What are you playing?

ffaf

Peter At risk of hijacking this thread, I had similar experiences with compiling lately. Usually I write a line or to two devs to gently point them at lacking doucmentation or extremely specific dependencies.

Sometimes, it works in getting more streamlined compiling process.

Peter

Good idea (if it is done politely and not demanding). I think I will do that, too, in the future.

Technopeasant

Peter

This is where Flatpacks can help, though I understand their downsides. Or I just Wine the Windows version when I can't be bothered.

Peter

Update again: Now I'm into point & click adventures (unfortunately most of them are unfree):

Some from the list of Sludge.
And I won in a sort of internet tombola "Edna and Harvey: Harvey's new eyes."
I also downloaded demos of "Majesty" and "Knights" (strategy games).

So did anyone of you get some game as a x-mas present?

Technopeasant

Peter

That isn't the Majesty that LGP ported back in the day was it?

Technopeasant

I spent about $100 on the GOG Winter Sale and bought a game on itch.io.

Technopeasant

Was pleasantly surprised by this forgotten Pygame gem.

https://libregamewiki.org/Adventures_on_Planet_Zephulor

ffaf

Tried to play that, but it is python2, right? Debian axed python2 on stable!

edit: used wine to play a bit, comfy platformer, good for kids!

Technopeasant

Yeah, I also used Wine as Fedora got rid of pygame for Python 2. It worked fine aside from a few crashes, which was mitigated by the quicksave function.

It reminds me a lot of the sort of platform games I played using Micromedia Shockwave as a kid.

Technopeasant

Finally got around to finishing off the Quake II mission packs.

Now I am going to re-play Shogo using dgvoodoo2.

Technopeasant

Finished Shogo. I was planning to round out the single player Quake games with IV, but there seems to be some interesting movements in the creation of a source port so I am waiting to see how that lands rather than just getting the old binary running.

https://quake.fandom.com/wiki/Source_port#Quake_4

Might round off the original Doom games by playing Doom 64 with Doom64Ex+.

Technopeasant

Currently playing John Romero's SIGIL 2, which for some bizarre reason did not work for me via Crispy Doom despite it being tested with it being mentioned in the readme file (no episode select for it appears), so I am stuck with GZDoom which I then had to make as retro as possible. Ick.

I also played through Base Ganymede earlier in the year for Ultimate DOOM, as well as two Wolfenstein 3D mods (TFS 4.0 and Oldfartenstein, the latter actually getting a Linux native build), and just wrapped up two new Blood campaigns via NBlood (Fate of the Damned: The Shadow Out of Time, and MARROW). Still planning to get to Doom 64.

Peter

Hello @Technopeasant I think it is, but that was a year ago and so I don't remember anymore.

This year I won again in that internet tombola. It was Planescape Torment: Enhanced Edition. But it definitely sucks. It has difficult controls and I have found a key and still can't open the door. So no recommendation for this game from me.

Technopeasant

Quickly played through Linux Jank while waiting for my bathroom to dry after I mopped it. Took me 30 minutes. It is a Doom 2 mapset that was entirely made in the Linux oriented Eureka level editor (the favourite Ultimate Doom Builder has been built using Mono on Linux, but it is far from a supported platform).

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Linux_Jank

While in the mood, I also decided to check out the latest release of Blasphemer from February. Graphics are coming along nicely, although the sound design leaves something to be desired. I kind of like them giving new life to older Freedoom sprites though.

EDIT: honestly, it is the lack of sploosh sound when landing in water that is taking me out of it the most. 😛

I would also honestly suggest they make the yellow and green keys a bit more distinct for those of us who are red-green colourblind.

Technopeasant

I'd say on the whole I actually prefer Blasphemer to Freedoom, but that is partly because I am less attached to stock Heretic, and it is tingling my nostalgia for old Freedoom. The later levels of episode one are way better than the first few though, so it does not put its best foot forward. Level two is probably my least favourite.

Peter

Right now I've digged out 0 A.D. Let's see how much fun it will be.

Peter

I also am trying Cataclysm with tiles graphics.

Both 0 A.D. and Cataclysm are not easy for a beginner, but seem to have rich gameplay.

ffaf

With a roguelike, following a streamer of even better having a friend guide you is awesome.

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