Is there a PPA for Veloren? That us Ubuntu/Mint peeps can subscribe to keep the game up to date?

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Quoting: DeathByDenim

Quoting: CyrilIt's a monstrous bundle, but is there any way to filter only Linux games on that list?

I didn't see a way to do it either, so I wrote a quick scraper. This is the list of Linux games:
Dreaming Sarah [External Link]
Guppy [External Link]
Shipwreck [External Link]
Crashed Lander [External Link]
Airships: Conquer the Skies [External Link]
DANGEROUS DUELS [External Link]
Autumn [External Link]
Spell Casting [External Link]
Not the Robots [External Link]
Paranautical Activity [External Link]
QLRZ (colorz) [External Link]
Little Cells [External Link]
Switch 'N' Shoot [External Link]
ARGH-P-G [External Link]
Visual Out [External Link]
Destiny Fails Us: A New Life [External Link]
MidBoss [External Link]
Parallax [External Link]
Three Red Hearts - Prepare to Dev Edition [External Link]
The Secret of Tremendous Corporation [External Link]
Astæria [External Link]
Vilmonic [External Link]
Super Win the Game [External Link]
Super Hexagon [External Link]
Reproduction Man [External Link]
Pass the Buck: A Game of Corporate Responsibility Management [External Link]
Curse of the Crescent Isle DX [External Link]
Catlateral Damage [External Link]
Social Interaction Trainer [External Link]
Gladiabots [External Link]
Wheels of Aurelia [External Link]
Haque [External Link]
Borb the Birb [External Link]
VIDEGOAME [External Link]
The Spark of One [External Link]
On Rusty Trails [External Link]
Blockara [External Link]
Dusk Child [External Link]
A Game of Changes [External Link]
Thou Shalt Be Brave [External Link]
Overland [External Link]
Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox [External Link]
Realm of the Ghost King [External Link]
Locomancer [External Link]
This World Unknown [External Link]
Low Poly Auto Racing Car Pack - Devils Work.shop [External Link]
Blind Men [External Link]
Beglitched [External Link]
Metori [External Link]
Cube Rampage [External Link]
Pixel Session Vol.1 [External Link]
Night in the Woods [External Link]
Idioctopus [External Link]
Bleed [External Link]
Cosmic Rochambo [External Link]
Keep It Together [External Link]
Essential Pool Billiards Table Asset Pack - VR/AR [External Link]
A Kishoutenketsu in the countryside [External Link]
StarFighter R&D HD Edition [External Link]
Satellite Repairman [External Link]
Hyperspace Dogfights [External Link]
A Snake's Tale [External Link]
nullpointer [External Link]
Dominique Pamplemousse and Dominique Pamplemousse in "Combinatorial Explosion!" [External Link]
Mobility! Accessible precision platformer [External Link]
ADLENGINE - Roleplay / Text Adventure Engine [External Link]
Drake [External Link]
Recording the Predestined Time [External Link]
Make your Adventure [External Link]
Village Monsters [External Link]
Petty Puny Planet [External Link]
One-Eyed Lee: Prologue [External Link]
POM SIMULATOR 9000 [External Link]
Fugue [External Link]
The Trolley [External Link]
Best Garden [External Link]
Path Out [External Link]
cityglitch [External Link]
down. [External Link]
Bad Government [External Link]
luminous corridor 0 [External Link]
Nepenthe [External Link]
Kubyx [External Link]
BIT RAT : Singularity [External Link]
What Isn't Saved (will be lost) [External Link]
As We Know It [External Link]
Heavy Bullets [External Link]
Pumpking [External Link]
MIDNIGHT ULTRA [External Link]
