Quoting: nadrolinuxI checked live version and compared fonts rendering on both Ubuntu 22.10 and Fedora 37 with Gnome Text Editor. In Ubuntu 22.10 fonts looks great, all is sharp, but on Fedora 37 fonts are blurry. Both OSes use Gnome 43 and GTK4 for Gnome Text Editor. Do you know what make a differences? I tested a lot of the same fonts on both OSes. Only monospace regular looks decent on Fedora 37. Second things, libadwaita apps works properly with Ubuntu color accents. DO you know how to achieve sharp fonts rendering and accent colors in libadwaita apps on Fedora 37?

Apparently Fedora uses the grayscale font antialiasing method by default. Most other distributions tend to go for subpixel rendering instead. I haven't touched Gnome in a decade, but a quick search suggests you should be able to find the relevant settings in Tweaks -> Fonts -> Anti Aliasing. Might have to log back in for this to take effect in apps.

Seems like the rationale for going for grayscale instead of subpixel is that the former looks nicer on high DPI screens.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: dziadulewicz

Quoting: hardpenguinAlso, I wouldn't say no to a modern clone of Sensible Soccer...

Absolutely a big YES to that. Sensible Soccer is the only football game i even realy played(yes, it is actually Football, and that ball carrying game is something else) :tongue:

Looking at the extremities used, they might better have called it handball. :D

Only if you're willing to accept the absurd notion that a "ball" doesn't have to be at least approximately round. Also, handball [External Link] is taken.

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I'll skip the demo. Grundislav's past work is enough to guarantee a place on my wishlist.

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Already wishlisted. The demo was slightly clunky, but not enough to spoil the fun. A bit of a casual time waster maybe, but that's not always a bad thing.

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Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: LeopardThing is; businesses are targeting immediate/relevant markets as they are all there to make money. So going native is just not possible at any rate as of now.

Yet there are thousands of native games on the market. Seems to blatantly contradict your assertion.

No? It is mostly a non issue to get a native build for indies because engines they used has export options.

Article is about Uncharted which is an AAA game, message that started debate says/implies they should have gone with native.

So you really don't need to be pedantic here. You know very well what is being talked about here.

I do know what is being talked about, and I also know I've got native AAA games that still work fine several years after release. I quoted and replied to a specific assertion of yours. "Going native" is clearly not impossible, or even prohibitively hard from a technical standpoint. I am not being pedantic. I am simply refusing to accept your hyperbole.

Developing for and publishing on Linux might not be judged desirable for short-sighted business reasons, but that's just shifting the goal posts. Business decisions are not always logical, and they're often made by people whose only concern is to produce nice graphs pointing upwards for the next quarterly report, additionally influenced by the sort of largely unfounded prejudice you're putting forward here. We've heard this sort of FUD about Linux for a couple of decades now, and it's less true now than it was back then.

An indie dev might just be pushing a button in an export dialog (and hopefully doing a bit of QA before release), but someone developed that game engine and managed to make it support Linux in the first place. AAA devs are very likely to possess the resources to do that with their own games and engines, but of course that doesn't mean they're obligated to do so.

EAC broke due to an unfortunate combination of poor technical decisions on their part (apparently relying on an ELF section that had been de-facto deprecated for more than a decade), and arguably poor handling of the whole deprecation and removal process by the glibc maintainers, but it's not as if you can't find instances of games and software getting broken by Windows updates just as—if not even more—easily. I fully understand that there are reasons why supporting Linux requires effort that many developers are unwilling to put in, and expertise they might be lacking. Who am I to say that their reasons are all invalid. In the end it's their decision, and I'm not too bothered either way.

In any case, I suspect investors and publishers will forget all about the supposed technical barriers if the Linux gaming market ever grows large enough to make it harder to ignore.

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Quoting: LeopardThing is; businesses are targeting immediate/relevant markets as they are all there to make money. So going native is just not possible at any rate as of now.

Yet there are thousands of native games on the market. Seems to blatantly contradict your assertion.

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Quoting: itscalledrealityMy snipe at Unix to Linux is to point out that the Playstations are traditionally Unix platforms. An OS that has traditionally not been used heavily for visual applications and is the cousin of Linux. So why did it take until almost 2022 to give us Linux gaming if we were playing on Unix the whole time?

Unix and Linux are cousins in a sense, but Linux is not Unix. And the game was ported to Windows, which is definitely not a close relative. Still, it's nice that they made sure (or let Valve make sure) that it works on Proton.

The Uncharted series looks fun enough, but I'll stick to games with official Linux support. I don't care if they're wrapped, as long as they do some QA on (desktop) Linux as well.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887Looks nice, would play if it didn't require you to install Steam to download it.

It doesn't. You can get it on itch.io [External Link] as well.

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Unless the trailer is intentionally misleading, this one promises to dial up Failbetter's normally judicious use of dark humour a whole lot. And I like it.

Dating sims and visual novels aren't exactly my cup of beverage -- I'm more of a non-visual novel kind of guy -- but I might just have to wishlist this regardless.

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Quoting: Craggles086

Quoting: hardpenguin

Quoting: Craggles086Trying to remember the name of the Dos game made before Heroes of Might and Magic. When they were developing some of the ideas that went into Heroes.

Can not seem to remember, but would love an open source version of it.

King's Bounty?

Could have been. Was the first one a Dos game?

It was released in 1990, so obviously DOS and C64. Then a graphically enhanced port to Amiga with more comfortable mouse controls.

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