That girl who plays Steam Deck and writes about gaming + Linux a lot
Oh thank you!
If you filter by my username here, you can sift through my nonsense. As I’m guessing the title has given away, this is the sixth of these I have written up!
They’re meant to be weekly, but I don’t think I’ve been able to wait a full week between writing these yet!
You’re very kind:)
My 3DS still comes with me on the odd work-trip! As does my DSi (I love the design of the DSi, from a hardware perspective). Their games libraries are so, so unique.
It was made by a friend, and…as far as these things go, don’t you want to encourage this kind of thing? Fostering the underdogs and encouraging any kind of FOSS alternatives?
I’m on Matrix, and so are most of those who are on this server, but…this is fun!
Drop by, and find out!
Glad to have you in there and on board!
I love that damn server!!!
I mean…did you read the notes here?
DREDGE!!!
(it will forever be my fav game I ever played on the Steam Deck! That Lovecraftian horror is somehow so so cozy!!)
Thanks, you two. Nice to see you here in the comments and on Lemmy!!! <3
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I hate to break the atmosphere, but I just threw this together without taking my own screenshot of my Junk-Store!
This is a screenshot which belongs to one of the Junk-Store team - Annie, which I just grabbed quickly from an image search via DDG
she’s also rather lovely, HI ANNIE!
…one thing is for sure, with 250 hours in the game it seems you’ve got to be a huge fan of it!!!
I have done 5 so far now!
(One more than this you commented under!)
And yes, I hope to make them a weekly occurrence :) And thank you so much for saying so!
non-steam versions of the game
You got it! It’s a GOG-specific bug, which again compounds the feeling that GOG users tend to end up second-best :(
Oh shucks, this is kinda sweet!!!
(THANK YOU!!!)
I’m a sucker for OLED screen
R.E. the OLED, you can write me on Matrix if you’re there (or join the Revolt server!) and I can help you with a pointer for it!!!
I know Lazorne is on here, so I have no doubt this comment will make them smile!!!
Well, you’ve got a lot of options!
Since getting my Steam Deck, I sold my Switch collection, since (for the most part), emulating Switch games are a breeze. Theres obviously ones which perform poorly, but the vast, vast majority run so well!
You can always get the original launch model of Switch - you can jailbreak it with a little ‘jig’ and its the easiest thing in the world. No mod chip required. There’s even tablet-only ones, even OLEDs on aliexp if you want to have someone do they hard work for you, too!
The Steam Deck is incredibly hard to beat - Steam games, GOG, Epic and Amazon games. Emulation. Its a lot of gaming :)
(And as to frequency posting these? Lately, every 3 or 4 days!!!)
Hmmm that’s pretty specific!
I’d look at:
Cara Ellison. She’s touched on it before, that I’ve noticed when writing for The Guardian - how strong videogames are for the medium of telling stories, and also for expressing art.
Matthewmatosis on YouTube, does some great work on at least the artistic choices teams make when creating the games
Critical Distance is a good site, critiquing games as a serious art form
I mean…this is in my eyes, and in my experience reading them. The thing about art is though…it’s so damned subjective, so what I found related to that point, you might find is totally, totally off-the-mark!
Hope it helps, a little though! <3
I’ve seen the same.
And I can’t claim any ownership of this, this is purely Gardiner’s server! I just…happen to know a lot of the devs and creators in the space, and I’m slowly inviting them in because - well I guess a place like this, more focused and small where we can chat about what we love: developing for Linux, and gaming on Linux might be a nice thing!
I’d just encourage you to make a throwaway account (if you’re so inclined!) and ask in the server yourself! No one can answer better than Gardiner can :)
This is literally like…idk 2 hours old at this point. No ‘big’ posts have been made, just me prodding the odd folk (like here) to join in and see if they like it :)
I only access it via their website!
Thank you!!!
I somehow never played a single COD game until the most recent one on Game Pass. Sometimes the older ones look interesting to me, but those inflated old prices for such old titles make me a lil cross. The one in space appeals to me!
…I hope maybe one day they’ll come to Game Pass :)