Quoting: LinasI am still upset about The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing. It was already in beta when suddenly it just... stopped.

I suspect on that one, they released the beta thinking everything was more or less done, and they'd just have to make a few minor fixes. Then when the feedback was that everything was completely broken, my guess is that they decided not to invest in fixing it.

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I love that itch.io left in the reverse sale [External Link] feature from April 1.
Example: https://itch.io/s/4338/sophies-games-double-price [External Link]
(♥ Rose & Time, fwiw)

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One of the developers, 3 Sprockets [External Link], was an early Linux adopter for their Cubemen [External Link] series, as well as working hard to support their Linux userbase for their user-generated-content-oriented mini-ARPG Fight the Dragon [External Link], so, while happy, I'm not too surprised to see PM256 getting day-1 support.

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Quoting: ZeloxI have a dream!
I really hope this title comes to Linux.
The art style is perfect and we get a "darksouls" game.

You may also be interested in Pharaonic [External Link].

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This is the same studio that brought us all three of their Shadowrun games already. I'm not sure why Necropolis would be substantially different.

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SOMA, Amnesia:TDD, and, old but good, Penumbra. Metro has some nice horror elements as well.

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I hadn't been following HoI4, so I was fairly annoyed by this trailer, until I saw that it was actually intended to be a hypernationalist American caricature, and that there were also Russian [External Link] and British [External Link] variants.

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Pharaonic: punishing, but rewarding
Really hoping for Hard Reset: Redux

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If they want to be so 1337 and pro-F/LOSS they can use SDL on Windows too

It's not out of the question, actually - if we can still achieve everything we want and remove a bunch of duplicated/reïmplemented code on multiple platforms, everybody wins.

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The main impetuses behind this project are:
* Getting ahead of the curve for Wayland/Mir/NextBigThing
* Potentially sharing a little more code between Linux and other "Linuxlike" platforms

SDL support should make things like multiple monitor handling much better. That is something I am especially keen for, as multiple monitor handling in a lot of Unity games is often really poor. SDL could also help them improve things like gamepad/controller support too.

I wouldn't expect SDL to magically improve this. Engine support for multimonitor systems is already there, and the same engine API will be exposed to game developers regardless of what's powering it on the back end. Similarly, SDL2-style gamepad mapping has been supported since Unity 5.0 - how developers handle it is a different issue.

Wondering about performance though which already seems to be still lacking a bit behind Unity's DX implementation. Would have expected it to be even lower then when "directly" talking to the windowing system (though I actually thought it would more or less talk directly to some OpenGL stuff?) instead of having SDL as an additional layer in between?

In this case, SDL would only be used for window setup and input - rendering would still use OpenGL directly.

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