I have Radeon 6900 rx and it games sweet on Linux. I've played games on Windows with it too without issue (dual boot).
Generally, AMD is king on Linux, Nvidia is suffering (had drivers updates break OS installs). Nvidia is only really if you want ray tracing or Cuda, and I've never needed to.
OpenSuse Tumbleweed is my distro of choice. Up to date kernel. Rolling distro. Stable.
You're in the UK? Lol
Looks good.
I really like OpenSuse, but the setup and configuration wasn't easy or straightforward. Manjaro had a superior way to setup partition for example. If they make this process smooth, it would really help folk experience a great OS that just works and is up to date.
<mint just works, y'all jokes>
The community centre can be a really interesting place.
Going to the mines can also be quite rewarding.
Beware. The Stalker is somewhat more dangerous and camoflages!
Have fun :)
VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2), a free and open source sandbox game, has a brand new release available as they begin more movement to end the Minecraft clone wars.
Good fun. Worth checking out!
I'll be honest, and sorry in advance, but it'll help you more. Your cynicism is probably the thing getting in the way. I understand it's rough and not fun, but you've got to avoid it grinding you down.
You need to give yourself reasons to stand out. Making a half baked unfinished engine that no one uses isn't as impresive as improving an existing one that people use. Greenfield projects are rare and you probably not going to get that as a first role. So you need to prove to employers you can take legacy code, learn it, understand it, improve it and get it live. Demonstrating you have the capability to do that on a FOSS project demonstrates you may be able to do that on an in-house engine. You also learn from the code others write. Why did they do it this way? Is it better? What are the pros and cons? Degrees differentiate, yes, but a green person out of uni vs someone who has proven they can do a similar job, you have an advantage. Plus, 5 PRS is probably easier than a new engine. Making one from scratch cannot hurt, but it doesn't prove everything they need to know. Businesses hire because they have a problem and need someone competent to solve that problem. Tick those boxes and remove the risk and you have reasonable chances.
If you only demonstrate you're not comfortable going out of your comfort zone and getting your hands dirty, you are not helping yourself.
So give them reasons to hire you, give yourself a chance, and keep applying. Give yourself a 2% chance, apply to 50 jobs, give yourself a 10% chance, apply for 10, but always go over the odds.
Remember, industry is rough right now. A lot of experienced proven folk got let go in last year. Might need to improve your odds and bide your time.
Maybe I got this wrong, how would you pronounce it?
Depends really. I say it this way, but talked to a Spanish speaker who said it was Lee-bree.
It's a double edged sword. The channels are bridged across to Matrix, and the poll ran in multiple places, but 90%+ of the player community are on Discord.
Because MineClone2 is a dreadful name, and unfortunately, when ever anyone tries to differ anything slightly, a head can be taken clean off. The project doesn't want to be a full clone, but heavily inspired by, but with it's own direction. It needed to go.
MineClone2 (based on Minetest) changes name to VoxeLibre
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/9316655
[...] the large margin by which the name VoxeLibre won the voting on Discord [...] The new name of this project will be VoxeLibre
Stardew Valley 1.6 is here. Patch notes ahoy
Stardew Valley was released on 26 February 2016 for Windows PC after almost four years of closed development. Linux and macOS compatibility was released in a free update on 29 July 2016.
A great game, and a massive patch list. Could be good fun for a returning player, or new players.
For those that haven't tried this game, it's very addictive and very fun. I've got 150+ hours on it, and I'm not done yet. Good fun as multiplayer too!
Ah, fair enough.
You're Wuzzy?
RimWorld is a sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Inspired by Dwar
The game probably needs no introduction, but hey, a story generator sim colony type game.
Bizarre and lots of fun. Whether it's getting attacked by pirates, or angry rats, fighting infections or drug addictions to save your colonists. I feel a little part of me dies every time I lose a colonist. Intense.
I'm 83 hours in, and barely getting started. It's wonderful.
Have you played RimWorld? How long for? Any interesting stories? (the steam reviews are a gold mine for this)
Save 50% on Valheim on Steam
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/26410680
Absolute bargain price if you ask me. Played over 250 hours of Valheim. A great immersive game, and at this price, a bit too good to say no to if you haven't tried it. A survival must play.
Highly recommend.
Save 50% on Valheim on Steam
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Absolute bargain price if you ask me. Played over 250 hours of Valheim. A great immersive game, and at this price, a bit too good to say no to if you haven't tried it.
Highly recommend.
Project Hospital
Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.
