So, #Ubuntu is running really well on the HP Elitebook 630 G6. My real incentive was to use it for #pcgaming, and I’m happy to report that I played #CavesOfQud on it all afternoon. Gotta try #civ6, #StardewValley, #OpenTTD, and maybe even #CitiesSkylines, provided each of them will work on #Linux.
#openttd
【Game Log: Mid-June 2025】
Not much to say this time. Mostly busy with other things【Games Played】
Duskers is not as good as I remember. It does capture that most faithful of keyboard-only interfaces... Grabbing the mouse and randomly scrolling the text window that doesn't have wordwrap????
Surmount is a fun 2D platformer where you scale a mountain. You clamber up by gripping one limb on the cliff and rotating around a la Mount Your Friends. A bit too unreliable, but still fun.
PEAK is a gimmick chasing 3D co-op game where you scale a mountain with friends. Terrible controls that can't be changed, but there is a note promising that they totally will be an option to do that in the future. Fun with friends despite this.
Cosmic Express is an old puzzle game where you have to guide a train to an exit, while picking up and dropping off passengers in the meantime. The challenge escalates quickly, but is still gentle enough to actually learn the game.
Vintage Story a Minecraft-clone with a bit more realistic crafting and environment. I've tried it a few times over the years. It's OK, but it's the sort of game you realise you failed by taking the wrong first move 45 minutes ago, and then quit.
Ultra Fight Da Kyanta 2 is a silly fighting game with MSPaint characters. 54 Stars.
Squiggle Football, a deckbuilding Aussie-rules game. I played the demo, had fun. Then was hit by a "THAT WAS ALL POINTLESS!" player-unlocking metaprogression that killed my enthusiasm.
I went back to OpenTTD and had a lot of fun with some weird options. Still satisfying after all these years.
I started on Quantum Witch, but barely got anywhere. It's a simple and clumsy platformer where you end up making a bunch of choices that send the plot in different directions. Seems quite fun and interesting, and the writing, humour, and characters are great. But also I've played like an hour, and 20 minutes of that was spent having NFI what to do, because all progress was stuck behind a wall that is actually something you can punch through (explained once in a skippable dialog, while permanent and repeatable hint text offers nothing of use).
All Games Played
Super Mario Kart World: Good
Farthest Frontier: Good
OpenTTD: GREAT
Quantum Witch: Good
Cosmic Collapse: Good
Vintage Story: OK
Ultra Fight Da Kyanta 2: Good
Surmount: Good
Duskers: OK
PEAK: OK
Cosmic Express: GREAT
Squiggle Football: OK
OpenTTD: Hra, která přežila všechno, včetně zdravého rozumu https://www.high-voltage.cz/2025/openttd-hra-ktera-prezila-vsechno-vcetne-zdraveho-rozumu/
#openttd hey you, wanna play together? :ablobcatrave: :blobcataww: :ablobcatattention: :blobcatheart: :blobcat_nwn:
Running #linux on #arm64 systems like my #radxa rock 5 is fine but partially cumbersome. Software support is missing for stuff like 3D graphics or protected content required by streaming services.
Thanks to #opensource its possible to fill some gaps. Currently I'm playing #OpenTTD built from source.
This game is well written with fallbacks to CPU-rendering when GPU/EGL code is failing.
And I just love it since I saw it first about 30 years ago.
Hey Devs 😁
We need more arm64 build pipelines!
Handelskrieg im Hackspace
Aaand the last episode before monorail! Foolishly expansion, so I need to convert more later! 🚆
I just saw this photo of a circuit board and had to think those lines look rails in #OpenTTD.
Now I wonder what a "Circuit Board Tycoon" mod would look like. What would be the endpoints? What would trains carry? Bits & Bytes? Instructions? Memory Pages? What would they pay, Micro-Dollars? Bitcoin?
I would totally build a Graphics Bus Line in that mod, if it existed. So many possibilities 🤔
https://retrochat.online/@retrotechtive/114501653503003043
Transport Tycon Deluxe... I spent a lot of hours playing it 25+ years ago. Just recently rediscovered it as OpenTTD. It still has the "just few more minutes" factor!
We are "short" on money, so let's fix that! 💸💸💸
Fair warning, I built basically one line this whole episode with a few offshoots ... because I'm slow as heck
Hola, soy yo.
Descubrí Mastodon hace varios años (pandemia edition), empecé en nobigtech y de ahí fui fluyendo. No me caso con las ideas, las dejo que se vayan y vuelvan.
Me gusta la informática, desde muy pequeño pegado en la computadora jugando #wow , soy usuario de #GNUlinux desde 2008 aunque tuve una recaída y estoy en recuperación desde 2015 sin tocar ningún "ventanas" para mi uso personal.
Suelo jugar #videojuegos con cada vez menor frecuencia, aunque disfruto mucho los juegos #foss (Me encanta #openttd ).
También me gusta mucho ver series y películas, sobre todo me encanta descubrir joyas olvidadas.
Soy apasionado de la filosofía y suelo escuchar audios y videos del tema cuando hago otras cosas, como lavar los platos.
Ya nos iremos conociendo ¡Saludos!
Monorail time! Let's update a few lines! 🚝
OpenTTD stream in the arcade is .... open!
In the last video, we figure out how to make a canal go over the hillside to become the oil-goods baron! 🚢🛢️📦
We transport yet again, not sure what yet! 🚂
OpenTTD stream in the arcade is .... open!
Losing my sanity one train track at a time
More transporting and tycoon-ing! 🚂
#retrogaming #openttd
Uh-oh, I think I might actually be into this game 🧠⚡
Train time! 🚂 Let's make more trains and train lines!
https://www.twitch.tv/achie7240
#gamedev #indiedev #openttd #PngTuber #SmallStreamer #Twitch
March 13th 2166. Many, many more cities are now served with tram traffic. I like trams. Here's the map now, and I'll let you estimate how many cities are left to serve.
Some train stations are getting filled with way too much cargo, however. It's time to pause the tram invasion for a bit and solve bottlenecks in the network.
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