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It’s beautiful. I wonder how much an LLM was involved if at all.
I’m wondering the same thing. I’ve been thinking about getting into solo LLM game dev. I don’t know the first thing about it
My first piece of advice is: Pick one mechanic or idea, and ship it all the way to a player (a friend) to see if it's legible or fun.
I always wonder how a solo developer can source high quality assets like these, plus develop a full game with them. In this case did the dev create the assets or did they purchase them from a freelancer? How much would purchasing this many assets cost?
I'm sure there's a treasure trove of already-built high-quality assets of Japanese trains.
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Anecdote, but I recall my friend saying he worked on freelancing assets to some train game and showed me some pictures of the said game. Unless there are more of these in existence, I think it was this.
Please tell him thank you from us all :)
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Nowadays most games will run on Linux thanks to Valve's Proton compatibility layer.
"most" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Multiplayer games generally don't. Haven't tried this one yet, but in my experience it's like 90% of single player games work and the remaining 10% will never work.
"generally" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
I never got the appeal for these sim games. From the screenshots, it looks like a beautiful game and I guess I could enjoy the visuals for an hour or 2. But I don't see how it'd entertain me for hours on end. If someone here is into these sim games, what's the reason you keep going back to them?
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Nowadays most games will run on Linux thanks to Valve's Proton compatibility layer.
"most" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Multiplayer games generally don't. Haven't tried this one yet, but in my experience it's like 90% of single player games work and the remaining 10% will never work.
I never got the appeal for these sim games. From the screenshots, it looks like a beautiful game and I guess I could enjoy the visuals for an hour or 2. But I don't see how it'd entertain me for hours on end. If someone here is into these sim games, what's the reason you keep going back to them?
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I have never played any train sim, but I read video game press that this one hits different. A lot of train sim are about building the rail network, where Running Train focuses on driving. The scenery (dozens of kilometers of japanese railway) is beautiful and it reproduces the japanese railway system realistically.
Japan has a history of train-driving sims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_simulator#Driving_simula...
Not making fun of it, I just found it fascninating.
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"most" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Multiplayer games generally don't. Haven't tried this one yet, but in my experience it's like 90% of single player games work and the remaining 10% will never work.
> Multiplayer games generally don't. "generally" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
Marathon, no Linux support.
Call of Duty, no Linux support.
Battlefield 6, no Linux support.
Valorant, no Linux support.
The Finals works and is great, but I'd be mindful of what games I'm giving up if considering a full switch
Game looks amazing from a solo dev but this article is terrible, like the journo didn't even play the game they just watched the game.