I just learned that Dirt: Rally 2 is coming, so even if the chance for a same-day is small I'm hoping that they're already on-board with getting a Linux version of that out as well.

Best damn rally game I've ever played - and still play, period.

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Quoting: YoRHa-2B

No Linux port, no console versions because you need a "clean slate" version of it.

Interesting statement. Very interesting statement indeed. I'd love to know what exactly they mean by that.

If you've written a game against Windows, using the Windows API's directly, then you need to build a "clean slate" version where you strip away all direct calls to the Windows (or POSIX/Linux if that's where you started) API. Instead replacing all of it with either cross-platform APIs (like SDL) or a platform abstraction layer of your own making.

Porting a game between platforms while there's still direct calls into platform-specific APIs is going to be a mess and not sustainable for future development.

Most software development tends to start with talking to the development platform APIs directly, to keep the dependency list light and avoid potentially blocking away customers in the future due to the dependency choices. This also means that unless the development started on a platform-agnostic base then it'll just continue to dig itself firmer and firmer into the starting platform the further development goes.
This is also just as true for development of things on Mac or Linux, where if you start developing directly against the platform-specific APIs then you'll have a harder time making it cross-platform in the future.

Admittedly, Linux is a much lesser example as many of the APIs you get there can be used in lesser extents on both Windows and Mac, though it would still require actual work to port your software between them as the Windows and Mac implementations of POSIX APIs are not 100% identical to the Linux ones.

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Been playing through Dungeons 3 with a friend, it's been having us both laughing constantly due to the heavy meta humor and regular-like-clockwork fourth-wall breaks.
The game plays like a mix of Dungeon Keeper and Warcraft 3 in the overworld/underworld split, and the co-op is quite masterfully done as well, so it's been a real treat.

Also been playing some Deep Rock Galactic with Steam Play, apart from some audio issues - a constant low crackling in the background, and with audio sliders that have no effect - it's been quite the nice experience as well.

And I've been helping work on improving the experience of playing Warframe, sadly stil quite the mess to get that game running, and requiring a complete replacement of the launcher just to get off of the ground in the first place. But it runs amazingly well with DXVK - and with the PoE stutter fix.

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Well, that entire premise has me giggling.

Not much for dating games or dungeon crawlers, but something about the combination makes me want to buy it anyway.

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Quoting: kudlatyI'm on the fence about buying this. How US-centric are the questions?

I'm Swedish, and I've had many hours of fun on the various quizzes and games with both friends and family. Can't say that any of the questions have felt particularly US-centric to me as of yet, but I've not played any of the You Don't Know Jack games either, so I can't speak to the questions in there.

The Jackbox Party Packs are more than definitely worth it regardless, lots of fun games and in my experience they've all run better on Linux than on Windows for me.

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Oh nice, this means I can probably stop running Steam as a Flatpak soon.

I've been trying to avoid having 32-bit libraries installed as far as possible - which as it turns out is really easy as long as you don't want to play games on Steam.

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I was a little sceptical about the graphics, but I'd say they actually look downright good in motion.

The game runs quite well too, even if the loading times are really long, and the in-game information is quite lacking.

Most definitely going to spend some more time with this, mainly because at first touch it feels like an actually playable version of A.R.K.

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Quoting: razing32If you're the one working on this project , thank you :)

Just the Flatpak and Windows maintainer for OpenMW, haven't done any real development work on it since way back when I wrote the first unfinished prototype for saving ESP/ESM/ESS data.
But thanks anyway, always nice when people enjoy what you do :)

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Quoting: GuestI decided to install it via flatpak. I was happy when I found out it was the newest version. I hope they keep it up to date.

I certainly have no plans on ceasing maintaining it. :)
That being said, it seems like we lost an appdata xml update in the process, so the flathub page incorrectly states that it's still 0.43.0

Quoting: GuestNot the same engine, but an upgraded version of it, yes. Theoretically, after they complete 1.0, they could decide to upgrade their project to support other Bethesda games like Oblivion, Skyrim, or the Fallouts.

There's a thread on the forum [External Link] that started back on the Ogre version, it's basically a proof-of-concept of loading Oblivion / Skyrim / Fallout content in OpenMW, so certainly far from an impossible thing to do.

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I'd say $5 is more than worth it just to get Dirt: Rally.

Probably the best racing game I've ever played, and the Linux version is really well done as well which is a big plus - though being a Feral port that doesn't surprise me.

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