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Ebony Spire: Heresy is a rather great dungeon crawler, available on Linux right now
7 November 2017 at 7:43 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: ZapaHi,

Thanks for covering the game. Glad you liked it! The game comes with the source code when bought on Steam/Itch but I forgot to update on github. The source has been uploaded there as well.

Thank you,
Zapa

Thank you for being yet another one of those super cool devs who share the source to their game. I'll buy for sure!

Lovecraftian horror 'Conarium' powered by Unreal Engine is still coming to Linux, could be soon
7 November 2017 at 7:41 pm UTC Likes: 2

Lovecraft himself was apparently a bit of a shithead. But, he created a world that is ripe for picking!

Remastered adventure game 'Noctropolis' is now available for Linux
1 November 2017 at 7:05 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ShmerlWhere can you find his blog?

Patreon is maybe more accurate... https://www.patreon.com/posts/project-15067274

Remastered adventure game 'Noctropolis' is now available for Linux
29 October 2017 at 6:30 pm UTC

Quoting: F.UltraYes back in 1994 it was not problem to outperform a compiler by far. Also you basically targeted the 80486 or first Pentium processors and they contained very little of the "magic" that compilers are far more better to utilize. Since then processors have increased in complexity and compilers have gained tremendous optimizations.

Yeah I've read a ton of Michael Abrash's articles (have the Zen of Graphics Programming in my library too). It's very enlightening stuff, and really opens your mind to the challenges back then... Very much wish I had his books as a teen, would have kept me out of trouble and started my career 20 years earlier.

Remastered adventure game 'Noctropolis' is now available for Linux
28 October 2017 at 11:53 pm UTC Likes: 1

From Ryan's blog:
QuoteHere's what you need to know about Nightdive: instead of shipping this in DOSBox or something, they rewrote the assembly to be portable, 64-bit clean C++11. Nightdive is hardcore like you wouldn't _believe_.

Holy shit! That's crazy... Sure, assembly is bare metal fast, if you're able to produce better code than a compiler can. Which I guess in the mid 90's probably wasn't unheard of.

EVERSPACE expansion released, will work on Linux soon and it's coming to GOG
25 October 2017 at 7:40 am UTC

Quoting: x_wingCurrent Steam version is DRM free (you can play it even if Steam is not running), so you don't have to wait for GoG release if you want to buy it

That may be the case. But I like GOG as a business and want to support them, so my $$ is going their way.

EVERSPACE expansion released, will work on Linux soon and it's coming to GOG
24 October 2017 at 7:20 pm UTC Likes: 3

I'll be throwing my wallet at the screen as soon as GOG+Linux is up ^_^

Opus Magnum, the latest puzzle game from Zachtronics, is released into Early Access
19 October 2017 at 9:08 pm UTC Likes: 1

QuoteSolitaire Minigame - Take a break with Sigmar’s Garden, an original alchemy-based solitaire game.

Yeah I've loaded up SHENZEN I/O just to play the solataire game... It's, fun.

The Linux version of Beyond Enemy Lines is being held up by Unreal Engine 4 bugs
19 October 2017 at 9:04 pm UTC

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: Romans_I_XVIIsn't UE4 open source? I know it's no small task; to dig in, understand their code, find the bug, fix the bug, and recompile. But I think it could be done instead of waiting on Epic.

Sorry, not open source.

We all have access to the source code, it is by definition "open source". It is not however, FOSS. This is where I think people get mixed up.

Open Source is not equivalent to Free/Libre Open Source Software. It is entirely possible, and absolutely okay to have open source software that you pay royalties for, ala, UE4.

UE4 is open source, but not free as in freedom.

Crazy cyberpunk horror game 'observer' is coming to Linux on October 24th
19 October 2017 at 6:50 pm UTC Likes: 1

Sheeeeeiiittt... It looks intense!

"Bloober Team" as a name for them is totally at odds with what they create.

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