Quoting: mircallaThe demo's been out for a while and it's a lot of fun, sort of base-buildy/tower offense zeppelin Subspace vibes if you played that in the late 90s/early 00s. Fingers crossed for a healthy multiplayer scene!

Too bad the demo is no longer available. Descriptions have been more or less accurate so far. It would have to be simplified a bit in order to fit into the tower defense genre. Just having towers doesn't transform RTS game into tower defense.

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Quoting: The_AquabatI voted Valheim as best game of the year! sooo much fun, hope it wins.

I might go with that. Though I haven't played in a while as I have to go and get my stuff back. Maybe some day I'll get around doing that :smile:

I'm not yet sure about rest of the categories yet. I guess it's good excuse to buy one or two more games released this year.

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Played demo when it was available and it was already quite fun.

Quoting: tuubiOnce again, I'm very interested until I see the words "procedurally generated". I know replayability is important to many gamers, but I'd rather just thoroughly explore and enjoy a well-designed game world once and move on.

I don't know if Sail Forth actually benefits from procedural generation. 30 hours is already quite lot and games I have played that or more are in minority. Second playthrough would be on top of that.

Something like Civillization is bit of an exception. That really benefits from replaying and is also procedurally generated. In that it's easy to think of mid and long term goals, so there's no need to keep pondering if current landmass looks same than the one next to it.

Valheim might be bit closer match as it has also sailing and lots of travelling around. Valheim also has several unique terrains that start to look bit too familiar when you have been playing for bit longer time.

Have to see how Sail Forth turns out.

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Quoting: tuubiYou said "anyone forcing things through [...] now won't be warned of potential breakage." which is clearly a misunderstanding on your part. You invented a problem and argued against it. That's a strawman.

And of course I'm not telling you what you should do or think. Personally I think this change does improve the situation, though admittedly not by much. Then again, there's not much of a problem to fix.

I think there's two cases. Hopefully these clear things up a bit.

Case 1
User is blocked from doing harmful operation because user hasn't enabled the flag. User won't have any clue how to proceed as wording doesn't help in creating a bug report (this assumes that user is not able to go and fix the package).

Case 2
User has enabled the flag. If user reads the messages, it ends up in same situation than in the first case (If I remember correctly, APT might ask about proceeding before every installation). If user doesn't understand the output, user will proceed and hose the system or in best case give up.

Case 2 might be harder to fix. Though if APT still asks before proceeding, it might be as good enough for now at least. If somebody comes up with better solution, I would assume that it's possible to make bug report or pull request.

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Quoting: Glog78So in the end ... the user still needs to decide what he wants and not wants -> if a user can't decide in the first place if something is harmful how can he decide now? Will it stop him from doing harmful things ? Will it help him to understand the dependencies and why they are used ? Will it make him understand what is happen right now ? ... Most likely not and we might become a situation like under windows where user don't check anymore if they get an admin promt at all ... they just click it's fine someone on the internet told me to do so ... I would go so far that since you as someone who want to help can't be sure which packages are blocked by which frontend -> we will tell them to do on the commandline overruling the distribution protection ... Thats why i think we are on a complete stupid path currently ... we don't fix anything but we make it more overhead for people who are able to support those systems.

With Discover if you blindly click OK, you'll start reporting a bug. That might persuade at least few people not to google the command line alternative. After a while first hit in Google might even be that bug report. Discover doesn't tell you to google for command line alternative at all.

Discover of any GUI package manager doesn't really need to support use case of intentionally removing essential packages, result might be just black screen like what happened to Linus. Yes, APT has a roadblock which hopefully doesn't hinder normal operations as has been said already at least once. And it still has override for the cases where you actually want to break things.

Path of educating people to be more informed doesn't have to happen right away. Tinkerer distributions are also not going away. If you're curious you can still look under the hood, Linux still won't be Windows.

So in short, I would not be worried about stupid path yet.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: AnzaWhat I have read is that Godot is missing some funding, so it would make sense to collect most of the money for the project.

I was under the impression they gather quite some grants lately? (Ok, I know good developers aren't cheap.)

Too bad I wasn't able to find recent budget report. They do have target for funding four full time developers though on Patreon [External Link].

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Quoting: 14Kinda stinks that only 10% of the donations goes to the prize pool. Looking forward to what comes out of this.

What I have read is that Godot is missing some funding, so it would make sense to collect most of the money for the project.

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Quoting: RTherenNow that's a combination I would never think would be possible...

Will give this a go for sure.

Quoting: whizsePeople used to port Doom to every inconceivable piece of hardware.

I guess people ran out of hardware and now try to implement every inconceivable game genre in Doom?

There's already Sonic doom, so this one is not the first platformer that uses Doom engine. Sonic is using modified Doom engine though, so there's that.

PS: there's also gameplay videos, this is the first one I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwOEnSdARvQ [External Link] (there's one or two swearwords, just in case if somebody cares). In short, it's a fun mod.

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Quoting: drmothDon't forget Tail Quest - also super cute, and made with Blender and Godot. The devs are Linux users.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/824090/TailQuest_Defense/ [External Link]

Who happen to also have account here. Too bad the demo is not up right now, it was available during the Steam Next Fest.

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Quoting: denyasisIf I may add to you list, there is also a prejudice (or preference?) against warnings.
We tend to ignore them for a variety of reasons ( it won't happen to me, it doesn't apply to me, I've done it before and nothing bad happened then, this is just for liability, they are too cautious... Etc)

I'll admit I'm guilty of that myself, borking my install more times than I can count because I wanted to try something different or new.

It's totally possible to bork install even when reading all the output. I think I did just that with Arch at some point. I don't remember borking the installation to point where I would actually reinstall with Gentoo though. Though with Gentoo installation is almost installing everything from scratch anyway, so understanding how system is built is kind of thing you have to learn or switch to another distribution.

With Windows though I just reboot in case of problems, I don't have wish to learn it deeper.

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