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Be the villain in Nefarious, an action platformer about kidnapping princesses
5 May 2017 at 1:40 am UTC

This looks great but after learning more about the game I'm going to pass. I was hoping for something more like 'Warning Forever' where you're the actual "The Boss Fight".

Valve have changed how gifting games works
5 May 2017 at 1:37 am UTC

Hmm. Not sure how I feel about this.

What happens when the person does not reject the gift but opts for refund/return?

I gifted a game that did not run properly on my cousin's computer - they were under the 2 hour mark and ask for the refund and I got the money back. Would this feature be the same in this new policy?

Pray for Death, a classic fighting game has been packaged up with DOSBox on GOG
9 April 2017 at 1:50 am UTC

I'm picking this one up. Never heard of it but it looks like it's right up my alley. Can't wait to put it on the HTPC big screen and hear my kids make fun of it while I do my best to master each character!

Ballistic Overkill leaves early access, but major new features will still be added
27 March 2017 at 9:19 pm UTC

I like the way the game looks and I love how nice the engine ran on my beefy rig and on my lowest rig in the house during my early access time last year.

I had an issue with the game play. The safe room areas bother me a lot. On more then 3 occasions during Team Deathmatch score would be even and the team that got 1 point over would just stay in the safe room til the clock ran out - sometimes 3 to 2 mins left of play.

I'm going to look @ some gameplay videos of the current release but if anyone that plays wants to fill me in if this has changed that would be good to know to see if if I can go back to supporting this game.

Because even on older or even freeware titles you have camping penalties to make sure the game flows.

The open source itch store client has gotten smarter about 64bit and dependencies on Linux
15 March 2017 at 1:48 pm UTC

Love itch.io So many odd gems that I discover it reminds me of the early days of indie gaming as they came out of flash site and starting make computer games.

Editorial: On paying for Linux games when you already have a Windows version
15 March 2017 at 1:46 pm UTC Likes: 4

This topic is very complicated. Years ago, I made that call. I only support/buy/use a game if it has a Linux release that I can play @ that moment.

Everything else in between ain't for me.

SDL2 Gamepad Tool, an alternative to Steam Big Picture configurator
9 March 2017 at 2:03 pm UTC

Quoting: ripperAs someone who owns a gamepad but uses it rarely and never used any "configuration tool", what is this good for? Most games allow you to define the button actions in the game config menu, so why is this better/more useful/different? Thanks for explanation.

Tools like this are great for many reasons

1) Many games do not support gamepads @ all

Which means you can make a game work with gamepads even when gamepads are not supported.

2) Each gamepad is different and developers usually support on for popular gamepads

This means you can take advantage gamepad features on ANY gamepad whether it's popular or not.

3) Predefined motions

Using tools like this can setup game combos with a button. So if you are playing a fighting game and are having issues with certain movies - you can program a button to be that exact move to help you learn it or use it better.

SDL2 Gamepad Tool, an alternative to Steam Big Picture configurator
9 March 2017 at 1:18 pm UTC

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Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääThere's also Antimicro

https://github.com/AntiMicro/antimicro

This is what I use and it is great. I have all kinds of gamepads from namebrand stuff to "literally" no name brands and this helps configures them all.

Croteam say all Serious Sam games are on their way to Linux with Vulkan, also VR on Linux teaser from Valve
8 February 2017 at 10:37 am UTC

I loved Serious Sam 3 BFG. I have a few friends who still playing Serious Sam 1 online it would be nice to join them soon.

The open source itch games client has updated again
21 January 2017 at 3:52 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: leafo
Quoting: KelsI really wish the client would detect that I'm running Linux, and stop offering me non-Linux games in the frontpage. Out of the 10 "Recommended for you" games, only half of them have the penguin icon. The ratio is even lower in the "Latest featured games" section. Admittedly it took Steam a while to start separating like that, but I'd hope Itch would learn from Valve's mistakes.
Your wish is my command. I've just pushed out an update that will only show games that are available for your platform on the app's homepage. Tell me if you can think of any other things to change.

I'm a little ashamed we didn't do this sooner since I even do all my development on linux.

This is freaking great! Excellent work. I picked up 1 title from itch awhile back now this makes it so much easier to get others!

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