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Published on Tux Machines (http://www.tuxmachines.org) Home > content > Games: Stardew Valley, SDL 2, Bevy, DOSBox and More Games: Stardew Valley, SDL 2, Bevy, DOSBox and More By Roy Schestowitz Created 22/12/2020 - 1:49pm Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 22nd of December 2020 01:49:49 PM Filed under Gaming [1] Stardew Valley has a massive 1.5 update out with a new Beach farm, local co-op and more | GamingOnLinux[2] Here's something to keep you busy over the holiday season! Stardew Valley, the awesome and relaxing farming life sim from ConcernedApe has the biggest update yet. There's so much that's new it's going to take some time to find it all, and I don't want to spoil too much of what to expect from it. Safe to say though they've really been busy expanding what you can do. It now has local co-op support, a brand new Beach farm, new game options to customize things a bit more, there's a significant amount of "late-game" content added, new character events, tons of new items, fish tanks and you can even sit on chairs now. SDL 2.0.14 is out with support for PS5 DualSense and Xbox Series X controllers | GamingOnLinux[3] SDL 2 is the magnificent bit of cross-platform development open source tech that gives developers access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware. Not something normal users will touch, as it's part of the magic behind the scenes to get everything doing what it does on Linux and multiple other platforms. This is used across many games and game engines including Steam, lots of Valve games like Portal and Half-Life, tons of indie games like Dead Cells, Baba is You, Bastion, Amnesia, FTL and the list goes on. With the SDL 2.0.14 release out now it adds in support for the new PS5 DualSense and Xbox Series X controllers, there's a bunch of new functions just for game controllers for developers to be able to get additional information like if it has an LED or a particular sensor and more. There's also a whole new API for developers to create virtual joysticks. The Co-op News Punch Podcast - Episode 25 | GamingOnLinux [4] The last GOL Podcast episode of 2020 is here, come get it while it's hot and ranty as we cover a range of weird and wonderful topics in Linux, open source, gaming and more. As usual, it's a casual and frank chat between two friends (myself) and GOL contributor / Linux livestreamer Samsai. Get the feel of the classic GTA2 played online in Geneshift with a massive new map | GamingOnLinux[5] Lots of people love the original GTA and GTA2, myself included and Geneshift has a major overhaul (again) that tweaks the Battle Royale gameplay along with a huge new map to give classic GTA2 vibes. Geneshift is a mix of many things. It's a top-down shooter with a campaign that can be played solo or in co-op, it has a big online feature with a Battle Royale mode, FFA and much more. A lot of the work currently going into the Battle Royale mode. In the latest update the developer added in a new map called Subvein City, a bit of a throwback to an older name it went by of Subvein: Mutant Factions. This map is "5x larger than before", allowing for a more GTA2 style gameplay with much more space for vehicles. The Battle Royale system is also on a much bigger scale now with more players, and longer rounds. The classic Transformice now has a Linux build up on Steam | GamingOnLinux[6] Transformice, a classic 'MMO platformer' from Atelier 801 originally released in 2010 that to this day still seems to be quite popular now has a Linux build up on Steam. If you've not heard of it the game was originally released by two developers in their free time through various classic internet platforms and eventually the wider press picked it up in 2010, later in 2015 in made it to Steam and it still years later sees regular peak player counts of over one thousand people at a time and more recently over three thousand. Making it surprisingly more popular than a lot of much bigger and more modern games. FOSS game engine written in Rust 'Bevy' has a new release up | GamingOnLinux [7] As another promising free and open source game engine written in Rust, Bevy continues maturing and there's a brand new release up for you to try out with lots of advancements. What actually is it? The developer says quite clearly that it's a "refreshingly simple data- driven game engine built in Rust" with a data-driven custom Entity Component System, a 2D and 3D rendering system, support for all major systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux plus mobile), hot reloading to get instant feedback, a custom built-in UI system and more. It's looking really smart. DOSBox Pure for RetroArch aims to make retro DOS gaming real easy[8] Want to play old DOS games easily on whatever Linux machine you're using? RetroArch now has a new fork named DOSBox Pure and you can give it a test now. There's various launchers out there and guides for running DOSBox but the simplicity offered by RetroArch for retro stuff is great. Having that same easy of use available for DOSBox sounds pretty fantastic to me. DOSBox Pure has a lot of nifty features too like loading from zip files, mounting from inside zip files, save states and rewinding, controller mapping, cheats support and quite a lot more. It's a nicely advanced fork of the original. Gaming Source URL: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/145747 Links: [1] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/69 [2] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/12/stardew-valley-has-a-massive-15-update-out-with-a-new-beach-farm- local-co-op-and-more [3] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/12/sdl-2014-is-out-with-support-for-ps5-dualsense-and-xbox-series-x- controllers [4] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/12/the-co-op-news-punch-podcast-episode-25 [5] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/12/get-the-feel-of-the-classic-gta2-played-online-in-geneshift-with-a- massive-new-map [6] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/12/the-classic-transformice-now-has-a-linux-build-up-on-steam [7] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/12/foss-game-engine-written-in-rust-bevy-has-a-new-release-up [8] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/12/dosbox-pure-for-retroarch-aims-to-make-retro-dos-gaming-real-easy.
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