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Years ago, when I was studying, I used to play KOL daily. It was great fun, and apparently still is, according to my wife and friends who still play. I plan on buying a copy as soon as it's released and I have some time on my hands.

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I'm not sure if it's a coincidence or unrelated, but since I upgraded to Mint 18 with KDE Plasma 5 earlier this year 3d games are unplayable for me, including HM Spiffing, Cradle and this one. No matter whether I play with integrated graphics or Nvidia, the games just crawl to a near halt after seconds of playing, so I figure it might be CPU related. I haven't played much at all this year though, so it's not a big deal, but I'd been looking forward to playing this one (I'm a backer). I had zero issues with the Toybox, but that was before the upgrade. Granted, my laptop is getting very old now too, so maybe I just need a new one.

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I'd definitely buy this if it was available for Linux. Looks right up my alley, and so damn cute.

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Can't wait! :)

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Quoting: FurorAnyone have problems seeing Itch store systray icon in KDE?

Yes. I've been meaning to investigate and write up a proper bug report (if there isn't one already), but I haven't gotten around to it yet. The systray icon is just a red square instead of the real icon.

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I had a lot of fun with the backer Toybox, which was also a day-one release, so I'm very excited about the complete game. :)

It's also very common for the retail price to be higher than the cheapest game pledges, since backers take a risk by backing a project they're excited about, plus there's no way of knowing what a good market price for your game will be until you've put the years of development in and you see how it's starting to turn out compared to other, similar games.

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Still says "Coming Soon" for me in Norway. :/

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Quoting: tuubiTons of good games on my wishlist so I'll have plenty to choose from. I'll probably have to skip the autumn sale, but I'm hoping to bag Rocket League and/or Mad Max around Christmas. SHENZHEN I/O looks awesome as well.

Shenzhen I/O is indeed awesome.

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I missed this article when it was posted, but I was using bumblebee without issues until I upgraded from Linux Mint 17 KDE to 18 this weekend, and just couldn't get bumblebee to recognize my discrete GPU no matter what I tried. (It's always been a painful experience though, and I've found that the easiest way to upgrade my Nvidia drivers have been to uninstall bumblebee and primus, upgrade Nvidia, and then reinstall bumblebee and primus).

So I installed this driver (or 375.10; I don't remember; I'm at work now) and the nvidia-prime package, and I was kind of blown away by how easy it was to get to work. It's a bummer that there's no render offloading though, as I really enjoyed the convenience of primarily using the integrated card on my laptop and just using primusrun to launch more graphically intensive games. Right now I have to restart my display manager to have the switch take effect, but someone on the Linux Mint IRC channel mentioned that this is a shortcoming of sddm (the default display manager for Plasma 5), and that gdm and lightdm might not have this issue, so I'm thinking I'll give lightdm a try tonight and see if that will improve the experience.

Really hoping render offloading can be officially supported by Nvidia in the near future though, as it would make playing games on Linux laptops much, MUCH more appealing to casual gamers, and I think this is a huge market, even though these gamers might not frequent gaming news sites much.

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