2806

multiplayer online only for indie game is a surefire kiss of death for sustainability.

2807

Put in on PC you cowards.

2808

Leaving April 30

  • Endless Legend (PC)
  • For the King (Cloud, Console and PC)
  • Fractured Minds (Cloud and Console)
  • Levelhead (Cloud, Console and PC)
  • Moving Out (Cloud, Console and PC)
  • Thumper (PC)

I enjoyed fractured minds, super indie thing about mental health.
You can 100% gamerscore it in 30 mins.

Moving Out is fun for people who liked Overcooked.
Thumper is worth trying for the visuals. Too hard for me.

2809

Endless Legend is worth trying before it leaves if one hasn’t played an Endless game before. That series doesn’t get much love on QT3, but there are a lot of passionate fans of the Endless series. The games probably work better for those that lean into the roleplay/narrative side of strategy games and less for the min/max optimization crowd.

2810

Looks like MS will be revamping the Windows 10 store and will allow unpackaged Win32 programs. Hopefully these changes improve the Game Pass experience on PC for those that have had some issues and dislike the repackaged UWP/MSIX files.

  • Allow developers to submit unpackaged Win32 apps to the Store
  • Allow developers to host apps and updates on their own content delivery network (CDN)
  • Alllow developers to use third-party commerce platforms in apps

These changes will allow developers to bring their Win32 apps to the new Store without any changes to their existing code. In the past, developers were required to package their Win32 apps as an MSIX, and were forced to use Microsoft’s own store-driven update and commerce platforms. This will no longer be necessary with the new Store.
Microsoft will allow developers to submit raw .EXE or .MSI packages to the Store, and even allow those developers to host the app and push out updates via their own CDN.

2811

That’s great! Genuinely useful.

2812

I hope they continue to bring achievements to PC games on game pass though.

2813

You are the only person in any of my circles still Gamerscore chasing. :)

2814

I recommend checking out Rain on Your Parade if you’re in the mood for another little indie game, in the manner of Donut County or Yes Your Grace. It’s pretty cute and not terribly demanding, at least not yet. There are tons of fun little easter eggs and references, one level is even an homage to ‘The Office’.

2815

I got a beta invite yesterday so can play them via browser on Windows or iOS. I’ve only been able to spend a few minutes with it, but so far it’s running smoothly. At least as well as the Windows Store app they were testing for streaming.
Beta invites are only going out to existing Gamepass Ultimate subscribers currently.

2816

Do you need to request an invitation or it just goes out randomly?

2817

As far as I can tell its random to existing XGPU subscribers.

2818

Really? Thought the cloud stuff was android only. Is that part of the beta?

2819

Yes it is. Runs in Safari.

2820

Yes, part of the beta. I don’t have a controller that talks to my phone so haven’t been able to use it much. There’s a number of games that they added touch controls to but I probably won’t do much on my phone until a new Bluetooth controller gets here tomorrow.

2821

Cool, thanks. I use a PS4 controller with my iPad. Would be nice to have this option

2822

You should try out Minecraft Dungeons. It works pretty well since they did a lot of work on the UI and such.

2823

Pretty much every controller works on iOS these days. Xbox, Playstation, etc. Only old non-bluetooth Xbox controllers don’t.

2824

I tried Minecraft Dungeons and it was pretty impressive. They actually turned it into a proper mobile game.

2825

Hey, so a buddy pointed this out to me, and I figured folks here might find it useful:
https://www.eneba.com/us/xbox-xbox-game-pass-ultimate-13-x-7-days-subscription-xbox-one-windows-10-xbox-live-key-global

So I guess that place gets bundles of 7 day subs to GPU, and sells them.

Apparently it’s a little annoying in that you need to then cut and paste each code into MS’s site, but the net result is that you can buy GPU time super cheap.

So, if folks are looking for a good deal on GPU time beyond the initial conversion from XBLG, that’s a way to do it.