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Oh nice. The demo was interesting, but I'm curious to see how it goes. It having a native linux version is great too; the windows demo had some issue with weird characters…

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This is a step in the right direction. there are some games where the performance just isn't good enough to be Verified so this should help imo.

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Oh hey I forgot I had that on Steam.
GoG sale is down to a buck nice.
Half expected to be charged for it but I guess if it's still in dosbox they don't cobaider it a significant change to charge for.
Glad they remembered and gave it a little quality of life update.

Guess it might be easier to play on Steam Deck if I remember what keys to vind again heh.
Good time to try it again.

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I'm concerned about how this handles differing graphics settings/performance mods like Eclipse mods, or how it distinguishes between people who are and are not using lsfg-vk.

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Quoting: neolithI am torn... on the one hand I really enjoy Vampire Survivors, but on the other hand I really dislike card mechanics in computer games. What to do? 😆

. . . Go play Vampire Survivors again?

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: mr-victoryAND TOUCHSCREEN TOO??

Meh. This is one of those features that, I know you have to have it nowadays, but I'd pay a bit extra not to. I never use it deliberately, but I do sometimes use it accidentally, which is a pain, and it means I need to think twice before I flick a piece of lint off the screen, and it's an invitation to get my screen all fingermarky. Basically, to me touchscreens are mostly there to create an extra point of failure, a reason for things to randomly fuck up because I touched my screen.

Insightful to see that so many feel the same way (the likes on your comment). I added a script to toggle my touch screen (because I started using touch before it was well supported on DE-s). So I only ever have it turned on when I actually use it (so my friends don't tap anything when trying to point at something). You can also configure your OS to always boot with the touch screen off.

I myself enjoy having a touch screen and was one of the many pleading Framework to give us one (which they did with FW12, albeit in a lower end price point, which is reasonable for the main use cases). I use my laptop everywhere around the house. And I replaced a laptop's keyboard 3 times due to stray, really-unlikely droplets from really far away in the kitchen or bathroom 🥲. I also live in a country where most people can't reasonably justify buying a decent laptop for work AND a tablet (for content while doing something brain-dead around the house). And I don't enjoy using a phone for content around the house since it doesn't stay upright, has a tiny screen, tiny input, and I can't use a keyboard even when I want to.

In any case, I'm glad FW is giving us both the option to pick touch or non-touch screen.

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Quoting: Stella

Quoting: neolith

Quoting: ScottCarammellon one hand, I love Framework and I REALLY want to get one of their laptops when I can afford to.

on the other hand. $1200. base price without RAM or storage. they're not exactly making it easy

My thoughts exactly... They produce nice hardware, but that laptop with the RAM and SSD I need easily puts it higher than what I payed for my computer. That's just not gonna happen, I cannot mindlessly throw away that kind of money.

yea.. struggling to see the point if you can get better desktop hardware, even with dGPU, for much lower price

Hasn't this always been the case for every laptop that ever existed? That you get better and more stuff for the same price minus the portability, battery (maybe also webcam, mic, keyboard, trackpad, speakers)

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There are a few times were "Verified" titles just don't perform well enough, and that does need to be made clear to developers. And, ideally, Valve need to be just a little more strict on that 30FPS performance floor.

Absolutely this.

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Inspired by the old Windows 95 theme and classic PowerPoint

This is one game that's not going to be popular here, lol

But, can't we like the desktop theme without liking the underlying O/S?

After all, the desktop theme is available for Linux.
[Chicago95](https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95)

LoL. The look is a little too outdated for me, though ...

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Quoting: fearnflavio

Quoting: hardpenguinNice look but the interface seems tiny compared to the screen size. Definitely not optimized for ten foot aka big TV screen couch gaming.

Yes, we decided to do this like a MVP first and then gather feedback and improve it over time. We will have some settings for it like to increase the zoom size, skip-update or update before launching, installing and uninstalling games and more. This is just the start. We are hearing all feedback so far.

Sounds great, can't wait to see it evolve.

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One of the coolest things Valve has accomplished with the Deck actually has nothing to do with Linux, it's just getting PC developers to optimize for low end hardware for longer. BG3, Doom, Death Stranding now, I'm sure there are plenty more.

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Quoting: Talon1024

Quoting: CaldathrasNo demo? No thanks.

