Quoting: neowiz73all it takes is a few bad apples to ruin the whole bunch. cases like these only destroy credibility of the crowdfunding process for all the other devs out there. it's going to boil down to experienced devs that have good reputations that gain any sort of headway with crowdfunding. all of the small time start-up devs will be SOL because of these shady devs like this one seems to be.

Not really. It only shows that one has to prepare for that process instead of doing it blindly. Others will learn from such mistakes.

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Not bad. I hope it will come out DRM-free.

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Quoting: wvstolzing

Quoting: ShmerlI'm using Sun Type 5 with Unix layout:

At school we have these attached to thin clients that run a virtualized instance of Windows XP each. Pretty sad usage for a unix keyboard.

Though I wish they'd produced these with real mechanical key switches. At least the Sun keyboards that I've seen so far all had mushy membrane keyboards; and these are really painful to use for a buckling-spring snob.

Sun Type 5 is the best of them. More modern Type 7 feels very cheap. Type 5 though requires a special converter from Mini-DIN-8 to USB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-DIN_connector [External Link]

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Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: Spl-itI especially like the fact that my keyboard has no Windows buttons

Same. :P
Me, I have an IBM Model M, build in 1987.

I'm using Sun Type 5 with Unix layout:

I tried finding something more ergonomic, but there are virtually no other keyboards with Unix layout these days, Happy Hacking one is too minimalist to my taste.

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Quoting: Saladiengog.com day one? If yes, then its mine :). (if they have a better QA this time, trine 3 was a mess)

Hopefully. The demo was on GOG from the start.

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@slaapliedje: you mean on the same computer?

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Nobody or not nobody, it doesn't matter. Not only it's not tying you to Steam, having the local server option allows playing the game no matter what server exists out there. Too many old games go bust in regards to multiplayer after their servers die. That's not a good thing.

You don't need to use LAN. You can use WAN all the same, if the server component is part of the game and allows running it in server mode.

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Thanks, that sounds good. So it won't be tied to Steam? I appreciate when developers provide LAN / WAN multiplayer when one game instance simply runs in server mode. Many developers don't put much effort into that, and simply tie their games to Steamworks for network features.

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Does it use some server, or it can be played over LAN?

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It's stalled (didn't have any activity in a while) and it still doesn't support the main mode (i.e. custom bindings). So it's good that it's there, but it's not that useful yet.

Still, it's something. I won't really buy the controller until it will be usable without Steam.

Same problem is with Vive.

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