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  1. Rift / Vive / VR General

    The Pico 4 official announcement dropped today. Nothing surprising if you've been following the news: it's a chinese quest 2 with pancake lenses. The single RGB camera can't be that accurate for stereo color passthrough, but it'll probably blow the minds of everyone used to blurry black and...

  2. Playstation VR 2

    I most likely won't be getting this because I don't have a playstation and there aren't any games I want to play, but manufacturers should have their eyes gouged out for using LCDs for VR. Black smear is way overstated. There are some games I still prefer on my CV1 over any other headset because...

  3. Deus Ex DX Ending Discussion

    It appears that I am in the minority for favoring the Illuminati ending. I'm incredulous that it's at the same popularity as a non-existent MJ12 ending, and I feel compelled to defend it. Joining the Illuminati is the most fitting conclusion for JC's unshakable faith in peaceful reform and...

  4. Vapourware Codexian Game Development Thread

    Funny, I had the idea for a "reverse roguelike" just the other day. I decided that the most interesting option would be populating the dungeon with dangers randomly and letting the player place helpful things. Someone has to be leaving those wands of disintegration lying around after all. That...

  5. The Codex of Roguelikes

    What keys would you use for movement in a roguelike on a hex grid? I was thinking jio;., because I like keeping my fingers on the homerows, but it would fuck with muscle memory of everyone used to vi style and . to rest. I'd just use the numpad 147963, but I play on my laptop tenkeyless a lot...

  6. Teemu

    Please God, no! There's a reason flatpack, appimage, and all the others exist. It's because static linkage sucks. It doesn't even solve the problem of portability-- you're still at the mercy of a lot of moving parts in the system. On top of that, if something major changes (like X11 to Wayland...

  7. Teemu

    Building portable Linux binaries isn't black magic, but it's not common knowledge either. The short version is: just dynamically link against old libraries. If your libraries are newer, then it won't run on less cutting edge distros. The biggest catch is usually glibc. My friend used to build...

  8. Teemu

    No, I can't access it either. It was up a couple weeks ago. Also, please consider a Linux build at least if you're not going to release source code. For a roguelike to not run on *nix is major decline.

  9. KickStarter WTF is this

    :codexisforindividualswithgenderidentityissues:

  10. My new crpg (under heavy development)

    Is this footage is supposed to be outdoors? You should strongly consider a different way of drawing the sky. It feels very claustrophobic to have a sky texture directly over your head like a ceiling, so don't do that outside. If you're using an engine it's probably trivial to set an environment...

  11. KickStarter Hibernaculum - sci-fi survival horror dungeon crawler from Wormwood Studios' Victor Pflug

    that font is almost unreadable

  12. Your favorite guilty pleasures

    My guilty pleasures are summons that practically play the game for you. Sitting back and watching a massive horde overrun the enemy with almost no further input is cathartic. I'll tolerate a little micro or casting some support spells, but mostly I want to turn my brain off and watch the...

  13. Heroquest returns

    I had the misfortune of seeing this in person. It just felt totally wrong. The box was too thick about the size of two originals stacked on top of each other, the miniature sculpts were awful overdesigned crap, references to chaos were expunged, and they took the gargoyle's whip away. The only...

  14. The Between - Victorian hunters of the supernatural

    Almost all mediocre RPG and wargame kickstarters are like this. The mechanics are inevitably a legal fiction, only the bare minimum of rules ripped off from better games to serve as a vessel for the art and writing that is the real passion of the authors. The whole collaborative storytelling...

  15. Vapourware Codexian Game Development Thread

    Godot is alright. You have to get used to thinking in terms of the built in nodes, but once you have them down it's great for rapidly prototyping ideas. The scripting language is cleanly designed and easy to pick up. It has some heavy limitations for 3D right now. The biggest one is major...

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