Turn-Based Champion [External Link]
Asteroid Quest! (Classic) [External Link]
Season's Beatings [External Link]
Make It Last [External Link]
Mon-cuties for All [External Link]
you used to be someone [External Link]
EXTREME MEATPUNKS FOREVER [External Link]
Tape [External Link]
KeyCars [External Link]
Cycle 28 [External Link]
Central Limit Theorem [External Link]
Death Game+ [External Link]
Us Lovely Corpses [External Link]
Spooky Ghosts Dot Com [External Link]
Flufftopia [External Link]
Spectres of the Cold [External Link]
Cardinal Chains [External Link]
Death? Preposterous! - A Non-violent RPG [External Link]
Minit [External Link]
AIdol [External Link]
Bleed 2 [External Link]
Verdant Skies [External Link]
Widget Satchel [External Link]
Giant's Chalice [External Link]
The Testimony of Trixie Glimmer Smith [External Link]
Brassica - A Marry Tale [External Link]
Color Jumper [External Link]
The Subject [External Link]
Lingotopia [External Link]
Plana Gravatatis [External Link]
Rebop Blasters [External Link]
Sewer Rave [External Link]
BAKED:MAGIC [External Link]
Kaiju Big Battel: Fighto Fantasy [External Link]
He Plays the Piano [External Link]
Super Sellout [External Link]
Escape from Life Inc [External Link]
Ghost Grab 3000 [External Link]
Pin Puck [External Link]
HexaCycle [External Link]
Feud [External Link]
Test Tube Titans [External Link]
Whipped And Steamy • Cosplay Café [External Link]
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! [External Link]
One-Eyed Lee and the Dinner Party [External Link]
Order A Pizza: A Visual Novel [External Link]
Three Lesbians in a Barrow [External Link]
Ghost Story [External Link]
DragonRuby Game Toolkit [External Link]
The Tower: The Order of XII [External Link]
To Be a HerpWitch [External Link]
A NIGHTMARE'S TRIP [External Link]
Hair Dash [External Link]
A Short Hike [External Link]
Even in Arcadia [External Link]
Out the Window: a car trip sim [External Link]
Hollow Head [External Link]
EAT GIRL [External Link]
Quadrilateral Cowboy [External Link]
Skeletris [External Link]
Inner [External Link]
Mable & The Wood [External Link]
Just one, must choose [External Link]
Vincent: The Secret of Myers | 文森：梅尔斯的秘密 [External Link]
HATCH [External Link]
Death and Taxes [External Link]
Danger Crew [External Link]
[[SIBERIA]](https://mssng.itch.io/siberia)
Wide Ocean Big Jacket [External Link]
10 in 1 game-a-week bundle! [External Link]
Furries & Scalies & Bears OH MY!: Ultimate Edition [External Link]
EMUUROM [External Link]
Glittermitten Grove [External Link]
Oh Jeez, Oh No, My Rabbits Are Gone!!! [External Link]
plant daddy [External Link]
Roguescape [External Link]
Equaboreal 12.21 [External Link]
Conversations With My Anxiety [External Link]
songs and flowers [External Link]
Croissants [External Link]
My Haunted Doll [External Link]
Wishing Sarah [External Link]
Democratic Socialism Simulator [External Link]
Interstellaria [External Link]
Christmas Cats Revenge [External Link]
Super Bernie World [External Link]
Starlight Shores [External Link]
FROG [External Link]
perfect park [External Link]
PHN-HOME [External Link]
BoomTown [External Link]
Interactive Portraits: Trans People in Japan [External Link]
Gutwhale [External Link]
Distortion Nation [External Link]
The Missing Locksmith [External Link]
Humans vs. Humans 2018: Wasteland [External Link]
Disobedient Sheep [External Link]
Spring Falls [External Link]
Tonight We Riot [External Link]
deskspace [External Link]

