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Latest Comments by tuubi
Need a new controller? The 8BitDo Ultimate C 2.4G looks great
11 May 2023 at 2:54 pm UTC

Quoting: const
Quoting: hardpenguinLove 8BitDo products, I can recommend GameSir as well!
Really? I kind of always had issues with using my sn30+ on anything Linux. Both on retropie and my desktop, they tended to not reconnect correctly. Finding modes where all buttons would get recognized was also hit and miss for me.
I had the reconnection problem with one cheapo USB BT dongle, but switching to another brand fixed it. There were also a couple of firmware updates that made it less fiddly, but those were mostly for the Switch mode. For maximum compatibility, you'll never want to switch out of XInput mode in any case, unless you need the gyro.

I've been really happy with the SN30 Pro+ and even more so with the Pro 2.

Dust off your game dev environment with the Linux Game Jam 2023
10 May 2023 at 6:09 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Ironowner
Quoting: Pengling
Quoting: IronownerSilly question. I would love to try, but is rpgmaker allowed? There's still JavaScript coding there...:huh:
Admittedly I don't keep up with RPG Maker, but the Game Jam's fourth rule is that your game must have a Linux build, and I'm not aware of any version of the tool that outputs those. :dizzy:
Yeah. it had a native client for some time. Works like a charm too. At least for me.
The rules explicitly allow any engine that can produce a native Linux build, so you should be good to go as long as you fulfil that requirement.

GOG reveal some stats on how they're doing
10 May 2023 at 6:05 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: GroganI've never had a stupid game that made me do any kind of challenge/response with booklet text, though I've heard of it.
I think Monkey Island did that.
Monkey Island 1 and 2 had fancy cardboard dials or wheels. Or at least the Amiga versions did. A bunch of early Sierra adventures had stuff you needed to find in the manual. And of course plenty of C64 games had something like a colour code grid on the cassette inlay card. Things like these were pretty common throughout the eighties and early nineties.

Seems the big Chinese surge on Steam is over - Steam Survey for April 2023
2 May 2023 at 7:58 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Highball
Quoting: GuestThat's it, the Steam survey is definitely skewed against Linux users: out of the ~120 million monthly active users on Steam, 7 (seven) of them commented on gamingonlinux.com lamenting they never, or very rarely, received a survey.
Clearly, this should be a priority for Valve and fixed ASAP!
6 of them. I gave instructions for making sure a survey would occur. No need for "lamenting" when you are the one finding the solution.
I don't know if you're solving anything or just messing with the system.

I got the survey yesterday by the way, if that's relevant to someone.

Report: Steam Deck to pass 3 million sales during 2023
7 Apr 2023 at 12:04 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Pengling
Quoting: CruelAngelI would like to add one other thing that makes the Deck a bit nieche besides the above listed: Its size.

The deck is huge and heavy. So while you can use it as a handheld its not really comparable to the handhelds of 1-2 generations ago where they were akin to mobile phones in size, you could just slip in your pocket and maybe play a bit even while commuting in a crowded vehicle. (To be fair the switch too is also large, but the deck is even larger)
This may not be as much of an issue as it appears - handhelds have been skewing towards being bigger for a few generations now, and if I'm remembering right (though I admit it has been a while), the best-selling iterations of several of Nintendo's handhelds were the "LL"/"XL" versions, when available. This even got to the point where the standard-sized version of the New 3DS revision of the Nintendo 3DS skipped the company's biggest market of North America altogether.
The Atari Lynx wasn't much smaller than the Deck, and it had a tiny screen. But I guess that was more than 1-2 generations ago. :whistle:

Ubuntu 23.04 'Lunar Lobster' Beta released
5 Apr 2023 at 7:33 pm UTC

Quoting: ripper81358
Quoting: tuubi
Quoting: ripper81358As far as i know Linux Mint is running Linux 5.15 at the moment. Ubuntu 23.04 and it's flavours will use Linux 6.2.
Mint offers 5.19 (the Ubuntu HWE kernel), while newer kernels are just as easy to install as on any Ubuntu flavour or derivative. I tend to run the latest kernels and Mesa myself.

But sure, don't install a stable distro if you don't want a stable distro.
The Kubuntu regular releases have been stable on my end. I never understood the stability argument. They are just no LTS releases which make them a bad choise for servers and in some cases production systems with the need to have a verfied environment for running proprietary software. For regular desktopuse and gaming they work reliable and stable.
By "stable", I was referring to the stability of the package base. I'm sure your Kubuntu works well, but that's completely beside my point, which was that gaming on Mint is just fine. Hardware support isn't a problem.

Ubuntu 23.04 'Lunar Lobster' Beta released
5 Apr 2023 at 4:48 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ripper81358As far as i know Linux Mint is running Linux 5.15 at the moment. Ubuntu 23.04 and it's flavours will use Linux 6.2.
Mint offers 5.19 (the Ubuntu HWE kernel), while newer kernels are just as easy to install as on any Ubuntu flavour or derivative. I tend to run the latest kernels and Mesa myself.

But sure, don't install a stable distro if you don't want a stable distro.

Flathub in 2023, they have some big plans
7 Mar 2023 at 5:48 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Purple Library GuyPersonally, I like Flatpaks as a concept, I feel they're appropriate for a significant niche, but I've never actually used one. If I want an app (that isn't a game), I get it from my distro, which, being Mint, has a nice easy GUI for software installation.
Do bear in mind that these days Mint's friendly software manager GUI (mintinstall) integrates Flathub and the update manager updates your flatpaks seamslessly. When both sources offer the same version of a piece of software, there's no reason to go for the flatpak, but there are several apps that are a lot more recent on Flathub. Godot is a good example. And then there's software like DBeaver (database manager) that are not in the default Ubuntu/Mint repositories at all, but can be installed from Flathub using your friendly and familiar GUI.

Hibernaculum is a gross looking retro-inspired sci-fi dungeon crawler
5 Mar 2023 at 9:41 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: BalkanSpyThis game looks awesome (in a grotesque, messed up way). Really a shame that it's a KS game, I really hope they reach their goal and actually deliver it according to plan. However when I look at their goal it doesn't seem like something that will keep them financially afloat until the planned release period (late 2025.)

I think the biggest problem with their KS is that they have no demo and a lack of footage with more action in it.
It is a worry. People having impressive artistic sensibilities does not always mean they have impressive coding abilities, or even that they're good at figuring out a . . . I dunno what you call it in games--plot? Flow? How to have the game move along and get to a conclusion in a satisfying way. Looking cool and creepy is not all it takes to make a game, is what I'm saying, so these people could run into problems later on.
That would be more of a concern if they'd never released a game before. Wormwood Studios made Primordia and Strangeland, a couple of decently popular point-and-click adventures published by Wadjet Eye.

Stone Kingdoms is an in-development open source remake of Stronghold
21 Jan 2023 at 8:54 pm UTC

Quoting: PsyringeHow can I get invloved in the development?
Quoting: Stone Kingdoms GitLabHow to contribute

Contact Kayle in the discord server [External Link] for more instructions.
We can use help in the programming, design and game balance department.