This is a list of text-based IF's that I and another user from itch.io, xSai or Bladed-Barbwire on Discord, made on itch.io, and I thought I'd share this here with you guys in case anyone is interested. All the credit goes to xSai for coming up with the idea. Also, note that, neither I nor xSai own the rights to any of these IF's; we are just recommending them to people as we believe they deserve more recognition and people might actually end up enjoying them. The list was made on itch.io and so, unfortunately, will have to be accessed from there for anyone wanting to access them from here. The list also had to be split into separate parts as we ran out of characters to use. All the IF's are completely text-based, a few using some visuals and/or images, but none of them are full Visual Novels. Almost all of the IF's are made in Twine, with a few being made in ChoiceScript, Ren'py, or some other engine. Most of the IF's are free-to-play, some are pay-to-play, and some are free until they're completed and/or a price is decided. Some of the IF's have extra DLC's or bonus side content on their itch.io page or on the author's patreon, which are either free-to-play or pay-to-play. Most of the IF's can be played in a browser (works best in the itch.io app, Chrome, Firefox and some other browsers. Not guaranteed to work in every browser) with some also having a download option, but there are some IF's that only have a download option and no browser one. Most of the IF's can be played on PC and mobile, but some are not compatible for mobile. A lot of the IF's are also unfinished WIP's (Work In Progress); some of them are already completed, close to completion, just started, or may have been discontinued. Some of the links of the IF's also don't work, stop working for a while before working again, or ask for a password to access; perhaps due to being discontinued, shut down for maintenance, or for some other reason. We also have a discord server, a subreddit, a lemmy community, a tumblr blog, and a cohost page dedicated just for this. If you, or anyone else have any IF’s you want to recommend, feel free to share them on here, the three itch.io topics, the discord server, the subreddit, the lemmy community, the tumblr blog, or the cohost page (They have to be text-based IF's from itch.io and need to have at least some kind of interactivity. IF's from other sites, Visual Novels, or some other type of game will not be accepted). Or if you just want to talk, or ask me for some suggestions on which IF's to try, then feel free to do that as well. Anyway, thank you for your time, and I hope you have a good day, folks. Cheers!

Twine games with character customization - Part 1

Twine games with character customization - Part 2

Twine games with character customization - Part 3

Twine/VN with Customization Discord Server

r/TextbasedIFRecs

Text-based Interactive Fiction Game Recommendations - Tumblr

Text-based Interactive Fiction Games Recommendations - Cohost

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11148374

DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT coming to iPhone 15, Pad, and Mac Jan. 30th. Special launch price only $19.99

When Palia released on Switch earlier this week, I had no idea it was also available on PC. I did some digging and found this launcher and guide for running Palia on Mac. So far I have been playing it most of the day without issue. Setup was just as easy as setup on Windows.

https://github.com/DanMossa/paliaOnMac-release/releases

Everspace 2 is available on MacOS now and runs native on M Series Macs :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5705507

Preorders only available for iPhone 15 Pro, iPad and Mac owners.

RE4: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/resident-evil-4/id6462360082?l=en-GB

RE Village: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/resident-evil-village/id6450980545?l=en-GB

geteilt von: https://lemm.ee/post/9120083

TL;DR: System requirements are ranging from M1 to M1 Pro or better Apple silicon chips. The game is priced at $60 on Steam.

https://www.warframe.com/ios

Warframe Mobile version is coming to iOS/iPadOS and macOS :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3534695

We at Apple Gaming love gaming on every device. It doesn't matter if you like playing on iOS, macOS or even watchOS (yes there are some games for the Apple Watch), you're welcome!

https://alexandrite.app/lemmy.world/c/applegaming

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3377194

Really excited to play the game. Seems like a Game of the Year candidate. Should be released around September 6 for Mac on Steam (and I think GoG)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3377327

Other stores ELEX II on GOG.com: https://www.gog.com/game/elex_ii ELEX II on the Epic Games Store: https://www.epicgames.com/store/p/elex-ii

New FPS Shooter is coming to macOS Silicon.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2402450/Zero_Grounds/

geteilt von: https://lemmy.ml/post/2333026

After approximately 10 months in a release candidacy phase, OpenMW 0.48 has finally been released. A list of changes can be found in the link.

The OpenMW team is proud to announce the release of version 0.48.0 of our open-source engine!

So what does another fruitful year of diligent work bring us this time? The two biggest improvements in this new version of OpenMW are the long-awaited post-processing shader framework and an early version of a brand-new Lua scripting API! Both of these features greatly expand what the engine can deliver in terms of visual fidelity and game logic. As usual, we've also solved numerous problems major and minor, particularly pertaining to the newly overhauled magic system and character animations.

A full list of changes can be found in the link to Gitlab.

What is OpenMW?

"OpenMW is a free, open source, and modern engine which re-implements and extends the 2002 Gamebryo engine for the open-world role-playing game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind."

It is an excellent way to play Morrowind on modern systems, and on alternative systems other than MS Windows. It requires the a copy of the original game data from Morrowind, as OpenMW does not include assets or any other game data - it is simply a recreation of the game engine. OpenMW can be found on Flathub for Linux users here. https://flathub.org/apps/org.openmw.OpenMW

Hello everyone!

