Steam Deck and Linux Support!
I really enjoy using Linux (for my dev work) and Steam Deck for gaming. Since starting Kinsfolk 2 years ago I always wanted to support them properly. I am super happy to announce that the current Kinsfolk demo now runs natively on Linux, and has been optimized for Steam Deck!
Try it out, I would love to hear your feedback since all of this will be in the main game as well, so this is the time to give me input.
Performance
So how well does the game run? Well thanks to a few days of optimizations, and a native Linux build, it is getting about 60 FPS on low, 40-50 FPS on medium and 25-45 on high. I am working on getting it better, especially want to see if I can reduce the drops on high so it is stable above 30 FPS.
Art Style Across Graphics Presets
I spent some extra cycles as well to make sure art style does not degrade when reducing quality (low, medium, graphics presets). This was a bit of a challenge because I wanted to keep the FPS you get, but I didn't want the art to be completely butchered like on the left image below (vs the right image on high quality).
With this new patch (both on Windows and Linux) the art style is more consistent without a significant impact on FPS (and should look more like on the right image)!
Shoutout and Contributions
Wanted to give a special shout out to Ivan Maček who helped me squeeze several FPS by
moving some of the VFX to GPU
optimizing static mesh actors by using packing on big open levels