Quoting: LinasThis is a great idea, but is not a small task to undertake alone. I would suggest partnering up with a Linux-friendly company like Feral, Aspyr, or Humble Bundle to get both publicity and support. Or with somebody who makes the development tools, so that they could be platform sponsors, and make it for example a Godot jam or Unity jam. And that is not even the hard part. The hard part is making this feel like an event. And in my mind that means an actual physical event. Which is certainly doable if you limit the scope geographically to, lets say, the Nordic countries. The most important is to limit the scope in some way, and go with it, because doing stuff on a global scale very quickly becomes overwhelming.

Partnering up with someone might be possible, we will have to have a think on that. Who knows, maybe even Itch will want to give us a banner on their site if we use their service for the hosting of projects and such as they have features for game jams on it.

Making it a physical event wouldn't work though, it would lock too many people out.

We wouldn't definitely not limit it to a single weekend either, as again it's far too limiting especially if like me you have a family.

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Quoting: HadBabitsLiam: You can turn the Chromatic Aberration off, just go to Settings Game Color Seperation and turn it to off :)

Oh really? That's good news, for some reason I didn't expect to have a graphical option like that under Colour.

Neither did I, a dev mentioned it on the forums. I felt a bit bad for him, he gave a meek request for people to give it a chance before turning it off; but it makes playing feel and look worse imo :v

I think it really helps with the immersion. I usually dislike it in other games, but it fits very well here, in my opinion.

I can understand your point of view, but I don't like playing a game that strains my eyes, I want to be able to see what I paid for and have the experience. What I got was a good half an hour of blurred vision and it didn't look good.

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Quoting: HadBabitsLiam: You can turn the Chromatic Aberration off, just go to Settings Game Color Seperation and turn it to off :)

Oh really? That's good news, for some reason I didn't expect to have a graphical option like that under Colour.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI'm not looking for a game by game breakdown. I'm just curious what are things that generally define a good game in your opinion as this could help explain why you're unhappy with the current state of Linux gaming.

It's a number of factors for me personally, all of which depend on the genre of game I'm playing.

Games that are first person but have blurring, chromatic aberration and such jammed on is a big no for me as it looks awful.

Platformers with really simplistic graphics and gameplay like what I burnt my youth playing is also a no for me, I played them to death years ago, and don't want to go back to them. We have a lot of them too, and more on the way. They are a lot easier to create, which is why people do them, but I'm not a fan.

There's lots of things like that.

I'm not unhappy with the current state of Linux gaming, and I've never stated that. I am saying it's not enough currently to push our numbers up, we need more day-1 releases, less delays and more AAA games to become really successful.

Yes indie games are good, a lot are good actually, but it's the bigger named franchises, games with bigger budgets and so on that will actually push that platform, not more simplistic platformers.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI'm with you. Two-years ago we were looking at the occasional indie release and hoping the next Humble Bundle would include Linux ports. Today we have over 1000 high-quality games literally at our finger tips, and deleting your Windows partition and gaming exclusively Linux is (finally!) a viable option. (snip)

Sorry, but again, there isn't 1,000 quality Linux games on there, I can guarantee the actual number of quality games is well under 1,000 which is my point.

That's rather a matter of opinion, don't you think? I would be curious to know how you define a quality game.

Hence why it is an editorial. To everyone: If you have forgotten, an editorial is 100% my opinion, don't read it if you can't handle it ;)

If person A says "bla" and person B says "Sorry, not bla!", is it really unreasonable to ask what basis person B had for contradicting person A?
If you have forgotten, Mountain Man's comment on your editorial is 100% his opinion, don't read it if you can't handle it ;)

I was merely pointing out what an editorial is, since people seem a little edgy about my wording.

Quoting: NelI find quite amusing someone expresses his opinion in an editrorial and complains at the same time about people expressing theirs in comments. Well...

You're confusing complaints with debates. This is again what an editorial is for, to create discussing on all sides.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: liamdaweSorry, but again, there isn't 1,000 quality Linux games on there, I can guarantee the actual number of quality games is well under 1,000 which is my point.

