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Quoting: soulsourceAlso, society has changed over time. The first generation that grew up with video games is now in their thirties to forties.

Fifties even, depending just how you define "grew up with video games".

Can confirm...

I played on my friend's Atari in the late 70s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600 [External Link]

I remember as a kid during that time trying to figure out how I could afford a PONG game, because I enjoyed the one my aunt had so much.

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Quoting: JuliusIs it just my imagination, or are we finally seeing games designed for females, as opposed to superfical efforts of slapping females protagonists into otherwise default(=male) genre games or worse corporate "Barbie world" type of software?

This one at least, seems to tick many boxes... at least that is what I( as a male) would imagine a game being truely designed for a primarily female audience would look like.

Of course that doesn't mean it can not be a fun game for males as well. In fact, I would say a great game needs to be fun for everyone :)

I think it's less that the games are designed for women per se so much that they're not designed for the traditional "gamer" stereotype, which is heavily marketed as a "toys for boys" thing (and well, accompanied by a lot of online arseholes who characterize female players as "casuals" who don't belong in that market). Remember, Overwatch pulled in a pretty huge female market.

And on the flip side, there's a legion of tough guys who cried their eyes out playing To the Moon.

All that said, I do appreciate that we're getting more games like this, where emotions, connection, and in some cases sheer joie de vivre are at the forefront. And if that's designing a game for females, well....market to me boys! I'm right here!

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Huh, this seems to be a different experience from what I initially thought it would be, but...different in a good way. It's definitely a game I'll want to play as soon as it comes out, that's certain.

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Dwarf Fortress. Been learning it the past couple of weeks.

I'm...still not sure why people play this. Hell, I'm not sure why I play this.

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Quoting: NezchanI suspect this has Grimrock in its DNA somewhere. The map layouts and movement feel familiar.

Looks more to me like the engine from StarCrawlers [External Link], which does support Linux nicely (also a good game in its own right).

Seems that when that game came out, it invited a lot of comparisons to Grimrock. So again, it seems to be part of that pedigree.

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I suspect this has Grimrock in its DNA somewhere. The map layouts and movement feel familiar.

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The "Inspired by Proteus" surprised me. I don't know a lot of people who have also played that. It's a little more...benign than the forces at work in this game though.

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"one of the first radio telephones ever built"....in 1993? Must have been a museum piece even then, given they'd been in commercial use, if not all that common, for decades at that point.

The one in the trailer looks like one of the original Nokia phones from the 80s.

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Quoting: einherjarPerhaps all new Tux Gamers :woot:

Sounds legit. 2020 is the year of Linux on the desktop, after all.

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Huh, tried out Skyrim (original edition with mods), and when I quit to desktop....it actually exited the program! In the past, the process continued running when I tried to do that.

Wonder if Banished works without tweaking the sound now?

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