My first post on Lemmy after long time lurker.

I will buy a new mac in the next week. I’m quite torn between 2 models.

My use case: General computing (web, documents, media consimption) Occasionally: programming + spinning VMs + some gaming

Although I won’t be gaming all the time, I plan to do it ocasionally. Games like Skyrim, witcher3 + MMOs (wow, ff14 or guild wars) DOTA/LOL or similar stuff.

The contenders would be: A) MacBook Pro 14 M1 Pro 10 core CPU / 16 core GPU - 16GB RAM - 1TB SSD

• better cooling?
• better SSD speeds and bigger capacity Price = 2450€

B) MacBook Pro 14 M2 pro 10 core CPU / 16 core GPU - 16GB RAM - 512GB SSD

• better GPU, but marginal gain? Price = 2499€

Alternatively, I could look at the MacBook Air m2 with 16GB/512GB at 1990€ since it seems it handles this games moderately . However, summer here is hot

Any advice? Furthermore, stocks seem to be low, some models no longer exist and there seems to be no deals

Thanks in advance!!! Looking forward to discussion

I had to update to the beta branche of Steam, because when starting the Steam Link I got a pop up about installing audio drivers, but the window was unresponsive and switching to the beta branch fixed that issue. (found in this post)

So now I got it working, but I get like 10 FPS, to fix this I’ve already tried:

• Rebooting macOS and iPadOS
• Making sure all software is up to date (macOS, iPadOS, Steam, Steam Link)
• I'm going to try to have my laptop wired via a ethernet cable to see if that fixes the issue, but that isn't really a real solution at the moment

I’m on a 5GHz network, with the Mac, iPad and access point all in the same room and with a direct line of sight to each other. I’ve also tried the build in macOS SideCar feature, but this keeps coming up with “Lost Connection” every 10 seconds. It seem something is causing interference on my network, but I can't figure out what or what setting to change where.

As a side note, I just come from a year long game streaming service on which I’ve played a lot of games with a DualShock 4 controller connected to my iPad. When the service was working as it should I could stream games at 40mb/s with a decent resolution and a steady 60FPS and this was over the internet, so I would figure that streaming my Mac over the local network, would be no issue.

Below all the settings I could think of sharing.

macOS side

MacBook Pro

• 16-inch, 2023
• Chip Apple M2 Pro
• Memory 16 GB
• macOS Ventura 13.4.1

Steam

• Steam Version:  1688171965 (Beta)
• Steam Client Build Date:  Sat, Jul 1 3:22 AM UTC -08:00
• Steam Web Build Date:  Sat, Jul 1 1:51 AM UTC -08:00
• Steam API Version:  SteamClient020

Advanced streaming options

• Enable Advanced Host Options ON
• Play audio on host ON
• Change desktop resolution to match streaming client ON
• Dynamically adjust capture resolution to improve performance ON
• Use NVFBC capture on NVIDIA GPU OFF
• Enable hardware encoding OFF
• Enable hardware encoding on NVIDIA GPU OFF
• Enable hardware encoding on AMD GPU OFF
• Enable hardware encoding on Intel iGPU OFF
• Number of software encoding threads AUTOMATIC
• Prioritize network traffic ON
• Enable Advanced Client Options ON
• Video Balanced
• Audio Stereo
• Controller Overlay Default Button
• Performance Overlay Show Icons
• Bandwidth Limit Automatic (recommended)
• Framerate Limit Automatic (recommended
• Resolution Limit Display resolution 1920×1080 (1080p)
• Hardware Decoding ON

iPad OS side

iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (2nd generation) iPadOS 16.5.1

Steam link version 1.2.0

Streaming Settings

• Video **Balanced **
• Audio **Stereo **
• Microphone Disabled
• Input Disabled
• Controller Overlay Disabled
• Launch Mode Desktop
• Bandwidth Limit 30 MBit/S (tried decreasing and automatic)
• Framerate Limit 60 FPS
• Resolution Limit 1920×1080 (1080р)
• Performance Overlay Show Details
• Hardware Decoding Enabled
• HEVC Video Enabled (tried disabled)
• Uncompressed Audio Disabled
• Allow Direct Connection Automatic (enabled)

Performance overlay (written out here, see attached image)

• Slow network
• Capture 1672×1080 @ 60.00
• Encoder: Desktop OSX N12 + libx264 main (4 threads)
• Decoder: iOS Metal hardware decoding
• Streaming Latency: <1ms input, 93.64ms display
• Ping Time: 5.04ms (direct)
• Incoming bitrate: 18701 kbit/s video: 15363 kbit/s
• Outgoing bitrate: 117 kbit/s
• Packet loss: 8.61% (49.16% frame 1055)
• Press F8 to save snapshot on remote computer

Thought it was supposed to but then when it launched on steam it was only available on PC. What gives?

I have an M2 pro, 32gb of ram. It suffers from low frame rate... Pretty bad experience overall, for a native game.

If this is foreshadowing what's ahead, that is disappointing!

Anyone play? Any tips?