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ID Software Moving Further Away From Linux, QuakeLive Going Native
8 Nov 2013 at 6:58 pm UTC
8 Nov 2013 at 6:58 pm UTC
Quoting: Quote from HamishWhenever I hear Carmack speak it is like a captive man, forced to say things and bend his own thoughts to accept a paradigm he would never have assented to even ten years ago.Naw. He's just gone completely batty.
Steam For Linux Has Its First Birthday Today!
7 Nov 2013 at 7:00 am UTC
*Likewise, despite assertions of the contrary, not everyone agrees that "at least Ender's Game was a great book". Seriously people, stop doing that!
7 Nov 2013 at 7:00 am UTC
Quoting: Quote from HadBabitsEveryone agrees that Canonical has done a lot of good in promoting LinuxI wish people would stop trying to speak for everyone*. I sure as hell don't agree!
*Likewise, despite assertions of the contrary, not everyone agrees that "at least Ender's Game was a great book". Seriously people, stop doing that!
Metro: Last Light Released for Linux on Steam
6 Nov 2013 at 2:36 am UTC
It's impossible to live completely vegan, without profiting from any exploitation of animals. The majority of people would say vegan alternatives pale in comparison to "the real thing". Yet you'll find people living as vegan as possible, and while I'm not one of them (I'm a happy omnivore, so not even a vegetarian), I still find it laudable in principle.
Likewise, it's not possible living in our societies without contributing to global warming and the general wasteful exploitation of resources, third-world countries and people. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to keep your carbon footprint low; that doesn't mean projects like the Fair Mouse [External Link] are stupid.
6 Nov 2013 at 2:36 am UTC
Quoting: Quote from n30p1r4t3it's impossible to live in the modern world without DRM.This is completely besides the point; just because it's impossible to do something 100% doesn't mean it's foolish to even try.
It's impossible to live completely vegan, without profiting from any exploitation of animals. The majority of people would say vegan alternatives pale in comparison to "the real thing". Yet you'll find people living as vegan as possible, and while I'm not one of them (I'm a happy omnivore, so not even a vegetarian), I still find it laudable in principle.
Likewise, it's not possible living in our societies without contributing to global warming and the general wasteful exploitation of resources, third-world countries and people. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to keep your carbon footprint low; that doesn't mean projects like the Fair Mouse [External Link] are stupid.
Monster RPG 2 To Go Non-Free After Succesfully Crowdfunding To Become Open Source UPDATED
3 Nov 2013 at 8:21 pm UTC
3 Nov 2013 at 8:21 pm UTC
Why wouldn't you want it?
Monster RPG 2 To Go Non-Free After Succesfully Crowdfunding To Become Open Source UPDATED
24 Oct 2013 at 3:21 pm UTC
24 Oct 2013 at 3:21 pm UTC
Yeah, you're conflating free as in free beer and free as in speech (aka "libre") here.
The game code will still remain FLOSS (free/libre open source software). Whether or not you pay for the game data is something else entirely. In either case, kudos to them for opening the game; too few do that, IMHO.
That said, this is the first time I've heard of the "Give it Your Own License, License". Very weird license, and very weird to choose such a license. I'd have chosen either GPL, BSD or CC0, depending on the level of permissiveness I thought necessary (for a whole game thing, probably GPL), but that's maybe just me.
The game code will still remain FLOSS (free/libre open source software). Whether or not you pay for the game data is something else entirely. In either case, kudos to them for opening the game; too few do that, IMHO.
That said, this is the first time I've heard of the "Give it Your Own License, License". Very weird license, and very weird to choose such a license. I'd have chosen either GPL, BSD or CC0, depending on the level of permissiveness I thought necessary (for a whole game thing, probably GPL), but that's maybe just me.
