Daniel talks about selling most of his physical games. We talk about best practices for buying/selling off of sites, stores, and in person meetups.
Daniel has gone all in on Fedora Atomic OSes and has installed Bazzite on both the LCD and OLED Steam Decks.
What Daniel’s been playing
Dynasty Warriors 7: Xtreme Legends (PS3)
Sonic Origins (Steam Deck)
Final Fantasy 1-6 Pixel Remaster (Steam Deck)
What Mike’s been playing
Spider-Man Miles Morales (PS5)
Strangers in Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin (PS5)
Assassin’s Creed IV Freedom Cry (PS4)
Super Mario Advanced 4
Brandon:
RetroBat
Check Out:
Daniel’s website
@TeamLinux01@mastodon.social
Mike on Twitter
What we’re playing
Mike
Analogue Pocket
Sonic Advanced
Super Mario Advanced 2
Age of Empires IV
MTG Arena Markov Limited
Dan
Dynasty Warriors 7: Xtreme Legends (PS3)
HorizonXI (Steam Deck and Bazzite Desktop)
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon (Steam Deck)
Classic Game Design VS Modern
Goal Oriented VS Open World
Simplicity Over Complexity
Sponsor
Alice
Check out
Daniel’s Blog
Help out with Daniel’s public projects
Mike on Twitter
What We’re Playing
Immortals of Aveum
Satisfactory
Find Daniel at https://daniel.melzaks.com
Find Alice at Alice.Dev
Find Path of Titans at Path of Titans
What we’re playing this week:
Eric: Streets of Rage 4 https://www.streets4rage.com/
Assassin’s Creed III Remastered
Sonic Frontiers
Sega buys Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds:
https://gamerant.com/sega-rovio-acquisition-explained-mobile-game-revenue-angry-birds-sonic-investor-relations/
(Original Post)
https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates
Unity Personal and Unity Plus: Those that have made $200,000 USD or more in the last 12 months AND have at least 200,000 lifetime game installs.
Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise: Those that have made $1,000,000 USD or more in the last 12 months AND have at least 1,000,000 lifetime game installs.
(Apology Tour)
https://blog.unity.com/news/open-letter-on-runtime-fee
The Runtime Fee policy will only apply beginning with the next LTS version of Unity shipping in 2024 and beyond.
For games that are subject to the runtime fee, we are giving you a choice of either a 2.5% revenue share or the calculated amount based on the number of new people engaging with your game each month. Both of these numbers are self-reported from data you already have available. You will always be billed the lesser amount.
Unity Create President answers 24 Questions | Q&A w/ Marc Whitten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hCb5K6gskw
INTENSE Reaction to New Unity Change!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB90Cse3aaM
Garry Newman (Rust) - What Unity Is Getting Wrong
https://garry.net/posts/unity-2020
Megaman X-2. I conquered the first entry in the X series as a kid many times, but never gave the sequels much of a chance. Now I’m changing that, and already discovering what I’ve missed.
https://retrogamecorps.com/2022/10/16/steam-deck-emulation-starter-guide/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9jDHIDKkU
https://linuxgamingcentral.com/posts/metroid-prime-trilogy-on-deck/
Analogy: Imagine a supremely talented athlete being drafted by a franchise that is clueless how to surround the player with talent and is saddled with a front office who are utterly incompetent. That’s what happened to the Dreamcast! In the end, the athlete never sniffs a championship and never gets the full recognition they deserve.
Shenmue: The open-world genre owes a huge debt of gratitude to Shenmue. Truly ahead of its time.
https://www.thegamer.com/things-super-fans-sega-dreamcast-do/
https://gamerant.com/dreamcast-development-facts-trivia/
https://www.eurogamer.net/dreamcast-a-forensic-retrospective-article
Red Deck Always Wins
Yes, Red is the best color
Red Wins by turn four
All Time favorite video game series: Metroid
All Time favorite video game: Super Metroid
Other favorite video games:
Final Fantasy Tactics
Final Fantasy VII (series)
Monster Hunter World
Disgaea 4 (series)
Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 (series)
Super Mario World (series)
Sonic Mania (series)
Gran Turismo series
Super Smash Bro. Melee (series)
Armored Core series
My favorite MMO to play (back in the day): Final Fantasy XI
Trading Card Game: Magic: The Gathering
Capture hardware:
Magewell USB Capture HDMI Plus - 32040
https://a.co/d/4eKYyEg
HDMI Splitter 1 in 2 Out - 4K Aluminum Ver1.4 HDCP, Powered HDMI Splitter Supports 3D 4K@30HZ Full HD1080P for Xbox PS4 PS3 Fire Stick Roku Blu-Ray Player Apple TV HDTV - Cable Included, Grey
https://a.co/d/aqNmpoZ
Logitech Brio 4K Webcam, Ultra 4K HD Video Calling, Noise-Canceling mic, HD Auto Light Correction, Wide Field of View, Works with Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Voice, PC/Mac/Laptop/Macbook/Tablet
https://a.co/d/69ATIEL
Weilisi 6.5'' Ring Light for Computer with Adjustable Tripod,3 Light Modes Video Conference Lighting,Mini Ring Light for Laptop,Webcam Light,Zoom Light,Desk Ring Light,Selfie Ring Light
https://a.co/d/bTp4bEY
Capture software:
OBS for Windows (Virtual Webcam)
https://obsproject.com/download
Discord for Windows
https://discord.com/download
MTGArena Brawl
Super Mario Three
Triangle Strategy
Jay’s links:
Main site: https://learnlinux.tv
https://www.learnlinux.tv/running-classic-ms-dos-games-on-the-pi-400/
https://studio.youtube.com/video/fsc3gYIYwV8/edit
(warning, those are older videos with terrible production quality but still useful if people look past that)
Console game manuals: https://archive.org/details/consolemanuals
Best classic console cables under $50 or so each (only HDMI modding, scan converters, and FPGA are better): https://retrogamingcables.co.uk/
RetroPie site: https://retropie.org.uk/
Analogue consoles (FPGA, expensive, but best picture possible): https://www.analogue.co/
Managing Large Teams 30-40+ per game
What the hiring process is like
Things that are common to industry hiring like whiteboard tests are broken
Difference in getting hired could be your microphone quality
Having backup equipment and reliability
Open Source as it relates to hiring
Accountability and mistakes in hiring
Accountability for software vendors / solutions / third party vendors
Shipping game updates / testing
Game Engines, Unity and Unreal
Links about steamdeck emulation (we may touch on this in the episode)
Steamdeck Emulation Starter Guide
Video version of guide
THEME CREDIT The Distant Night (Final Fantasy VI) [Wiesty, The OC Jazz Collective]
Mike is Joined by Jupiter Broadcasting's Chris Fisher for this Pilot Episode of Gamer Radio. They discuss their gaming pedigree and some of the recent games both physical and digital that they've been playing.