I backed Dad Quest on Kickstarter way back in 2015, but I'd kind of given up hope that it would be out for Linux in any official capacity. Backers got download links for Linux (and Mac) builds last year though.

Great to see that things are going in the right direction though. After all, getting more games available for all (current and future) Linux gamers (not just backers) is half the reason to support crowdfunding in the first place.

We actually covered Dad Quest on The Funding Crowd #53 way back when: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-funding-crowd-53-the-latest-in-linux-crowdfunding-news.6265

How time flies.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Anza

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: areamanplaysgame

Quoting: BielFPsBut if I check, Steam will hide games which are not flagged as Linux compatible right? If not then I'll change in my profile ASAP

I have it checked and it shows me a lot of games that do not officially support Linux. I think the theory at this point is, with Proton, any game is a Linux game if you really believe.

It definitely affects queues and many elements of the primary store page, but there are lots of exceptions. The setting is ignored for big sales, for example, and mid-week madness. It's also ignored on all the steam labs stuff, like Deep Dive [External Link], which is pretty infuriating, as it renders those tools pretty useless for me.

Funnily enough, you mentioned Deep Dive as an example, which is the only one that honors the Linux store filter. Reason for that was that original implementation wasn't done by Valve and developer implemented Linux support just because people requested it.

However Diving Bell might pick non Linux game to the first set of selections, which is not actually bad thing as you can check if there are similar Linux games available.

Funnily enough, it was Diving Bell that I was thinking of, because I follow Lars Doucet on Twitter (big fan of his games). And yep, it doesn't support platform filtering, while I notice that Deep Dive now seems to!

Apparently, it only respect platform filters because Lars Doucet specifically made it happen. It's a shame that the burden to make it work is on labs contributors, and not Valve. Seems like a recipe to make sure most of them never will.

EDIT: Source: https://mobile.twitter.com/gamingonlinux/status/1174747823545421825 [External Link]

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Quoting: fleskI hope they fix the Steam Labs experiments to respect your platform settings soon. Last I tried, only Lars Doucet's did, making the rest pretty much useless.

As I understand, it needs a conscious effort from each tool developer to respect the settings.

That's unfortunate. :( I guess it will never happen then, unless Valve takes steps to enforce it.

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I hope they fix the Steam Labs experiments to respect your platform settings soon. Last I tried, only Lars Doucet's did, making the rest pretty much useless.

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Quoting: HoriDoes that mean Steam is gonna come to ARM-based devices? Because that would be awesome

No, probably only the x64 Chromebooks, since none (or at least very few) of the games on Steam have an ARM version anyway.

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Obviously, I'd love to buy the LEGO games for Linux, but if I can only pick three:

1) Beyond Good and Evil
2) A Hat in Time
3) Age of Empires II

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Looks like a fun game. The only thing I'm a bit skeptical about is that the world is randomized somehow, according to the video.

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Looks great! Reminds me a little of Steamroll [External Link], which I enjoyed a lot, but which unfortunately doesn't have any secrets to explore, making slightly too linear.

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Quoting: GuestDot.Net needs to be done with Mono on Linux or via Wine (yeah there is Dot.Net core but I never saw it in action in any meaningful way and I assume it only has a subset of all that stuff which is included into Dot.Net since it is called "core"). Which also makes me think of the quoted statement by M$. That Teams for Linux has all the "core" features. Sounds like another Skype for Linux thing to me.

I'm not a .NET developer, so I'm not an authority on the subject, but I know our Microsoft teams are developing most of their applications with .NET Core deployed on Linux these days, so I assume it has most/all of the features that .NET has.

Quoting: GuestAnd what's about Windows Defender ATP coming to Linux? Who the f*ck cares about it on Linux at all? For me it looks like they just doing this to make some uneducated people installing it on their Linux box to see what applications they running and what they are doing on their system.

This is actually a big deal in enterprise; it's just not primarily for Linux desktop users. Any service that supports file upload/download usually has to implement some sort of service for scanning files for viruses, to make sure the recipient on the other end doesn't get infected. There's already ClamAV, which also supports Linux, but more options is a good thing.

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Quoting: lucinos

Quoting: fleskYeah, why on earth did they choose Unity over something more lightweight, and with a more liberal license?

If they expect some kind of partnership it would actually make good sense. If they just choosing it because they think this is easier then it is a stupid choice and it is only because they do not know any better. I do not know which case it is, I would bet it is just a stupid choice just because this is what they know.

The article says that Unity has been working closely with them, so I hope that's the case, and that it works out well for them.

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