A high-quality FOSS version of Reaper (DAW) that can use the expensive audio production plugins. Right now that’s where all Linux DAWs run short - the best plugins are only for Windows, or for Cubase. Running them through some VSTi Linux wrapper never quite works correctly.

Maybe something like After Effects with all the plugins and tools. Right now the software itself exists in Kdenlive, just not all the addons people have written for After Effects.

But pretty much everything else I use is already FOSS.

FFMPEG is nice when you do something like ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -ss 00:01:00 -t 00:03:00 out.mp4 and the result is almost instant as there’s no re-encoding.

This looks interesting. Thanks for the link!

Honestly not a bad idea. It would be possible to automate with some API too…

Kdenlive, easily. The only other video editor that feels good to use on Linux is the non-FOSS DaVinci Resolve (which requires paying for you to get any practical codec support).

Some people say Blender, but those people must not work on very complicated projects…

For simple cutting & slicing I honestly just write ffmpeg oneliners.

For your own list, I recommend keeping the data as simple as you can and building tools on top of that, if you’re able.

I’ve kept my eye on Ixion but did not realize its gameplay was that kind of decision making. I’ll put it on my to-play list. Yes I have a list for that too.

I do love it for many reasons, although I do also recognize it has its share of bad puzzles that are now mostly gone from the modern era of Point & click games.

My genre definitions are pretty loose. I simplified & combined lots of categories in my CSV data when I wrote the statistics tool, but honestly there are lots of games that are either genre-defining or so different from anything else that I’ll just give them their own genre. I hate to use something like “platformer” or “action adventure” as that hardly tells anything about what kind of game it is. What genre is Undertale?

Hardspace: Shipbreakers is a dad game to me because it’s the kind of game a dad might play after coming home from work, feel like they’re doing something useful, with visual signs of a job well done, wrap it up and still have time for their kids. I think this is similar to films like Grayhound where we watch a hero who does his best to maintain a stalwart face, endures hardship, inspires, maybe has a weak moment but pulls through and keeps everyone protected until finally coming home and falling asleep when the job is done. This is what I describe as a dad fantasy.

Dad simulator is just Octodad, and I think I might want to make a category for “humor” or “parody” games instead.