No exactly what I had been hoping for, as I had planned to begin my second game somewhere in the far east of the map. But I do like the extra flavor this might add. Having only played the Irish so far, it's hard to tell how big the differences between cultures already are, but extra nuance certainly won't hurt.

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Interestingly, they don't actually need the Kickstarter. They can fully fund it but they're doing it to see if it's something people actually want to see.

Given they're practically funded by now, I guess that's a resounding yes! :-).

Backed as well, no questions asked.

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This is pretty neat. Had no problem in picking up my Steam and GOG folder and the games installed within.

But it doesn't find save files for games installed in various Wine prefixes, even after manually adding those folders. And it's reporting nearly 3GB for Crusader Kings 3, as it's picking up heaps of cache files besides the actual saves. So there's clearly some room for improvement.

I'd also wish it'd pick up saves of games no longer installed. Sometimes it's not so much about preserving those, but to actually get rid of them :-).

Edit: at least support for custom Wine prefixes [External Link] is in the works.

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Quoting: Liam DaweQuote direct from itch:

This game is free but the developer accepts your support by letting you pay what you think is fair for the game.

Emphasis mine.

So technically it's free then, but itch.io does a very good job at gently steering you towards paying anyway, with a cunningly designed UI that reminds me a bit of those manipulative tracking consent popups. The proceed to download link is certainly subtle compared to the blatant $2 and brightly colored Pay! buttons.

Anyway, as said before, it was well worth the $2 (plus tip).

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Don't miss out, try it free on itch.io.

It's pay what you want, not free. Although you'll obviously get away with paying $0. It's not overly long, but quite polished and it did exceed my expectations, so I think it's definitely worth something :-).

I'm just not sure if turning it into something bigger will allow it to retain its qualities and charm, but best of luck to the devs if they try!

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Quoting: GuestI think Sensible soccer required just 7mhz and 512kb of ram when running from the floppy drive :)

Yep, it ran fine on an ordinary Amiga 500, and at least from memory it did feel snappier than what's shown of Ballsy. But I guess if you played SWOS back then, Ballsy might be the right speed for you now ;-).

Quoting: GuestSo that today, to read a bunch of kilobytes of text out of the web before growing old, you need a bunch of gigaherts and a bunch of gigabytes of ram ^.^.
Sadly, not strange at all :/

I don't want to image what we could do with the computing power at hand if only we'd have lean code optimized for the hardware it runs on. Instead we developers (and I'm guilty of that as well) keep heaping layers upon layers of high level languages, libraries, abstractions and indirections on top of each other until we end up with an onion the size of a melon for a task that could be performed by a pea.

I mean, just look at something like this [External Link]!

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Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoValve acquired Campo Santo and cancelled "In the Valley of Gods"

This is not accurate. Valve have a "work on what you want" policy, and the Campo Santo team kind-of just drifted themselves over to Half Life: Alyx. They made the decision themselves, not Valve.

And now that Half Life: Alyx is done, maybe they can just kind-of drift back, thank you!

I was really bummed when they cancelled that one. Not only was Firewatch already pretty good, so there was a decent chance that In the Valley of Gods would not disappoint either, but I also really was looking forward to what they'd do with the Egyptian setting. Ancient real-world stuff fascinates me, and there's little enough of it in video games.

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As fascinating as the hardware looks, I'm done with Apple. If I'd want to run Linux on ARM I'd probably just get a Raspberry PI. But for now I don't.

As for Apple, I've grudgingly opted for a MacBook Pro around 2013 (the 13" one, the last with a DVD drive), and at least that one could still be upgraded, so it now has twice the original RAM and an SSD. In theory it's still usable and might even run Big Sur, heaven forbid! But in practice it sees little use. My wife switched to an LG Gram, which is 14" but half the weight, and even has slots for a second SSD and more RAM. Given that Apple has removed the ability to upgrade or replace the hardware in any way, I simply won't buy any of their computers any more. And software wise, things went basically downhill after OSX 10.6.

So yeah, guess there's an argument for getting Linux to run, after all :-).

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Quoting: pete910Make it so I could actually buy a damn card would be a good idea first!

Yeah, with the current situation my plans to upgrade my PC early this year have been postponed. But it's okay; the game that would have mandated an upgrade won't be finished anytime soon either.

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I'd be very surprised if Arcadian Atlas was released this year, but I won't complain if it does :-).
Totally looking forward to Encodya, and it's not long now.
Backbone is something that might be interesting, and so is Rosewater.
I've already played the Roadwarden demo, but it didn't impress. Maybe if the writing was more concise and to the point.

Looking through my own list of interesting upcoming games, Linux support is mostly absent. Sad.

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