Quoting: Mountain ManTo be fair, it would require a major engine rewrite to go from DirectX to OpenGL.

Only if the engine was designed around and tightly coupled with DirectX, and "cross-platform wasn't much of a concern." Otherwise they'd have implemented proper abstraction layers and separate graphics backends, even if there was only one to begin with. Of course it'd still be a lot of work.

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Codweavers? A Norwegian developer I presume?

I wonder what makes this game an adventure instead of a straight up tactical RPG though.

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Quoting: BelarriusI want to see the difference between OpenGL and Vulkan with a 6-8 cores for exemple :p

At this point Dota 2 can't show you that difference. Just the difference between one finished and optimized backend (OpenGL) and one that's still in beta. You'll have to wait for a proper benchmark.

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Quoting: TheRiddickI really don't quite understand some aspects of this, does this mean Chris Roberts and Star Citizen could pay only $1 for the entire use of the engine? lol

Large projects and developers almost invariably pay for support. Having the engine creators basically "in the team" actually often saves developers considerable sums of money due to less of their own expensive time spent stumbling on the quirks of the engine and more easily getting in fixes and tweaks instead of doing work-arounds in their game code. The only ones likely to pay trivial amounts are penniless indies, which is fine. This model enables both kinds of developers to make use of the engine.

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I hope it's something more interesting than Doom. Mad Max would be fun.

And now to my happy place, Off Topic:

Quoting: omer666First, porting from one low level API to another low level API may range from difficult to suicidal, and then, it may ultimately bring some overhead whereas the goal of both these API's is to reduce this overhead to the minimum... nonsense if you ask me.

No, actually what you said is (partly) nonsense. Porting from an API to another is only difficult if these API's are very different. This isn't the case with Vulkan and DX12. Being low level hasn't got much to do with it. In fact, porting between them seems to be trivial compared to OpenGL and DX11 due to their very similar design. Parts of the port can almost be done with search-and-replace, especially if and when a usable HLSL to SPIR-V compiler finally surfaces. And porting itself does not imply overhead if the graphics engine is well designed and sensibly abstracted, although any backend implemented as an afterthought by a third party is rarely well optimized and polished.

I don't know the specifics about Metal, but it seems to do things a bit differently and porting might be quite a bit more work. More high level abstractions in some areas than the "competing" API's apparently. I don't see any reason to believe a port would be more difficult than let's say porting from DX11 to OpenGL though. In principle that is. I don't imagine there are that many graphics programmers very fluent in Metal at this point which naturally adds a hurdle to the process.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeSo yeah, VR really is a new way to interact with software, and it is almost the ultimate way to do so.

Nah, that would be direct neural interfaces or whatever utopic/nightmarish (take your pick) sci-fi cliché we'll get in the future. Whatever lets us actually feel like we're moving about and interacting with the virtual environments without actually flailing about and bumping into stuff in the real world. Rolling our heads around wearing clumsy isolation helmets with screens glued to our eyeballs isn't quite there yet.

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Quoting: WorMzyThe Gtk2 analogy works, but the Gtk3 one would only make sense if, every six months there was a new HTML5 standard, the old ones stopped working, and w3.org was the only website updated to use the new one. :P

It is a bit of a moving target, but it's nowhere near that bad. Theming-related stuff in particular has seen some breakage between releases, but it seems like they might be finally settling down. Hopefully. And in the end, there's tons of software out there using GTK+3 that works and looks just fine. Even Xfce is going through the transition finally, and so far lack of manpower seems to have been the only significant speed bump.

Qt is what I'd pick for commercial projects (for several practical reasons), but GTK is what I actually like using for some reason I can't quite put my finger on.

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I don't think I've played any worms game since the first one. Apart from different weapons and stuff, this looks like more of the same. And for once that's not a bad thing. :) Why break something that works? Of course there's all kinds of newfangled on-line multiplayer stuff and the graphics are nicer, but that's irrelevant. Local multiplayer is where the fun is.

But I'll have to finally try hedgewars at some point, thanks for reminding me guys.

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I tried coding while drunk once. It did not go well.

Anyway, the game looks great. Definitely going on my wishlist.

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Quoting: aristoriasDo EULAs of modern games still allow such things?

That doesn't matter really. At least in the EU emulators and clean reimplementations of pretty much anything (except for certain crypto technologies I guess) are perfectly legal. No EULA can override law.

As long as OpenRW doesn't actually share anything that falls under Rockstar's copyright, it should be fine.

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