Quoting: EhvisIt's irrelevant anyway. This is about who would like his help in porting. It is unlikely that he could get an AAA publisher to even consider it. A few relevant posts in this thread mentioned developers that were interested, but didn't really have the man power or experience with Linux. I think those would be good candidates.

Agreed.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: DolusI think something a little more down to earth would be good to start with. Wayforward would be a good place to start. I think we'd all like the Shantae games on Linux.

Never heart of those...

I got a key for Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut in the Humble Eye Candy bundle, never activated. I would definitely like to play it, but I bought the bundle for Human Resource Machine.

Anyway, you won't find a single game all of us would like. In this case you'd obviously hear the usual litany of "oh noes retro platformer give me my AAA" complaints.

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Quoting: CybolicWell, to be fair, Vineyard is also GTK2. I have a feeling there are a few people running statistical Windows programs on Puppy Linux who'd be rather upset with me if I upgraded to that bloated new GTK version ;P

Sure, and then they whine about every other modern feature they personally don't happen to need at this particular moment. They can always stick to an older version of the software. But obviously you should build a curses UI for them.

Quoting: ShmerlI don't like GTK in general. GTK2 is simply dead upstream as far as I know, and won't work with Wayland for instance. I expect some distros to start purging it in the future. Debian already plan to purge Qt 4.x for example.

Dead is a strong word. It's old, superseded by GTK3 and purely in maintenance mode, but it is well maintained. Too many large companies (like Red Hat for example) depend on it still.

Of course GTK2 won't get new features like Wayland support, and every active project should upgrade ASAP. Or switch toolkits if that's what they prefer, I don't really mind. QT is nice as well.

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Quoting: monsieursauce- Also, do you plan to release tutorials ? I would love to know more about setting up my wine layer for some games - so that I can finally run Homeworld Remastered!-, know more about Linux, or else.

I don't really use Wine myself and don't really plan to make Wine tutorials a regular feature. There's so many native games we prefer to keep to reporting on them mainly.

There's always the Guides and HOWTOs section of the GOL wiki. Seems like a good place for all kinds of tutorials. With appropriate subsections of course.

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Seems like minecraft with commitment issues to me. Did they just list all the game ideas they could think of and jam them all in? Is this supposed to be an actual game, or more of a weird time-waster like Goat Simulator?

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Quoting: Luke_NukemThe last time I ever played and enjoyed a space sim was over two decades ago. This looks absolutely awesome!

Agreed, it does look good. My only serious space sim ever was the original Elite. Must have played the Amiga version.

I'll definitely keep my eye on this until release. I hope the EA goes well.

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Quoting: EhvisNote the emphasis on "subtly".

Yes, please be polite and let the Mac gamers enjoy their stream. Feral won't be pleased if you hijack the chat.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: GrazenTo be honest Liam, posts like this make me want to cancel my Patreon support.

Wow, okay, why? Did I do something wrong?

These occasional reminders are just fine, don't worry about it. Well okay, of course you'd worry as it's your livelihood we're talking about.

If I can make one suggestion though, I'd keep the doom-and-gloom in check. Positive messages work better I think than emphasis on the negative like cancellations. They're on your mind, but they're not what motivates us to support your work. Remind us of the awesome things you do and plan on doing in the near future. That should be enough.

EDIT: typo

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Quoting: ShmerlI just tired itch.io version - the mouse simply doesn't work in the game. Did anyone get this issue?

Yep.

-screen-fullscreen 0

Just add the above to the command line to run in a window instead of full screen, just like it says in Liam's article.

Unlike Liam, I saw a cursor but it just didn't move in full screen mode. A bit of a bother as I don't like playing in a window, but in this case it was acceptable.

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Quoting: GuestIf this was mumsnet I would understand.

Sorry to disappoint, but gamingonlinux.com might not be the bro cave you are looking for. We're not just gamers, but a diverse bunch of human beings with varied interests and opinions, and you've been here long enough to know that.

I hesitated a bit before taking this thread even more off topic, but most of the comments were already pointless wishlists nobody asked for so why not.

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