Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: JuliusThanks for all the effort.

In the long run please consider running a federated Lemmy instance ( https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy ) instead of your regular forum :)

This looks interesting, but . . . from that page I went to their webpage, and I can't figure out how to contact them to tell them there's a grammatical error in their top paragraph of their front page. They do have a "contact us" thingie, but when I went there it turns out I'm not cool enough to contact them if I don't already use Mastodon or whatever. Doesn't leave a good taste in my mouth, and doesn't make me think they're likely to be good at building a social network.

It's not the use of the Oxford comma? The front page is built from this template, so you could probably make an issue or a pull request to have it fixed:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/blob/main/templates/index.html

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Looks fun! Also reminds me of Fleish & Cherry in Crazy Hotel, which has a similar style, but hasn't been released yet.

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Quoting: no_information_hereI like this game, but never finished it. This is a good reminder to go back again.

I'm in the same boat. I loved the game, but it eventually got so difficult that I needed a break from it. And as so often happens, I never got around to the getting back to it part.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: GuestFor me as a programmer, being forced to work from home has allowed me to be more productive thanks to the lack of noise and distractions

You must not be married. :-p

Or have kids. ;)

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Thanks for an interesting read. I'm glad to hear that Unity is stable enough on Linux that it can be used to develop full games. Maybe that makes Linux a real alternative for the masses of indies who develop on Windows or macOS today.

I'm not sure if this game is for me, but I'll try the demo. Their puzzle prototype, PullPals sounds more up my alley. I hope they get a chance to turn that into a full game.

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I played Skellboy Refractured yesterday, which is an action adventure made in a cardboard cutout style. I wasn't sure what to make of it when I saw it, but I thought the story and dialogue was fun, and the gameplay is interesting.

I also played Jumpala, which is a competitive action platformer that can be played against an AI opponent. It seemed pretty smooth to play, but it's really not my type of game.

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: fleskAurora: The Lost Medallion - a point and click adventure, which seems interesting, but I didn't achieve much before I got stuck. I wish there'd been a button to highlight hotspots, as I'm pretty sure I've missed something.

Thanks for the suggestion! Quite liked the demo, finished it using 2189 left clicks.

I'm not sure if you got stuck on the same place I did, finding the twins? I had to seek help from a walkthrough in the end. But the issue was more like a design bug than an actual puzzle I think.

Curiously the game does seem to have some kind of hint feature that kicked in (unnecessarily) when looking for one of the other kids.

I updated my just a few minutes before you posted. It was her companion, Neemo, I missed, half hidden in the shadows. Not super difficult to find, I know, but it's too easy to overlook things in games like this, and often that spoils the fun for me.

I didn't notice the hints, but I'll admit, I skipped a bunch of dialogue when I played today, since I got a bit impatient with having to start over from the beginning. I noticed that the game was saved at some point when I played, but that was later in the demo than where I got to yesterday.

My stats are 41:18 minutes, 639 left clicks, 14 right clicks, and 17/25 achievements, but I didn't need as many clicks, since I already knew what I was doing for the first part of the demo.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: fleskAurora: The Lost Medallion - a point and click adventure, which seems interesting, but I didn't achieve much before I got stuck. I wish there'd been a button to highlight hotspots, as I'm pretty sure I've missed something.

Steam says I played that demo in June 2019 for 55 minutes, with 18/25 achievements. I seem to recall finishing the demo, so it must not have been too complicated?

Probably not, but I don't enjoy hunting for hotspots anymore, so when I'd visited every location multiple times and tried everything on everything I'd found, I moved on to one of the other demos.

EDIT: I just finished the demo, and it was Neemo I had missed. Overall, I enjoyed the game, but I found the occasional story bits a bit jarring. It might just be that it's a bit difficult to explain the universe in such a short format, and I hope it's integrated a bit better in the full game.

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Seems like they've fixed the Linux icon on the event page, and icons on the demo banners now. It's a shame there's no way to filter by platform though, as there's so much to sift through, just to find the few games with Linux demos. Additionally, all of the games that are "recommended for you" are Windows games.

I did play a few Linux demos though:

Aurora: The Lost Medallion - a point and click adventure, which seems interesting, but I didn't achieve much before I got stuck. I wish there'd been a button to highlight hotspots, as I'm pretty sure I've missed something.

Sneak In - an arcade puzzler, which reminds me a lot of a game I played on my phone in 2008, called Poppin' Panda. (I wasted an entire day on the couch once, chasing perfect scores, which was of course before I got kids). It's nice enough, but not really to my tastes anymore. I tried it mostly because it's made by the developer of City Game Studio, who develop games on Linux using Godot.

Bots & Belts - toy making simulator, which has been covered here multiple times, I think. It's similar to Overcooked!, but easier to play solo (at least in the demo). In each level, you make multiple units of the same toy, which can get a bit dull, but that might not be representative of the full game. Overall, I enjoyed it, and will probably buy the full game once it's out.

Altered - a very interesting puzzle game, which was my favourite of the games I played. It's sokoban-esque, with the twist that the characters you control can change shapes in various ways to eg. cross gaps, hold a button down while crossing a gate or even pull blocks by turning into an L-shape.

I also downloaded the demo for Backbone, which I backed on Kickstarter, but I haven't played it yet.

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I finished the last of the bonus missions earlier this week, so this is perfect timing. It's a great game, and having put 50+ hours into it, I really feel like I got my money's worth for buying the season pass.

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