Quoting: Purple Library GuyThat would be the rub, though (well, one of them). Once all your customers are stuck on one platform and you're dependent on the tools made by the vendor of that platform, they can take as much of your profits as they want, because you have no other choices. It's the vendor's tools or you're not selling anything.
Why do people think companies struggle so hard to gain monopolies? Why do people think laws got passed against monopolies in the first place?

the issue is, is not an monopoly.
its sony (ps4) vs nintendo (switch) vs microsoft (xbox and windows with play anywhere) vs valve and others on pc.

game makers have no reason to support linux, if it where: one side linux, other side microsoft monopoly, sure, some of then would chose to support either linux or both linux and windows.
but that is not the case, they arent afraid of ms monopoly that aint gonna happen.

sure support windows/mac/linux is cool, that is a reason to use vulkan.
but xbox right now is more profitable than mac and linux.

android could be a savior for us, but the types of games that are made for android are very different from the ones made for pc/console.

Final fantasy 15 tried to make an dumbed down version for mobile (ff15 pocket edition) i'm not sure if it sold well, but it has completely different assets.

now with the remake of secret of mana, they made graphics that could be ported to mobile easily (instead of dumb down the graphics).

other than that examples, i dont see companies having more incentive to use vulkan than to use DX12.
if they can afford they will use both to see where they get better results.

game engines on the other hand, have clients that make games for mobile and clients that make games for pc or console, they have an good reason to use vulkan (or both but giving priority to vulkan)

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still no smoth scrolling...

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as Atari stated something about it missing a "key element on our checklist"

an good controller ? :v

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so this was the game on their radar...
i wonder if the pool to decide what to port next was an waste of time, or if they will really start to porting one of the voted ones as soon as they are close to deliver those who they were already working on.

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the gameplay sounds like "train your skill on typing" so if its a platform or what the genre is, isnt very important, the game play will be the same of any other type-training game.
the problem witht his kind of game is, once you played one of then, you played then all

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Quoting: KeyrockThe intel SoC in the GPD-WIN has very bad (intel) support for linux. The GPD-WIN2 seems to be more pc-like and less embedded, so I have higher hopes for that. It's easier to run linux on an ARM than on a GPD-WIN :-).
I assume (without fact checking) that the AMD support is better for linux.

if you run on arm you lose all your steam games, what is the point?
there arent many games for linux arm, the only ones i know are html5 games or android games.

plus, make a good controller is expensive.
valve spent a lot of money on steam controller, MS blowed up 100 milions on xbox elite controller (well , to be fair it costs 150 dollars)
i dont think an kickstarter company can do it

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looks like its a scam...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d00I_3THLBQ [External Link]

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"where bullets grow guns "
WTF does that means?

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at this point, i'm wondering if they are porting games or engines and just testing the export function with some Q/A.
not that this is a bad thing, but i would like to see more games that i want to play, not games that if i buy, its because i want to support linux, and as result more games that i dont want get ported...

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the feral website had 2 signs, one that was tombraider, one that was not revealed.
now it has 2 signs of games revealed and still has one sign of an game not revelead.

3 games confirmed! i wonder what the thirdy one will be

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