Quoting: Maki

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: mylkawhy does he need a new engine? just use godot

I like Godot but it's not the answer to everything and it doesn't fit everyone's needs. Why does anyone make their own stuff? To learn, to have full control and know exactly what it's doing. Just telling a developer to "use x game engine" isn't particularly helpful.

It always bothered me about Debian that they have a "Don't break Debian" policy in the background. Why not? Breaking Linux and learning how to fix what I broke has gotten me more involved than I ever was in Windows. If I mistype something in /etc/fstab, it's my mistake to fix. I would hope that developers are always seeking to find the game engine that suits their needs best while giving them the required openness about bugs they encounter so they don't have to search through 12.000 lines of code just to find the missing ;...

The "Don't Break Debian" slogan is about mixing in foreign repositories with Debian incompatible packages and then expecting nothing to go wrong. They don't really mean, "Don't break Debian"; They mean, "Don't break Debian and then blame Debian (us)."

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Quoting: UnixOutlawI'm on my 2nd RPi4B now - saw the 8 GB model release, and couldn't resist...

However - I insist on running 64 bit on these, I've got 4 GB model running elementary 5.1 64 bit (which I'll probably end up switching to a headless server), and an 8 GB model running XFCE 64 bit - trouble is the Steam Link app for arm is only armhf, there's no arm64/aarch64 (I'm also running arm64 Raspbian on my RPi3B headless [pi-hole and openVPN server])

In fact I broke my original 8 GB XFCE install trying to get Steam Link armhf to run on aarch64 (did a series of "sudo apt install [thing]:armhf" to get all the dependancies that steamlink.deb required to install - and then it proceeded to replace ALL of my aarch64/arm64 binaries and libraries with armhf versions)...

No rush - I'll wait and see if a 64 bit release of Steam Link for Raspbian gets released, eventually, I waited 9 months for an "official" 64 bit Raspbian, I can wait... But it wouldn't be that hard surely, there's already a plethora of Single Board Computers out there running 64 bit Linux... Note - 64 bit Raspbian (now rebranded as RaspiOS I believe?) does let you "sudo apt install steamlink", but it doesn't work (and looks like it's trying to trash your system by replacing arm64 staff with armhf)...

Planning on making the 8 GB RPi4 model my portable workstation when Covid 19 isolation is over (getting a NextDock 2)...

I'm surprised you are having that issue. I was under the impression that 32 bit ARM applications were supported out of the box with a couple of exceptions related to changed library paths rather than the changed architecture. What is the output of the following commands?

dpkg --print-architecture
dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

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I've been continuing to go through Bioshock Infinite and The Talos Principle. The Talos Principle did get much more engaging when connectors and fans were introduced to the puzzles. However, I don't care for the philosophical drivel, and a couple of the puzzles are annoying to execute rather than being difficult to figure out (these involve learning just how close you can get to mines before they will home in and kill you). I still like Portal 2 better. I'm getting close to the end, but I've been playing it a bit less and Bioshock Infinite quite a bit more.

I also got Steamlink going on a couple of Raspberry Pi 3s. I have noticed a couple of oddities. If more than one computer is running Steam with Steamlink connections enabled when you open Steamlink, it cannot distinguish between the two. It will pretty much invariably claim to be connecting to the same computer regardless of which one it is actually connecting to. The only way to stop it from randomly connecting to the wrong one is to shutdown Steam or disable remote connections to it.

Also, my rather old desktop in the cellar works for Steamlink to connect to, but controllers will only work in the Steam interface, not within games. When Steamlink is connected to my current desktop, controllers work fine. I suspect this could have something to do with the old desktop still being on Ubuntu Studio 18.04 (which is supported as an LTS version by Ubuntu but not by Ubuntu Studio), while my normal desktop is running Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS. It would be soon that I upgraded the one in the cellar to 20.04 either way, but I wonder if that will fix the issue. I'm much more likely to want to remote to the one in the cellar than my regular desktop for 2D games, since it is more likely that someone would want to use the regular one for something else.

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Quoting: PangaeaPresumably that's the shteam version shackled by DRM, which will never get onto my computer :) To their shame, GOG does not have a Linux version. However, I installed Lutris and had a go. Looked like everything would go well. But upon launching the game, it first crashed once the intros were done. Trying again, nothing shows up besides a black screen after the intros. It's not in fullscreen either as I can see the bottom bar in Mint. Something is clearly amiss :-/

Oh, yes, it is the Steam version, and while not all Steam games have DRM, that one does. I wonder why there is no non-Steam Linux version.

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Quoting: PangaeaBioshock. Such a brilliant game. Engrossing atmosphere and gameplay, great music, and a strong story. Probably about half-way through the game now. Those Big Daddies sure are tough buggers though. Blink, and you wake up in a Vita chamber (after having died).

