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Latest Comments by Liam Dawe
Get political in the free retro platformer 'Super Bernie World' out now
10 Mar 2020 at 8:39 am UTC Likes: 6

Somewhat expected to wake up to find fights in the comments but people behaved, you did good GOL community.

Ambitious Half-Life remake Black Mesa is now officially available and it's a beauty
9 Mar 2020 at 10:47 pm UTC Likes: 3

A bunch of comments have been removed. May I remind you having fights in our comments, calling each other names and so on is not acceptable.

Respect others. People are allowed to like VR, people are also allowed to dislike VR.

Advanced cross-platform benchmarking tool 'Basemark GPU' has a new build out
9 Mar 2020 at 10:02 pm UTC

Quoting: peta77flatpak install BasemarkGPU-linux-1.2.0.flatpak

Fehler: The application com.basemark.BasemarkGPU/x86_64/master requires the runtime org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/19.08 which was not found


So seems they still only support ubuntu; won't work with openSUSE tumbleweed... Or they don't fully understand Linux distributions stuff yet...
Flatpaks still need certain other Flatpak "runtimes" to work, you're missing one it seems. Works fine on Manjaro as stated in the article.

Supernatural horror adventure 'ASYLUM' still on track for this year and for Linux too
9 Mar 2020 at 9:03 pm UTC Likes: 3

It's supposed to have no audio, have now mentioned that.

Diablo on Linux levels up again with a new devilutionX release
9 Mar 2020 at 12:54 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: GuestVery cool to see this project still improving. I run several old versions on my partitions and they are already working very well. Liam, if you insist too much about the legal uncertainty of the project in your articles you may end up drawing to them the kind of attention they don't want. :wink:
It's my job to make people know such things, simple as that.

AMD just recently had a 'Take A Way' security issue for their CPUs disclosed
8 Mar 2020 at 1:51 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: SirLootALotSo if it is just a new way to exploit previously known speculative execution vulnerabilitys, is it really a new attack?
A new way to use something existing, is still new, especially when it has only just now been publicly announced. So yes, it's new.

2D isometric adventure 'BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION' now has a Linux Beta available
7 Mar 2020 at 9:26 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: noxIf anyone manages to get the videos to play on an arch-based distro: Please tell me what you installed to make it work. I cannot for the life of me get them to play in-game!
If it's a Unity game, they're likely using the wrong codec if the videos aren't playing.

Edit: Seems they already went webm, so that's a start.

Free and open source event-driven game engine 'GDevelop' has a new release up
6 Mar 2020 at 9:03 pm UTC

Quoting: elmapulhonestly, this thing is worse than clickteam fusion was 20 years ago, back when it was called multimedia fusion.
not to mention construct 3...
You're talking about entirely professionally made software, from teams that have been building such game engines and editors for a very long time. It's incredibly unfair to compare them together in such a way and it's WAY more powerful than Clickteam stuff from 20 years ago (hello, I used it all TGF/MMF everything) that's a big overstatement.

Speaking from my own experience, GDevelop is a vast improvement to what it was a year or so ago. They are doing good work and this last year has seen quick progression on it.

Quoting: elmapulwell, its getting there, but trying to make any serious game on it, right now, would be an waste of time.
Well, Hyperspace Dogfights [External Link] was made with it and that game is seriously cool.

Sounds like you could be giving this feedback to them. Have you opened any tickets with them on GitHub or anywhere else? If they don't know about issues stopping people, they can't look to solve them.

Ambitious Half-Life remake Black Mesa is now officially available and it's a beauty
6 Mar 2020 at 8:06 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: BrisseI played it a couple of years ago before xen was available. Not sure whether I should start from the beginning or skip straight to xen. Has a lot changed since then besides xen?
Yes, lots. Play from the start!