Jane Jensen's "Mystery Game X" Unmasked
22 Oct 2013 at 4:40 pm UTC
22 Oct 2013 at 4:40 pm UTC
Quoting: Quote from SwiftpawThey didn't say anything about redoing the voices, did they?
from their FAQ
Okay, new art makes sense, but why redo the voices?
Unfortunately the original recordings were lost and stripping the audio from the game did not result in acceptable quality. Because of this, rerecording was a necessity. The original actors are twenty years older—even if they were interested in reprising their roles, they probably wouldn’t sound like they did “back then”—and the cost of getting some of those actors wasn’t practical for the budget of this project. Recasting was our only option.
We turned to Bay Area Sound [External Link], a studio that does voice recording for a ton of adventure games including Telltale’s The Walking Dead, Sam & Max and Tales of Monkey Island as well as Jane’s game Moebius. (In other words, this isn’t their first time working on a reboot of a classic adventure series!) They helped us cast great actors true to the spirit of the original cast. The voices have already been recorded and Jane’s very happy with the results. We’ll reveal more details about the cast as the mid-2014 release approaches.
Jane Jensen's "Mystery Game X" Unmasked
20 Oct 2013 at 7:32 am UTC
20 Oct 2013 at 7:32 am UTC
It's "great" that the website doesn't say anything about Linux. And that Jane Jansen didn't answer my tweet about Linux support two weeks ago.
- Kinda sad that we lose Tim Curry, Michael Dorn and Mark Hamill as voice actors
- Also, I'll miss the awesome AdLib track. Always had a sweet spot for the YM39812/YMF262 in my heart
- The remastered title track sounds...wrong somehow
- Kinda sad that we lose Tim Curry, Michael Dorn and Mark Hamill as voice actors
- Also, I'll miss the awesome AdLib track. Always had a sweet spot for the YM39812/YMF262 in my heart
- The remastered title track sounds...wrong somehow
Humble Bundle With Android 7 Smashes Down
16 Oct 2013 at 7:01 pm UTC
16 Oct 2013 at 7:01 pm UTC
http://steamcommunity.com/app/41900/discussions/0/810938082700488770/#c810938082788170004 [External Link] :)
Humble Bundle With Android 7 Smashes Down
16 Oct 2013 at 6:56 am UTC
On my system, the game start-up is the following:
I have two monitors, each with their own X screen (*), so of course I have Xinerama disabled.
(*) One of the reasons being games trying to be smart and doing insane stuff like stretching over both monitors, not letting me switch to my second monitor mid-game to talk on IRC, not wanting to run on the second monitor, or even switching off the second monitor.
16 Oct 2013 at 6:56 am UTC
Quoting: Quote from SabunBought! Played the Bard's Tale, and my goodness Square One Games Inc. did a seriously good job on porting this!Actually, they didn't. :P
It automatically detected my fullscreen resolution at 1920x1080, and set everything maxed out by default. All this on Ubuntu 13.10 with Nvidia 319 drivers in case anyone was wondering.
On my system, the game start-up is the following:
$ ./BardTale
Xlib: extension "XINERAMA" missing on display ":0.0".
Segmentation fault (core dumped)I have two monitors, each with their own X screen (*), so of course I have Xinerama disabled.
(*) One of the reasons being games trying to be smart and doing insane stuff like stretching over both monitors, not letting me switch to my second monitor mid-game to talk on IRC, not wanting to run on the second monitor, or even switching off the second monitor.
Fancy Skulls Random FPS Will Add More Options For Linux
13 Oct 2013 at 12:07 pm UTC
13 Oct 2013 at 12:07 pm UTC
Side-note: When did it become normal to have a separate launcher to change config options? I miss being able to load games, press ESC and just go to the options menuActually, I wish more game would do that. Or rather, provide a representative sample scene and let you configure the graphics options with that. Because I hate having to restart the intro several times to tweak the graphics until the scene works as fluently (for my weird tastes) while looking as best as possible. Bonus hate points when the game doesn't actually let me access the menu and/or quit while showing the intro.
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