Games: GOG, Dungeon Master Shortage, Humble, and Steam
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GOG has a 'Cozy Autumn Sale' along with 'Czech and Slovak Games Week'
GOG are back again with some more big themed deals, this time around they're doing a Cozy Autumn Sale along with a Czech and Slovak Games Week.
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It’s Not Just You: NYC Has a Serious Dungeon Master Shortage
Briefly, for the uninitiated: In D&D a group of players collaboratively play out a story in a world created by a Dungeon Master or pre-written source material, rolling dice to simulate chance as their characters travel through the game and encounter various challenges—like the aforementioned wyverns. Characters are assigned specific abilities, and a complex set of rules, arbitrated and enforced by the Dungeon Master, standardize the game. Typically the DM spot would be determined by seniority of experience with D&D or other role-playing games—the person who'd played the longest would run the game. Alternately, it would be the person in the friend group who is the best with logistics and plan-wrangling. Back in the day, game shops would have physical bulletin boards featuring players or DMs looking to pair up.
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Humble Choice for November 2022 has some good looking picks
A little late on this but Humble Choice has a fresh set of games to pick for November 2022, so here's what to expect from them on Linux desktop and Steam Deck. I'll list their Steam Deck rating, note any Native Linux builds and use the ProtonDB rating.
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Salt and Sanctuary gets Cloud Saves and OSK support for Steam Deck
Salt and Sanctuary has seen an update recently which brings with it Cloud Saves, along with better Steam Deck support. The update initially landed for the Windows version, but it has now been put into the Linux and macOS versions too.
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Rhythm Doctor now has Native Linux support in the latest update
After originally improving Rhythm Doctor for the Steam Deck earlier this year, they've now decided to do Native Linux support with it available now.
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shapez 2 an automation, management & factory-building game announced
For fans of games like Factorio, the original shapez was a pretty fun take on the automation and factory-building genre and it's getting a bigger follow-up with shapez 2. It will include Native Linux support once again too.
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Relaxing beekeeping sim APICO 2.0 is out with new NPCs, Butterflies and lots more
APICO is a wonderful little gem about keeping the bees safe, and they just launched a massive 2.0 update with more planned to come. In their announcement, they said that while the 1.0 release was a "finished game" there's still plenty they want to add. This 2.0 update is part of a series of updates planned, as they want to go Terraria and Minecraft style with content upgrades.