Quoting: monkygamesPlease do not promote games with Illegal Loot Box Gambling such as Dota 2.

Is it illegal? Or just immoral?

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Quoting: F.UltraThe idea is to let his patreons pay for the porting, so what he is saying that he will port your game for free if you let him (and you are a game publisher/developer).

I'm one of his patreons and I somehow missed that in his fairly regular updates! Nice. I'd love if more devs actually offered him the chance to work on games. It seems weird to have what is literally a legendary porter putting his services free gratis, and he's not getting any offers!

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There are plenty of indies out there that would probably benefit from a pro like Gordon, but can they pay? I have no idea of the costs involved in freelance porting work like this. I'd say that Gordon's best bet is to leverage an outfit like Humble to hook him up with the indies that have a project they can use him on, and publicise his fees up front.

Would love to see him getting involved in some of the smaller indies with the bigger titles - Subnautica, Scrap Mechanic, A Hat in Time, They Are Billions or The Solus Project.

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Quoting: scaineIf someone told me they'd perfected a pint of beer, and then told me that I could try it for £5.50, I'd say, sure, why not? Even if I don't like it, it's just over what I'd pay normally, right, and what if it's great?

PS. Love the beer analogy, I'm a beer man myself. :) Most expensive one I had was a tiny halfglass for about 10€. It was quite likely the best stout I've ever tasted. Limited brew of only 1000 bottles that was not sold publicly. An impossible love story!

I only just got into the beer scene about a year ago, but really I just used it as an analogy for something that we tend to spend a fair bit of money on without a second thought, but games get this uber-scrutiny which is usually wildly disproportionate to the effort that went into making it. On the throwaway side you have coffees, beers, pizza/kebab/chippy and magazines while on the over-analyse side you have games, books and to a certain extent, art.

Some of the IPAs that come out of the smaller breweries are about £6 or £7 for a 330ml can. Sure, they're like 7% or 8% alcohol, but given that I'll usually sink between 4 and 8 cans if I'm having a night in, I tend to stick to Brewdog or Beavertown IPAs to keep things sensible!

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Ha! It's funny isn't it, the way we put value on things? If someone told me they'd perfected a pint of beer, and then told me that I could try it for £5.50, I'd say, sure, why not? Even if I don't like it, it's just over what I'd pay normally, right, and what if it's great?

But I'm the same as anyone else when I think about whether to sink just over £5 on a game. I wonder... is it really worth £5.50?? Somehow the price of lager and some change suddenly become meaningful.

No idea why that is, but I tell you that if you buy this game in a half price sale, you're getting an absolute bargain.

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Quoting: RybladeBull! Every website these days commits all sorts of evil with JavaScr... wait a second...

*checks uMatrix*

Holy crap. Is this the only pure website left on the Internet? I'm seeing nothing but first-party requests. This... this is so beautiful.

Liam, you are a GOD. Never change.

If you follow Liam on Twitter, the pureness of the site is no surprise. He's been reworking, removing or plain blocking third party content for about 6 months in the lead up to GDPR. Where other sites will simply stick an updated privacy policy to cover their legal asses, Liam's work makes a privacy policy nearly irrelevant (other than to cover your account on the site). It's mental the work he's put in.

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Yeah, I don't think unifying would work, but I do think we have far too much diversity and it hurts. But it's all about the ego - if you contribute to a project and your contributions are rejected... you fork. It's that simple.

What's interesting to me is that Gnome is particularly bad here. It's a nice interface, but they keep making unpopular decisions, which cause forks. How many forks of KDE are there? How many of XFCE? But already we have Unity, Mate and Cinammon as examples of where people flicked the Gnome devs the middle finger.

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Quoting: GoboNice idea of a series, looking forward to more of those articles!

About keeping track of your articles: there is a page listing publications by author, so here is yours.

Thanks! I did put that very same link in my comment above, but re-reading it, I see how you'd have missed it! I'm looking forward to these articles. They're a bit of work, but I'm nearly finished the second, then I'll see what kind of schedule I can keep.

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Quoting: BeamboomNice idea for a new series Scaine, and welcome to the writer staff :) (you've not published that many articles earlier, have you? Or have I just not noticed?)

I used to write for the Funding Crowd with Muntdefems, the_s_d, Flesk and DrMcCoy - that was about 30 or so articles over a couple of years. And I've contributed the odd article here and there under my own name (full list, but my 10 or so contributions are simply lost in the noise of the thousands of articles that Liam produces!

Quoting: Ray54I very much appreciate what you are doing with this new series. I wonder if occasionally you could cover some simpler games that do not require much investment in time (learning and completing). I particularly like games where there is a demo level to try before buying.

Great shout! Some of my candidates are indeed pretty straightforward, while some do benefit from a bit of dedication. I'll keep my eyes peeled for demos when I put them together.

Second PIN should be ready towards the weekend, then I intend to put them out every fortnight or so, depending on beer intake (and subsequent hangover) and social commitments taking me away from my happy gaming place.

Thanks for the interest, everyone.

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Quoting: EhvisNice to see that there are still games that fell through the cracks. Don't think this one is entirely my cup of tea, but maybe the next PIN is.

I have quite a few lined up, from all genres. I hope I find something to pique your interest!

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