Reading through that thread I see mostly these points:
Extra QA workload: we already established this is less of an issue if people don't expect a polished AAA title and are ready to provide feedback
DX12 vs Vulcan / custom shaders: less of an issue since most games here don't use...
In case anyone got this far & is wondering why I'm not advocating for more macOS builds: blame Apple. They've made it almost impossible to compile applications for macOS without using a machine running macOS.
Ren'py gets away with it because the included run-time isn't a lot in relation. Just to get a feeling I went through my 69 nice currently installed Ren'py games and tallied them. On average, the Ren'py runtime + 2 Python installs take up ~16.59% of the total size, more if it's a short alpha...
The ease of porting in the "Indie"/VN space is exactly why I brought this up. I don't have any obvious way to actually count it, but my guess is that >95% of Games on this site alone are made with one of the 6 engines I noted, which means platform specific bugs will mostly be "don't assume a...
See the Reddit post I linked above. Linux users are few, but they provider more & higher quality bug reports than other platform users, by a large margin.
I like pointing people to You must be registered for see element. for that. 5.8% of players created 38% of bug reports, of which 3/400 were platform specific. Linux users are mostly technical literates who know how to reproduce bugs & write useful bug reports.
3: The MC is a perfect Mary Sue/Gary Stu: perfect body, infinite stamina, perfect intelligence, and inherited wealth by suddenly becoming a full orphan right when the game starts.
Exactly. With Godot, it's downloading once the required platform templates & then clicking "export".
It's an issue with a lot of RPG Maker games because the .exe very often hangs during loading (without any notification of what's going on) and the web-version assuming it's a case-insensitive...
@AlBetGam The things about Statcounter that irritate me are
Reporting 10+ years old OS X as current and even rising, even as Apple pushes the current OS on all platforms as macOS
The amount of "Unkown" even surpassing Apple devices
@Kernist Which game & is the source available? Because if...
Basically, title.
I've been on Linux (almost) exclusively for the past 15 years. I've fought with bad GPU & sound support (not just) in games running via Wine or Proton. I was genuinely happy about the Linux support rushing in when the SteamDeck hit & more software ran at least as good as on...