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Latest Comments by Nanobang
Action RPG with mutating characters Din's Legacy to leave Early Access this month
16 Aug 2019 at 11:50 am UTC Likes: 3

I have both Din's Curse and Zombasite and I haven't played either yet, but will that stop me from buying Din's Legacy? Of course not! Ive already got more games than I can reasonably expect to play in this lifetime, but I've got to consider the Afterlife. Besides, this looks pretty damn cool.

The team behind SUPERHOT are now helping to fund other indie games
16 Aug 2019 at 11:38 am UTC Likes: 1

People like this are what keep my hope for the human race alive.

The dieselpunk sci-fi RPG INSOMNIA: The Ark due for Linux sometime after the next update
16 Aug 2019 at 11:35 am UTC

This crew, Mono, has promised Linux since day 1,literally, and I guess I made a subconscious deal that if they'd bring it out for Linux, I'd buy it for Linux. Pity that it doesn't have better reviews because I've been following this game since I voted for it on Steam Greenlight, and after all this time, all this waiting, I'm stubbornly determined to buy it. It's embarrassing how emotionally invested I've made myself about the release of The Ark over the years. "C'mon Mono, I'm rooting for you guys!"

Survival game Stranded Deep has an absolutely huge update out now
15 Aug 2019 at 12:22 pm UTC Likes: 4

I haven't bought this game for this simple reason: I know in advance that I will not survive. I will die. I won't be killed by sharks. I will die because I will not go in the water where the sharks can get me.

Facepunch adjust their Linux plans for Rust, refunds being offered as it won't continue at all
15 Aug 2019 at 12:15 pm UTC Likes: 7

A professional and personable announcement---definitely doesn't sound like it came from some toad in the PR department. New respect here for Mr. Newman.

NVIDIA have released the 435.17 beta driver with Vulkan and OpenGL support for PRIME render offload
14 Aug 2019 at 12:04 pm UTC Likes: 1

I gave up futzing with all this a long time ago, shortly after Primus came along. I set my (I-will-never-buy-another) Optimus laptop to "Nvidia" and keep it plugged in. The downside is that sounds and feels like an idling Harrier Jump Jet. The upside is that it will probably die sooner, and the sooner it dies, the sooner I can look into non-Optimus options. :D

Putting a Linux game on Steam: Missing Executable - a common pitfall for game devs
13 Aug 2019 at 12:16 pm UTC Likes: 2

I'm not a developer, but I've had this problem and I'm glad to see someone, somewhere, is addressing it directly. (That it's you, Liam, here on GoL, just underscores what a service GoL provides to the Community.)

I'd like to encourage you (and anyone else reading this who might feel inspired) to contact someone at Steam with this info so they might make it available to developers there. Given the Valve's nurturing of Linux as a gaming platform, I'm surprised that they don't have an internal support system for Developers looking to get their games onto Linux. And if they do have such a system, then this information needs to be an underlined, all caps, in flaming letters, part of it.

NVIDIA have released some GPU documentation on GitHub
8 Aug 2019 at 11:13 am UTC

It's nice to think Nvidia's sidling into the open-source world. For the good of their company, their product, and the gaming community, here's to hoping this is something more than a PR ploy.

Non-linear RPG "Dark Envoy" from the developer of Tower of Time announced, planned for Linux
7 Aug 2019 at 11:30 am UTC

Definitely a title to look forward to! Event Horizon did an excellent job with Tower of Time---though I didn't finish it, alas. Their decision to stage all combat on the same, recycled battlegrounds got stale for me, personally, and I lost interest somewhere in the middle. If this new game does combat in situ, in unique locations, then I'm sold! Wishlisted!

Pegasus Frontend, another open source game launcher has Linux support
2 Aug 2019 at 10:56 am UTC

I hadn't heard of Pegasus before now. It's certainly stylish. It'll be interesting to see where it goes. Not being an emulator user and only having a couple fistfuls of Itch.io & GoG games---most of the latter of which are doubles of ones I already have on Steam---I'm not really in need of a universal launcher. Still, I wouldn't mind one that was fast, intuitive, and truly universal.

Hell, I'd like to just have a better Steam client, one that could load its assets as quickly as Firefox can.