And yet, there are already reports about the game [on ProtonDB](https://www.protondb.com/app/2679100). 😲

I stand corrected. There apparently was once a "demo" or "playtest" available:
[SteamDB: Witchspire Demo](https://steamdb.info/app/4328010/info/)

To expand on my comment, however. Now that they are going into Early Access, they have removed the demo. They expect players to pay to beta test their game. I'm not going to pay until the game is in final release and I'm not going get the final release without a demo.

Hence, no demo, no thanks.

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Quoting: GerarderloperBe cool if they updated and also made it like some future horror war instead. To give people something truly new rather then just a reskin with better UI....

I don't think anime catgirls versus tentacle monsters belong in every game. But maybe I'm just being weird.

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Quoting: hardpenguinNice look but the interface seems tiny compared to the screen size. Definitely not optimized for ten foot aka big TV screen couch gaming.

Yes, we decided to do this like a MVP first and then gather feedback and improve it over time. We will have some settings for it like to increase the zoom size, skip-update or update before launching, installing and uninstalling games and more. This is just the start. We are hearing all feedback so far.

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Me: I can wait. A well optimized, smooth running game with few bugs is what I prefer.
Also me: GIVE IT TO ME, NOOOOOW!

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I don't remember, did I ever post anything here about how amazing that game is? I may have done it for the last 10 major updates, maybe more? 😁

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Inspired by the old Windows 95 theme and classic PowerPoint

This is one game that's not going to be popular here, lol

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For a second, I thought of Witchspire Games, founded by Eron Hennessey, when I saw the title of your article. Witchspire Games was a company that created Madblox! for Linux in 2004, which looked like Tetris, but it was a very different game

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Some kind of remakes/ports of the first SaGa games (aka Final Fantasy Legend) would be great. Really liked their simple but uncommon gameplay

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I think this matches the core appeal of TerraTech, will try the Demo.
Thanks for bringing interesting games like this to our attention!

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Oh, wow, Terra Nova – that's a game I haven't thought abouut in a long time! I remember being thrilled by seeing the texture-mapped terrain and being equally disappointed by how slow the gameplay and the engine were on my 486.

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Quoting: CaldathrasNo demo? No thanks.

And yet, there are already reports about the game [on ProtonDB](https://www.protondb.com/app/2679100). 😲

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The top-down perspective reminds me of the old DOS game [Siege](https://www.mobygames.com/game/5205/siege/) from the early 90s. Good memories! 😊 I still have a CD with it, I think... somewhere...

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I am torn... on the one hand I really enjoy Vampire Survivors, but on the other hand I really dislike card mechanics in computer games. What to do? 😆

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Neat! I like that they are implementing new things and a big picture mode is a good idea.

Quoting: hardpenguinNice look but the interface seems tiny compared to the screen size. Definitely not optimized for ten foot aka big TV screen couch gaming.

That was my first thought, too. I'd say they are barely large enough for a big computer screen. I am hoping for a size slider.

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Quoting: GerarderloperBe cool if they updated and also made it like some future horror war instead. To give people something truly new rather then just a reskin with better UI....

I have not played the game (yet), but isn't the whole point of it to mirror what war looks like for those affected by it and not make it some made up fantasy?

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I love everything this update brings though. SteamGridDB integration!

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Nice look but the interface seems tiny compared to the screen size. Definitely not optimized for ten foot aka big TV screen couch gaming.

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This is a marketing stunt.

The "too dangerous too release" and the "access leak" from yesterday is all hidden behind NDAs that everyone who's been given access has to sign. There's no way to verify any of those claims.

The only ones that are pushing this besides anthropic are the corpo hats from mozilla. And even then, if you look at the much hailed release 150 patch log you'll only see a handful of fixes coengineered via AI which is far behind the much touted 250+ fixes figure that is being publicly passed around in press releases.

The whole point of all this fearmongering is to drive anthropic IPO valuation up. And it's working.

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I see a lot of people here who are very sure they're right. In my opinion this is a very complex issue, and if you're sure you're right you're either a massive expert on the subject, or you are failing to realize that you don't understand it, or both. I mean, I have very strong opinions on quite a few subjects around political economy, and am pretty sure I understand them well enough to support those opinions.

But this stuff . . . it's too tangled for me. There's this intersection of a bunch of principles, the major problem that although some regulation is certainly desirable the people responsible for creating it, both the public and private ones, cannot be trusted, and on top of that very complex technical problems which can result in lots of unintended consequences for any attempted solutions. And yet, doing nothing is also a choice which also has consequences, such as having our digital environments controlled by a bunch of Peter Thiels and Elon Musks. I don't know what the answer is on this stuff, and I seriously lack confidence in anyone claiming they do know.

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