Wine and Ganes: World of Warcraft, Farm Together, Madcap Castle, Cityglitch
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Wine "PBA" Shows Potential For Improving Direct3D-Over-OpenGL Performance
University student Andrew Comminos wasn't too familiar with Direct3D or Wine development, but out of a desire for better World of Warcraft performance on Linux, he figured out the code-base and a means of enhancing the WineD3D code.
Thanks to the perf subsystem and APITrace, he was able to figure out World of Warcraft's rendering technique and how a GPU pipeline stall was happening. He ended up making use of OpenGL's ARB_buffer_storage extension to write a GPU heap allocator that performs much better for buffer maps.
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Farm Together is actually quite a relaxing and sweet experience, now in Early Access
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Madcap Castle is a retro-inspired puzzle platformer that’s not for everyone
Proudly showing off its Game Boy aesthetics and high level of difficulty, Madcap Castle [Official Site] seeks to fill its own niche. I gave the game a whirl and have a few thoughts to share.
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Cityglitch, a puzzle game with ghosts and glitches, is now available on Steam
For those of you looking to fly across rooftops and solve puzzles in the dead of night, this new puzzle game may tickle your fancy. It was released earlier today with same-day Linux support and I have a few brief thoughts.
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