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Games: Valve, GDevelop, Shutter Stroll, Swiss Games and Developers

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 29th of July 2020 01:05:46 PM Filed under
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  • Valve Hires Former Emulator Developer To Work On Open-Source Graphics For Linux

    Emulator developer Tony Wasserka has announced that he is going to be joining Valve, to work on open-source graphics for Linux. As part of Valve’s general push to improving gaming on Linux, his first project is going to be working on the RADV Vulkan driver, an open-source driver project for AMD GPUs on Linux.

    Wasserka has been a major contributor to the development of the leading Gamecube and Wii emulator, Dolphin, where he maintained the GPU subsystem and implemented a Direct3D 11 rendering engine. Dolphin is the gold standard for console emulation, offering the most compatible and robust emulation of games for these classic Nintendo systems, and it’s a fully open-source project.

  • Event-driven open source game engine GDevelop adds a live preview feature

    GDevelop is an in-development free and open source game engine, one that is powered by a drag and drop event system and it continues bringing in new and fun features.

    One feature it just added in the latest release is Live Previews, otherwise known as Hot Reloading. This is where you can apply a bunch of changes in the game engine editor, with the game currently running and then at the click of a button have your changes applied. It's a useful feature, one that could aid debugging and prototyping nicely.

  • Take a walk and take some nice snaps in Shutter Stroll

    Shutter Stroll, a walking sim about taking nice photographs across hundreds of generated islands is a pretty sweet experience for when you want to properly relax.

    There's no goal, no timers and not much else. It's a small game about slowing down, taking things in and just appreciating a bit of beauty. With you starting off in a little boat, camera in hand, you set off to find the perfect shot. Once you find a spot you bring up your camera, switch between different filters by pressing F and take your snap. Then it's back to your boat to pick some coordinates and explore somewhere else.

    Here's a few snaps, click to enlarge the thumbnails because they're high resolution shots. Having the coordinates of the island generation on the pictures is a nice touch too.

  • Steam has a sale on to celebrate Swiss Games and Developers

    If it wasn't enough that there's multiple good Humble Bundles going on, and a big RPG sale on GOG - Valve have launched a sale to celebrate Swiss Games.

    Never one to miss an opportunity to run a sale, Valve picked this to go along with Swiss National Day, a national holiday of Switzerland on August 1. With the Swiss sale running until August 3 at 5PM UTC, you can save big on some quality games made by people all over Switzerland. There's some really good indie choices there too.

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  • Free and open source 3D creation suite Blender gets funding from Microsoft

    It feels like FOSS is on a roll lately, with more and more great open source applications seeing funding from big names. Blender is back in the spotlight again, with backing from Microsoft.

    Announced by the Blender team today, July 29 2020, Microsoft has joined them as a 'Gold' level Corporate Member. This means Microsoft will be giving the Blender Foundation at least €30K a year, which the Blender team say pays for half a year of developer time to improve Blender.

  • Cult classic Beneath a Steel Sky is finally available free on Steam

    It's hard to believe that until now, Beneath a Steel Sky wasn't available on Steam. With the launch of the sequel Beyond a Steel Sky recently, Revolution Software decided to fix that.

    Currently, the build on Steam is only officially available for Windows. Thankfully though, with it being such an old game now from 1994, it's easy to get it running on Linux and through Steam directly too thanks to the Steam Play feature in the Linux Steam client. Remember, Steam Play is just a feature to run compatibility layers (the biggest being Proton) and there's one named Roberta designed for running adventure games like this using a native Linux build of ScummVM.

  • Wilderness survival roguelike Wayward gets a big free expansion

    Currently in Early Access, Wayward is a wilderness survival roguelike from developer Unlok and the 9th major update is out now with the Seafarer expansion.

    With this now out, the developer mentioned this brings an end to the limited amount of exploration that was possible as you can now sail the seas to explore new lands. Sounds like a pretty huge advancement for the game and not something that was easy for the team, a feature they had originally said 'would probably never happen' but an important milestone for making it much more enjoyable.

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