Quoting: vipor29i can never understand the thought process of companies supporting the mac seeing it is not that much bigger than Linux is,what by 5 or 6% that is not much at all.i would of thought with valve's backing at least we would of been hitting at least 10% by now.that ship has probably sailed unfortunately.

Regarding MacOS X support: It's less about the market share but rather percentages at the studio.

Sad reality is MacOS X is far more used at work by game developers. Also in various departments (art, production, HR, media & community). Linux can be too but pretty much exclusively used in the tech departments and overall far less.
In all studios I've worked so far the Linux share was/is ~1%, Macs usually >15%. That means internal testing on Macs happens already indirectly and is often enough due to the far fewer hardware and OS versions.

Good news are things are changing. Not only in tech teams but I see more on more artists using Blender professionally. Few even are interested in Linux but usually the lack of Adobe products prevent them from trying seriously - I've not heard a single one say GIMP would be a viable alternative to Photoshop. Like Blender it actually needs to be better in at least some areas for artist to invest in re-learning some things. Being free is certainly one but usually not enough since studio pays for it and for non-indies the cost in rather negligible.

Further, if a game also targets iOS, pretty much the whole developer setup needs to work on MacOS X. For game servers running on Linux that's usually not even the case and will be even less with WSL 2.0 coming in the next Windows 10 release. And even if it doesn't help with having the client run on Linux.

I know it's not great to hear and I wish things were different but in my experience often Linux support just comes from a few passionate individuals in a studio pushing for it. If those leave a company often support ends - usually happens for future titles but in some cases also not.

P.S. I'm also super sad to see Linux support ending for Total Mayhem Games. I really like them and would have loved to finish the trilogy. :-/

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: michaWhat I'm I missing here? I understand that the next version won't be based on a specific Debian version (Brewmaster) but I don't see statement saying it certainly won't be Debian based.

That said I remember Valve at some point was evaluating other distributions like Arch. Again, I did't see any definite statement yet..

Did I overlook one?

It's all in the wording, how it was very specifically mentioned as "Debian-based Brewmaster".

IC, I'm not a native speaker which is probably why I don't see that the same way. Thanks for clearing it up. =)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

What I'm I missing here? I understand that the next version won't be based on a specific Debian version (Brewmaster) but I don't see statement saying it certainly won't be Debian based.

That said I remember Valve at some point was evaluating other distributions like Arch. Again, I did't see any definite statement yet..

Did I overlook one?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Ah well, if they'd confirmed it earlier I would have bought the Index when it was briefly available again.

Still amazing news! <3

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Would love to have the choice of running games locally or through the cloud.

If Valve servers all run Linux it would mean all games supported in their cloud service should run locally as well. Either with a native build or through SteamPlay/Proton - few exceptions aside. Cloud support would certainly be a great incentive for developers to support at least either one.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Towerfall Ascension Online!! <3

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Really looking forward to the release of this one.

For those interested, the old demo is still available: https://semaeopus.itch.io/off-grid

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I wouldn't be worried. At least not too much. IIRC, CS:GO struggled quite a bit in the beginning and eventually become a big hit.
Also my guess is that the possibility to play as a team with a friend will be a total game changer if done right.

Let's see where it goes. (=

View this comment - View article - View full comments

An Amazing story! <3

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: GuestI tried the demo and liked it until the first boss which is nearly impossible to avoid :(.

You should have the rush ability by then. (:

View this comment - View article - View full comments