Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: whizsePygame [External Link] - but only for the hardcore!

Funny story: while getting some undergraduate research experience in college I'd been teaching myself Python for several months, and had a need to write a program to display pairs of images for comparison. I tried with whatever the recommended GUI engine was (PyTK, I think? Or WX-something-or-other?), and while I made a GUI pretty easily, after like a week of work I simply could not get it to display images. So then I had a thought, "What programs, of all programs, need to make displaying images easy? Games!" So I switched to pygame (this was a little student project, so it was tiny and easy to pivot), and within I think a day or two I had a program that could actually display images. It had a 100% hand-made GUI with no bells or whistles, but by golly it worked for what I needed! :grin:

one of the whole points of open source is learning from other people code, i remember when i wrote an chromakey code, just by reading some code that teach how to convert an image to black and white.

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Quoting: GuestHere you see again, what it looks like to devote your career to a volatile proprietary software toolset. And that's just one piece of software out of many.

when it comes to make games, the game engine is the most important piece of the equation.

and, its not like we those companies had any choice anyway, the open source engines sucked prior to godot, building your own engine is expensive and not everyone can afford (hell even the big studios are outsourcing it), engine migration isnt easy and even if some engine like godot is as good as unity, the ecosystem off add'ons for it is in its infancy, that coming from someone who use and love godot.

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"Unreal Engine - Free, no royalties until you earn $1 million USD. Full source code access (but not open source). Epic also confirmed they can't just change the licensing on you.

Supports: Windows PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, macOS, iOS, Android, ARKit, ARCore, OpenXR, SteamVR, Oculus, Linux, and Steam Deck.
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they specified the deck as an different target platform?

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Quoting: gradyvuckovic

Quoting: SoulprayerBlender+Godot=:heart:

Ah, yes but what about:
Blender + Inkscape + Godot + Krita = ?
Now that's a really good power teamup I reckon.

its not the tools, its what you made with then.
dont get me wrong tools are super important, but dont brag about the tools you want, if you cant do shit with then.
fortunatelly we have some success stories:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/824090/TailQuest_Defense/ [External Link]

ok, i dont think this game was an sucess unfortunatelly, and that was my point...

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Quoting: nenoroNo sign of FreeBSD ?

I saw someone who has a youtube channel showing games running on freeBSD under wine.

I might go to freebsd when valve finally release a native steam for freebsd, midnightbsd.

i'm being depressed on gentoo, i want to go back to arch but it's impossible >.<

when we reach the year of linux we can fight for the year of bsd, meanwhile shut up hipster! just kidding

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unlike the month where the marketshare was unusually low, this high marketshare seems to be correct, there is a little margin for error so it will change a bit of the months, but the massive bump we had seems to be here to stay.

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wow starting an trailer with sakuga, quite nice.
but the date "beauty" boys is a turn off for me, i hope i can skip that part or date prety womans instead =P

the feature list didnt include dating, but... with an character design like that i can see they are going in that direction.

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its funny how they pretend all of those things are positive...
the only positive thing is anti cheat, if companies sold old games, and sold all their games region free in all regions, then we could have a different conversation.

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and creating formidable barriers against cheat creators, pirates and fraudsters" according to Denuvo developer Irdeto.

and modders, probably

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: EhvisWell, if they insist on taking away choice when it comes to snaps, then I feel a reduction by at least one user will come in the near future.

Same. I have been using Ubuntu for years, but I am casually in the market for a new distro, because I can't be bothered manually replacing snap-enforced applications after installation every single time. Snap/Flatpak has its use if you want to quickly download and test something, without having to worry about dependencies or security all that much - but why standard distro applications should be deployed as a snap, is a bit beyond me. Yes, I get where it's a bit more secure to run a browser in a sandbox, but it's not that Linux is all that big a target for malware at this time, and most Linux users probably know how to stay safe online.

The only problem for me is that I went through a lot of distros already, so at this point I am not even sure what to replace Ubuntu with. :cry:

its much easier to make the system safer now, than when we have tons of users, if they break anything they will affect less people, so the sooner they fix something security wise the better.

as for growing the user base, thanks to the steamdeck it might actually be possible, it might even explode as soon as more people start realizing linux is a viable platform with more games than any console.

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