I haven't really have had to time to dig in yet to demos, but few that I tried previously (and many of them have been actually been covered here)

Axe Ghost [External Link]: this one is not actually part of the fest, but just found it yesterday. It's puzzle game you need to join same types of monsters together in order to destroy as big group as possible. So kind of like match 3. The trick is though that you have you have random set of cards to play that contain vaguely Tetris like moves. Bit more complex than your average match 3 game and requires more thinking. But it still has same addictive quality.

Moon Watch: [External Link] Vampire Survivors meets card game and Superhot. Time moves when you move and cards contain weapons and other useful things and need energy to use. And of course lot of enemies. Takes a moment to get used to, but once you figure it out, it gets way easier. Demo has already few unlocks, so you can try out different playstyles.
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Neverlooted Dungeon [External Link]: it's basically dungeon crawler combined with immersive sim. Controls manage to mimic somewhat real movements, so you can for example peek inside chest to see if there's a trap inside. It has been a while since I have played it, though I don't remember seeing demo update.
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Pest Apocalypse [External Link]: Driving meets Vampire Survivors and pizza delivery. Played the Itch demo and spent a moment with the Steam version. Still good fun, though there's some learning curve to get good at the game. As usual for the genre, permanent upgrades help, but it takes a while to get good enough to start earning enough money.
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Spilled [External Link]: cute little boat game by solo developer about cleaning ecological disasters. I have mentioned it before, but now it's actually part of the fest.
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Quoting: based

Quoting: Linux_RocksI find it funny how Nintendo ends up getting blamed in the comments somehow. Could you imagine the PR nightmare it would cause if they were found out? Nintendo isn't stupid enough to do something like this. Even if some of their actions (especially as of late) have been questionable. I'm not saying that a big company isn't or couldn't be behind this. I'm just saying that I highly doubt Nintendo would be the ones to do so.

Then as far as it possibly being a false flag to cause Palestinians further issues. I could see that. Seeing as how petty western imperialist countries can be with their bullshit, actions, and propaganda.

How would they be found out? Whoever did it could have paid a hacker, who could have been in a differrnt country AND using proxy

I can totally imagine someone like Nintendo who dont always play by the rules to do this.

I assume huge companies would attack Internet Archive with their huge lawyer armies. Legal battles can have lasting effect on how the Internet Archive works.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Purple Library GuyMostly, they just talk about stuff that you can see confirmed in mainstream media . . . they just talk about (whatever it is) a whole lot and the mainsteam media talk about (whatever it is) only a very little bit, because both are talking about the facts that fit their narrative and analysis. This difference is largely because the far left has no money (which in turn is because they're by definition the enemy of the people who have all the money). The far right has the dough to amplify false messages enough to get traction, but the far left don't have what it takes to get away with that.

Uhm, what? The richest companies on the planet are ALL on the Left. Microsoft, Google, Apple.

Crazy things from the far-left? Identity politics. Denying biological science, etc. I'm sure I could come up with more, but I need coffee. Denying DNA is basically the equivalent of flat-earth in my mind.

What on earth are you talking about?
So, first of all, identity politics is "liberal"; it's not left at all. But in any case, identity politics has nothing to do with endorsing false facts--note, I didn't say "crazy stuff" which is a pretty subjective value judgement, I said basing ideas on stuff that is not true. Identity politics is all about interpretation and values; whether you endorse it or disagree with it, there's no facts you can point to that getting them wrong is the basis for identity politics. Identity politics is about wanting to treat everyone equally in an unequal world, without making the world itself more equal. This leads to some difficulties and contradictions, but there's nothing wrong with the basic insight that groups are often treated unequally even though everyone is fundamentally equal and it would be nice if that weren't the case.

Denying biological science and DNA . . . um, who is doing this in what way? Is this some kind of weird misinterpretation of what transgender stuff is about, or what? (which, again, would be getting something wrong about liberals, not really leftists) Come on, I gave real and widespread phenomena that were actually about denying facts.

Microsoft, Google and Apple are also arguably liberal. They are in no possible way left. Just to be clear, being on the left is about economic class in one way or another. It's about redistribution of wealth and power to the poorer classes away from people who own things for a living. None of these corps are going to get behind any of that stuff. Google in particular a couple years back rejigged their algorithm to avoid getting socialist websites in search results. Left my ass.

Thanks for reminding me what's wrong with framing all things left and right. Left and right come from old model of describing politics. More moderns ones tend to throw in more dimensions. Current discussion seems to best described as conservatives VS progressives (should take deeper dive to understand how it differs from liberalism, but don't have time right now).

Otherwise the discussion seems to have progressed to point that it's just better to agree to disagree.

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The first demo was bit like "what's this? can this even be fun". And ten minutes later or so it starts to make sense and some viable tactics emerge. There was even some unlocks that changed how the game plays.

Just downloaded the Steam demo and maybe I'll give it a try.

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If somebody is interested in game development, there's a recent interview [External Link] where the developers show some games inner workings in Godot.

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Licenced games used to be mostly crap as they had to be developed in a rush in order to stay close to the movie release date. Based on the more recent indie games and the press release, this doesn't fall into that trap.

Not that getting a license means that game still will be good (Gollum, Gollum), but at least given enough development time there's a chance that good games come out.

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I used to play mostly just native games. I slowly started care more just about support and when availability of native builds dropped I moved to Proton. Not that support has been great with native games usually and now with Proton is murkier and it's better just to check protondb.

At least with Proton combined with Steam Deck developer gets sort of training wheels. So if were lucky developers inch towards being able to make good native builds or in worst case game just detects Linux as Steam Deck and does very Steam Deck specific things.

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Quoting: mr-victoryThey hadn't cancelled that already?

I'm not sure if I know all the steps in between, but I think first change was to remove retroactive part of the license change. That was the part causing biggest panic. After that at least there were better options of avoiding runtime fee than removing all released Unity games from all stores.

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I got Civilization V as a gift. Game was a physical copy, but it required Steam. As Civilization fan I didn't hesitate too much and installed Steam via Wine. Played quite lot of Civilization V after that.

Later the Linux port of the game arrived and I was bit surprised that everything worked (except the mods).

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Publishing must be handled by the third party consultancy as Humble Games was shut down. I wonder how long we are going to see new games published by Humble Games. Wikipedias list has four that probably don't have release date yet. Five if counting Wizard of Legend 2 too as early access is not technically a release.

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