I should probably get around to playing Psychonauts.

I'm looking forward to watching this docuseries. I've seen some behind-the-scenes videos that are so distilled and compressed that it barely shared anything at all, but this looks like it will be a much more intimate look at the people behind the game.

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Seeing 1.0 for FreeCol. Wow! That brings back some memories. I just checked my Projects/SourceCode directory, and I have fcca-0.8.0 in there (around 2008?), mainly to study. I never participated in the project, but I used to love Colonization back in the day, and this game was one I was excited about. I think I used to have an older version, like 0.1 or 0.3 probably from 20ish years ago, but I must have gotten rid of it or it is on an old hard drive.

Quoting: Deleted_UserThat being said i think that a Colonization Game should say a word or two about History of the Native Americans during the Colonization Era nowadays.

Totally agree.

I love playing older games, but Colonization was one of the only games I had trouble getting myself back to play due to the ick factor of playing as a colonizing power after learning more about how horrific that period of time actually was.

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Ok, I felt like responding to the posts above, despite not having any connection to the game or its developer.

It reminds me of Reigns and Reigns: Her Majesty in that it looks like it is about making choices, and although I think I would agree that the trailer does not do a good job of showing what's happening, you can see that choosing some cards results in some stats changing at the top left corner, that new cards show up, and that there is a general change happening. It bills itself as a roguelike, so I assume it means that the choices, presumably representing your path through the forest, are procedurally generated.

Like it's a walking simulator that doesn't actually simulate walking.

I'm also reminded of a Jay Is Games title banner that had games built into it, and there was a maze to traverse that wasn't represented as a typical maze. So instead of moving through an obvious path, you had circles that seemed to appear or disappear when you pressed one of the four directions, and it turned out that those circles were the walls of the maze. Instead of the walls sliding around you like you typically would expect if your avatar was stationary on the screen, they changed state from existing to not existing. It obscured the fact that it was a maze, which was part of the experience of trying to solve it.

And maybe more directly, it looks kind of like any abstract card game you can get at a board game shop. The theme is there but doesn't always require you to represent elements from that theme directly to be an enjoyable experience.

It may not be everyone's preference for a game, and I might be completely wrong about what the developer was going for, and as I said, I agree that the trailer could have communicated better what was going on (is it a lack of visual/audio feedback that might help?), but I don't think it is that unclear what it is going for.

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Ooh, it very much has Nintendo World Cup vibes!

https://youtu.be/qDWI5FOneLs [External Link]

But the trailer made me think that they also stuck a dating sim in there, too. :grin:

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Quoting: TherinS(responding to purple).

The overturned decision is not and was never defined in the founding documents or subsequent articles, and until 1973 was left to individual states (the voting citizens) to decide for themselves how they wish to address the subject matter and that right has now been restored.

The point of the US Constitution was to be a flexible framework. The Founders knew that there would be things that they hadn't dreamed of that would need such flexibility. The idea that because something wasn't enumerated in the beginning that it can't possibly be within the domain of the federal government is a false one.

How other way than to return the power to the people could Democracy be defined?

If complaints of "Freedom" and "our Democracy is being destroyed" are what you are referring to, then perhaps a good long think about what freedom looks like is necessary.

The idea that it is better to return certain things to the states to decide has a history. We fought a civil war over it. One side won that debate through a lot of bloodshed.

And yet the rhetoric keeps getting repeated, and it sounds so innocent and earnestly about freedom when in fact it is often double-speak for driving the opposite outcome.

In a country that claims to value freedom as a whole, it makes no sense to say "And we'll turn it to the states to let the people decide if YOU get to have the same freedoms." We, in fact, tried that, and it turned out to be a terrible idea.

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Happy birthday! Thanks for being one of the few places to go for news about games specifically for Linux, especially when other similar sites disappeared years ago.

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Aw, I was on vacation and missed it! B-(

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Quoting: GBGamesSo no, there is no suggestion of a absence of salary so much as the need to expend more effort to find out if the normal effort of applying for a job is worth it.

That said, for a global company, I appreciate it can be difficult to post such a thing.

Maybe in some countries the salary can be reasonably $X, and in others it can be $X*2 or $X/2, and in some countries certain benefits are just not needed (healthcare in a country that provides it universally vs a country that does not, for example).

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: ElectricPrism

Quoting: GBGamesNo mention of salary or benefits?

Don't worry you'll be a ROCK STAR get paid in plenty of EXPOSURE. You can't pass up this GREAT OPPORTUNITY. Ho ho ho

This looks like a paid position. Are you suggesting they're not paying a salary for this role??

There has been a push recently for organizations who post job opportunities to respect everyone's time by giving an expected salary.

If I'm making $X, and I go through the effort and time of applying for a job only to discover that the pay is $X/2, and I'm not willing to take that kind of pay cut, then we just wasted our time.

So no, there is no suggestion of a absence of salary so much as the need to expend more effort to find out if the normal effort of applying for a job is worth it.

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