Re:Over three billion people worldwide now play video games,...
by brundolf on Friday August 21, 2020 @07:48PM
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Beyond that, most game devs today use established engines like Unity or Unreal, which typically have one-click build buttons for all major platforms. The level of abstraction has been raised, which affects not only game logic but even things like graphics APIs (DirectX vs Vulkan vs Metal) and packaging (installer, icons, etc). The bar has never been lower to throw in Linux support, even if you don't expect a huge market.
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Re:Over three billion people worldwide now play video games,...
by axaxs on Friday August 21, 2020 @09:03PM
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It's sad that the CEO behind Unreal, Sweeney, bought Rocket League, which uses Unreal, and promptly removed Linux support.
Re:Over three billion people worldwide now play video games,...
by beering on Friday August 21, 2020 @08:11PM
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I've seen it argued that releasing a Linux version (even using Unity/Unreal) is worse than releasing a Windows version that runs on Proton, because the Windows API is stabler and the Linux version will inevitably bitrot without continual updates.
Re:Over three billion people worldwide now play video games,...
by Godel_unicode on Friday August 21, 2020 @09:07PM
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There's a serious rumor that this is what actually killed rocket league on Linux. Why maintain a fork if proton is better anyway?
Re:Over three billion people worldwide now play video games,...
by axaxs on Friday August 21, 2020 @10:40PM
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Proton is good, but in no measure 'better'. Linux isn't as unstable as everyone makes it out to be. Quite the opposite. Proton still has to work on linux, afterall. If Linux support bitrots quickly, then so does everyone dependent on proton.
Re:Over three billion people worldwide now play video games,...
by oefrha on Saturday August 22, 2020 @01:04AM
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While Linux might not be as unstable as everyone makes it out to be, your argument doesn’t support that at all. The point is Valve maintains Proton so that everyone and their mum doesn’t need to maintain their own Linux fork that’ll bitrot. Without an entity maintaining Proton it could stop working in a few months for all we know.
Re:Over three billion people worldwide now play video games,...
by axaxs on Saturday August 22, 2020 @02:47AM
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Yes, and nobody knew how to deploy or use Linux applications until Docker came along and saved us all.
Re:Over three billion people worldwide now play video games,...
by oefrha on Saturday August 22, 2020 @04:56AM
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I for one knew how to deploy Linux applications long before Docker but know nothing about the GPU/graphics stack on Linux which is crucial to game devs, and FWIW I ran into graphics problems when I tried Ubuntu Desktop (yeah, just the vanilla Desktop, not gaming) on my Nvidia GPU last year, so again your snarky response contains no relevant info at all.
Re:Over three billion people worldwide now play video games,...
by Godel_unicode on Friday August 21, 2020 @11:59PM
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Better controller support, especially vibration, and higher frame rates count as measures in my book. Have you tried it?