I absolutely love this game, and the music always makes me smile. The main tune is one of the best game songs I know :).
To oversimplify, it's Theme Hospital for adults. Complex, serious, and some times stressful when you have a collapsed patient. I end up favouriting my collapsed patients as I really need to know they get better and make it out ok.
I have 70+ hours play time from this. Really well made game. Needs more love.
Have you played it? What did you think?
It's highly rated. I personally found it quite difficult and a wee bit too frustrating.
Minetest, and in particular MineClone2. Always someone playing multiplayer also which is quite nice.
https://git.minetest.land/MineClone2/MineClone2/src/branch/master/HOW_TO_PLAY.md
Mindustry is good fun also :)
Travellers Rest - Fishing - Update 0.6.4
Greetings, innkeepers! The new Travellers Rest update is now available! This new update adds the fishing system, new fish dishes to cook, a lot of new decorations, many fish species to collect, new characters and unlocks a new area of the map. New fishing system With the new fishing system you'll be...
Sharing this because it's a game I've played and enjoyed. Multiplayer isn't there and local co-op is buggy, but pretty fun for single player.
Stardewesque, but all about managing your own tavern.
Something up to date with a newer kernel. Wine devs say that's best to get updates and benefits quicker given how things are changing quickly.
Given that, I'd say Open Suse, Arch or Fedora. I use Open Suse and am very happy with it. Meets my indie gaming needs.
Unreal Engine. I've been enjoying learning it and building it. It's powerful and so far has solved every problem I've had without much pain.
Palworld (as a survival game...)
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Obviously it's a very hyped up game, and I was apprehensive posting this as they have sufficient marketing behind them already. It's meme'd as "Pokemon with Guns", but at its core is a very heavy survival play style.
Have you tried it? How many hours in are you?
If you have, what do you think? How does it stack up against other survival games for you?
My view is in the comments...
Edit: First 2 votes are downvotes and into minus immediately? I get you may not like the hype. Say it, but this is to also stimulate debate and build this community. We're off the lemm.ee first page and any downvote is just going to contribute to keeping this community buried when it needs a little oxygen. Do we really want another dead small community? It's also an opportunity to bring folk into survival games...
Thanks for this, Arthur. This is likely fine. :).
Games industry is mostly binary files. Especially in Unreal. Perforce is popular from what I've heard from those in the field.
Requesting /c/indiegames
Hi. I'd like to revive and take over this community.
Could you also please remove the original admin? It's a 4 year old account and I cannot see any post or comment at all, so a dead account. Thanks.
Community info:
c/indiegames
A post of mine:
https://lemmy.ml/post/10826569 (Maybe this is the best link?)
Cassette Beasts - A great indie monster catcher
Collect awesome monsters to use during turn-based battles in this open-world RPG, now with online multiplayer mode. Combine any two monster forms using Cassette Beasts’ Fusion System to create unique and powerful new ones!
I mean, we've all seen some hype around recently about games in the genre, and I wanted to share this because it's awesome. Been playing it recently, and it definitely scratches that Pokemon itch, while being unique in its own right. Made with a lot of love, and also on Godot. What's not to like?!
Have you played it? What do you think?
MineClone2 is a free and open source survival sandbox game built to resemble Minecraft on the Minetest game engine, and their latest release Fire and Stone is out now.
Community stuff
I have created the community and advertised it in new communities.
It would be good to get a logo for the sub if anyone has one. Maybe an axe or a campfire or something. If you have a link to a survival game sub, we can add that in to the community description to make it easier for survival fans to find the communities they care about. Hopefully this will start as a campfire community so we can get together, discuss and build a great corner here in Lemmy.
Feel free to kick off discussion, talk about a specific game, what you're playing now, or even ask questions about a specific game, and hopefully folks here may know the answers.
Survival Games - A place to discuss survival games
A place for fans of survival games to discuss games and what they enjoy etc. or specific things about the games in the genre.
Whether you love Minecraft, Valheim, Project Zomboid, Subnautica or another. There is plenty to talk about. Come along, subscribe, and join in!
Survival games... What features do you love and hate about them?
What features in survival games do you really love, and which do you really hate?
Is there a meta you really get annoyed by that every game seems to copy? What is something unique or cool in a game that really added something great?
I'll start. For me, the most annoying thing is the grindyness at times. First it's mine 2, then 10, then 30, then 50. It seems the only way survival games can make things harder at times is to increase resource cost.
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Favourite survival game
Hey all. What's your favourite survival games?
For me, Project Zomboid, but I have a soft spot for Valheim and Minecraft.