Wow! I would not have expected to hear about this game again. The first game was a lot of fun, definitely room to flesh out the game play loop but had great ideas.
Doom and Quake had drop-down command consoles too that let the user change the game's state -- I've included such features in some of my GUI, realtime engine games too. but I would never promote any as a "command line" game
Author's latest title has enormous memory leaks in linux through proton (and in macos through crossover) [0]. I hope the author puts effort in non-windows platforms for this one during development, because the first duskers was indeed a great game.
> Author's latest title has enormous memory leaks in linux through proton...
If this is something the dev can reasonably fix by changing their game, then it'd be good for them to do so. Looking at the discussion in the thread, it looks like the dev is actively working to fix this for everyone, and not just the subset of folks that he fixed it for.
However, if this doesn't happen on Windows, I'd argue that it's a bug that needs to be reported against and fixed in Wine/Proton/Crossover.
I am obviously missing something here, but how is it "command line"?
Because while exploring derelic ships (the major part of the game), you control your drones remotely, via commands that you type into the console.
Does not at all appear to be a game you run in the console. The first video on the Steam page does include a lot of stylized Hacknet-ish looking text.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/254320/Duskers/
There are graphics, it's real-time, but you type commands to control the drones.
What caused the end of the world then?
I guess I might try again with the game, but asking here I could get moderate spoilers without a complete spoiler.
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Damn windows only - not on mac. I really loved the first one. Hope they port it to mac eventually.
The video for Duskers 2 in the linked article was of a very graphical, real-time engine style game with sound, music and animation
title is misleading if not abusive of our time
Duskers is a very cool game. It's very difficult and stressful, so it's easy to bounce off of; but the concept and execution are top notch.
Wow! I would not have expected to hear about this game again. The first game was a lot of fun, definitely room to flesh out the game play loop but had great ideas.
Actual title: Misfits Attic Announces Duskers 2.0 Funded By Stray Signal
Very excited for this one!
"command line"
There's a terminal window in the game which you use to control your robots
I even found some shell constructs to work beyond what the game documented/ explained to me
Doom and Quake had drop-down command consoles too that let the user change the game's state -- I've included such features in some of my GUI, realtime engine games too. but I would never promote any as a "command line" game
a cli game that only runs on windows ... very funny
I just installed Steam on Ubuntu yesterday, and I'm impressed at the progress so far. A HUGE number of titles run flawlessly.
Author's latest title has enormous memory leaks in linux through proton (and in macos through crossover) [0]. I hope the author puts effort in non-windows platforms for this one during development, because the first duskers was indeed a great game.
[0] https://steamcommunity.com/app/1883920/discussions/0/6897422...
> Author's latest title has enormous memory leaks in linux through proton...
If this is something the dev can reasonably fix by changing their game, then it'd be good for them to do so. Looking at the discussion in the thread, it looks like the dev is actively working to fix this for everyone, and not just the subset of folks that he fixed it for.
However, if this doesn't happen on Windows, I'd argue that it's a bug that needs to be reported against and fixed in Wine/Proton/Crossover.