Quoting: slaapliedje

OVIVO is a platformer with some rather unusual mechanics, it's also now on Linux

There is a silly game out there where you read off a fortune cookie and add some random bit at the end like, "in the outhouse" or "in the bedroom" etc.

Now I want to say "is now on Linux"

So I just found out that you can search "random fortune" on DuckDuckGo [External Link] and it will generate one for you (seriously DDG has some really nice integrated queries like this). I got:

Break into jail and claim police brutality is now on Linux.

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I'll be honest, at this point I'd prefer a refund to a port. I'm too sick of the company to properly enjoy playing anything they made.

Quoting: MintedGamerWow, you would expect developers to be a bit more professional!

Well, no, not Stainless. They're very much the potty humour/too edgy for you kind of developer, which I can respect if you don't treat your customers like crap. But my respect for them ran out a long time ago.

Quoting: TcheyDidn't they release a gif or something with a car running splashy on some scared pingoos, last year or so ?

That did come up in last year's article. To be fair, the game had penguins in it, among other animals and pedestrians you can run over for extra time, from the beginning, and I'm not going to assume that there's a hidden message behind it since they're the kind of people who wouldn't hesitate to paste "haha suck it Linux nerds" all over their video if that were the intended message.

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So Hand of Fate with turn-by-turn deckbuilder combat instead of 3D action scenes? I'm game. Does it have any kind of story and goal to it or is it just strings of random encounters until you die or complete an arbitrary number of encounters?

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That's cool. I saw a Flash game a few months back that used the same mechanic but was pretty bare-bones. This feels like I'm watching one of the more intricate Line Rider levels [External Link] with all the artwork and the flowing movement.

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Quoting: Holycoitushttps://steamcommunity.com/app/360830/discussions/0/133260909495467131/

Keep in mind that Playtonic is the kind of company that only employs people who agree with them politically. There's a strong correlation with only looking at a small portion of a candidate pool due to political bias and not finding good employees.

JonTron wasn't an employee nor a candidate, though. They offered him to make an unpaid contribution to the game, he did, and they chose not to use it.

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I guess I'll abstain from voting since I've only played maybe 2 games that came out in 2017...

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I have no idea what VAC or catbot means.

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Exciting news at face value, but they do need to give it more thought. Hopefully they'll look at the feedback and come up with something that makes more sense for all use cases.

Although I could imagine that they don't care to count people who already own the games from other platforms, since those won't need to repurchase the game and won't help make ports profitable.

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Looks very similar to Owlboy visually, so that got my attention. I don't play a lot of platformers, but that one was great, so I'll keep an eye open.

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Quoting: sarmadThat's still not good, considering that China is the future biggest market. This chart means Linux is completely ignoring the Chinese market.

That seems like an odd way to look at it (unless you mean that more game devs that port to Linux should also localize to Chinese). There's virtually no one that would profit from championing Linux adoption in the Chinese market (or any other market) from a commercial standpoint, unless you're a company that lives exclusively off of Linux--and how would a single company make Linux popular in the mainstream? The whole ecosystem is community-driven, so it's not so much a matter of targeting or ignoring markets, but of volunteers in those regions hearing about Linux, becoming passionate about it, contributing to it and spreading the word/software.

I think the contrast between English-only and All but Chinese speaks volumes in that regard, compared to the very slight difference between All languages and All but Chinese. It means that adoption in China is slightly less than the world average, while adoption in English-speaking countries is twice as high as that same average. Considering Linux originated in the West and is primarily developed in English, that comes as little surprise. And it means that Steam growing in any regions where English isn't the main language will lead to lower Linux market shares (barring any other countries where Linux is comparatively strong, if there are any).

I just don't see anyone investing money into growing Linux use in the Asian market anytime soon, so any progress we make there would have to be organic. There needs to be enough devs and translators to fully support a locale for potential users in that region to have a chance to bite and stay hooked. Usable Linux software shrinks significantly if you take English out of the equation (as well as community support), and for a vast number of people, that's a deal breaker.

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