Quoting: Duke TakeshiI bet tutorial of the game will be to watch Bob Ross' the joy of painting...without falling asleep of course :D

Done that already, so lets hope we'll be able to skip the tutorial :-).

Seriously, just judging by his show, Bob Ross seemed like a pretty cool guy. Liked his soothing voice, and while his "art" was not so great in the grand scheme of things, I was always fascinated to see it come together in such little time.

Would have been nice if the painting process in Eastshade would be a bit like that (the painting manifesting itself in layers, in a short animation). Instead it looks more like a reverse gaussian blur. A bit simplistic, in my book, given that it's one of the main gameplay elements.

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On my list.

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The only one from the list on my radar is In the Valley of Gods. There are a few more that will likely not run natively, but I'm sure they'll be fine with wine.

All in all, 2019 seems to be a bit lacklustre, gaming wise. But it only just begun, so who knows what surprises await us ...

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I had been a bit dismayed when it became clear that there wasn't a same-day release for Win/Mac/Linux, but over time I come to think of what was released back then to Windows users as the beta, while all the rest will get the actual release.

I also believe the game's reception could have been better, had it been released with fewer bugs. And those weren't obscure issues that would inevitable creep up in any moderately complex software, but essential stuff that wasn't working. Just going over the notes of the first couple patches made me really wonder what kind of processes and QA they had in place.

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I like the pet. I like pixels. I like RPGs. I like Linux. Backed.

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Still spearheaded by Ingo, I see :-).

While I'm not into Jump'n Runs, I'm pretty happy to see such older open source games receiving some love (and attention). After all, time isn't forgiving to old code. While old binaries might continue to run on modern systems, trying to compile old code can by quite tricky at times.

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Quoting: Mountain ManInteresting strategy on Micorsoft's part. Since they realize that Valve's commitment to Linux is a threat to their ability to control the market on the distribution side, they appear to be cutting Linux off at the knees by taking control of the development side.

Can't imagine that this is aimed at Linux primarily. I'd bet it's meant to be a push for the Windows store, and Linux just happens to be in the line of fire.

The gamer in me really wonders what Obsidian or even inXile could achieve with a bigger budget (assuming Microsoft throws some cash their way), but as a Linux user I guess I will not be able to experience that for myself. I wasn't totally hooked on any of their games, and especially inXile has wasted some potential with T:ToN and BT IV, but PoE was fun and I eventually have to revisit PoE II (stopped playing after the first island).

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The graphics look like they are straight from Randal's Monday. Wonder if it's the same artist. (Different studios, but both from Spain, so quite likely)

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Quoting: liamdaweEdit: No it's not, updated :)

My own project uses SDL too, so I'll keep an eye on their repository to see what's upcoming, and I hadn't seen the batching stuff being merged so far. Given how many games depend on SDL these days, there's little room for errors, so I would have been very much surprised if Sam or Ryan pulled a stunt like that :-).

But I'll gladly try it out as soon as it lands. I'm pretty sure it'll be quite beneficial in my case.

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Quoting: ThormackIs/was it a scam?

I wouldn't call it a scam. But definitely overambitious and underfunded.

That said, their selling of virtual trinkets for lots of real money did put me off, but is not exactly uncommon practice in today's gaming industry.

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