I'm looking forward to seeing what all the hype is about.

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Quoting: AsavarTzethI want it because they promised it and I payed for it during their SteamOS pre-orders.

It's a good reason to want it, but promising something for Linux and delivering it is not always a foregone conclusion. I wish people would STOP with the damn pre-ordering already. It literally gets you nowhere, and you'll be lucky to get a refund for it now that you're way past the 2-week window.

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It truly is a better game than the sum of its parts. I haven't played in quite a while, but I really should get back to it! It was one of the most-polished Early Access games I'd played at that point (that, and Ziggurat).

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I sure hope this results in something worth buying. I would LOVE to switch to AMD and open-source drivers. But performance* is a thing that matters to me. Closed drivers with NVIDIA GPUs has been my path since switching to Linux exclusively (on August 18th, 2002) for that reason. It is high time for a change. I will try and hold off on my upgrading until it's possible to make that change.

* - to clarify, I mean, performance per dollar, and to a smaller degree, per Watt. Performance on Linux versus Windows is already behind with NVIDIA, but AMD is outrageously behind any of that. Not to mention the finicky software stack reminiscent of a late-stage Jenga tower that AMD requires to get their drivers to actually work.

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Axiom Verge, GOTY 2015.

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I can't wait for the day when poor Tim Schafer and his company can actually make a profit so they don't have to fleece their flock up-front, but instead just make their games and sell them, like normal companies do. Crowd-funding has jumped the shark quite some time ago...

I think I can pinpoint the exact moment to when Ron Gilbert raked in well over $600K for a game that looks like it could be made in a weekend with a $6 budget of Twinkies and a Commodore 64.
(I do admit that it looks much better nowadays, but still, the original art was pretty terrible).

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If I'm a developer, I want my game everywhere possible so that my games can be played by as many people as possible. If Linux users are asking me to port it, the least I can do is ask my publisher about it, not tell the users to fire off an email to /dev/null.

This is not the first time I've seen a developer say to potential customers to ask the publisher. And every time, it comes off as lazy or at least indifference. I bet Microsoft would OK the port if they asked, and I bet they know that but don't really want to do the work (hence the whining about Unity and such in the post). And they know that there's far less a chance of Microsoft receiving enough emails from Linux users to make them actively pursue us, and commission a port that likely won't break even.

Oh well, time to move on to other games and put this one out of my memory.

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Christmas was a few days ago now so this is out of season, but I made this one for a Godot game jam. http://shineuponthee.itch.io/santa-sniper [External Link]

It's got leaderboards too. I think they still work... lol

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A lot of those games are fairly old by now, and even The Talos Principle uses just OpenGL 2.1. Would be interesting to see more modern/recent releases that push GPUs harder, like GRID Autosport, Metro Last Light Redux, and such. I don't care about Wine since I don't buy Windows games.

That all being said, the AMD results are pretty good, especially since the 760 is a considerably better card, technically. http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R7-370-vs-GeForce-GTX-760#differences [External Link]

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Quoting: ElectricPrism"disdain found for Linux among the Japanese games industry"

Is that a thing? Mighty No. 9 is on Linux and the Japanese seem to always get wet over anything american - there's nothing more american than Steam Machines which were created in Central California, USA - Also - there are a lot of Japanese in California so I'm pulling my dafuq Jackie Chan face right now in true curiosity.

As for Republique not havnig a Linux version I'll say it again. Bad Programmers always will say something is "impossible" when it's simply too hard or inconvenient.

Good programmers would have employed Object Oriented Programming and abstracted dependencies on Middle-ware into a Interface Object - they do this with MySQL access in PHP all the time to add comparability with other databases.

But when your code is dank spaghetti that was fandangled by the free Intern and has no OOP yeah I could see how it would be hard. Of course management is always hounding "Get it done Faster" and sometimes making software decisions that they have no business making "Use ZYX Plugin because I read on a blog that it has X feature" and the seasoned coders are like "uhhh...... but....." then because the whole thing is rushed it never is baked right and at the end it's a heap of spaghetti because it was never done right to begin with.

Also, is Capcom still Japanese?

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