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The open source recreation of Daggerfall hits an important milestone
17 Oct 2017 at 6:36 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: MayeulCI am just curious to know the answer: why didn't they use OpenMW's engine? Is this game really that different?
Is it a total recreation of the game (assets and everything), or just the game engine?

I suspect the answer would be something like "developer knew Unity and had no time to invest in other engines". Which is OK, it's their time, but makes their project non open really, since others can't just go and build it from source to get a playable game even if they have game assets.

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The open source recreation of Daggerfall hits an important milestone
17 Oct 2017 at 6:22 pm UTC Likes: 8

Since it's using Unity, I won't call it open source really. Their own part is open, but the engine is not. In contrast, OpenMW is actually using a FOSS engine - Open Scene Graph [External Link].

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Humble Bundle has been acquired by IGN
15 Oct 2017 at 2:50 am UTC

Media company will probably start pushing their weight around, regarding DRM.

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KING Art Games have a new Kickstarter for Shakes & Fidget, a comedy adventure game
15 Oct 2017 at 2:47 am UTC

Hm. And I was hoping they are going to make The Dwarves 2.

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Amazon Lumberyard game engine is no longer going to support Linux, not enough demand
15 Oct 2017 at 2:46 am UTC

Will Cry Engine be developed further? If yes, then who cares about Lumberyard.

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Here’s a look at some good FPS games available on Linux & SteamOS
11 Oct 2017 at 7:13 pm UTC

Quoting: jensI'm a little bit allergic against people that avoid anything like Steam on one side but tend to blame gaming studios for not supporting Linux on the other side.

How exactly is decision to be Steam exclusive (like Feral games) is related to releasing or not releasing for Linux? If anything, those who are interested in releasing for Linux, should address DRM-free gamers as their audience instead of ignroing. In fact many studios do just that quite consistently.

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Here’s a look at some good FPS games available on Linux & SteamOS
11 Oct 2017 at 6:19 pm UTC

Quoting: jens
Quoting: ShmerlTheir loss.
Yeah, keep telling that to yourself ;)

What for? I have enough DRM-free games to play.

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Here’s a look at some good FPS games available on Linux & SteamOS
11 Oct 2017 at 3:13 pm UTC

Quoting: jens
Quoting: adamhmI'll buy it if/when it gets released on GOG/DRM-free. Until then, I have plenty of other games.
I'm sorry to say for you, but I guess then you will never play this one.

Their loss.

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Here’s a look at some good FPS games available on Linux & SteamOS
10 Oct 2017 at 10:47 pm UTC

Quoting: adamhmI'll buy it if/when it gets released on GOG/DRM-free. Until then, I have plenty of other games.

I'm yet to see any game ported by Feral on GOG.

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Here’s a look at some good FPS games available on Linux & SteamOS
10 Oct 2017 at 9:59 pm UTC

A pity Bioshock games never came out on GOG. Also, you didn't mention Painkiller games. Hell and Damnation has Linux version, but it's not on GOG either.

From the classics, Return to Castle Wolfenstein itself is a very good single player game with an open engine.

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