Quoting: Spyker

Quoting: seb24

Quoting: Spyker

Quoting: mehari95Does anyone know why they chose Flatpak over Snap?

Flatpack has one advantage over snap, like the possibility to bundle a runtime containing common dependencies shared between Flatpack packages. Thus Flatpack packages tends to be much smaller than snap ones. The runtime can be updated separately providing benefits for all other Flatpack apps without breakage.

Snappy have the same functionality ^^ .

As far as I know only Flatpack provides this feature...
Another drawback for snappy is you cannot set up a third party repo for it (only the one from Canonical is allowed), which is probably the biggest issue for Valve.

Nop Snappy propose this function : https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2016/11/16/snapping-qt-apps/ [External Link]
And you can add use different repo and add various stores. In fact it's a nice solution for Steam because they can really easily integrate a proper Steam Snapp repo in steam.

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Quoting: Spyker

Quoting: mehari95Does anyone know why they chose Flatpak over Snap?

Flatpack has one advantage over snap, like the possibility to bundle a runtime containing common dependencies shared between Flatpack packages. Thus Flatpack packages tends to be much smaller than snap ones. The runtime can be updated separately providing benefits for all other Flatpack apps without breakage.

Snappy have the same functionality ^^ .

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Quoting: LukeNukemFlatPak is a hell of a lot better, very self contained with few external deps.

Snappy is also self contained and with no external dependencies as it's just a single package.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: MalMy last game was pretty heavy.

I spawned in a galaxy arm with birdmen on the right and a lot of expansion space on the left.

I thought I was in the perfect spot and I started expanding.

Sadly, unbeknownst to me on the upper arm there was an militant isolationist empire who gently offered to cross the empty space, exterminate all my colonies and humiliate me.

And here I thought the Vogons were assholes XD

The game is full of good material for hilarious stories of failure that's for sure. Even more so when they do the update to add in more mid-game content.

I have the same experience ^^. The first time pirates defeated me :D . And the second time an Isolationist Empire came with a 17K fleet against my 5K Fleet...

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Quoting: c3224Unity is working on SDL supprot and SDL includes X11, Wayland and Mir support; Unity guys are too dumb to work on Wayland and Mir directly, so they are not working on Wayland and Mir and your headline is wrong. Mir, Wayland, X11 and other subsystems support in SDL was worked on by SDL developers an community (guys who are not dumb). It was a damn time to use SDL for an engine which claims support to multiple platforms, they aim too add "Build to XYZ" buttons all over the place but all of their builds, except Windows ones, are bad and full of bugs.

According to screnshoots they are using Ubuntu, a Linux distribution with unique DE, unique display system and unique patches to almost all librarys and unique defaults, hey my Linux traitors, do you know what that means? It means there will be all kind of bugs and issues in other distributions because game developers (engine developers also) dont understand that Ubuntu is "a little bit special kid" and at the end they dont support Linux they support Ubuntu.

kkthnxbye

Dumb message ever ^^ .
- Using existing framework is a smart move. It's totally useless to dev again a new stuff if you can use an existing one. Unless you have good reason to do it.
- If you read the article (yeah it's difficult...) you can see they are working on specific problem for Wayland, so the headline is right and you are wrong.
- If you open your eyes you can see they are testing on a Fedora distribution.

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It's because some games are announced on Linux but not published yet, like XCOM2 for example.

So if you filter by release date is not showing theses games.

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I just purchased the game ^^ . But 11Gb to download I will wait this week end :p

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wow

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Quoting: liamdawePercentage wise it's higher than normal, but a percentage is meaningless when you look at the figures I quoted from him.

I can't agree here. Percentage are interesting because you can see Mac + Linux at 10%. The figures about sales are low in the global. It's not something in relation with Linux.

And you can quote this part too :

That’s not amazing, but it’s not nothing either. Alone, that’s not quite enough to pay rent, much less completely cover the cost of developing another game, much less actually turn a profit. But in conjunction with my remaining savings, income from contract work, additional revenue from Eldritch, and my wife’s income, we’re staying afloat.

So in general is no doing any profit on this game for the moment.

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The critics on Steam are really bad too.

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