i will forgive then if they accept to pay me 20 cents every time my game get installed.
oh, by the way, my game got installed 10 million times this week!
source: trust me!

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Quoting: Loftya dream is not a perfect representation of reality but it allows for you to explore sometimes difficult concepts or move into a different space which is different from the everyday 'reality'.

i was going to quote dreams but couldnt elaborate futher =p

Quoting: Loftyother things about older graphics is that there was a kind of comfy cartoony appeal that a modern day game will fail to emulate due to it having incredible sharp textures as a comparison.

it dont help much that most games are hyper focused on realism.
ratchet clank is a notable exception. (i havent played it yet though)

Quoting: LoftyOr perhaps the use of fog for draw distance that is not needed anymore that actually created an unintentional certain atmosphere to a game, like on Turok for instance.

yeah fog can do a lot for an game

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Quoting: TheRiddickYAY, oh wait, still not available to Australians.. we don't deserve them it seems.

i feel your pain, but in Brasil.
the things that pisses me the most is that the rog ally is avaliable here, it wasnt day one as promissed but came here first.
i hope valve can fix it before i get enough money to purchase it.

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Quoting: LoftyEven though i have some of the older Tomb raider games on PC, there's still something charming about playing the originals on PS1 just as i remember them, i guess i just like the retro aesthetic. I might pick these up on a bigger sale eventually, after all you can pretty much remaster a lot of retro games yourself now with Ai texture packs and 4k resolution.

i think its not just nostalgia, i often prefer retro graphics even for games i never played, i have a few theories for that:
first blurry textures like on n64 make more sense when we are looking at fiction, i mean if something is low poly it might as well have an blurry texture, even if it dont we can hide the flaws of an texture in the fact that we cant see the full details.
another thing to consider is the abstract aspect of it, such as when you see 3 simbols that form an triangle , despite it not being there:



when we dont have many details our brain fill in the extra details.

not to mention i grew playing nes games among others even older i never saw an problem in playing with abstract forms.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: whizsePygame - but only for the hardcore!

Funny story: while getting some undergraduate research experience in college I'd been teaching myself Python for several months, and had a need to write a program to display pairs of images for comparison. I tried with whatever the recommended GUI engine was (PyTK, I think? Or WX-something-or-other?), and while I made a GUI pretty easily, after like a week of work I simply could not get it to display images. So then I had a thought, "What programs, of all programs, need to make displaying images easy? Games!" So I switched to pygame (this was a little student project, so it was tiny and easy to pivot), and within I think a day or two I had a program that could actually display images. It had a 100% hand-made GUI with no bells or whistles, but by golly it worked for what I needed!

one of the whole points of open source is learning from other people code, i remember when i wrote an chromakey code, just by reading some code that teach how to convert an image to black and white.

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Quoting: GuestHere you see again, what it looks like to devote your career to a volatile proprietary software toolset. And that's just one piece of software out of many.

when it comes to make games, the game engine is the most important piece of the equation.

and, its not like we those companies had any choice anyway, the open source engines sucked prior to godot, building your own engine is expensive and not everyone can afford (hell even the big studios are outsourcing it), engine migration isnt easy and even if some engine like godot is as good as unity, the ecosystem off add'ons for it is in its infancy, that coming from someone who use and love godot.

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"Unreal Engine - Free, no royalties until you earn $1 million USD. Full source code access (but not open source). Epic also confirmed they can't just change the licensing on you.

Supports: Windows PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, macOS, iOS, Android, ARKit, ARCore, OpenXR, SteamVR, Oculus, Linux, and Steam Deck.
"

they specified the deck as an different target platform?

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Quoting: gradyvuckovic

Quoting: SoulprayerBlender+Godot=

Ah, yes but what about:
Blender + Inkscape + Godot + Krita = ?
Now that's a really good power teamup I reckon.

its not the tools, its what you made with then.
dont get me wrong tools are super important, but dont brag about the tools you want, if you cant do shit with then.
fortunatelly we have some success stories:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/824090/TailQuest_Defense/

ok, i dont think this game was an sucess unfortunatelly, and that was my point...

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Quoting: nenoroNo sign of FreeBSD ?

I saw someone who has a youtube channel showing games running on freeBSD under wine.

I might go to freebsd when valve finally release a native steam for freebsd, midnightbsd.

i'm being depressed on gentoo, i want to go back to arch but it's impossible >.<

when we reach the year of linux we can fight for the year of bsd, meanwhile shut up hipster! just kidding

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unlike the month where the marketshare was unusually low, this high marketshare seems to be correct, there is a little margin for error so it will change a bit of the months, but the massive bump we had seems to be here to stay.

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