How is it possible that #BallisticNG, a game I love THIS MUCH, only has 113 all-time peak players? 😭 The developers (Neognosis) are incredible, constantly tweaking and improving the game. I'm telling you, this amazing anti-gravity racer deserves a much larger player base!

It's got the gameplay 🎮
It's got the graphics 🚀
It's got modding 🔧
It's got great devs 💻
It's got DA LORE 🤓
It's got it all! 😁

https://store.steampowered.com/app/473770/BallisticNG

#LinuxGaming #DRM_Free #Gaming #CombatRacing #Racing #AntiGravity

another advantage of owning mp3s vs streaming from a paid service:

don't like a song on an album and you always tend to hit skip when it comes up?
just delete the song 🤡

#drm #drm_free #bandcamp #mp3 #selfhosting #digitalfreedom #finamp

Watermelon generator by Toco Games

A generator just for watermelons

itch.io

Are there any reasons not to publish your game on GoG at all? Steam is a no-brainer, but I don't see many people talking about publishing on GoG.

For small indie games that don't use DRM, is it strictly a positive? Does Steam impose any restrictions on publishing on other stores?

TIA.

#steam #gog #drm #drm_free #gamedev

Just a last, quick reminder about the small pile of #free and #drm_free #SROP #ebooks before the end of #FediBookFair weekend... #Bookstodon
(They files will be removed again at the end of the day.)
https://smashed-rat-on-press.com/bbw2024/
Smashed Rat on Press - Banned Books Week 2024

The home of Smashed Rat on Press, an underground publisher of erotic and other fiction.

Following on from Yesterday's post about #FediBookFair weekend, let me take this moment to remind our readers that #SROP books are all #drm_free as well as #free #Bookstodon
Just a reminder that when everything else you want to read is #enshittified to death, #SROP #ebooks will still be #DRM free as well as free to good homes. Just follow the breadcrumbs. #bookstodon #DRM_free
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/#how-about-a-nice-game-of-chess
Pluralistic: “Disenshittify or Die” (17 Aug 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

DRM-Free e-Books Are Now Available. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal

Since e-books first emerged as a way for readers to consume content digitally, publishers and authors have required content aggregators to apply Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology to the e-books they sell to libraries to prevent the unauthorized use, copying, and redistribution of these materials. While this practice has given publishers and authors peace of mind that sales won’t be lost to piracy or other unauthorized sharing, it has placed undue restrictions on readers who rely on institutional access to e-books.

Library Journal
DRM-Free e-Books Are Now Available. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal

Since e-books first emerged as a way for readers to consume content digitally, publishers and authors have required content aggregators to apply Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology to the e-books they sell to libraries to prevent the unauthorized use, copying, and redistribution of these materials. While this practice has given publishers and authors peace of mind that sales won’t be lost to piracy or other unauthorized sharing, it has placed undue restrictions on readers who rely on institutional access to e-books.

Library Journal

@killyourfm

I couldn't find a single source there that didn't try to send me to the privacy disrespecting Google Playstore to install a proprietary, closed source app.

As fellow #Fedizens, I'm wondering where the #FunkWhale link is.

Anyway, I tried, but ask I found were data mining deprecated legacy silo options.

#tallship #Fediverse #FOSS #DRM_Free

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