Hopefully they'll make sure that they get that Verified green tick since Deck & cozy go together so well. They're off to a good start with the native build and

QuoteFind your comfort level with an accessible by design approach to input requirements, gameplay modes, and bonus challenge puzzles.

but it would be a shame for them to trip themselves up with something like text boxes or font size. The other games got the tick, though, so I expect they're on the case.

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QuoteAnnounced for Windows, it should work just fine on Linux with Proton though. It has controller support too, so hopefully it will also work well on Steam Deck.

It may well, but I'll still be waiting till it's 75% off before getting it - unlike, say, Selaco that I'd get at full price.

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To clarify further: on Steam it's the game developer that sets the limits.

QuoteTo set up Steam Cloud you must set the Byte quota per user and Number of files allowed per user options on the Steam Cloud Settings page in the Steamworks App Admin panel.

This quota is enforced on each Cloud-enabled game, on a per-user-per-game basis. It's recommended to set the values to reasonable amounts for your game title.

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QuoteAlba: A Wildlife Adventure

This one is very sweet.

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Oh, apparently the outside ring housing for the sticks spins round as a jog control. That's pretty neat, actually.

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This has been on my wishlist for aaages. Gonna check out the demo later.

Edit: Boo. Demo doesn't launch on the Deck. On the desktop it's looking for Windows driver version numbers, which is obviously a bad plan.

Also, it seems to want to do Steam Cloud for the save, but can't.

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Quote“We have made considerable efforts to raise the bar with our debut handheld, tailor-made with competitive features for all gamers.”

They have managed trackpads by the look of it, which is a significant upgrade over a lot of their competitors.

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QuoteIt has Native Linux support and is Steam Deck Playable.

Given that the reason it's "Playable" rather than "Verified" is because they've picked the text box function that doesn't pop up the keyboard rather than the one that does, they really ought to get that fixed before release.

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QuoteYes, that's really is its name. It has AI in the title, because clearly that's how you sell things now, everything needs to somehow mention AI.

To be fair, the previous one's full name was "MSI Claw A1M," but no one said that because it was stupid. So it's not adding the "AI" bit, just making an existing bit into "AI." Likely for that sweet, sweet Intel marketing money, almost certainly to go with the Microsoft marketing money for making a Windows handheld.

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Quoting: MalIt's all nice and good but far from the tipping point.

Does anyone have some kind of research/analisys that tries to identify the % at which point the "network effect" will trigger?

So it's not a scientific analysis, but we were chatting about it on the Discord this morning.

and we got to

QuoteThinking about the dynamics of that bump in the Steam Machines era, Mac was ~3.5% and Liam says Linux was briefly ~2% because of the Tux giveaway, so let's say ~5% combined. Avoiding single-platform traps and having an OpenGL render path got you both, essentially (with it actually being harder then than now), and Steam Machines meant that multiplatform was The Future.
Mac no longer uses the same rendering API as Linux, and its gaming market share has collapsed, so we'd need to be able to do it solo for Linux/Vulkan. So ~5% with publicly-known scope for big future growth seems like it might capture that similar ~40% motivation.
If Sony and/or Nintendo also embraced the use of Vulkan, that would increase the size of the target relative to the work done.

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