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Games: Epic Grant, SteamVR, Streets of Rogue and War Thunder

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 18th of December 2019 04:55:24 PM Filed under
Gaming
  • Krita, the FOSS painting program gets an Epic MegaGrant

    Following not long after game manager Lutris got an Epic MegaGrant, it was just announced today that the FOSS painting program Krita just got an Epic MegaGrant too.

    [...]

    Really great to see Epic dig deeper into their vast pockets to support more free and open source applications. I'm sure plenty will argue $25K is a drop in the ocean for Epic but it's still going to help Krita, Lutris and others a great deal and such moves absolutely should be supported. No strings attached money to help progress applications many people use—great!

  • SteamVR 1.9 is out, Linux VR users may want to opt into a Beta

    With that said, there's quite a lot of improvements included even just for Linux.

    Valve fixed a vrwebhelper crash that could make the dashboard disappear, they fixed the pairing UI window content not showing up the first time it was opened and they fixed a few behavior quirks in vrwebhelper's desktop windows. There's also now a rate-limit in place when "attempting to open the tracing filesystem to once every 5 seconds", SteamVR will now attempt to set thread priorities through rtkit (when available) and they also added some tracking to try and help find a rare stuck haptics bug on Linux.

    It's nice to see the Linux side of SteamVR continue to pull in quite a lot of improvements, it shows Valve are committed to making VR on Linux better. Ahead of the release of Half-Life: Alyx, hopefully Valve will confirm Linux support if SteamVR keeps improving.

  • Streets of Rogue gains a new playable Robot character

    Streets of Rogue, the absolutely crazy action RPG rogue-lite from Matt Dabrowski continues polishing up the level editor and Steam Workshop support. While we wait for those bits to leave Beta, a new Robot character became available.

    To unlock the Robot character, it's quite amusing as you need to have hacked a Cop Bot or a Killer Robot. You can do that very early on too! Easy enough way to do it: pick the hacker, hack into the computer you find in the building holding a Gorilla hostage (level 1 usually has it), install malware on it and Cop Bots will get deployed, then just hack one. Okay, not exactly a walk in the park since the Cop Bot will track you down but it's seriously fun to try!

  • War Thunder 1.95 "Northern wind" released, adding in some brand new Swedish units

    War Thunder has expanded again to add in a brand new Swedish Aircraft tech tree, the first Swedish tanks, ten new mixed nation naval units and more.

    Some of the new vehicles included are "Premium", meaning you need to pay for them in some form. That much is true for the Swedish ground vehicles Strv 103-0 and the SAV 20.12.48 when looking in-game earlier. There's over 20 new Swedish aircraft, only two of them Premium the rest are just needing Research as normal so that's not so bad. Also included in this update is 10 new naval units, 2 new naval battle locations and the usual mass assortment of balance changes and bug fixes.

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Krita Receives Epic MegaGrant

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 18th of December 2019 05:23:45 PM.
  • Krita Receives Epic MegaGrant

    Epic, the makers of the Unreal game engine, have supported Krita with a $25,000 MegaGrant!

    Epic has supported other free software projects, such as Blender and Lutris before, and now supports Krita. The purpose of this grant is to fund improvements to our development process so Krita’s development gets more sustainable. This is something we have already started on, and which want to accelerate. With an estimated five million users, making sure that we can release as stable a version of Krita as possible in as dependable a way as possible is pretty important!

Krita Just Got an Epic Christmas Present

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 18th of December 2019 05:40:15 PM.
  • Krita Just Got an Epic Christmas Present

    But the latest monetary injection comes courtesy of Epic’s MegaGrant, a $100 million fund set-up earlier this year by the Epic Games, makers of Unreal Engine.

    The MegaGrant was set up to support “game developers, enterprise professionals, media and entertainment creators, students, educators, and tool developers doing amazing things with Unreal Engine or enhancing open-source capabilities for the 3D graphics community”.

    And Krita, with a flock of faithful fans behind it, certainly fits the bill.

    Plus, as this is a grant and not a loan, the money doesn’t need to be paid back. The Krita development team is free to spend the money as they wish, be on hiring more developers, funding a feature spring, or ordering $25k worth of pizza (though Krita, please: don’t do the latter).

    The best-known beneficiary of the Epic MegaGrant to date is Blender, the open source 3D tool. It scored a cool $1.2 million MegaGrant earlier this year.

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