Since I finally finished Chasm, I'm now steadily going through Pinstripe (a platformer with great art direction) and finally playing first Xcom reboot (plain vanilla no long war mods nor enemy unknown dlc yet).

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Quoting: axredneckIs (s)he the same developer who developed DarkXL ?

I was very surprised... yes it is. Same github account and in the blog/news section of the website [External Link] he wrote:

This is my first “real” post on this blog. Several years ago there was a project called the “XL Engine” which evolved from DarkXL with lofty ambitions. I personally hit some difficult times but never properly canceled the project, even if I couldn’t get back to it for a long time and didn’t really want to for a long time after that. Fast forward to today, things are much better now with more free time but time moves on and the XL Engine isn’t really necessary anymore - both Daggerfall and Blood have great projects that fill the niche the XL Engine wanted to fill (or close enough).

But the Jedi Engine never had a proper source release or reverse engineering effort. While many considered DarkXL to be a promising effort, it was incomplete and inaccurate in many ways.

EDIT: Formatting

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Sweet! It's one of the devs I usually follow, but thank you for the article as always! I've played the previous versions of KeeperRL and utterly recomend even if still unfisihed / unbalanced.

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@Liam do you stream this game?

Haven't played with you guys (and gals) for a long time...

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This one was in my buy list for ages: sci-fi distopia + xcom + drm-free... hell yeah...

Well... exept for the mixed reviews.

But I finally got it last month, and promptly played it for the first time last week and had a blast. Looking into it, one of the features I liked the most was actually introduced on the 2.0 definitive edition, mainly the streamlined movement with all team at once out of combat.

I also can't imagine I would like the previous iteration of the initiative system from what I read, so all good!

:)

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Sweet! Those letters and art sure do remind me of the Julian Galops's XCOM precursor "Laser Squad" I played on ZX Spectrum... the game that hooked me into this genre

Laser Squad / Cogmind with synthwave mashup? Ohh and it has a demo?! :woot:

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Seeding as well. I was so hyped, but then I saw it was taken down due to costs. Now at least its working! Thanks for the news Liam :wink:

EDIT: fixed typos

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Ohh! just in time for "Labour of Love" steam award.

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I'm impressed. Quick walkthrough under 10m and it already has in editor documentation.

They're keeping it locked behind this, in the hopes that when it launches properly there will be some content ready for players.

Good! Good! Hate the first times a steam workshop appears and you have all the hype, but then you find it is barely empty the first months of a game.

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Quoting: CyrilGood thing for the GNOME foundation!
I'm less confident about the Everspace 2 campaign though, ~27K € in ~30 hours it's hard.

I actually think there will be no problem getting funded.

Its the most active (1st place on top 10) campaign right now and looking at the Kicktraq [External Link] page, for the first time that I see, the trending line almost matches the break-even line.

Even the projection is at 50/50 now, while previously it never reached the funding line.

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