This delivered a measurable halo effect across the broader PC ecosystem, including a 40% lift in Steam CCU while the title was free on the Epic Games Store.

Been there, done that. Tried a freebie game on EGS and liked it, but I wanted the DLC too. Went ahead and bought the whole kit - but on Steam of course!

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Quoting: AzzurraIrisLeaMondeHow many moms do you have? 👀

Oh dear, only the one, but apparently I have a surplus of s-keys on my keyboard 😄

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Quoting: GeamanduraThis was always an amazing project to provide a 2D adventure game engine, but I genuinely don't understand what are they doing now with including separate engines for running a 3D game Penumbra. At this point what stops them from e.g. including OpenMW, including the Heroes 2 and Heroes 3 open source engines, etc.? What is the purpose of this project morphing into a bundle of their initial vision engine plus more and more unrelated random shit?

What I think happened is that the HPL1 engine was in pretty bad shape. Outdated third party dependencies, hard to compile on modern platforms etc. There doesn't seem to be much activity on the GitHub page for the initial source release, and no active forks I could find so clearly some heavy TLC needed.

Presumably ScummVM already have a lots of tools needed for any game, input/sound, handling savegames, built with portability in mind and so on, and with 3D support already there with the Residual merger I guess it was less work integrating it with ScummVM than doing a total rewrite?

FWIW: It was started as a GSoC back in 2022:
https://blogs.scummvm.org/grisenti/2022/09/11/gsoc-summary/ [External Link]

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Quoting: Linux_RocksRusty Cage by Soundgarden is a fitting song for the opening FMV too. lol

Ah, the cringey 90's live action intro! Will the developer deliver!?

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Quoting: pbHeart of China... I have it on my must-play list since forever (ok, since 1991). Has the time finally come? It's on GOG, too.

I'm only familiar with a handful of the games on that list, kind of hard to separate wheat from the chaff, but thanks to your comment, and a quick skim on Wikipedia, Heart of China seems right up my alley. On the wheatlist wishlist it goes!

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I never had a problem with the newsletter. Give me free video games, I allow you to send me the occasional mail. Same rule applies to everyone, GOG, Fanatical, my moms...

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: TaresThe only odd thing here is you.

Reported for harassment. 😝 (jk idc)

Oddness is a virtue, wear it like a crown! (or teacup [External Link] )

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Even aside from the silliness of the setting it looks like it could be fun! There's not all that many good rock crawlers out there. So what if this one comes with mattresses!

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Just be sure not to defenstrate the Deck!

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Just call me Kiki [External Link] from now on because I'm ready to sign up for this delivery service! :grin:

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