Tux Machines

Back to the Dawn, Godot, and CachyOS

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 10, 2025

Boiling Steam ☛ Back to the Dawn Review: Another Gem for 2025

Yet another gem for 2025! Back to the Dawn brings - in an anthropomorphic style - a genuine prison experience. You play the role of Thomas, a fox journalist who investigates the corruption of the current mayor and is about to release the information to the public. However, his enemies work faster than him and manage to trap him and make him land in jail (corrupt cops, there too). So your ass is now in prison, and you have very little contact with the exterior, apart from your lawyer, and a few calls now and then, to get things done. This is a 2D, top-down view adventure/RPG game, with highly detailed pixel graphics.

Leon Mika ☛ Devlog: Godot Project - Level 3-2 And Bobbing Water

I spent a lot of time on distractions recently, so I was a little surprised to find myself wanting to get back to working on that Godot game. The level under design is going okay: it took a few attempts to find the right way to start. Turns out writing down how you want the level to progress helps, like having three “acts” where the first act consists of some jumping puzzles, then introducing one of the gimmick, than a variant of said gimmick, and so on.

Anyway, I’m working on the second “act” which will feature a low-power mechanic: there’s only so many units of power to energise the various zones, and the player needs to juggle it all to get through the act. Because power is involved, I wanted to have a generator sprite to provide some decoration. This is what I came up with: [...]

Arch Family

Boiling Steam ☛ Now CachyOS is Eating Arch Linux' Lunch

Now on to the results. You might want to click on the picture to enlarge it, because it’s small.