Quoting: Avehicle7887

Quoting: ShmerlSome weird announcement about The Witcher 3 being developed for Nintendo Switch. It means they are implementing a Vulkan renderer for it after all? With Google trying to attract high profile games to Stadia, it's one step away from it. And two steps away from normal Linux release then.

Unfortunately, many devs will happily port to everything and skip Linux aside or at the very best give it lower priority. I haven't looked into how Stadia works underneath, will it require games to be Linux native to make part of it? If so, that could be a nice 2 birds 1 stone.

AFAIK it runs on Linux and AMD hardware (not sure about the actual driver stack) and uses Vulkan.

So no requirement of a Linux client build but it should be low hanging grapes.

But this does *OFC* not mean we will see significantly more of those games on Linux.
The market share of Linux users is still small and probably not worth it for most of the AAA publishers.
Would be great though, but don't hold your breath.

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I wonder how they will turn that piece of hardware into an EGS exclusive. :D

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How about releasing the game on Steam - but only for Linux?

Maybe this could be negotiated with Epic, as they don't offer support for that platform.

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Quoting: scaineI still hate Epic for their tactics of course, but maybe some actual good can come of the money they're flinging around - smaller devs getting big capital payouts and guaranteed sales, competition for Steam, and hopefully very little impact on Linux as a whole.

What I hate most about the situation is that the smaller indie devs are actually abused by Epic in that "war" and it seems like they don't even realize it.

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Lots of our heroes turn out to not care *that much* about Linux.

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We know some of you prefer a Steam key so you will also get a key for a backer-exclusive pre-release on Steam that is going to be the full game. (don’t tell Valve - no idea what they think about it)

You should not promise a Steam release then turn to another store yet still partially providing Steam keys.
It might be fair to the backers, but it's overly unfair at the whole picture.

Either stay to your promised words and release on Steam or don't provide keys at all.
That's cheap!

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Quoting: GuestOMG, it ran faster on my Voodoo 20 years back :-)

And I'm sure, I was more impressed back then! :)

(Had a shiny new Voodoo 2 at the time, iirc)

Edit: Also, impressive how id software managed to release Quake 2 just slightly more than one year after Quake 1.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: RoosterWhich programming puzzle games would you recommend?

If it's your first
  Human Ressource Machine,
if you already played Human Ressource Machine and Seven Billions Humans,
  if you like it hardcore
    take a look at TIS-100
  otherwise
    take a look at the other games of Zachtronics.

PS: For an even more cute and easy entry, Algo Bot is neat.

I don't get the "otherwise" branch.
All Zachtronics games are kinda hardcore.
Which isn't? :D

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: subBtw, TIS-100 is on sale for -75%

Get it!!!

To be honest, even as somebody liking programming puzzle games, I cannot recommend it blindly.
It's a special one. Sure do give it a look, but do so before buying. :)

It's 1,75 € currently and you can get a refund on Steam if it's not your cup of tea.

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Btw, TIS-100 is on sale for -75%

Get it!!!

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