Keep up the good work Liam (and contributors of course). This is the only gaming related website I peruse and enjoy on a regular basis, not in small part due to the great community. Unless something drastic happens, you can expect me to keep pitching in for the foreseeable future.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: tuubiAnother AGS veteran going commercial, if I'm not mistaken. Wishlisted.

I wish AGS would migrate to SDL2 already. Their Allegro backend is seriously messed up.

The project sure could use more contributors. Development seems active enough, but ripping out Allegro seems like a major undertaking nobody seems interested in tackling.

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Another AGS veteran going commercial, if I'm not mistaken. Wishlisted.

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Quoting: liamdaweThere is still one part that could be an issue, although not a big one, which is this:

Third Party Service providers may not, without Unity’s express written permission: (1) use a stylized version of any Unity name, trademark, logos, images or product icons, or other Unity-owned graphic symbols;

So unless you're approved by Unity, any service that integrates with it won't be able to display their logo.

Aren't you ignoring the words "a stylized version" in that quote?

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Quoting: GuestNice picks!
Is there a GamingOnLinux Curator or Group on Steam?

Yes to both.

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/4218320-GamingOnLinux/ [External Link]
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/gamingonlinux [External Link]

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Quoting: beniwtv

Quoting: tuubiAn old release not running on modern distros is a problem, and it's great that Wine helps you there. But this shouldn't lead you to the conclusion that we should emulate all of our games.

That wasn't my conclusion at all - sorry if it looked that way - rather, that neither native or emulation is "better" than the other, both have their places.

Emulation is what you resort to if a good native build is not available. There's simply no question about which is better, from any practical standpoint. That's no argument against emulation of course, just that there's no point in this comparison.

Well, there's always the standpoint of the developer who doesn't really want to put in (or can't financially justify) the effort, and that's one we shall have to tolerate as long as we represent such a small market. For us Linux gamers though, native is the obvious winner.

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Quoting: beniwtv

Quoting: BeamboomMaybe that's where we'll end up. Emulation. But that is a loss. Emulation/bridging/compatibility layering/call it what you want always comes with a cost, compared to properly coded and compiled binaries for our platform. It just does.

Personally, I recently have begun to question that native binaries are better. I have a perfect boxed copy of X2: The Threat from LGP, yet that won't work on any modern distro anymore. Nor can I feasibly emulate (or virtualize) an old distro, with 3D acceleration, since no vendor makes drivers for distros that old. But I can play the Steam version in Wine just fine.

I have to agree with Beamboom here. Wine is great, and many games run extremely well on it, but it will never be perfect. That's just a fact. Native releases are the way to go.

An old release not running on modern distros is a problem, and it's great that Wine helps you there. But this shouldn't lead you to the conclusion that we should emulate all of our games.

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I remember my young nephew was extremely disappointed after getting this game as a gift and then bumping into a game breaking bug quite a bit into the game. Something to do with hang gliders or parachutes if I remember correctly. He played on Windows of course, and quite a while ago. Hopefully that has either been fixed or doesn't trigger on Proton or your hardware.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: EhvisTurned that crap off within a minute again. I'm not sure what it does, but it makes moving windows feel weird.

Might be issue with your DE/WM or compositing. Perf drop with this on is just 1-2% and when testing GTK response times it adds just few milliseconds for the GTK windows.

It's not a performance drop. It's that I feel a delay when I pick up a window to move it and it really irritates me.

Maybe your desktop compositor? I remember I switched off the vsync option in compton back when I started running my old 960 with ForceFullCompositionPipeline enabled.

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Quoting: Appelsin

Quoting: MayeulCUnfortunately, last time I checked, there was only a curl | bash way of installing it (which is a big no-no)

Out of curiosity, why is installing via curl not recommended?

I don't think the command being curl is the important bit here, but the fact that they ask you to blindly execute a shell script you download from an internet URL. Of course, you can just download the script first and check it over before executing. I certainly would.

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