The company which ported Alien:Isolation to Linux will not be paid for sales from Humble. Buying from retailers other than Steam can benefit the porting companies in other cases though.

If you buy a game from Steam it can work out what platform you use and pay the appropriate publisher. For Alien: Isolation the Steam page lists:
Publisher: SEGA, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)

Other retailers sell Steam keys which they've purchased from a publisher. In this case Humble say the publisher is SEGA, so that is who will be paid regardless of the platform used when purchasing (or redeeming the key on Steam).

Feral and Aspyr both seem to have adopted a policy of multi-platform games using Steamplay so purchasing for one platform will work on others too. I admire how customer friendly that is, but it does mean that they don't get paid for purchases from the other publisher. There were some exceptions eg Call of Duty: Black Ops for Windows [External Link] or Mac [External Link] but I don't know of any from the last couple of years or which affect Linux.

Sometimes retailers will have the same game listed twice, with different publishers and for different platforms. For example Gamersgate have Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor GOTY from both Warner Bros [External Link] and Feral [External Link].

There are also retail operations run by Aspyr [External Link] and Feral [External Link]. These are the most profitable for them, with the retail cut going to them rather than eg Valve if the purchase was from Steam.

I don't know how it works for Virtual Programming who did the ports of Bioshock Infinite [External Link] and Witcher 2 [External Link]. They aren't a publisher, so maybe they got a flat fee or maybe the publisher gives them a cut of sales.

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Quoting: FiBuAshes of singularity is using dx 12.
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I was really suprised with my gtx 760 performance on dx 12 too. It is much worse than on dx 11!(Except that as I said before the game designers have a good relationship with AMD .)

The developers of that (Oxide) have said that if anything they've worked closer with Nvidia than with AMD. They also say that the performance issue you've seen is mostly because while Nvidia's drivers report support for asynchronous compute that appears to just use slow context switches within the driver rather than have actual hardware support and performance would be even worse if Oxide hadn't disabled that feature when an Nvidia GPU was detected. Commenters at other forums have run benchmarks specifically to test for that feature and confirmed that it works for AMD but not Nvidia. More detail here [External Link]

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I'd be interested to know what input methods people have available to them. Something like a list of checkboxes with:
What input devices do you have on your primary PC gaming platform?
Keyboard
Mouse
Trackpad
Gamepad (eg Xbox or Playstation controller)
Joystick or HOTAS
Driving wheel
Other

I had "keyboard and mouse" as one item originally because I figured everyone would have those, but thinking about it a little more assumptions should be avoided and perhaps there are a significant number playing on a laptop without a mouse. Maybe "touch screen" should be in there too

Repeating monthly wouldn't be much benefit but revisiting this a year later to see what impact some upcoming products have had could be interesting. We'd probably want these added then:
Steam Controller
SteamVR Controller or Oculus Touch

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I picked up these and the rest of the Humongous Entertainment Complete Pack [External Link] from Humble Bundle just under a year ago. My pre-schooler thinks the Putt Putt games are great.

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Quoting: maodzedunI think we can call a Windows computer that boots into Steam Big picture a Steam Machine as well

From what we've seen Valve disagree with that, and will require that anything sold as a Steam Machine run SteamOS.

We know that some hardware vendors wanted to include optical drives but Valve wouldn't allow that, showing that Valve have some control over what can be labelled a Steam Machine. We also know that Dell came up a different name when their hardware was ready before Valve was, and I doubt that that name change was because Dell didn't want to cash in on the hype that already existed.

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