Code if you are interested:
 
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

games=[]

for i in range(1,25):
    with open(str(i).rjust(2, '0')+".html") as f:
        soup = BeautifulSoup(f.read(), 'html.parser')
        linux_spans = soup.find_all('span', {'class':'icon-tux'})
        for span in linux_spans:
            games.append(f"[{span.parent.parent.h2.text}]({span.parent.parent.h2.a['href']})")

for game in games:
    print(game)

Holy Cow! Not only does this bring home just how epic and gigantic this deal is... it also highlights how many superb Linux games there are on Itch! 500+??? Holy shit.

And don't get me wrong - there are some, frankly, throw-away experiments too. But to call out quite a few simply superb options -

Liam has already mentioned:
A Short Hike
Airships: Conquer the Skies
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
Democratic Socialism Simulator
Gladiabots
Haque
MidBoss
Minit
Overland
Shipwreck
Super Hexagon
Tonight We Riot
Verdant Skies

But, not to take anything away from DeathByDenim's list, I would like to add the following, for various, multiple and entirely personal reasons!

Oxenfree (it's AWESOME! BUY IT NOW! NO REGETS!)
Night in the Woods (ALSO AWESOME!)
Overland (I don't care that Liam's already called it out, it's AWESOME!)
Oneshot (weirdly Windows-only on Itch, but Linux supported on Steam? Worth looking into!)
Midboss (again, Liam calls it out, but I RAVE about it here. Get it!)
Wakimarina. I really hope this plays okay on Lutris/Wine/Proton, because it's BEAUTIFUL.
The Fall of Lazarus. Another Wine title - looks wonderful.
Pixel Session Vol 1... the most un-epileptic game ever built. Seriously though, epileptic people, be warned!
Dreaming Sarah. I had a lot of fun with this. Nothing to do with people I know named Sarah. Honest guv.
The Subject. Horror, FPS and puzzle elements. Tense and interesting. Definitely worth a look.
Bleed / Bleed2. Epic, lovely and fun.
Quadrilateral Cowboy - I know nothing about it... but I desperately want to play it.
Heavy Bullets - a Twitch favourite. Like Void Bastards, but... native.
The King's Bird. Also an option on Humble Choice.. goddamit! If only I'd known! :)
Visual Out - a game I've had on my wishlist for... years, but never quite got around to pulling the trigger on. Yay!
Hyperspace Dogfights - loads of arcady-fun!
Star Drop - another one I hope works in Wine/Proton, because, holy cow... intriguing/beautiful!
Satellite Repairman - pretty intriguing small-world action/strategy. Looking forward to giving it a go!
Seasons Beatings (can't argue with "3D Hotline Miami"...)
Croissants. First person, robotic, pastry assembly. Tell me you're not intrigued...
The Trolley - fascinating narrative adventure.
Autumn - Lose yourself. It's so pretty!
Inner - Simply terrifying.
Not the Robots - So smooth, so simple. Lovely.
Locomancer - when virtual reality goes wrong...
Equaboreal - not sure what to make of this, but it's native.

But honestly, when someone throws you 500+ games for $5, just so you can indirectly acknowlege that racial inequality is bad... pay your money, take your time, and find your own gems. Then report back and tell us about them! I can't wait to hear your stories about gems you never knew existed!

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$915K from this bundle at the time of writing. Incredible.

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Quoting: TobyGornowNot at home, I'm gaming on my potato laptop (13 years old), refusing to die no matter how bad I treat him, hence I'm playing really low specs games:

I discovered Halfway, a top down Xcom like taking place in a space ship invaded by an unknown force, great atmosphere (Aliens vibe), simple gameplay & mechanics. Got it for 2€ on steam less than a fifth of a cigarette pack in my country, native on linux, made with passion.

If you enjoyed Halfway, their Indiana Jones-like follow up, Pathway [External Link], is also worth a look. It's also 50% off right now.

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Quoting: NanobangI'm just getting a "problem loading page" message returned. Hope that means they're getting swamped by people supporting the bundle. I'll keep trying.

Yep, Itch.io is down right now. It appears to be a result of huge demand - they're doing some maintenance on the site at the moment.

https://twitter.com/itchio/status/1269244360425537536 [External Link]

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Hi all, I've tidied up a couple of the comments. While this post is obviously of a political nature, there's no room for inflammatory comments. Thanks.

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Any time I go to pause Humble Choice, I have to admit, I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the £9 I'm about to save. It's always an insane number of games for so little money. So it boils down to, for me, whether I could get a single game in the Choice for that £9. In this month's choice, that game is Barotrauma (normally £12), even though I already own quite a few of the others.

I mean, Remnants of Naezith looks superb too, like Speedrunners, but with prettier graphics, and I like the look of Stygian too. There's also King's Bird, which looks stunning, like Gris had a baby with Dustforce. So yeah. No pause for me this month, despite owning quite a few of the other titles.

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I think I got Neoverse [External Link] in last month's Humble Choice - turns out, it's absolutely superb, albeit Windows-only, but runs nearly perfectly in Proton (the tutorial screen doesn't display, but otherwise it's perfect). Dare I suggest... better than Slay the Spire?? It's basically the same game, except the heroines are all improbably proportioned girls. But putting the dubious boob physics aside, the core card game is superb. Loads of customisation, great synergies and fantastic strategy. Highly recommended.

I'm also completely addicted to Mana Spark [External Link]. The graphics are a nearly-unplayable mess, but the gameplay is so smooth and satisfying, you start to ignore it. Great progression, amazing power ups and again - great synergies with certain upgrades. Just awesome.

Finally, I've just bought Burning Knight [External Link], so I'm looking forward to playing that!

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I paste this into /etc/sudoers on every single install I do.

# Allows certain command to run without a password
scaine ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/apt update
scaine ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/apt dist-upgrade
scaine ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/apt auto-remove
scaine ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/purge-old-kernels

Although since I've moved to Mint, I find the GUI for updates is pretty good, so I don't do my command-line maintenance anywhere near as much.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: scaineIt should be, but this is all about money.

It is, but not really for the reasons you're thinking of. A tiny indie developer benefits more than a massive AAA developer does from all the infrastructure that Steam provides. A big multiplat release is going to have their own matchmaking, their own support chain, their own marketing, their own forums, and so on, outside of Steam, so there's less of a value proposition for Valve's cut than is the case for the indie, and supporting a million players in one container is cheaper for Valve than a thousand containers with a thousand players in, so there's scope to lower the rates.

I don't doubt any of that, but I don't believe that any of it's relevant to Valve's decision to reduce their cut to AAA. They did so, I believe, to prevent those big players jumping ship to Epic. Which was my point (poorly stated) - it's all about money. Specifically, in this case, Valve keeping as much of it as possible.

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