The new version of MATE has a bunch of new UI stuff aimed at attracting Unity lovers who don't want to stick around with Vanilla Ubuntu. Probably a smart move on their part, carrying over stuff like global menus and the HUD.

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Quoting: KelsI've been seeing discussion about this, wondering just what the devs who leaked are getting out of this. Seeing as sales are traditionally depressed right before a sale people know the date of, this just hurts their full-price income. It's not exactly a benefit, and in fact I don't really see anything positive for the leakers.

How many persons with a healthy mind pay full price for a game?

I think the TRUE price of a game is the one that the game has on sale...
Take a look at Shadow of Mordor Bundle [External Link] AKA Shadow of Mordor GOTY... How many months the game has been "on sale" for just 5 U$D?

But, sadly, big publishers raise the base price before joining the steam sales.

That answers a grand total of nothing. Markup exists, I get that. But why would a publisher leak something that, for the period preceding the sale, makes them fewer sales at full price? How does any of this benefit the developers who made the leak?

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Quoting: OLucasZanellaHalloween and Autumn are awfully close to each other.

The Autumn dates include Black Friday.

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Been quite a while since I played so I imagine a lot of stuff has changed since then. Debating whether to simply keep waiting until it comes out of EA at this point since it sounds like there's still a lot missing.

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I've been seeing discussion about this, wondering just what the devs who leaked are getting out of this. Seeing as sales are traditionally depressed right before a sale people know the date of, this just hurts their full-price income. It's not exactly a benefit, and in fact I don't really see anything positive for the leakers.

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Quoting: LinasFugl fills a very special niche for me. Sometimes I am too mentally exhausted to play anything that requires focus, and this game has a certain soothing effect on me.

I think they really captured what I would imagine soaring like a bird would feel like, and audio is a big part of that.

In small doses it can be healthy, but for most this is probably more of a "buy it on sale just to see if I would enjoy that kind of stuff" game, rather than a must-have. This is definitely not for everyone, and not for extended periods of time.

I recommend Fruits Of a Feather, which fills a similar niche and is free on Itch.io. It doesn't have a shapechanging mechanic, but it's pretty chill and I like it.

https://samuraipunk.itch.io/fruits-of-a-feather [External Link]

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From the trailer, the environments seem great and the shape-shifting concept seems pretty nifty. But wow is the low-rez looking bird ugly. Something about the way it looks when moving is really distracting for me, although it may be less so if I were actually the one steering the thing.

For now, I'll stick to Fruits Of a Feather, which has a similar "you're a bird" mechanic.

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Valley, Fall Of the Dungeon Guardians, and Cross Code are all on sale on Steam right now.

Coincidentally, all are on my wish list too.

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I think we just found Samsai's new livestream project!

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Well, I think that having a series of articles similar to this in their own section of the site so we can easily show them to "on the fence" people would really do a lot of good. The idea of a searchable database of games seems like a good idea too, but I'd like to see those done separately.

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