Seems like something I might enjoy. Wishlisted.

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Quoting: tuubiI'm not a fan of these "8-bit" soundtracks,

Mate you don't know what you are missing!!

I'm not missing anything. I had my fill of this stuff back in the 8-bit era. :)

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I'm not a fan of these "8-bit" soundtracks, but otherwise looks quite decent. Could be fun.

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Quoting: liamdaweWhat a fantastic way to put off a developer claiming they are making people beg or grovel or whatever as they just want to see how much interest there is.

I agree that this kind of attitude isn't helpful at all. Of course they aren't wrong about the futility of trying to gauge the market or estimating sales prospects by asking for comments on a forum somewhere. It simply won't give them any sort of useful data to base decisions on. If Windows gamers are interested in their game, most likely we will be as well.

But maybe in some cases they're just a tiny developer looking for the motivation/courage to try supporting an unfamiliar platform, and a few excited +1 comments just might make the difference. We lose nothing by indulging them, and we gain nothing by being obnoxious about it.

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They're not the first or the last developer to have misconceptions about OpenGL.

As I wrote earlier, what worries me here is that in addition to Unity, PopcornFX also needs to support Vulkan for this port to happen. Would be nice to know if this particular shader middleware is even working towards a SPIR-V backend, or if this dev is just silently hoping for it to materialise.

Although the shaders could end up being a non-issue if Unity provides the tools for compiling the resulting shaders from HLSL to SPIR-V as part of their main Vulkan support. This should happen anyway. I doubt Unity will dump HLSL as their internal shader format any time soon and these internal shaders need to work with Vulkan as well.

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I've heard good things about this series. I sure hope the beta goes well and NIS America is happy with their decision to support our platform. Wouldn't mind seeing more of their stuff on Linux in the future.

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Unity's Vulkan support is coming along nicely, but are the PopcornFX folks even working on a Vulkan/SPIR-V backend? They just released their new D3D11 backend last year. Another case of ignorant developer relying on single-platform middleware for their supposedly cross-platform game?

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I don't think I'd like the messy combat, even if I'd enjoy the story and the rest of it. I could possibly think of buying it for for a couple of euros in a sale some day and power through it at the lowest difficulty setting or something.

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Quoting: Mountain ManYou what would be genuinely mind-blowing? Anything from Microsoft Studios.

This exist. http://store.steampowered.com/app/236090/ [External Link]

Also Mark of the Ninja [External Link] and apparently Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet [External Link].

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The battles seem messy. They might break the experience for me. I hope you get that review key and prove me wrong. Everything else looks drool-inducingly good.

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