"In the case of Silksong, a teamcherry dev did post on social media just a few weeks ago saying exactly that. I don't have twitter to bother bring the post up here unfortuantely."

The problem of the thousand possible communication channels. I don't want to follow them everywhere, they may find it hard to feed all of them. I do find the most important shop important enough to feed from time to time though.

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I don't think it's realistic to force developers to give any updates on unreleased games, feels a bit unreasonable just because people want it.

Once a year?!? Even if they only say "Yes, we're still working on it in 2025.", it's at least something. If that's too much to do for your future release and your future customers, thank you, but no thanks.

I've got several games on my list that haven't seen any news in years, and I wonder if the developers are still working on it. Or if they are even developers anymore. Or if they're actually alive. Who knows.

And we shouldn't forget that nobody's forced to put their game on Steam loads of years before the release. I'm not sure this is useful in making some PR waves after all this time either.

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Hm. Maybe I'm able now to open my own virtual retro Amiga shop.

... but then, Amiga is going out of fashion and you need to give up on it. :cry:

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Bazzite numbers would be interesting... I heard of quite a few people who switched in the last time to Bazzite because of it's ease of use and stability.

< 2.47%, I guess...

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Ten years?! It can't be that long . . . I bought it when it had come out pretty recently and I still haven't gotten around to playing it yet!

I think it had quite some early access time.

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Debian, huh?

:heart:

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I'd rather take three handcrafted planets than those generated trillions of them.

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Lamplight City was very good, especially the choices actually mattering.
I showed some... not sure anymore, I think human bones to somebody. She was shocked and refused to talk to me any more. So I (reloaded and) started to actually think what I should and shouldn't be doing instead of just clicking on anything possible!
Will buy Rosewater, too.
Additionally, Application Systems Heidelberg is a very Linux friendly publisher.

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What I find difficult to understand: How can you learn to code software and have absolutely no contact with POSIX while doing it?

C64, Armstrad, MSX, Sinclair, ... Windows, ...

Maybe nobody is learning C anymore as everybody is going straight for C++ (or Rust, or C# or or or…), but I’ve always seen C and Linux as being intertwined…
That must be it - the world moved on and I became an old man yelling at a cloud.

Actually, developer world does turn in the Linux direction. Ever touched Docker and Kubernetes on Windows? No? Lucky you! :D

And our build guys are reporting an unbelievable factor (like 4 or so) in build times between Windows and Linux. :woot:
So despite being a slow moving company in a slow moving business, we will move to Linux over time.

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Not in my back yard!

It does look like it will enter my front yard!

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