Getting off of Itch and on to Steam got my attention.

I don't wanna dash to pieces people who like Itch, but there is so much STUFF on there I really don't have the time to go through it and find the good ones inamongst the bad ones (which are many).

I need a Steam Link so I can wishlist this and give it a closer look. I'm not sure if the graphics are off putting or charming just yet, big AoEIIDE Fan -- also I'm glad they are going commercial -- I would love a well crafted RTS like this and be happy to pay for it assuming it [x] all the boxes on what I would enjoy and is fun, multiplayer, looks good in 4k, doesn't lag crazy during wars, etc...

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Caesar III eSport in 3... 2... :P

Also where's the Super Tux Kart Annual eSport Tournament?

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System Shock 2 remake in this style would be lit.

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It doesn't have a native Linux build yet

Well that explains why I didn't buy it yet. I have been looking forward to it, though I think I might have unwishlisted it since it's had no Linux icon for quite a while now.

I hope they release a beta or something in the near feature -- I'll be looking in the news feeds to see when its time to check it out closely.

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I never thought I'd see the day, I've made many smaller games in GM. Having had so much time away It'd be really hard to pick between Unity, Godot and GM but I think I'd lean toward Godot. It's nice to have options here in the present (future). I'd love to see more of this in the feed.

Is this the latest example of what it's like? Does anyone else have any good videos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f53M4_78Z74 [External Link]

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Quoting: liberodarkThat a great Steam Deck for me :D

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Let me disassembly the face plate & grab my spray paint and get back to you, jk. They had controller wraps -- giving people these kinds of options could boost sales quite a bit -- people love useless options that make them feel a sense of empowerment and like the device is now "their own" made entirely for them personally.

I could very much see people doing their own vent fan mods.

Also, I would like to see some "I use arch btw" written somewhere on the device or laser engraved.

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I submit this image as proof



Notably that WINEPREFIX's are essentially WINE BOTTLES or Ship in a Bottle -- in the more literal case -- {( App In A Bottle )}.

Their new website is much better than their old one.

https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover#compatibility [External Link]

Even their new pages like the compatibility database really make WineDB feel like it could benefit from a refresh.

I always felt like their marketing was primarily targeted at Apple users, and since their commercial offering focused in on commercial products I don't use, like Microsoft Office, it wasn't overly appealing.

From using their products in the past I can definitely say the UI was a big improvement and made things much easier. I just wish they put in more effort to get Adobe tools in good condition, but since those are already on MacOS I don't suppose they're a big focus since they're not the bread & butter.

Edit:

Quoting: yar4eHaven't the developers of WINE previously stated that DXVK is a dead-end branch of the development of the dx11-vulkan translator?

Not a direct answer -- but IIUC WINE is programmed in C and there was a big push-back to not include anything programmed in C++ (I can't recall if that changed), I think the core thinking behind it was that WINE puts a lot of effort into being portable to many platforms -- this allows it to even get ported to things like Android or iOS theoretically (where what Objective C is the standard?) Anyways, The developers of DXVK knew it wasn't perfect when they made it. They leveraged certain trade-offs during the development that made their efforts more successful at hitting their target goals and speed up development. I'm not even sure if they intended for it to be perfect or to ever be useful outside of Linux, obviously while still not perfect they did a damn good job of making sure virtually everything runs and at amazing quality too -- so I think the tradeoffs are negotiable from a Linux Gamer prospective.

Obviously WINE is interested in making sure they have drivers that they can ship across platforms, and since Mac is/was a big part of their income that was a big reason why DXVK remained separate from mainline.

That's the summary of the situation as I understand it from my daily linux reading, I could have details wrong, feel free to correct revision to add clarity if so.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: ElectricPrismAll the AAA simping and white knighting of why AAA games can't support Linux cuz "tem not has enough li nuks mons 4 coleg" is completely dashed to pieces by what we saw at Activision+Blizzard. No wonder their catalog has been absolute trash for the last few years.

Holy Bacon! I went and looked this up--what a bunch of complete vicious incompetent assholes.

Yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIhLpyORlis [External Link]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNhMWJsQ7QM [External Link]

Apparently the Blizzard women employees who are victims have had their spotlight & thunder now hijacked by Activists and Con-artists seeking to profit from Virtue-Shilling their services, products and trying to funnel donation money into their own organizations seeking their own unaligned agendas.

So sad for the women and employees who were actually getting noticed, now Forign Activist Virtue-Shilling will cause the public to loose solidarity with the actual victims and they will be drowned out by the moronic actions of a few activists who don't even work at Blizzard. RIP Women's Rights. Sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JuJXDG5S3s [External Link]

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Quoting: KohlyKohlThey were hesitant to port over Trine 3 and didn't bother with Trine 4. This is not a surprise by any means.

Is it coincidence that I didn't bother to buy their unported games. Nope.

Quoting: GuestI doubt anyone can take a platform seriously if there's no support for it.

Inversely, I can't take a game company seriously if they don't officially support their game on my platform.

Their game goes straight to the bottom of the list, a list of tens of thousands of games I might add making them undistinguished.

Quoting: GuestWhat makes this even worse is that Trine 4 is on Stadia.

I wonder if the people in charge are technically minded enough to understand that Stadia is Linux. After the shitstorm that happened at Activation-Blizzard this week with people being perpetually drunk for 6 months, my dystopian vision of "how bad", "how disorganized" and "complete chaos" was vastly a under-prediction of the potential incompetence within even "big AAA" "respectable" companies.

All the AAA simping and white knighting of why AAA games can't support Linux cuz "tem not has enough li nuks mons 4 coleg" is completely dashed to pieces by what we saw at Activision+Blizzard. No wonder their catalog has been absolute trash for the last few years.

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Quoting: CatKillerMicrosoft of the 90s seemed undefeatable; Microsoft now seems like they've already lost. But it might all be wishful thinking.

I'll go on record saying Microsoft has indeed already lost. According to the verge there are over 3 billion [External Link] active Android devices in the world.

Numerically, Android/Linux is king. iOS is probably second, and then the desktop operating systems after that.

Edit: If you look at Microsoft's behavior over the last few years too they have started to do some odd things like create their own line of computers, begin to promote SaaS Software as a Service and strengthen their server divisions, Xbox and so on -- reducing Windows 10 price to $0 for a while -- essentially their OS license wasn't their bread and butter anymore and they realized it so they subsidized it. They also bought Mojang to get control over MineCraft and several other game studios to steer the teenage demographic back into their Walled Garden -- because they realized most kids and teens experience with electronics is on Android and iOS phones and they literally had 0 interest or need for Windows -- Microsoft was not "needed" -- a problem Microsoft intended to correct.

Edit 2: Microsoft also got the sense that their grip over developers was weakening too, developers no longer focused on their obscure technology as the web evolved and popularity rose with iOS, Android, and Linux. They also "corrected" this "problem" by buying GitHub and [ installing ] themselves into the center of the developer community to try to ensure their longevity to exert influence to ensure their survival.

RIP GitHub, especially after the illegal AI stealing code from their users and literally breaking licenses & laws to do it.

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