Games: Scarlet Hood, OpenLoco, and More

• Time-looping narrative adventure Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood is out now | GamingOnLinux

  From Devespresso Games, the team behind The Coma series and Vambrace: Cold Soul plus publisher Headup, Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood is their latest game out now. It's something of a time-looping adventure, starting off in modern times as your band tries to hit it big that turns into a weird mash-up of The Wizard of Oz, Brothers Grimm and Groundhog Day. [...] For anyone who has played The Coma or Vambrace, the overall feel is very similar. They've kept the same style and mechanics throughout, with it being another side-scrolling adventure. It's very much like playing a point and click adventure. As a smaller title, sadly there's no full voice-over which would have helped pull me in. Even so, that was one of the only downsides of what was an otherwise satisfying and thoroughly weird adventure. [...] Based in Seoul, South Korea and San Francisco, USA - this is the fourth full title to come from Devespresso Games to Linux so it's wonderful to see the continued support again as their games are always wonderfully unique.

• Chris Sawyer's Locomotion improves further in the open source re-implementation OpenLoco | GamingOnLinux

  OpenLoco continues advancing and bringing Chris Sawyer's Locomotion another step further to being as great as OpenTTD for Transport Tycoon Deluxe with a new OpenLoco 21.04 release out now. While it might be small in number features with the 21.04 release, it does bring a major enhancements with the ability to unlock the FPS by detaching game logic and rendering. This should serve as a good base for improving the performance over time. Additionally there's now an FPS counter and a tile inspector included.

• Free Game Wednesday: take a look at the great twin-stick Cecconoid

  Cecconoid, a fantastic twin-stick shooter with small cramped environments where the screen flicks between each section actually released the source code and now you can play free. The source code snapshot on GitHub is a snapshot of the DRM free version of Cecconoid, so it's unsupported but gives you another great free game to play. "The starship Equinox is under attack from Stormlord and his robotic minions, the Exolons! You're the crew's only hope. Take your Samurai-1 fighter, find Captain Solomon's Key, clear the decks of evil robots, and save the Equinox from certain destruction! Cecconoid is an 8-bit inspired, flick-screen, twin-stick-shooter, set in an alternate dimension where the pixels are still chunky, and the bad guys are black and white."

• Klabater drops Linux and macOS support for Crossroads Inn | GamingOnLinux

  Crossroads Inn and later Crossroads Inn Anniversary Edition from developer Klabater was crowdfunded in March 2019 and later released in October 2019 and now Klabater are leaving Linux and macOS behind. This is one title that's had a bit of a rough history. At release it was a complete mess, so much so that they later rebranded it to Crossroads Inn Anniversary Edition and it didn't exactly get much better from there. On Steam it has a Mixed overall score from users, on GOG it's a low 2.3 / 5 stars and across Metacritic it also has a rather low 59.

  

• Solus Has Resolved Issues with Recent Proton Builds

  A little while ago I pointed that Solus users (at least several, myself included) were experiencing issues to run modern versions of Proton following Proton 5.13 (and the introduction of the new vessel technology with Soldier). In other words, no games actually launched with 5.13 versions of Proton on Solus – you had to manually select an earlier version of Proton in order to keep running the games you wanted. This issue lasted for several months.

• Spirit Swap is an incredible looking narrative-driven match-3 with seriously good beats | GamingOnLinux

  Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To (the actual full title - what a mouthful!) is an upcoming action-puzzle game set in a lush, narrative-driven world of witchy demons.

Curl: Release, Changelog, and Scripting

• Daniel Stenberg: curl 7.76.1 – h2 works again

  I’m happy to once again present a new curl release to the world. This time we decided to cut the release cycle short and do a quick patch release only two weeks since the previous release. The primary reason was the rather annoying and embarrassing HTTP/2 bug. See below for all the details.

• Daniel Stenberg: talking curl on changelog again

  We have almost a tradition now, me and the duo Jerod and Adam of the Changelog podcast. We talk curl and related stuff every three years. Back in 2015 we started out in episode 153 and we did the second one in episode 299 in 2018.

• Develop a Linux command-line Tool to Track and Plot Covid-19 Stats

  It’s been over a year and we are still fighting with the pandemic at almost every aspect of our life. Thanks to technology, various tools and mechanisms to track Covid-19 related metrics. This introductory-level tutorial discusses developing one such tool at just Linux command-line, from scratch. We will start with introducing the most important parts of the tool – the APIs and the commands. We will be using 2 APIs for our tool - COVID19 API and Quickchart API and 2 key commands – curl and jq. In simple terms, curl command is used for data transfer and jq command to process JSON data.

today's leftovers

• Own Your Mailbox | LINUX Unplugged 401

  Do as we say, not as we do. This week we're setting off to host our own email. We'll cover the basics, what's we're using, and why. Plus an update on Jupiter Broadcasting going independent, community news, and more.

• mintCast 358.5 – Three Finger Swipes

  1:41 Linux Innards 29:45 Vibrations from the Ether 48:25 Check This Out 1:20:20 Announcements & Outro In our Innards section, we cover Gnome 40 and try to keep it RMS-free And finally, the feedback and a couple suggestions

• New Release: Tor Browser 10.5a14

  Tor Browser 10.5a14 is now available from the Tor Browser Alpha download page and also from our distribution directory.

  Note: This is an alpha release, an experimental version for users who want to help us test new features. For everyone else, we recommend downloading the latest stable release instead.

• Go down a Raspberry Pi YouTube rabbit hole