Quoting: liamdaweIf you buy a Steam Play title on Windows, you can play it on Mac and Linux and so on.

... if it happens to be available for Mac or Linux. SteamPlay does not guarantee either.(*)

(*) I know that you know, Liam - hey, you're "liam" again!?! I like that! -, I just want to make it clear for those who don't.

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Quoting: HoriSo it's a redundant waste of space... We can already find what other platforms are supported without a repurchase simply by looking a few pixels to the left of that label :D

Erm... no. SteamPlay does not tell you which platforms are supported. It only implies that it will be at least two, beecause otherwise, SteamPlay would make no sense. SteamPlay means that you can buy once and play on all supported platforms without rebuying, that's it, no more, no less.

AFAIR there is at least one game on several platforms that supports several platforms (Win and Mac?) but does not support SteamPlay, but I cannot find it ATM.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI thought the Tux icon was perfect, but I understand that Valve has a vested interest in pushing their own branded Linux distro, and I don't have a problem with that. However, they really need to brand their OS with something more distinctive than the generic Steam logo. Something like this:

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I like these,
but I like even more Valve betting it's Corporate Identity on LinSteamOS!

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I didn't find in mentioned:
Did anyone take a look which game was no. 2000?

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Quoting: Avehicle7887I like this guy, a brutally honest dev and likes to write in details. I can see he has taken many things into careful consideration such as OpenGL 3.2 and common Linux libraries which are found in most of today's distros.

10/10 I'm sold.

That sounds interesting, do you have some links you could share?

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Quoting: fleskWorks without issues for me. The game is very similar to TIS-100, but much easier so far, and with the trademark Tomorrow Corp. storytelling. I'm enjoying it a lot.

That sounds great - all four of it (works, TIS, easier, Tomorrow Corp)! :D

Quoting: GuestTell me about it, I’ve been programming for nearly 30 years and I’m stuck on level 7 of TIS-100 :(.

:D
30 years of programming here as well. That included some assembler, which probably helped. I couldn't do the sorting algorithm, the last puzzle on the page, no matter how hard I tried. I might revist it these easter days, but I fear my brain is stuck on this one. X)
Want a hint for level 7? (sequence counter or edge detection?)

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Quoting: ivantTypo. Should be "World of Goo".

(G)Oops!

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Quoting: PicoboomBeing known as a fair, non-raging, even helpful PD2 host has gotten me a lot of friend requests over the years for this very reason.

I've got a lot of hours on PD2, and have sorta accreted an informal list of pointers for new players. I'll offer some here hoping they'll help fellow Penguin Heisters joining missions online:

Thanks for your tips!
I'll try to think of them when I'm taking my first try. :)

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Quoting: StianTheDark"I know I have a great GPU"

Damn Liam, back at it again with the bragging.

I really appreciated he was mentioning that!
How I hate (*) reading all that "It worked OKish on my double-Titan system - great port!" nonsense...! :D

(*) sitting with my GTX660, a good card - 3 years ago

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Quoting: KimyrielleAwesome to see SE coming to Linux and porting major titles. SE is one of the very few major publishers I still was missing on Linux (Bethesda is the only other one I can think of right now.)

If I had to choose one publisher to support Linux, and all the others might or might not, it would probably be Bethesda.
(Mayyybe after Daedalic.)

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