Roblox and the Unreal Editor for Fortnite sure are popular, but you know what would be better? An open source project, where creators can actually own what they make rather than being attached to Roblox and Fortnite. The Mirror wants to change that.
From the GitHub:
Akin to "Figma" for game development, The Mirror is both tool and editor that let's you edit a game with friends in real-time. It's intended use can be extended because you have the source code. It can be used as a complete game base, to build what you want on top, you can use this to accelerate your game, get it built and released. This saves you time: imagine not having to write pesky things like infrastructure, backend code, asset management, and various systems from scratch.
The extra fun part? It's made with Godot Engine!
Considering that Roblox recently blocked Wine+Linux, and Fortnite has never worked on Linux, this is interesting. Hopefully people will actually take a look into it and give it a go, as a platform like this is only as good as the people building experiences for it.
And now, The Mirror itself has been made open source and you can check it out on GitHub (MIT License). The app is available to download via itch.io for Linux and Windows.
See more on the official site.
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Quoting: jareddmccluskeyHey all! We'll make the subtitles optional for Youtube next time :) Yes, it's quite common on TikTok/YT Shorts to have the captions hardcoded since people scroll through videos on their phone without always having audio available.
Thank you for covering this Liam! Happy to answer any questions.
Any plans for a steam release? Not that I have a problem with itch.io, it is pretty great. It's just that it's only easy on linux to set up an itch.io game if you're using lutris and basically no other launcher (for now, I heard that the Heroic Games Launcher dudes are working on it) since the official itch.io flatpak hasn't had an update in a long time and having it on steam would basically just be a 2 to 3 click install for most people.
Last edited by WMan22 on 25 March 2024 at 11:55 pm UTC
benstor214 Apr 1
Quoting: jareddmccluskeyHey all! We'll make the subtitles optional for Youtube next time :) Yes, it's quite common on TikTok/YT Shorts to have the captions hardcoded since people scroll through videos on their phone without always having audio available.The issue is not with the subtitles being hardcoded*, but showing single words for a split second where they just loose their purpose. Subtitles are a solved problem, making them flashier does not necessarily make them better.
Thank you for covering this Liam! Happy to answer any questions.
*The necessity to make subtitles hardcoded in YT shorts is a direct consequence of the enshittification[1] of YT... but that is another story.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Quoting: benstor214*The necessity to make subtitles hardcoded in YT shorts is a direct consequence of the enshittification[1] of YT... but that is another story.Not really a YT thing - you can blame Tiktok and Insta for that style of caption. YT's captions solve this issue, although not sure if there is caption support in YT-Shorts.
benstor214 Apr 3
Quoting: scaineYT's captions solve this issue, although not sure if there is caption support in YT-Shorts.Exactly what I meant: YT-Shorts is the platform decay of YT.
The motives behind making their platform worse - in this case a perceived threat from insta and tiktok - do not play a role.
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