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You can now nominate games for the GamingOnLinux GOTY Award
24 Jan 2020 at 5:50 pm UTC

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: riidomCan we add tags too? I missed IF aka interactive fiction (especially since there is a storytelling category)
Can you rephrase that? I don't understand the question.
Sure :) There is no way to add tags (at least I don't see one). Since one of the category is "best storytelling", I thought it may make sense to have some related tags, for example IF, interactive fiction.

Edit: I see there is a genre "text adventure", this covers the use-case as well, I guess.

You can now nominate games for the GamingOnLinux GOTY Award
22 Jan 2020 at 9:41 pm UTC

Can we add tags too? I missed IF aka interactive fiction (especially since there is a storytelling category)

Adventure game creator 'Visionaire Studio' is coming to Linux
9 Jan 2020 at 7:32 pm UTC Likes: 1

Yup, did that, and got an answer today. Exporting works like expected, no concerns, and the prices in the wiki are indeed outdated, the (lower) ones from the shop are correct.

Adventure game creator 'Visionaire Studio' is coming to Linux
8 Jan 2020 at 6:59 pm UTC

Their license is really weird though. First they iterate, that an exported game can't be opened in the editor - which is obvious, why would I try to open a compiled version in the editor, when I have the source project? Or do they mean, once I export, the source gets sort of "locked"? Which would be.. interesting to say the least.

Then they have different prices shown in the wiki ( https://wiki.visionaire-tracker.net/wiki/Visionaire_Studio_Licenses [External Link] ) and the shop ( https://www.visionaire-studio.net/shop/ [External Link] ) with kinda huge differences (Indie Multi €79 vs €99, mobile license €125 vs €490, pro €500 vs €1490).

That aside: It does get me interested in trying to make an P&C though, and I fancy every engine that supports Lua scripting anyway.

But maybe I have just trouble with my reading comprehension, so if someone has further infos or can clarify, please comment.

Red Eclipse 2 is a revamp of the classic free arena shooter coming to Steam
11 Nov 2019 at 6:33 pm UTC

Quoting: JuliusI think that screenshot (and the video on the Steam page) is still from the old version.
Yes definitely - I see my old character in the video :D
Seriously thinking about giving it a try again.. but then, I'm not getting any younger and faster, and I left because community. Though, other people age too and maybe get more mature so... it may be less toxic nowadays.

The FOSS rendering engine OGRE is being ported to Vulkan
6 Nov 2019 at 6:03 pm UTC

Amazing to see that OGRE is still around, best of wishes.

The Blender team have secured even more funding, this time from NVIDIA
8 Oct 2019 at 7:18 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: titiAnd I hope all this money does not put pressure on them so that we get new features in windows only one day :S:
Funny story, the situation is kinda inverted atm: Most devs apparently use Linux, bugs on Windows get noticed pretty late sometimes.
And, what the guy above me said. \m/

Keep an eye on 'Veloren', an open source multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust
4 Oct 2019 at 11:03 pm UTC

I'm a fan of their weekly newsblog too. One day in soon future it will make me try it.

Build and battle game From the Depths is officially launching this November
3 Oct 2019 at 7:10 pm UTC

How is the multiplayer? I see currently 338 ppl in game, thats even less than Robocraft.. is the match making done in a way that the low numbers doesnt matter much?

What have you been playing this week and what are you clicking on this weekend?
24 Aug 2019 at 7:10 pm UTC Likes: 1

Same stuff like usual for me.. one (ok two) rounds of FreeOrion, went back into RoboCraft again. Been playing it for years almost daily, recently im down to once every 2 weeks sort of. And, BallisticNG. It's getting so difficult now, I scored a single bronze medal in dunno how many races.. challenge! :D