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Indies devs band together for 100-game, $10 bundle aiming to help an "unprecedented number" of laid off developers External Article (www.gamesradar.com)
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All money, minus processing fees for itch, goes to out of work game developers

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[–] 15 points 3 months ago (1 child)

https://itch.io/b/3802/game-industry-hardship-fund

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    [–] 50 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Here's a link to the Itch.io page to save you like 4 clicks.

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    • [–] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

    "Steam keys are not included in this purchase."

    Pardon my ignorance, but how does this work? And are these games Linux compatible?

    edit: thanks for the replies. I'm glad they're creating this fund.

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  • [–] [S] 24 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    They're DRM free downloads afaik. On Linux you would just run them with Proton by adding them to Steam/Heroic/Faugus etc I assume.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    I fairly frequently try out games made for Windows, released on Itch, me running Linux.

    Yeah, some are not well optimized... but these are basically alpha builds of (usually solo dev) indie games, so, yeah basically, works pretty much as well it can.

    Can't say I've ever had a technical issue with anything that has hit 1.0.

    Proton is magic, hooray!

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    • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Interesting. Bundles of this size are a little overwhelming for me- anyone want to call out what they think are the highlights of what's included?

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 3 months ago

    The article recommends a few...

    Some real bangers are also a part of the line up. Mini-open-world explorathon A Short Hike, world-manipulating puzzler Arranger, feathered Tony Hawk-alike Skatebird, and low-poly horror platformer The Sirena Expedition are definitely highlights, but there's all sorts of hidden gems hiding in a list this vast, no matter if you're into queer dating sims, twin-stick shooters, bullet hell shooters and beyond.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    A Short Hike is wonderful. It's very short, fittingly, like 1-2h if you want to do everything there is, but packed with so much love and meaning. The soundtrack is also superb and has helped me through some tough times.

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    • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Not a gamedev but a dev nonetheless. Execs decided managers, POs need to develop too now with AI. This will become a real shit show. Who's reviewing that garbage? AI? We dont even run full feedback loops yet due to security concerns.

    On the other hand a dev colleague refused to do a 40h course of new techstack on company time because AI will solve it. Ehh.

    Those who survive this storm will have plenty job opportunities to fix all the bullshit.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    I'm in ops and my director said they wanted product to be able to prompt engineer our system. I said we have a huge distributed cloud native system that interacts with services in other AWS accounts and all that. He was like, yeah, he wants me to at a whim spin up a new environment for them to do it -- all services and interactions and everything with each new ticket a product person wants to try something. I get chewed out when our cloud bill goes up ... so like wtf ...

    I was like, what happens when they prompt something that fucks the VPC or security groups or configuration, who tracks that? what about the resulting PRs? who are they going to harass if something doesn't work? am I going to be wasting my time debugging an AI slop environment? I don't even have the time to fully implement the observability I want in prod and I'm supposed to waste my time supporting this bullshit?

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    • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    It would be nice if you could add the "bundle" to your library. Right now you have to bookmark the page after purchase as there is no way to get back to the purchased link.

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