Quoting: HoriI own this game already but why does it still cost 2 euros if it's open-source?

Open source does not mean something is completely free. It may not include art, audio etc.

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Quoting: liamdaweThose two graphs are quite different. All graphs show a max of 10 items.

I'm just wondering if that's intentional, or a limitation of whatever code you're using to generate them.

The current graph lib is rather limited in what it can do, which is one of the many reasons I am moving to a fancy JS lib called "chart.js".

Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: liamdaweAll graphs allow you to view the full statistics of each in the dropdown below them.

Thanks, I didn't know that.

If you have ideas on how I can make that bit stand out more without getting in the way, be sure to let me know.

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Quoting: GuestInteresting. But is it an MMO? Or will there be player-run servers? (I guess the latter since you can build stuff…)

It's currently online-only by the looks of it based on dedicated servers. It seems anyone can host a server too, as there is a server download.

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Quoting: skinnyrafAnd yet no Steam BPM/steamcompmgr as an option for the desktop environment.

Sure, I'm using KDE or XFCE on my main purpose PC, so I could put it in the PC info, but this would suggest I tweaked SteamOS. It's already misleading I stated I dual boot. Yes, I do, but on the old PC which I use to play Windows-only legacy games, not on the Steam Machine.

Perhaps the question should be "Do you use another operating system to play games unavailable under Linux?"

The whole point of this is about your main gaming PC, it is not to encompass every single PC you use in your house.

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I have almost finished the first trends graph and it's looking slick as hell.

I've switched to chart.js, an MIT licensed JavaScript graph library and damn, it's so much nicer to work with! For now only the first trend graph is using it, but I may switch over all the others to it as it's not only nicer to work with, but better to look at and you can interact with it to turn off different labels and so on.

Here's a preview:
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Quoting: PhiladelphusAlso, are the graphs truncating things to show only ten options? In the first graph of Linux Distributions (Combined) things like SteamOS and Slackware show up, but are absent from the Linux Distributions (Split) graph. I can see this being a stylistic choice (for instance if there are several dozen distributions with only a few users each), I'm just curious if it's intentional.

Those two graphs are quite different. All graphs show a max of 10 items.

The combined graph has SteamOS (for example) as the others are combined, so Xubuntu, Kubuntu and so on go under "Ubuntu-based" which frees up space for more. Even though SteamOS is technically just Debian-based (unless it has a lot of divergence?), it's useful to show it by itself anyway.

All graphs allow you to view the full statistics of each in the dropdown below them.

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Quoting: hardpenguinAlthough the sample is still pretty small, I'm very glad this survey exists and provides quite a lot of useful information!

I am hoping it grows as more people learn GOL exists. Even so, with some questions having nearly 2K people answering, it does at least now give us a good indicator. I mean, it is a survey after all, it's to show the general trend from Linux gamers.

It's a fun distraction for me too.

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Quoting: LinasIf FNA is the same as XNA, but works on on all platforms, why would anyone use XNA in the first place? Honest question.

A lot of the time it's games that started with XNA getting updated to use FNA.

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Quoting: michaI wish there would be more categories. E.g. Refunct was one of my favorite games of the year but probably wouldn't vote for it in any of the given ones because of its scale.

I asked for category suggestions previously, but we didn't get many.

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Quoting: Ehvis

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Quoting: EikeAs always, this is Linux release year, not general release year, right?

Edit: Errr no, 2016.

All 2016 apart from "Favourite open source game", "Favourite FOSS project" and "Most anticipated game for 2017".

That didn't really answer the question. So Mad Max counts as 2016, since the Linux version released in 2016. Right?

My bad i misread. Yes, Linux releases in 2016. This is a Linux GOTY.

Quoting: tmtvlAre you gonna go over the list and remove any doubles that snuck in before opening the vote? I've seen Blades of the Shogun appearing twice in the overall best category.

As stated, yes we will be going over the list first. It should not have been possible for the same game to appear twice, will look into that.

Edit: Seems Blades of the Shogun appeared twice as someone spelt it differently.

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