I feel like maybe it's time for me to finally put down the 22 year old Intuos tablet I have and get a monitor I can draw on'nThey're so expensive tho :(

[cwebber@social.coop]

I feel like maybe it's time for me to finally put down the 22 year old Intuos tablet I have and get a monitor I can draw on

They're so expensive tho :(

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@cwebber having just made the switch I highly recommend it. I have no regrets for buying a cintiq, but I've heard there are other much more affordable options available now. I've heard "gaomon" and "xppen" recommended recently as more affordable alternatives, though I have not used either myself (nor do I know whether or not either tends to be linux compatible)

[cwebber@social.coop]

@aeva Oh interesting! And I see @davidrevoy did a review of one of the xp-pens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmmIwkvZagU

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@cwebber for another option, bmp has a "Huion Kamvas"

[cwebber@social.coop]

@aeva well I love a bitmapped graphic

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@cwebber she's definitely one of my favorite anthropomorphic raster image formats that I happen to know personally ;)

[vfig@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva @cwebber i bought a 21" huion kamvas four or five years ago. worked great, and was surprisingly affordable.

(dont have it anymore, because i passed it on to my brother who gets much more use out of it than i did)

[dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud]

@cwebber @aeva @davidrevoy

THIS moment 🤩

[cwebber@social.coop]

@dannotdaniel @aeva @davidrevoy Secret of Mana is so good

[eq@mas.to]

@cwebber @dannotdaniel @aeva @davidrevoy

Secret of Mana is one of my favourites but on PS4? Wasn't that on SNES? Am I too old? Nah

[davidrevoy@framapiaf.org]

@eq @cwebber @dannotdaniel @aeva It's a remake in 3D but still with the top view and the same game mechanics. It's also published on almost all platform, including ps4. I was curious about it, so I took a copy. I couldn't play it much; I'm too attached to the original.

On my review of the Huion Kamvas 19, I put on the top my original SNES cartridge in Japanese. I'm a big fan of the art direction of this game since my 12 y/o, and it was the first action RPG I ever played.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@davidrevoy @eq @cwebber @dannotdaniel which tablet monitor should christine get? also did you play Visions of Mana?

[davidrevoy@framapiaf.org]

@aeva @eq @cwebber @dannotdaniel Hard to tell. But for a quick advices: Wacoms are still the more compatible and offer thanks to that a good quality of life on GNU/Linux. Finding a Cintiq model on the second hand market can be a good choice; for the price, for not purchasing/producing another unit and recycling one in a way, and for the compatibility.