Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: DrMcCoy...this looks terrible :(

Depends on your perspective, personally I thought it looked pretty darn good for an automatic thing. It all depends how much of a perfectionist you're going to be on it. While in-game, many probably won't even notice some of the smaller issues it has, especially considering you're going to be seeing them against world backgrounds and often at a much faster pace than the examples.

As the developer says on the video, you'd use this to produce the frames and then tweak them to perfection in your preferred animation tool. It sure seems like it could save you a bunch of time. Though I'd assume it would be even handier if this was integrated into an open source pixel animation tool.

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Quoting: NanobangIf anyone can recommend a good gateway JRPG or three, available at a low, low, low no risk price (< $2 / €2 / £1.40) I'd be keen to give it a try.

I can't think of anything you'd call a good, traditional JRPG at quite that price range (on Linux), but I know I've seen Earthlock on sale for around 4€, and included in some bundles. I thought it was a pretty solid game, and the pace wasn't too slow despite the turn based fights. I also hear good things about Ara Fell, which currently goes for a few euros on Steam, but haven't played that one myself yet.

Then there's faster paced JRPG-ish stuff like Crosscode and Lenna's Inception. The latter was in the huge racial justice bundle at itch.io if you happened to pick it up.

Of course, if you're willing to use Proton, I'm sure you've got a lot more options. Including big-name and big-budget stuff actually made by Japanese developers.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThe interesting thought about this, is even if they honor this, and disable periodic checks, any of the games that warn about 3rd party DRM would probably be unplayable.

3rd party as in not Steam/Valve? Why would Steam shutting down affect those?

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Quoting: GuestSo you both have no idea what you are talking about. Great.

Don't be like that. They were clearly trying to help.

It's extremely common practice for USB 3 ports to be partially blue. Just do an image search for "USB 3 port" and you'll see what they mean. Some hardware designs prefer symbols instead, something like the SS (SuperSpeed) symbol, or maybe even a number like on the front panel of my wife's Fractal Design tower case. My own older FD case has blue USB 3 ports and black USB 2 ports, as do the couple of laptops in the house.

It's also true that many peripherals do not benefit from USB 3 speeds (or higher electric current), and that USB 3 components are a bit more expensive.

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I'll pass on the multiplayer. For me, these games are almost meditative. I play them to relax, first and foremost. Random strangers on the roads would be counterproductive at best.

That said, I don't doubt this could prove to be a very popular addition.

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Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääWait, the site says "ZDoom" now, not GZDoom. The project's name has shortened up or some?

From the download page of that site:

ZDoom now comes in multiple flavours! The primary port, GZDoom, sports advanced hardware (OpenGL) and enhanced software rendering capabilities, while the port LZDoom serves as an alternative with a different feature set, detailed below. Although the parent ZDoom codebase has been discontinued, the latest official release is available here for posterity.

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I'm not a fan. I have a feeling that subscription services—whether in the form of access to a library of content or monthly media bundles—lead to even less influence on the markets by the consumer. You end up paying for all kinds of stuff you'd rather not support, and niches are marginalized even further. Especially if these subscriptions replace more traditional market models, like they've largely done for music and films. (Not that those markets weren't broken already.)

I know my disinterest in media subscriptions of any sort (Netflix, Spotify, Humble Monthly etc.) is probably considered weird, but despite the obvious convenience, I don't think they're worth the downsides for us or the majority of artists and developers. These services are a goldmine for big retailers and publishers, obviously, and superficially they seem like a good deal, but I'm not sure that they're good for us in the long run.

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Looking at the cyberpunk setting I wouldn't be surprised if the name comes from Gibson's classic Sprawl trilogy.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: hardpenguinBrave soul, I hope they will prevail.

He wont he may win and they may say okay keep your code up but remove all of our assets from the game which we do own

Assets are not included in the codebase. As Liam says in the article, you need to own the game or this engine is useless.

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I'll do another partial quote:

Quoting: Guestrefunds can only go to your steam wallet too

I'll stay out of the bigger discussion, but I'd like to point out that this part isn't actually true. You can choose to get the refund to your Steam wallet or the original payment method (credit card / Paypal). I think this is required by law in at least my part of the EU. I don't know if this applies to partial refunds or complete transactions only.

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