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Feral Interactive's Linux ports may come with Vulkan sooner than we thought (UPDATED)
27 Oct 2016 at 9:18 pm UTC Likes: 2

Actually, all it definitely says is "Upcoming Deus Ex: MD won't support Vulkan". :whistle:

What have you been playing recently, and what do you think?
17 Oct 2016 at 8:28 pm UTC

Quoting: buenaventuraDoes Shenzen have the same kind of "story" to keep me interested?
The Shenzen I/O campaign features a story, yes.
It's hard to tell if it'll keep you interested.
After all I'm not that far advanced in the game yet. :)

What have you been playing recently, and what do you think?
17 Oct 2016 at 12:44 pm UTC

I'm currently playing Shenzen I/O and I love it.

Unfortunately it has not been covered on GoL so far.

The game is in the same vein as TIS-100 (same developer - Zachtronics).
While it's currently marked "Early Access" it's actually done - including the campaign.
I didn't face a single issue so far (apart from the PDF manual not loading directly from in-game)

If you like(d) TIS-100 go for it.
Such a great game.

'Firewatch', the first person mystery adventure game has a major update, new game mode and Unity update
22 Sep 2016 at 4:28 pm UTC

Quoting: DrMcCoy
Quoting: sub(There are people that tend to love it, though!)
I do.
So do I! :)

Blue Velvet, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive are one of my favourite movies.

'Firewatch', the first person mystery adventure game has a major update, new game mode and Unity update
22 Sep 2016 at 11:32 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Zelox... so meny questions, and no answers.
Hint: Do not watch movies by David Lynch. [Well, at least most of'em]

(There are people that tend to love it, though!)

Kingdom Rush Frontiers is now available on Linux
30 Aug 2016 at 7:45 am UTC Likes: 1

Great!

Did they vastly improved their engine?

I remember Kingdom Rush to heat up my notebook.
This is not the case with Frontiers.

Also: Everything is extremely smooth and VSYNC helps a lot.

Kudos to Ironhide Game Studio for bringing this truly addictive series to Linux! ^_^

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided looks like it may be getting a Linux & SteamOS release
24 Aug 2016 at 8:56 am UTC Likes: 1

Judging but what I've read about the hardware requirements and the inefficient renderer, I guess a Linux port will be overly disappointing - performance wise.
But let's see...

Fancy playing Quake with the Vulkan API? Now you can
25 Jul 2016 at 10:04 pm UTC Likes: 1

I can only test it on my Haswell notebook, but it seems the warning
Vulkan Initialization
WARNING: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
should be taken seriously. :D
At least it quits with
QUAKE ERROR: Couldn't create Vulkan device

Fancy playing Quake with the Vulkan API? Now you can
25 Jul 2016 at 9:31 pm UTC

Quoting: KristianSo anyone know which source files are supposed to have the Vulkan bits?
Vulkan API naming convention for functions is a "vk" prefix followed by a capital letter.

All source files containing at least one matching function can be listed with

grep -r "vk[A-Z]+*" * | sed -nre "s@(^.*):.*@\1@p" | uniq