Dwarf Fortress runs on Linux too, although I'm not entirely sure it's less painful than catching the virus.

If you're going to play it, take a look for the Linux LNP, which includes all the quality of life add-ons like DFhack and Dwarf Therapist.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe search stuff is fine for things whose name you remember. But, the stuff whose name I remember I mostly don't start from the menu, I start from a launcher--either a launcher I stuck on a taskbar or a launcher I leave sitting on the screen somewhere

If it works anything like the search function on MATE (and I believe it does), you don't have to remember the exact name. I can hit Win then "word processor" and AbiWord, FocusWriter and LibreOffice Writer all come up, and only one of those even has "word" in the name.

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Quoting: Nagezahn

Quoting: Liam DaweZack-like

This really should be the "official" name for the genre!

Can't wait for the first zacklikevania deckbuilder with procedural elements mashup!

...it's weird living in a reality where that sentence actually makes sense.

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Just took another shot at Solarus, and gamepad support is still apparently non-functional. I tried "Zelda Mystery of Solarus DX", which claims to have gamepad support, but apparently it doesn't. After getting through the intro and hitting D (as quite a long search through forums finally told me to do), it gave me options to map my gamepat buttons.

Which...was non-functional. I tried Steam Controller, XBox 360 pad and a PS2 controller, and it didn't recognize inputs from any of them. As playing a Zelda-esque game with keyboard only sounds like pure torture, I'm going to call Solarus non-functional in terms of playing games.

I did find a forum post from last October that refers to some mysterious "software" application where joypad permissions are turned off, but there's really nothing that explains what that is or where to find it, which is utterly ridiculous.

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Is there supposed to be no sound in the video? I get it on other videos but not here.

For a sec I thought pulseaudio died on me or something, but nope.

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Seriously can't wait until the full release of this one. I played the demo and loved it, bought it around Xmas and have been sitting on it ever since. But I don't want to play it in an unfinished state, because changes to the mechanics like this update brought would change things so much I'd be pretty much stuck restarting.

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Quoting: robvvFrom the reports I've seen, the main complaint seems to be that the game is not of the type originally (allegedly) promised. However, hopefully it will be interesting to see what others think. It is on my wishlist but I'm prioritising Beautiful Desolation this month!

I suspect the dev is being brigaded at this point. There are a lot of people who are outright saying they bought the game just to leave a bad review and then refund it.

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I tried running that a few months ago, and found the controls wouldn't work properly at all. It runs, but I can't actually play anything.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyHmm, seeing the portal or whatever that is there, I was thinking maybe duplicating like Star Trek transporters. But that would be just a retreading of the SOMA themes

On the other hand, the other videos look more like something occult. Ghosts and beings from the realm of the dead, like.

From peeking at the speculation based on clues given in the videos, a picture is shaping up that suggest some sort of transhumanist cult I think. A document that someone found talks about replacing parts of something while retaining its identity, and that's definitely consistent with Fractional's themes.

Might be way off base, but people are having a lot of fun with it at least.

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Quoting: NeoTheFoxAll I can say is wow. "Still" Tasi? Are they going for a SOMA-like theme about what it means to be yourself? Can't wait for full reveal

Since Amnesia at least (I don't have any experience with Penumbra), Frictional's games have been following a theme of questioning your identity. This one seems to be treading much the same ground, and it'll be interesting to see how they carry it out.

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