Once I'm done with it, I'll try to get Bioshock Infinite running on Linux as well.

There's no challenge involved with getting Bioshock Infinite running. The "native" version (I believe it's actually a wrapped Windows binary) for Linux seems to run perfectly for me. I have a Ryzen 3700X, 32 GB of RAM, and Vega 56 graphics, but it runs so easily, and ran similarly with a Ryzen 1700 and 16 GB of RAM.

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The first thing I thought when I saw the picture was, 'That reminds me of Shadow of the Beast; I hope it's not as hard,' but it sounds like it's too similar to Shadow of the Beast. I don't generally feel like I have time anymore to play games that don't let you save your progress, and you have to go through the whole game from the beginning over and over to finish it. Maybe if the controls feel solid enough it will pull me in; I don't know.

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Quoting: robvvCurrently playing The Bard's Tale IV. A really-good Skyrim-like RPG with many puzzles and good battles!

The original game The Bard's Tale is actually one of the games I just added to Steam with my old Humble Bundle keys. I've never actually played it, but it's one of the games I consider to be in my backlog.

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I recently went through Portal and Portal 2. I have started The Talos Principle, but to me it is not as engaging as the Portal games. Finishing those has also moved Bioshock: Infinite up to the top of my play list, and I have started playing it in earnest (I started a game before, but had kind of set it aside while I played other things).

I entered a bunch of my old Humble Bundle Steam keys in, so now I can see both the games from the bundles I haven't played in quite some time (which I didn't play on Steam), but also just how big my back catalogue really is.

I picked up several games in the Steam Summer Sale, but the only one that's really gotten my attention yet is Salt and Sanctuary, which after starting I can see is pretty deep. I'm not sure if I'm going to pursue that before I knock off either Bioshock or Talos, though.

I've been fiddling with my RetroPie build on a Raspberry Pi 3, and I got some really old arcade games going in Mame4All (this was just basically finding a copy of my old Mame4All folder on my OpenPandora and copying stuff over). I also have Descent and Descent II running (though I haven't tested II). I fooled around with one I used to play with my brothers on the Playstation, Soul Blade. My old PC Engine / TurboDuo games on CD (the cards are fine) are being a pain on RetroPie because they've compiled the default emulator without ogg support, so the copies I had from my OpenPandora don't work correctly. I thought maybe the direct full disc images would work, but the only thing that seems to be working are versions with WAV files, which are about as big as the disc images anyway. I'd like to save that space if I can.

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I don't think that 3D games are better than 2D games, but they are different. That is, it's not the greatest thing to have a dearth of 3D games in the releases for the year. Ideally, I would like to see good 2D and 3D games.

I also wanted to mention that as far as I am concerned immersion does not equal fun. That is, it does not follow that the level of fun goes up with the level of immersion. It is possible for a game to be too immersive. Part of the reason that VR is not more popular (besides that on the computer it tends to be expensive) is that people don't necessarily want to be that immersed in what they are playing (or watching). Sometimes people would rather be a bit more of an observer and a bit less of a participant in a game they are playing. It's possible to prefer playing a 3D game with a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to playing one with a VR helmet and finger tracking.

Some of the best games I have ever played have been 2D, such as Super Metroid (SNES), Dracula X: Rondo of Blood (TurboGrafx-16 Super CD), Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Playstation), Lunar: The Silver Star (Sega CD), Legend of Oasis (Saturn), Guardian Heroes (Saturn), Cave Story (GP2X through GINGE on OpenPandora), Hollow Knight (Linux), etc.*

Of course, some of the best games I have ever played have been 3D as well, like Half Life (Windows), Half Life 2 (Windows), The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time (Nintendo64), Goldeneye: 007 (Nintendo64), Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (Windows), Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Linux), Metroid Prime (GameCube), Portal 2 (Linux), etc.

Do I think the 3D games are better than the 2D ones? No. Neither do I think the 2D ones are better than the 3D ones.

*(The platforms I have in parentheses are the platforms that I first played each game on.)

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Quoting: mike456I'll get a HP Reverb G2 in fall and hope it will work also on Ubuntu/X-Plane. OpenXR sounds good but if it's also needing Monado...oh well. I don't expect anything from HP, they even told me, while I still had warranty on my laptop, to buy a new motherboard as I forgot the bios password! So no more HP laptop for me and I would also happily dismiss G2 if competition would arise. Index is to expensive and low resolution. What headsets are working in Linux/steamvr apart Index?

Out of curiosity, did you try disconnecting any main power batteries plus the RTC battery for a period of time? That's usually the fix for that issue. Most often this will work in as little as five or ten minutes, but pretty much always within a day in my previous experience.

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