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Latest Comments by TheSHEEEP
For the Black Friday 2020 sale, itch.io are giving 100% to developers
30 Nov 2020 at 11:57 am UTC

Quoting: Purple Library GuyMan. 100% to developers . . . nobody can say Itch is all about the money.
It IS all about the money.

The developers' money!

The Internet Archive are keeping Flash creations alive with the open source Ruffle
24 Nov 2020 at 10:59 am UTC Likes: 9

Quoting: Guestbadger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger
Mushroom mushroom

X4: Foundations gets a 4.0 Beta with the 'biggest free update so far'
19 Nov 2020 at 3:47 pm UTC Likes: 2

Sounds pretty good.
So far, trying to command a fleet was pretty painful due to the need to micro so much. Just handing it off to an admiral sounds like you could have more time actually participating in the battle yourself.

Real-time grand strategy game Realpolitiks II will be coming to Linux
19 Nov 2020 at 11:32 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: bekowelp. That was one of the worst trailers I've seen in a while. Grand "action" strategy :sick:
You gotta have some mercy with the publisher here.
They are trying to sell a grand strategy game - and for some reason decided that "action trailer!!!!!" is the way to go.

1C can be very endearingly oldschool sometimes :grin:

Godlike village building sim 'Rise to Ruins' is now available DRM-free on GOG
6 Nov 2020 at 4:07 pm UTC

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: TheSHEEEPMore than 5% of reviews is actually incredibly much.
The general guideline for reviews to sales is actually that less than 5% leave reviews.

For RoR that would make it more than 10% reviews. Impressive!
It's a very tricky thing to calculate, and each person I've seen attempt to do so has some different outcome and method to try. It ends up varying a lot. In this case, when you look at total sales (first link) from September over the lifetime it would give less than 2% that left a review for RoR.
My bad.
I read the article wrong, didn't see that those numbers were "only" in 2020.

That sounds much more in line with what I know (<5% reviews in general).

It is of course never an exact calculation. Some games ask their users to write a review within the game, others don't.
Some might have users that for some reason are more likely to write reviews, etc.

Godlike village building sim 'Rise to Ruins' is now available DRM-free on GOG
6 Nov 2020 at 3:28 pm UTC

More than 5% of reviews is actually incredibly much.
The general guideline for reviews to sales is actually that less than 5% leave reviews.

For RoR that would make it more than 10% reviews. Impressive!

Eight years ago today, Steam for Linux went into Beta
6 Nov 2020 at 10:28 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: CatKiller
Quoting: dudeYeah, Valve taught me how to spend my money on games like women on shoes. Thanks Gaben
Some of us have to maintain a gaming budget as well as a shoe budget.
The struggle is real.

RetroArch will soon get the PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2
3 Nov 2020 at 11:43 am UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjeGuess the question is, can the Raspberry Pi 4 handle PS2 games? I may have to take my old tower and use it as a games console... been tempted to do it anyhow..
I'd say... probably?

I've been running PS2 emulators many years ago (when they were still eating more performance, too) and if you assume that the best Pi now has about the power of PCs back then. Definitely possible.

Monochrome RPG is channelling 1920s animation into a comedy adventure
31 Oct 2020 at 8:14 am UTC

The perspective mess is killing it for me, tbh.

Some characters look like they are lying on the floor, looking towards the ceiling.
While the main character looks like it was drawn with a kind-of isometric perspective.
The walls look like the camera has a fish-eye perspective.
Every piece of furniture seems to have been drawn with a different perspective in mind.
Nothing fits together, really.

I honestly got a slight headache from watching the video.
But I have the same with the old Ultima games...

Facebook announces their own Cloud Gaming service
27 Oct 2020 at 12:22 pm UTC Likes: 1

I do have a Facebook account, but I really only use it for family & friends stuff.

But I don't think I'm even remotely the target audience for this.