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Looks really neat, shame it’s windows only though, hopefully a macOS, Linux or PS release at some point?

The game works well in proton, I've played on Linux.

Weird, I quit playing it after a couple of minutes because it was getting really laggy at the entrance of the Coal Pits on an i7 gen 8 processor. Unplayable laggy.

I once hit an unplayable slowdown (on Windows, though), where the devs told me I somehow managed to break the physics (NaNs everywhere). May have been a similar issue, as otherwise minor slowdowns are usually accompanied by excessive things happening (and unless you have an auto-cast Nuke wand, they're infrequent).

The game is incredibly CPU sensitive. Ensure that nothing else is using your CPU.

The game plays pretty well with Lutris. I would also really love a Linux native release though.

Consoles seems likely after early access.

macOS and Linux represent less that 1% of lifetime revenue most games. They unfortunately aren’t worth the opportunity cost or support tickets.

Maybe iPad? The premium game market seems viable on iPads.

Can you find any (recent) sources on that?

What makes you think that? Honestly Apple has done nothing in years to try and help any of their platforms to be a better place for game developers.

Premium iOS for mobile-first / mobile-only titles is deader than dead.

Some really good games do get ported. I think premium mobile is probably a distant 5th after PC / PS4 / Switch / Xbox for most games. But it’s probably a nice revenue bonus for multi-million unit sellers.

it would need lots of performance finetuning, the current game lags on big explosions on my i7 7700 CPU. Simulating lots of pixels at once is very CPU heavy.

Source? The only ones who seem to publicly release these numbers are Humble Bundle Inc. And in the sales that offer Linux games (mostly the indie bundles), Linux sales account for 5-25% of revenue.

https://cheesetalks.net/humble/

True in general, but I think linux users are often over-represented in indie games.

Linux/Proton player chiming in, no problems here.

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