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Games: Valve, Orphan, Helium Rain, PyGame, Pogo, X4: Foundations, Lutris, Blade Symphony, Galacide, DXVK and Advanced Mac Substitute

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 26th of January 2019 04:12:54 AM Filed under
Gaming
  • Valve fixes PC gaming on Linux with Proton support for non-Steam Windows games
  • Orphan now available on Mac OSX, Ubuntu

    The 2D sci-fi indie platformer Orphan has now added support for Mac OSX and Ubuntu on both Steam on GOG.

    Orphan features a young boy who finds he is the sole remaining survivor of an alien apocalypse. The silhouette-styled graphics draw comparisons to Limbo, but Orphan is a metroidvania featuring plenty of weapon-play and giant boss battles.

    Orphan was developed by the one-man studio Windy Hill in Tennessee and published by 2Dimensions, developers of animation software including Nima and Flare.

  • Dark sci-fi adventure 'Orphan' lands on Linux and it's quite a ride

    Orphan is a dark and quite chilling adventure from developer Windy Hill, with a pretty impressive atmosphere.

  • Explore space DRM-free with Helium Rain now available on GOG

    Free from the restrictions of planet Earth, the space exploration, trading and action game 'Helium Rain' from Deimos Games has officially become DRM free on GOG.

    It has some of the most striking visuals I've seen in a space game for a while, seriously! Some of the scenery is breathtaking. The gameplay is pretty good too, performance is great in my testing as well.

  • PyGame Zero: Games without boilerplate

    Python is a good beginner programming language. And games are a good beginner project: they are visual, self-motivating, and fun to show off to friends and family. However, the most common library to write games in Python, PyGame, can be frustrating for beginners because forgetting seemingly small details can easily lead to nothing rendering.

    Until people understand why all the parts are there, they treat many of them as "mindless boilerplate"—magic paragraphs that need to be copied and pasted into their program to make it work.

    PyGame Zero is intended to bridge that gap by putting a layer of abstraction over PyGame so it requires literally no boilerplate.

  • Pogo looks like a completely ridiculous 3D physics platformer, now supported on Linux

    I will admit, this one looks completely silly. Still, games don't need to be super serious to be enjoyed.

    Pogo, from developer kangawallapuss (interesting name…) was updated with Linux support today. It's a silly 3D platformer where, as the name might suggest, you're bouncing around on a Pogo Stick—boing!

  • X4: Foundations to come to Linux with one of the next major updates

    Entering my inbox recently was an update on the roadmap for X4: Foundations [Official Site], Linux is still in their plans but that date isn't too firm yet but we now have an idea of when it might be.

  • The next version of Lutris will allow you to search for more games directly from the client

    Lutris [Official Site, GitHub], the rather advanced game library manager is currently going through some major improvements with the 0.5.0 release that's in Beta. The latest new feature, is a rather nifty one.

    Previously, to add a new game to Lutris you would search for it on the Lutris website and add it to your client. It worked, but it was a little bit annoying. That's all going to change in the next beta, as you will be able to search for a game in the Lutris client and add it that way. A small feature but an incredibly handy time-saver.

  • Source Engine powered sword battler 'Blade Symphony' has another update

    Another game from Puny Human was updated recently, this time it's the sword battler Blade Symphony which is powered by Valve's Source Engine.

    The patch is mostly an attempt to polish the game some more, with a number of essential bugs being fixed. However, they did also add in a brand new sword to the game, the Barcarolle Ballad which was created by a community member.

  • Puny Human's wild shoot 'em up 'Galacide' has a big update out

    Galacide from Puny Human is a shoot 'em up that blends together fast-paced action with the quick-thinking tactics of puzzlers.

    Just yesterday, they updated it with the 'Warp Ahead' update which has a pretty big bump in the Unreal Engine version used, this brings with it support for the Steam Controller and mouse control in all in-game menus.

  • Some information on why Wine is not going to be using DXVK

    It seems things aren't all rosy between CodeWeavers and DXVK, as developer Henri Verbeet has written into the Wine Development mailing list to give more details.

  • Emulator project aims to resurrect classic Mac apps and games without the OS

     

    Advanced Mac Substitute is an effort by long-time Mac hacker Josh Juran to make it possible to run old Mac OS software (up to Mac OS 6) without a need for an Apple ROM or system software. Other emulators out there for 68000 Mac applications such as Basilisk II require a copy of MacOS installation media—such as install CDs from Mac OS 7.5 or Mac OS 8. But AMS uses a set of software libraries that allow old Mac applications to launch right within the operating environment of the host device, without needing to have a full virtual hardware and operating system instance behind them. And it's all open source.

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