Quick note: You've get the Steam link filter on the SoundCloud link ;) Fixed

Also, Distance is a fantastic game.

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Steam link to We Were Here Too: https://store.steampowered.com/app/677160/We_Were_Here_Too/ [External Link]

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For anyone curious about what languages they might learn from it:

The official languages are Arabic Mandarin Chinese, French, Japanese, German, Russian and Spanish. You'll be able to learn these languages in English, or learn English in any one of the official languages. There are also many languages that have been partially translated by the community.

At the moment, these are:

Basque (32%), Croatian (72%), Czech (33%), Danish (40%), Dutch (100%), Esperanto (99%), Estonian (41%), Greek (33%), Hungarian (35%), Icelandic (100%), Indonesian (48%), Italian (64%), Lithuanian (33%), Norwegian (98%), Polish (90%), Portuguese (PT -44% and BR -90%), Romanian (37%, Slovak (33%), Sranan Tongo (36%), Swedish (87%), Turkish (49%), Vietnamese (62%) and Westrobothnian (30%).

The number refers to the percentage of content that these languages have translations for.

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If that box had a Tux logo next to the IBM one, I'd be tempted to pick this up and place it next to my Quake: The Offering box :D

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Quoting: liamdaweThey responded further, with 75% of sales actually being on console.

So Linux is 15% of 25% of 20,000. So the Linux percentage was good, but that does mean it sold poorly on Steam. Will issue an update when i'm at my PC.

I read it as 15% of total sales being Linux (3,000 copies) and 25% of total sales being on Steam (5,000 copies), which are mighty impressive numbers (60% being Linux sales).

Guess it depends on whether one reads "about 15% of our players so far have been Linux users on Steam!" as written or as "on Steam, about 15% of our players so far have been Linux users!" - can't say for sure which one they really meant.

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I'm sorry for the irrelevant comment, but look at those little T-Rex feet go! It looks like a toddler trying to run; adorable :D

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The most logical speculation I've heard as to why on earth Microsoft would want GitHub is the idea that they might link it to their other recent acquisition, LinkedIn. Doing so would let them compete with the more programmer-focused job sites out there.

I'm not sure whether I'll start migrating my projects just yet, but new ones are likely going on GitLab.

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Quoting: ObsidianBlk[...] Valve hasn't done much better, with the exception that they never actually promised Linux would have the VR (or did they?). [...]

Oh they did; there was mention of Linux support right on the actual purchase page. It was pretty clearly false advertisement when it came out.

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Controller support is ... flaky, it seems. I've seen reports of it working, but I can only get my Steam Controller to work with the game if I set it up to emulate a keyboard - which is absolutely necessary if you're on a keyboard layout that doesn't have X and C near each other, such as Dvorak; rebinding the keys is not possible in the game.

There's also no support for ultra wide monitors, the game will instead cut off the top and bottom of the display.

Also, if you're using a screen modeline that contains anything other than "XxY" (such as "_100" on the end - mine was "3440x1440_100.00" ), the game will fail to launch.

In short, it's a great little game, very pretty, very fun, but it might be worth waiting for an update or two before purchasing it.

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: Cybolic

Quoting: PatolaJust like shadowgrounds, but closed-source and with modern graphics (and hopefully without the awful bugs). Right?

Isn't Shadowgrounds closed-source as well? I remember this being the reason for the Linux version not being on Steam; the existing build no longer works and they don't have the source code for the port.

Sorry, you are right. It is not an open-source (nor free software) license, it is a free non-commercial license [External Link]. I have read that it was open-source from elsewhere [External Link], found the github [External Link] address and used it to recompile the executables for my distro, without ever verifying if the license complied to the Open Source Definition or Four Software Freedoms. Now I have, to my disappointment.

However, the source is there, and if there was any interest in it, people would have fixed the bugs which almost make it unplayable. It seems though that you simply can't get proper attention and mindshare if you try to lure people with half-baked licensing terms. I was going to study the code but realizing this also put me off.

BUT: the source code is there. And I compiled it successfully, got to the ending of Shadowgrounds and played a few levels of Shadowgrounds: Survivor, up to Episode V so far. Aside from the bugs, the game is great, fun, engaging and beautiful even to today's standards.

Ooh! I did not know that the source was freely available! I spent an awful amount of time trying to wrap the existing executables in something that would work with a modern installation of PulseAudio, Glib, etc, without much luck. Truth be told, I'm in the same position as you now; not really that interested in getting it running, especially with Solstice Chronicles: MIA on its way.

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