Doesn’t Windows leave program files and data all over the place too?

!linuxphones@lemmy.ca and !linuxphones@lemmy.ml aren’t the busiest communities but there do seem to be a few people giving it a proper go

Interesting, does that mean there is just one primary account and to be part of a family group with it you essentially can’t have your own account or purchases?

That’s probably because it’s a PC game that was ported to phones!

Because if they don’t then you can essentially just give a game away, and that means less sales

How would you make it so you can only share games with your family? As in what technical definition of “family” would you use that can’t include your friends?

Sounds like it’s no more DRM than the limits of a physical cartridge, right?

Brand new account immediately starts spamming about cryptocurrency “games”? Seems legit.

I was specifically thinking of the guy in bed with the really long arm!

If you’re wanting to build a game, do it for you and not someone else. It’s going to be a difficult and thankless task, so make sure that you are enjoying the process!

Looks like a screenshot from Thank Goodness You’re Here

Well professional developers are often employed by companies that want make use of open source code to sell their proprietary code. It seems more likely to me that those companies will instruct their developers not to work on any GPL code rather than some big ideological shift in the individual developers.

I’m not going to buy one but I’m always interested to see what they can make

That’s an incredible username!

what other game can you accelerate to literal infinity and beyond by simply driving backwards

Watch GDQ, turns out quite a lot of games!

Super Mario Run was quite fun as a single-button Mario platformer. You could also try visual novels or point-and-click adventures, or even something just with simple controls like pokémon.

Not showing up for me, did they only add it recently?

Good to know, thanks!

Behold, the master hacker

automatically lock the phone a few minutes after the screen turns off

Isn’t the default behaviour of phones to lock as soon as the screen turns off?