Seems like a really useful idea, which Steam's infrastructure enables handily. Hopefully it'll lead to more/better playtesting and better games! :smile:

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Quoting: scaineWhen all you have is a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail chance to test microphone noise-suppression solutions on Linux.

Fixed that for yah. :tongue:

I had zero luck with Cadmus so far, either the first or the current version, but this actually seems to work a bit, at least in Discord testing. Like in Liam's test, it doesn't seem to catch typing while talking, but it does cut out any that occurs while I'm not talking.

Now, anyone know how to get it to work with Audacity? The list of microphones I have to choose from there is a long list of cryptic names like "default: Rear Mic: 0" and "pulse: Line: 0". Nothing resembling the names of any of the microphones I actually have attached (which Discord displays nicely) or the Denoised microphone NoiseTorch creates. :dizzy:

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I actually got this in the Humble Bundle 2, shortly after I'd moved away to college and discovered that with better-than-dial-up internet speeds Steam was actually viable and there were a lot of games out there. :smile: That was about 4 years before I switched to Linux, but having games like this ready and waiting for me when I did was a big part of why I took the plunge.

I never did completely finish it, maybe I'll fire it up today for a bit. :grin:

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Steam on ChromeOS, and Google working on something called "Borealis [External Link]," eh? Coincidence? I think not!

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This seems really interesting! I've been mildly annoyed for quite a while at how well my microphone picks up my mechanical keyboard when recording gameplay videos, and this looks (or sounds :grin:) like a good solution.

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Quoting: GuestOh, I was interested but it’s just a sandbox? No campaign? Or is it just for this demo?

I'm not 100% sure as this is just a demo, but I think the idea is that it's like Dwarf Fortress or RimWorld, so more of a sandbox than something that would have a campaign.

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I too backed the original Kickstarter for this game, and ran into the broken Linux demo a day or two ago, so it's good to see that got fixed. I tried it out for a hour today for the first time. It's quite playable, but I feel they really need to sit down and watch a first-time player encounter it—even with the tutorial I had multiple steps where it took me some time to figure out how to do what the tutorial told me to do. "Send your crew on a mission to the escape pod to rescue the colonist in it"—ok, but when I click the ship to bring up the away mission interface, I can't select any of my crew or hit the "send mission" button and there's no indication of what I'm doing wrong. It's apparently a "mining" mission, do I need to give one of my crew the "miner" profession? No, wait, there is no miner profession. Oh, you first have to select the ship you want to use from the list in the away mission screen, and then you can select the crew to go on it*? That would've been nice to know. :smile: But this is polish, and something to add in the run-up to the actual release, so hopefully it'll be fine by then.

And while I'm on the topic of polish, I'd really like a way to move things rather than needing to destroy and rebuild them every time. But overall it's decently fun, I hadn't originally planned to play the whole hour the demo gives you but got drawn into it over the first fifteen minutes.

*Presumably because later on you'll have multiple ships to choose from.

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I enjoyed Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun enough when I picked it up a few years ago that I figured whatever they came out with next in the same vein would be an automatic purchase for me. I see it finally came out today, but since I'm pretty flush with games to play at the moment I might as well wait for the native release. :smile: I'm curious to see how the setting changes the use of guns, since they were limited ammo but incredibly powerful in BotS but obviously they're pretty commonplace in the Wild West setting.

Also:

Quoting: "Game marketing material"Witness the glory of classic Wild West scenarios like frontier towns, mysterious swamps, sprawling modern cities, and many more

Ah yes, those well-known classic Wild West swamps. :tongue:

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Quoting: randylI'm trying to reduce my mechanical filter needs with habitat buffs.

Do you balance Nature and Science point gains or have you found a better ratio?

Ah, yeah, that's also quite useful.

I don't pay too much attention to the ratio for the most part. Unless you're really trying to maximize one I think it tends to be fairly balanced over time, though I admittedly haven't paid enough attention to confirm this. If you play long enough you'll eventually run out of things to research for both, so it's mainly down to whatever you want to unlock quicker at the time. Like if you have a bunch of modded animals (as I do), they'll require more ecology points to unlock.

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Pumps in particular offer some really interesting strategies, like chaining tanks together to allow you to put all your heaters/coolers/filters/etc. in a single maintenance room so your mechanics don't have to go running all over your aquarium (though it's less efficient since you'll need more filters to maintain water quality).

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