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I choose to irrationally support Linux, because I like Linux. There is literally no financial incentive for me to do so. We were recently debugging a newer buil
by markjgx 6y ago
I choose to irrationally support Linux, because I like Linux. There is literally no financial incentive for me to do so. We were recently debugging a newer build on Linux, which was inexplicitly crashing on a players machine, while running great in the testing environment. This was causing a major headache as the game needed to ship that day.
We had another Linux volunteer test it out on his mostly vanilla Ubuntu setup, and it worked great. Ended up creating a chart of all the available testing configurations, e.g. comparing drivers across all the available environments. The supposed blame ended up being a statically linked library on his system. Funny thing is the tester who was crashing was enjoying the game in Proton while I was debugging the Linux build.
- bogwog 6y agoAppImage to the rescue! (https://appimage.org/ https://appimage.org/)
- rolandog 6y agoWould you mind sharing the name of your game? I'm saving up to buy some games soon, and I'd like to support cool devs like you!
- markjgx 6y agoThanks. It's called BadLads, it's all about multiplayer roleplay, where each player has their own job. The games about to get giant procedural cities (with full interiors!) and native virtual reality support. Here's the last devblog, although a bit dated: https://devblog.chemicalheads.com/posts/upcoming-update-tease https://devblog.chemicalheads.com/posts/upcoming-update-teas... https://store.steampowered.com/app/1200710/BadLads/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1200710/BadLads/
- rolandog 6y agoThanks for replying; it looks really great! I just purchased it, and I hope to play it over the weekend!
- yissp 6y agoThis looks really cool. From the description is sounds a bit like DarkRP in Garry's Mod. I remember having a lot of fun with that mode.
- imtringued 6y agoTo me it sounds like a GTA San Andreas multiplayer server.
- ubercow13 6y agoDid you consider requiring Steam Linux Runtime? The most recent versions use containers so that even glibc will be a fixed version.