There's certainly some cool ideas going on in this. That does not necessarily mean, however, that the results will be a fun game.

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Little hero, big adventure . . . so you're a hamster [External Link]?

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Quoting: WorMzyOoh, I wonder if it'll be possible to brew/sell mead. I'll have to keep an eye on this one.

A friend of mine brews and sells mead. Just at home, it's not really a business, but it's good stuff.

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Quoting: KohlyKohlThis is why I will never back anything before a final product has been released.

I would, but only for something that I felt enough personal fondness for the idea and even the people involved that I wouldn't mind the realization that it might basically be a sort of charitable contribution.

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Quoting: peta77So it's heading the same way as the attempt to revive old times with the Amiga One: hyped at the beginning, delayed for several times and at the end nothing noticeable remaining...
Though some more big players on the market would clearly help to push towards more platform independence in general, it seems that the stakes have gotten way to high for someone new to show up in the near future.....

Well, unless it's someone with really deep pockets.

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Quoting: kaimanIn some cases, I also have the impression that with automation comes a reduction of service. Nowadays, I need to check myself in at the airport, tag my luggage and haul it to the drop-off. In the supermarket, there are more and more of those self-checkout stations that'll force you to do a cashiers job on top of the groceries shopping. Who knows what's next!?

Yeah. Basically, you're seeing costs being offloaded. Cashiers, for example, lose their jobs and the company gets the customer to do for free what cashiers used to do. I avoid those self-checkout things; if the company wants me to check out my own groceries they can pay me.

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Quoting: Doc AngeloIt's interesting how differently people look at automation. Some see it as the tool to let humans be more human, some see it as the danger that makes humans less human.

Some think it depends who's controlling the technology. That would be the impetus behind Free Software.

Personally, I think a big part of the problem with automation is that it's driven largely by ownership and profit. I mean, in the abstract, more automation means more gets done with less labour, which, averaged out across the population, would mean we can all work less and have more leisure while everything still gets done. It's a great idea.
But in a world where automation is being done by corporations as a means of saving on labour costs, the main point is precisely not to average it out across the population, but rather to pay the remaining people the same as ever while not paying a bunch of no longer needed people at all, and have a few rich bastards pocket the difference. Automation under those circumstances will leave the still-employed people continuing to run hard to stay in the same place, while growing the ranks of the unemployed. There are also negative economic consequences in terms of reduced demand.

So automation would be great in a people-controlled economy. In ours it has its problems.

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Quoting: damarrinAs long as it means CUDA is _also_ supported, it’s all good. Should it suddenly become the _only_ thing that works, that’ll be huge grounds for concern.

a fork.
The beauty of open source.

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It's a sandbox. Why would it need biomes other than desert?

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What worries me here is not so much the individual game as what this says about the state of Unity Linux support. With Linux having such a small market share, game engines making it easy to support is one of the few things we have going for us, and for Linux support in game engines, Unity seems by a good bit the biggest game in town. They're important to us, and if they let Linux support erode Linux gaming could be in significant trouble.

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