Quoting: rustybroomhandleI shot them an email for access to the Vulkan alpha/beta.

Did you do that on your own or is there a open request for beta testers? I'd love to test the Vulkan beta as well...

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I have the most hours on X-Plane 11 than any other title I own, and it's a tremendous Linux sim that anyone with any interest in flight should buy. I anticipate Vulkan will provide very little in improvement on the Linux end which, as others have alluded to, is very well optimized, as Linux XP 11 runs at or better FPS than Windows XP 11 in testing.

What I am hoping Vulkan WILL help is how well Windows XP 11 works on Wine/Proton. This is actually important, as some of the best XP 11 add-ons (like xEnviro and xVision) are Windows only right now. Via Wine, Windows XP 11 actually right now runs beautifully, but its FPS drops substantially with rendering add-on's. That will hopefully change for the better once Vulkan comes and renders via GPU rather than CPU, as it is now...

Sadly, XP development tends to be somewhat glacial. I'm thinking 11.4 by year's end, and 11.5 by summer 2020. The bigger question for the flight sim world is when does MS 2020 come out, which is the only title that will bring me back to Windows for gaming if it does not run on Wine/Proton and which looks bonkers amazing and which could make XP 11 somewhat irrelevant...

Also, is this maybe the only group jazzed about working with Metal? XP 11 coding is actually done on Macs....

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No idea how this game is, but I have to say that's one of the more original concepts I've heard in a while. That would be great as a "hitman" style title...

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Quoting: SkipperroAs you wish - sharing in comment what I'm working on in Godot:
https://skipperro.itch.io/halloween-candies-hackslash

Pre-Alpha is already available on Linux. It's also developed 100% on Linux using open source software.

Wow, looks like a lot of fun!

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Quoting: leillo1975With PyLinuxWheel, a must-have program for everyone who enjoys using their Logitech wheels on Linux.Thanks a lot, @Bernat!

Absolutely second that!

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: ShmerlSecond one is proper open world, instead of more limited and directed first game.

I know that it's asking too much, but...
It should have space legs.
When you play games like X4: Foundations, Elite: Dangerous and No Man's Sky where you can leave your ship, so that you intuitively feel that you are a person and not a weird spaceship creature, you barely can go back to the ship games. I hope more games adopt this approach.

I don't know. As a loooong time space combat fan who wanted forever to get out of the ship and walk around, now having done so in a few titles, after the novelty wore off, I'm now like, "how do I get back in as quickly as possible?" :) Basically, until there's something more compelling to do out of the ship, it'll still be all about the cockpit...

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: BeamboomAre there any games out now that do a good job in showcasing this engine from a modern (not retro) perspective?

Not gonna happen anytime soon, I'm afraid.
Godot is still lacking in some vital departments required for really modern 3D gaming.

So, for we gamers who know near nothing about development, do you think the Godot hype is just wishful hoping on our part right now, or is there real promise here?

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Game devs. Must. Sim. All. The. Things.

What hasn't been simmed yet that any of you would want?

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Quoting: sigzthere was a time we got one or two AAA titles on a year.. Looks like since proton is a thing there is no more heavy ports (Did feral gave up too ?)

But Proton gave us, like, hundreds (thousands?) of AAA titles in one fell swoop, more than we'd get in a lifetime of porting of AAA titles to Linux otherwise. Like it or not, for now, it's our AAA future and, after that, streaming gaming... We'll be fine.

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All great news. I used to distro-hop all the time, but for the last year and a half or so I've converted all of my machines to Manjaro and have been thrilled. It's been rock solid stable for me, and it's a terrific community as well.

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