That's rather a matter of opinion, don't you think? I would be curious to know how you define a quality game.

Hence why it is an editorial. To everyone: If you have forgotten, an editorial is 100% my opinion, don't read it if you can't handle it ;)

I don't have a problem with you expressing your opinion. I'm just asking you to qualify that opinion.

It's not something to easily "qualify", since it will again be all my opinion, and to do it properly I would have to go through hundreds of games and note why I think they aren't very good, which is what all my general articles are for.

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Quoting: PeciskCan we at least change a tone? Seriously, I understand skepticism, I really do, but this is getting very tiresome. Gaming on OS X sucks...yet people play games on that platform and don't complain much.

Can at least celebrate this achievement a bit?

I'm with you. Two-years ago we were looking at the occasional indie release and hoping the next Humble Bundle would include Linux ports. Today we have over 1000 high-quality games literally at our finger tips, and deleting your Windows partition and gaming exclusively Linux is (finally!) a viable option.

Is it where we would like it to be? Of course not. The ideal is parity with Windows, but that's still rather far in the future. Is it a significant step in the right direction? Certainly! And we should be celebrating this unprecedented success of our favorite platform.

And before people sneer at indie releases, remember that today's indie developers will be tomorrow's mainstream developers, so we want them to continue being successful on Linux.

Sorry, but again, there isn't 1,000 quality Linux games on there, I can guarantee the actual number of quality games is well under 1,000 which is my point.

That's rather a matter of opinion, don't you think? I would be curious to know how you define a quality game.

Hence why it is an editorial. To everyone: If you have forgotten, an editorial is 100% my opinion, don't read it if you can't handle it ;)

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Quoting: Keyrock"It's always fun when I see lots of websites talking about how many games Linux now has on Steam"

You mean like this website right now?

I love people taking parts of a quote, and not taking in the point.

It's always fun when I see lots of websites talking about how many games Linux now has on Steam, as the number itself doesn't really mean all that much.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: PeciskCan we at least change a tone? Seriously, I understand skepticism, I really do, but this is getting very tiresome. Gaming on OS X sucks...yet people play games on that platform and don't complain much.

Can at least celebrate this achievement a bit?

I'm with you. Two-years ago we were looking at the occasional indie release and hoping the next Humble Bundle would include Linux ports. Today we have over 1000 high-quality games literally at our finger tips, and deleting your Windows partition and gaming exclusively Linux is (finally!) a viable option.

Is it where we would like it to be? Of course not. The ideal is parity with Windows, but that's still rather far in the future. Is it a significant step in the right direction? Certainly! And we should be celebrating this unprecedented success of our favorite platform.

And before people sneer at indie releases, remember that today's indie developers will be tomorrow's mainstream developers, so we want them to continue being successful on Linux.

Sorry, but again, there isn't 1,000 quality Linux games on there, I can guarantee the actual number of quality games is well under 1,000 which is my point. I have nearly 500 of them, so I have a pretty damn good idea what I am talking about here when it comes to the quality of games that we have.

I think people here need to step back from their fanboyism of Linux games just because they have a Linux version, there's a massive quanitity of games on Steam for Linux that are just junk. This is my point, we need more good quality and big named games to improve our outlook. A number is just a number.

Look at my second to last bit the article, highly rated games are much more worthwhile than the overall amount of games we have.

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Quoting: liamdaweI would rather not click-bait a random milestone like other websites do, this is meant as a more serious point that it really isn't enough right now. There's no need for me to fanboy every single random milestone we hit, and we need to keep pushing for more ports, and not be complacent with what little we still have right now.

Then why write about it at all?

I felt the need to write about it, like I do with everything. To make it a point that it's not as great a milestone as other sites seem to think + giving it my own view, you know, like I do with everything?

Edit: To make my point some more, I often write about things others feel are important, but I don't. This is a prime example of it, and it's seeing some good discussion going. Do I need any other point?

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