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    • Hyper Rogue: Roguelike set in a non-euclidian world. It redefines what a fantastic world might look like, and has a very unique atmosphere.
    • FTL: Deep space exploration ahoy. If you enjoy space operas, FTL is the thing to play.
    • Atomic Tanks: Oldschool artillery game. Great fun to play with friends.
    • Warsow: The quintessential FPS. Damn good.
    • Battle for Wesnoth, SuperTuxKart, Hedgewars are probably known. I love these.

    I’m programming our games primarily for Linux OSs. I’m very fond of them.



  • I’ve used proton more often than not with games purchased through GoG. Their contributions to wine and the layer on top is excellent. Sam Latinga is a Valve employee and creator of libSDL, which is also another significant and foundational contribution to FOSS.

    Wine and SDL were around before Valve was involved. It is unclear if and how good they can prevail if Valve decides that they aren’t interested anymore. Structures that are lost might be hard to regenerate.

    And as for Linux gaming, it wouldn’t be where it is without Valve.

    Half on the way to a glorified console for most of its users? The Linux gaming scene is now a reduced mirror of the gaming scene for Windows and the consoles; imo it was to be more interesting before. There was a higher and more vocal interest in smaller and more experimental productions. Nowadays it is the same as everywhere else.

    A company can do a lot of good without having to be exclusively good.

    Companies do profit, not good. The Linux Gaming scene was once quite sensitive to privacy, self control, and independence. Lemmy is a dedicated left site. But some of the folks here are cheerleading to a monopolist corp like there is no tomorrow. I’m from Germany - if I hear people worrying about what will happen when the benevolent dictator dies (see above in this thread) I get the creeps.


  • Valve is a capitalist company, aiming for profit.

    They were heavily involved into establishing DRM in the video gaming world.

    They were among the first to establish “FreeToPlay”, Lootboxes and whaling, a predatory business tactic.

    They accepted right wing extremist games in the past.

    They have a kind of monopolist web store for PC games.

    They are known to use the embrace and suffocate tactic against community projects in the past (DotA, once a community driven project is now a trademark of Valve).

    The linux gaming scene is flourishing, but this comes at the price of dependency. And not all this dependencies can be resolved at the will of the community; many of the users that came over in the last time are probably unable to start a binary without help.





  • In no particular order:

    Online/LAN:

    Xonotic: Good for online/LAN-play. UT-Style FPS.

    OpenRA: Damn well good. RTS.

    Warsow: Similar to Xonotic, but much faster. Damn good game. Sadly, defunct.

    Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart: If you like kart games and think they are all to easy, this is your choice.

    Online/Split Screen/Couch coop:

    SuperTuxKart: Damn fun, especially with a few add on tracks and good company at your place.

    Hedgewars: Similar to Worms: Armageddon.

    Battle for Wesnoth: Really fun once in a while. Neither the online nor the local experience is really “better”.

    Offline/Split Screen/Couch Coop:

    Atomic Tanks: Worms on steroids.

    Barbarian: Rocks. The OSS-Version is a tad bit obscure.

    I didn’t do VCMI, but Homm3 is one of my big local multiplayer favorites. I wait for the full inclusion of WoG before shooting it up. Also, as a young boi I really loved C-Dogs. The thing is now open source, check it out.