I'm sure that it will either be legally solid or that nintendo is fully prepared to outspend the defending team. It was only a matter of time before this kind of dmca abuse would reach emulators.

The switch was an ideal indie-gaming device for me, but with the deckalikes that are now available I will be happy to cut my losses on the highly restrictive ecosystem and move on.

Already decided this a while ago, by the way. The device and first party games are nice enough, but to me simply not worth the entitled company that gets attached with them. I'll spend my money and time on games by developers that are not being such cultural pirates, thankyouverymuch.

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Quoting: mitridas"Bespoke" and "In-house" are both very good.
What about "Handcrafted"? Might sound more wholesome to non-technical people.

Stay tuned, I'm planning to push an update to Steam today with a bunch of fixes/improvements that hopefully will solve most of the problems you guys reported!

Or a bit more tongue-in-cheek: "traditionally handcrafted" or "home-made" ^_^

Not sure how well that would be received, though. One never knows nowadays, over the internet.

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Quoting: JarmerI appreciate what the devs are saying, I really do ... but I will still be waiting. I have been burned in EA too many times. They can say whatever they want, and again I wish them nothing but success!! But I'll see them on release.

In general, I've found that waiting a few days should be enough time for it to emerge whether or not the dev's claims hold up under scrutiny.

Not only for early access, now that I think about it.

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Quoting: mitridas

Quoting: Liam DaweI think it's more that just saying it's a "Proprietary engine" by itself isn't really a selling point, it doesn't really explain anything and to most people it won't really mean anything.

And no, no one expects games or the game engine to be open source at all.

Yeah, I guess it's true that to most people it wouldn't mean anything, but to other gamedev nerds like me it will :)
We might reword it to "Custom engine", and move it to a different section of the description to make it clearer.
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May I suggest the term "in-house engine"?

That would properly convey that you made this "engine" thingy yourself (with the implication that many others don't), even to the most clueless of clueless. Custom could still be a modified third party engine, after all.

As for the play-test, just obtained access and I may even find the time tonight to take a peek ^_^

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For all of you who keep asking for more AMD powered laptops,

I am certainly definitely fine with more amd options.

However, what I keep asking for is a dedicated linux laptop with a keyboard with classic thinkpad layout and trackpoint with physical buttons as opposed to the yet another ultrabook-alike that even lenovo is steadily moving its line to.

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No more needing to manually compile it from source like we're back in the dark ages,

On the other hand: it is an excellent entry-point to get started on home-compiling.

Completely unrelated: I recommend reading "The feeling of power [External Link]", a short story by Asimov.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanual

Quoting: Nocifer

We also started a partnership with GOG and now every game you buy from the GOG store inside Heroic will give us a commission, so it is another way of supporting the project. :)

It's not just about being able to log into GOG and buy games via the embedded browser, it's about GOG forming a partnership with Heroic and giving them money for every game we buy through the client.

I'm curious as to whether this is a normal affiliate link like GOL has, or something more.

Edit: Ah, based on the comments above about the tracking domains (adtraction), it's a normal affiliate link.

I seem to recall seeing on heroic's mastodon that it is indeed a conventional affiliate link.

To be honest, I dislike the integration of a store page in any launcher quite a bit, and the affiliate link does set it up for potential conflicts of interest that may not have been fully considered.

They have got to keep the website up, I guess. I'll just make sure to include them in my open source donation rounds (gamingonlinux already gets my gog affiliate link) and cut the shopping link from the application (hurray for open source ^_^).

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Bazzite also recently gained a rather fancy looking website dedicated to it.

I'd say it is over-fancy.

My laptop's fan speed has been tweaked to remain inaudible on the youtube website. Bazzite's manages to get it to spin up to audible levels, with javascript blocked!

I hope do they a better job on respecting power usage with their os.

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This also highlights my biggest problem with the current classification of deck/proton compatibility: support from the dev remains unofficial (if present at all) in most cases.

Meaning that publishers get to claim plausible deniability, valve gets to blame the publisher for breaking compatibility, and linux based players lose access to the game on their os of choice with no clear line of responsibility to get support for the game they likely would not have obtained had it not gotten classified.

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[quote=Purple Library Guy]

Quoting: damarrin...
What I wonder about Flatpaks, and Snaps outside of Ubuntu, is where are you on maintenance? A Flatpak might be totally up to date the day I install it from Flathub, but my other software updates semi-automatically along with the OS. If I have to remember to update the Flatpak stuff manually, well, either it's gonna get long in the tooth after a while or I'm gonna rip out the Flatpak because it's too much hassle and go back to native packaging.

Can't speak for other distros, but linux mint's software updater includes updates from flathub.

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