Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: benstor214Anyway, should I install Godot from Steam or from the repository?

There's no "install," it's just a bare binary, so you can just grab it from the website Windows-style if you want.

They're on itch.io [External Link] as well.

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Quoting: CatKillerWhat it should be is that "roll only" means turning it like a steering wheel, and "yaw only" means pointing the Deck around the room to aim.

Their definitions kind of make sense if they consider the base orientation of the deck to be horizontal or flat on its back, whereas you (and I'm inclined to agree) think that it is upright, with the screen facing you. That would swap the axes like you're describing. I guess they forgot that the Deck isn't a gamepad.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

1€ Filter: Smoothed low level gyro noise without adding delay.

What does a "1€ Filter" mean? Is that some technical term I haven't heard of? :huh:

It's either that they bought a filter that only cost them €1... or it's mojibake for a "first order filter." They have had mojibake in their patch notes before.

It's actually the name of "a simple speed-based low-pass filter for noisy input in interactive systems". Check out https://gery.casiez.net/1euro/ [External Link] for some implementations and the science behind it.

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Quoting: shorberg

Quoting: ElectricPrismThe name Mono hasn't aged well, I could imagine CoronaGame wouldnt be too popular either. Corona Beer sales probably aren't too hot either.

I'll beat the dead horse a little too -- stigmatized names like Gimp are going to sound offputting to donors. This isn't hard.

I wish them well with their efforts to transform and safeguard their ethos and values.

Hmm... What's wrong with 'mono'?

eli5; It's another name for herpes

Mono is short for mononucleosis, which has no connection to herpes. Maybe you made that leap because people call it "the kissing disease". In any case, even though I spent a few days in a hospital bed once because mononucleosis made my throat hurt so much I couldn't swallow anything at all, that's hardly the first thing that comes to mind when I hear the word "mono".

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Quoting: JpxeWhat the difference between MonoGame and FNA?

I can't find it now, but I recently read a long blog post by a guy "flibijibito" or something like that who I understand is an absolute guru in Linux game tech.

That's Flibitijibibo [External Link] aka Ethan Lee. He's the author of FNA and a very prolific game porter. He definitely knows what he's talking about.

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Quoting: EduAAACool, don't really understand how this helps Linux since game has to be already available for Linux but hope he hmmm, improves Steam Deck compatibility somehow?

Maybe you missed this bit in the article: "...if developers don't have one Lee will make one for them." Meaning that he's willing to work on any game, not just ones that are already available for Linux.

There's also a bunch of old Linux releases that don't work on modern distributions out of the box for various reasons.

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Quoting: razing32Not to be a stick in the mud ... BUT ... why oh WHY do they always have to be "comedy"
I get Monkey Island was a classic and damn good , but does every game need comedy in it ?
I'd love to play a point and click horror or sci-fi , just straight up , no quips or sarcasm/pop culture references.

You're in luck: There's plenty of non-comedy point-and-click adventures around.

Check GOG.com's selection [External Link] for a good few. That list shows their point-and-clicks, but you can additionally filter by horror or sci-fi/science on the left.

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Quoting: syxbitI just can't get into point and click games without voice acting. Good voice acting is vital IMHO.

I suppose the fact that I played adventure games like this for years before voice acting in games became even technically feasible makes it easier to accept the silence for me. I guess it could have been done passably well in the 16bit era, but I don't even want to imagine how many more floppies something like Monkey Island 2 on the Amiga 500 would have needed with actual digitized voice samples. Eleven (or twelve?) "diskettes" was plenty already.

The obvious reason low-budget indies like this often don't have voices is that hiring voice talent costs money. (Unless the developers happen to be talented comedians who can do the voices themselves, like Alasdair Beckett-King did for the remaster of Nelly Cootalot [External Link]

Went on a bit of a ramble there, sorry. I'm not disputing the fact that the lack of voice acting does limit the potential audience.

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Can't help but see a Blackwell influence for that ghost gimmick, but I don't mind. I'll always have a soft spot for traditional comedy point-and-clicks.

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Quoting: clatterfordslimNice to see they have Angelina Jolie's face back as Lara.

I'm sure Jolie was chosen for the role because she looked like the character, but I think five Tomb Raider games had come out before they made the first movie. Did they actually use her face in some sequel?

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