Sea pigs! (The pink holothurians.) And barreleye fish with the sea-through heads! Dumbo octopuses! Angler fish!

I didn't pick up the second expansion (though I did enjoy the first one), but this one might get me back into the game – I've always loved the deep sea environment. For anyone who hasn't played Megaquarium, it's a solid, well-built and highly polished game that I can easily recommend if you enjoy the "zoo building" genre but want something aquatic-themed.

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Quoting: RomlokMost people who are dissatisfied with something just quietly take their business elsewhere.

Yeah, it's easy to denounce Unity when your games aren't made with it (as the Terraria devs did). For all those developers out there currently making a living off games made in Unity? They just realized they had a tiger by the tail, and one willing to retroactively change deals on them (and for all Unity's protestations of "Oh we won't do it again" I doubt many people are buying it at this point). I imagine that a lot of developers weren't in favor of the changes, but didn't want to further provoke the tiger by speaking out (short of a court order, it's not like Unity had to walk back the changes after all), and have been looking into ways to safely disengage from it as quickly as possible.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quote1€ Filter: Smoothed low level gyro noise without adding delay.

What does a "1€ Filter" mean? Is that some technical term I haven't heard of?

It's either that they bought a filter that only cost them €1... or it's mojibake for a "first order filter." They have had mojibake in their patch notes before.

I haven't heard the term mojibake before, but I think I can figure it out from context. That was my second thought, which I almost included in the post, but thought "Nah, it can't be that simple…"

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Hopefully this is a better deal for all the people with Unity games on the market or in advanced stages of completion. But I'd be surprised if we don't see a wave of people switching engines in future, and maybe even porting over their already-on-the-market games to new engines.

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QuotePirates vs. Ninjas Fest: January 22 - 29

Hopefully Mimimi stay in business long enough for this, since most of their games would fit. Shadow Gambit even has a pirate crew member who is a ninja!

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It's definitely…very "Civ" looking. One the one hand, Civ didn't become the giant of 4X games for nothing, there's no need to reinvent the wheel, if it ain't broke don't fix it, etc. etc.. But on the other hand, it's…very, very similar looking, at least from those screen shots. (Though it sounds like they're bringing back Armies from Civilization III, which could be mildly interesting, at least.)

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Quote1€ Filter: Smoothed low level gyro noise without adding delay.

What does a "1€ Filter" mean? Is that some technical term I haven't heard of?

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This sounds like a relatively decent (or at least less terrible) outcome for all the people with existing Unity games, or 50% of the way through making a game in Unity and who can't just switch horses midstream. Going forward I expect the fraction of such people using Unity for future games to be…approaching zero from the right.

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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!

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Sounds like a good time for that co-op multiplayer run with the friend who last played when planets still had tiles.

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