I never found the time to seriously pursue that. Wanna take up the job?

The job would be:

- (Have someone) Create a sexy website for upgradetolinux.com etc. Have it be simple, and cool, and confidence inspiring, but contentwise be essentially like, here's an ubuntu image (or something we settle on as best for general public), install it with these instructions
- Get funding (I'm sure this will be easy given the numerous Linux enthusiasts)
- Make sexy very short ads (I have a lot of ideas for these)
- Coordinate with somebody in China and India to register these ads with radios, newspapers, tvs, billboards etc (as much as funding allows)

Anyone?

You may want to be extra careful on the "sexy" parts :tongue:

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Great, I have been looking at Genesis Alpha One for a while, but I couldn't really convince myself to buy it... Now is the time to give it a try :smile:

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderAnyone know anything about Murdered: Soul Suspect [External Link]???

Yes, I played that game, but I was using Windows at the time, I don't know how it will run on Linux (it seems to be rated platinum on protondb [External Link] though) ...

Overall I did enjoy it, nice atmosphere and interesting plot, except for the last part of the game, which felt "rushed".
Also, like most of the games where discovering the mysteries is the main point, there is no real replayability, so take your time :wink:

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I remember that game being a mini-game in Billy 2 [External Link] on Amstrad CPC :happy:

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