Having made a little game with it recently, I love this engine and I am excited for the new features, Vulkan support most of them all!
One thing I was missing lately is that the engine doesn't seem to support Steam controllers yet. At least get_connected_joypads() returns empty, even when Steam can see the controller. Also, built-in database support would be neat.

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I remember me being highly critical of WINE only 1-2 years ago, not because I'd have fundamental concerns against it (I don't belong to the "It's bad because it kills native ports" camp), but because at this point it still had almost zero DX11 support, couldn't run anything but very old games I tend to have no interest in, and even those you had to tinker for hours with to maaaaaybe get to run.

Now, almost everything seems to work, and more or less out of the box. WINE is close to becoming an invisible layer to run anything Windows, that almost makes you forget that you're running it on an OS is never was meant to run on.

We might never see a stage when Linux will see most AAA titles ported Windows is getting (we haven't seen a new major studio moving to supporting Linux in all of 2018, so we -lost- momentum, if anything), but thanks to WINE (and SteamPlay) we WILL reach a state when it doesn't matter anymore - because we can play them anyway.

*raises a glass to WINE*

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Quoting: einherjarIf I look at the things like exclusives in Epic Store, Discord, Ubisoft heading away from Steam and so on, I don't think that there will be a lot of AAA Titles on Steam....
So proton perhaps won't bring as AAA Titles, because they don't appear on Steam :-(

I am not aware that Epic had an interesting exclusive other than Fortnite itself, which is that current hype game without the store would probably collapse inside 5 mins.

Ubi - either I am missing something, or they still sell their titles on Steam, they just require a link to UPlay to work.

The only larger publishers I am aware of that consistently refuse to sell on Steam are EA and Blizz, and those have been doing so for a long time now.

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What I really love about Godot is not even the fact that it does everything I want, but that it doesn't somehow make MY game NOT my game...

As a sidenote: In the post-Moore's Law world, where people don't have to replace their PC every 2 years to keep able running newer games, but in a world where also most people still have metered internet, I don't understand the appeal of streaming games, honestly not.

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I am not denying that balance issues have occurred once or twice for people getting the free update, but not the corresponding DLC, but I'd say they are the exception and not the rule.

Personally I think Paradox has occasionally went over the top with releasing super tiny packs in fast cadences for waaay too much money (remember when CK2 DLCs consisted of the actual DLC, PLUS a music pack PLUS a fashion pack?), but they seemed to have learned that lesson now.

The bottom line is that Paradox's model means that games will be supported, enhanced and improved MANY years after release, leaving us with an ever larger and ever better game. Compare that to, say, EA's model, which is releasing the SAME game every year with updates to graphics and other minor things. What's really better? CK2 which was released in 2012 (IIRC) and is STILL growing? Or FIFA? FIFA is still largely the same game it was in 2012, it just looks better. I know what I prefer, but maybe it's just me.

*shrug*

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That's a really pretty game for an Indie! This kind of quality you rarely see outside of a big-budget production. Shame it's first person only, though. Seems to be a genre issue. Not sure why it's so much asked for to give people the option to draw their character on the screen...

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Strange indeed. They must be seeing potential way past the game the devs declared finished last year (but still kept making updates for). I am not complaining, though. PA is a great game and it couldn't have gone to better hands than Paradox. If I think about the most Linux-friendly publisher put there, their name tops the list every single time. I am looking forward to what they can do with it. Better graphics, maybe? More items to build with?

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I will most likely get this when it's out. Seems to be a lot like Diablo, except that unlike Blizz games, it's not an eyesore.

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Made a Godot game with my daughter who wanted to learn coding. It's a really great engine, particularly for someone who's more into coding then art. UE and its art-centric approach confused the hell out of me. :D

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Quoting: SlackdogAhhh one of the first games I ever played on Linux! In fact for quite a while along with super tux kart was the ONLY game I played heheh. Good times :D

That's because back then, these were pretty much the only games that ran on Linux at all, haha!

Feels like an eternity ago, doesn't it?

It's still a cute little game.

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