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Lightkey··on DragonBox Pyra handheld Linux gaming PC begins shipping this month
No, you couldn't. Have you even skimmed over the features it has?
Lightkey··on The GemRB project celebrates 20 year anniversary with a new release
Nice of Hacker News to relist my submission, as this time it garnered some interest. Here is the first interview of the week with project founder Balrog994: https://gemrb.org/2020/08/25/interview-with-project-founder-...
Lightkey··on The GemRB project celebrates 20 year anniversary with a new release
The minor version gets upped by one every time another game is completable. As Icewind Dale II is not yet finished, it will stay at 0.8.x for a while. You can still enjoy the other games (Baldur's Gate I/II and Icewind Dale being the best supported).
Lightkey··on The GemRB project celebrates 20 year anniversary with a new release
If you read the changes of 0.8.7, you will see e.g. the bumping pathfinding. I stopped playing on trying out GemRB for the first time when NPCs stood in the door and I simply could not advance; that's game-breaking. The next version will also have a major refactoring on another part, still lots to do.
Lightkey··on The GemRB project celebrates 20 year anniversary with a new release
It really was a blow to GemRB when he went to Beamdog, as he was almost as active as lynxlynxlynx and worked on the core parts of the engine. 95% is a bit of a stretch though, he is barely in third place in number of commits before the project founder Balrog994, with lynxlynxlynx having five times as many: https://github.com/gemrb/gemrb/graphs/contributors
Lightkey··on The GemRB project celebrates 20 year anniversary with a new release
It does get plenty of love. It's just that out of all the Infinity Engine games, it has the most changes and lynxlynxlynx is developing GemRB almost on his own for the past five years. The engine was already outdated at that point, so they added in graphical changes and switched to the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons, so it takes more love to support than the other games (save for Planescape: Torment maybe, which was forked before Baldur's Gate was even released).
Lightkey··on Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor
It's probably not a good example but that is what Twitch did, you can connect to their video channels with standard IRC clients (without the added "features" like paid subscription picture "emotes").
Lightkey··on A free clone of the Age of Empires II engine
The recording is not available yet but they put their own talk up already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLPlxPXoIUQ
Lightkey··on A free clone of the Age of Empires II engine
There is going to be a 5 minutes lightning talk tomorrow at 11:50 UTC by one of the developers: https://c3lt.de/35c3/schedule/

Held in Hall Borg: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/35c3/hallb

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