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One dedicated gamer made a SteamOS tabletop 'car-cade' for DiRT Rally
15 November 2017 at 10:07 pm UTC Likes: 4

What is this? A driving sim for ants?

Mantis Burn Racing needs more support if it is to come to Linux
12 November 2017 at 8:08 pm UTC

Quite simply, if they don't port it, I won't buy it.

Those threads are all well and good, but how many people who purchase games actually bother to go to those threads to register interest? It's a losing game that. I used to try and show interest in those threads, but I just don't use steam as much these days.

If devs would just port their games regardless of the interest shown, we'd all be a lot better off instead of having to make trade-offs in our OS choice. FFS...

Hardcore retro-futuristic adventure game Far-Out looks awesome, coming to Linux
11 November 2017 at 9:23 pm UTC Likes: 1

I hope they're not trying to increase difficulty by omitting save functionality..

Survival game Rust finally gives players hair
10 November 2017 at 5:19 am UTC Likes: 1

Do you mean they had no hair at all? As in no head hair either? Or was everyone getting a Brazilian?

Ebony Spire: Heresy is a rather great dungeon crawler, available on Linux right now
7 November 2017 at 7:43 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: ZapaHi,

Thanks for covering the game. Glad you liked it! The game comes with the source code when bought on Steam/Itch but I forgot to update on github. The source has been uploaded there as well.

Thank you,
Zapa

Thank you for being yet another one of those super cool devs who share the source to their game. I'll buy for sure!

Lovecraftian horror 'Conarium' powered by Unreal Engine is still coming to Linux, could be soon
7 November 2017 at 7:41 pm UTC Likes: 2

Lovecraft himself was apparently a bit of a shithead. But, he created a world that is ripe for picking!

Remastered adventure game 'Noctropolis' is now available for Linux
1 November 2017 at 7:05 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ShmerlWhere can you find his blog?

Patreon is maybe more accurate... https://www.patreon.com/posts/project-15067274

Remastered adventure game 'Noctropolis' is now available for Linux
29 October 2017 at 6:30 pm UTC

Quoting: F.UltraYes back in 1994 it was not problem to outperform a compiler by far. Also you basically targeted the 80486 or first Pentium processors and they contained very little of the "magic" that compilers are far more better to utilize. Since then processors have increased in complexity and compilers have gained tremendous optimizations.

Yeah I've read a ton of Michael Abrash's articles (have the Zen of Graphics Programming in my library too). It's very enlightening stuff, and really opens your mind to the challenges back then... Very much wish I had his books as a teen, would have kept me out of trouble and started my career 20 years earlier.

Remastered adventure game 'Noctropolis' is now available for Linux
28 October 2017 at 11:53 pm UTC Likes: 1

From Ryan's blog:
QuoteHere's what you need to know about Nightdive: instead of shipping this in DOSBox or something, they rewrote the assembly to be portable, 64-bit clean C++11. Nightdive is hardcore like you wouldn't _believe_.

Holy shit! That's crazy... Sure, assembly is bare metal fast, if you're able to produce better code than a compiler can. Which I guess in the mid 90's probably wasn't unheard of.

EVERSPACE expansion released, will work on Linux soon and it's coming to GOG
25 October 2017 at 7:40 am UTC

Quoting: x_wingCurrent Steam version is DRM free (you can play it even if Steam is not running), so you don't have to wait for GoG release if you want to buy it

That may be the case. But I like GOG as a business and want to support them, so my $$ is going their way.