Nice to see alternatives to ASEprite and Piskel out there. Hopefully it takes off! It helps they've got one of the Godot core team working on it, too.

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Late 2020 is the earliest I'd say for 4.0. And this month for 3.2 sounds equally overly optimistic considering the issues it's been having with its betas. February, March more likely.

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Rogue State did support Linux... kind of. Being an AGS game, if you used a copy of the AGS runtime for Linux with it, it ran. Needed Steam stub libraries as I recall, and performance was absolutely awful, but it ran.

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Following the 70/80s 8-bit computer naming pattern, I see...

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Hopefully that XKCD comic about standards won't come and bite them in the arse. Done carefully and properly, this could be a ground-breaker.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumGoes to show though, even if Steam says we're at 0.001% of users we can still count for a larger number of sales than our expected userbase.

So yes, we're only 0.001% but we can still add that 1.1% (more or less depending on game) to a games sales. That's still extra money for the developers whichever way you spin it.

What would be interesting is to see statistics on a big game ported by Aspyr like DiRT Rally (epic game) and where we would stand on a game like that.

The numbers must be OK because codemasters have let them port a few games now.

Aspyr, care to help? :-D

I do know they declined to have a prior game in the F1 series ported to Linux due to lack of sales though, so it's not that good. Presumably Aspyr managed to convince them to give another shot.

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Everyone has their price, including Gaben. I suspect Valve is the most likely target for reasons already stated, and yes, I do think it's naive to think he wouldn't sell up to MS for sufficient billions. Everyone has their price.

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Hasbro own the rights to it now.

If there's no editor (even if the editor is Windows/Mac-only), then I wouldn't consider buying this.

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At least, unlike Unreal Engine (which has to because its source code is publicly available), Unity does not forbid certain types of licensing (such as GPL) being used with projects made with it.

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It's as open source as it can be considering the base engine. It'd be interesting to see it transplanted to an OSS engine like Godot ala OpenMW (OGRE->OSG), but I am well aware that's probably not exactly realistic to expect (and not that it matters all that much anyway).

Giving Daggerfall the graphical fidelity of the later games would be fantastic, along with certain gameplay improvements. Nice to see this progressing!

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