I wonder if, during this rework, they've fixed it so that adjusting the volume on the Deck doesn't pause the video.

Edit: they didn't.

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I'm surprised to see people here and in the Discord rooting for Sony in this. Making a new thing that looks or behaves like an already-existing thing is everywhere in the Free software world.

Games copying other games is exactly how we get the idea of game genres - Doom clones, roguelikes, metroidvanias, souls-likes, and so on.

Game rules aren't protectable (and these games are different in that aspect anyway). Game code is protected, but there's been no accusation that the old game code was stolen to make the new. Game names and character names are protected, as are specific lines of dialogue, but those are all different here. The only thing Sony has as a basis is trade dress.

This game is one asset flip amongst millions. A Sony win won't do anything about those, but giving corporations more control over the look-and-feel of their potential competitors is bad for everybody.

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Anyone know if this is working on the Steam Deck?

The official line is "Valve is still learning about Dogwalk. We do not currently have further information about Steam Deck compatibility." However the hardware requirements are modest and it has "partial" controller support so the chances are good that it'll work fine with maybe some Steam Input tweaking.

Edit: so I've just tested it on the Deck and the controls are fine. The performance isn't there, though, which is very surprising given the requirements listed on the Store page. The GPU is maxed out and it's dropping into the 20s. Some more work on the Godot side to see what's up is in order, I would say.

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And with skate. being an online game with no offline mode

That sounds awful, regardless of whether it works on Linux or not.

Also, that name is chuffing terrible.

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They've not filled in the minimum requirements for their Linux build, which implies lack of testing. They could easily have just forgotten to fill in the box on Steamworks. Either way, the upshot is that they haven't said on the store page "we've tested it on this machine and it worked great."

The game isn't my bag, but I wish them luck.

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Jelly Car Worlds is loads of fun.

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Over to you in the comments — what are some picks you're personally excited about?

Adventures of a Cat in Space is a game we're planning on picking up at release and all playing together as a family.

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If you remove the local peaks and subtract the SteamOS values, then you get that approximately 1.6% are Linux desktop users. Which may not sound like a lot, but it's starting to approach MacOS level now and on the whole user base of Steam this is still a lot of people.

Desktop Linux with the Deck excluded has been at the same level as Mac for a couple of months already.

https://i.ibb.co/hRNbFjGW/Steam-Deck.png [External Link]

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Fun fact: I got the survey twice yesterday. First on my laptop, then on my desktop. I suppose Linux market share gonna blow up in July...

It's a hardware survey, not a user survey. Two machines both being sampled is intended behaviour, regardless of who's using them.

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Nearly 6% of English-using Steam users is pretty good. It would be nice to make inroads with gamers in China, too, but that's an uphill struggle.

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