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Game Center BottlesBased on our record, Bottles seems to be a lot more popular than Game Center. While we know about 227 links to Bottles, we've tracked only 3 mentions of Game Center. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Anything you put elsewhere is not more secure, unless you are more secure than Apple's servers, which seems highly unlikely. If you don't have it, it can't get compromised. The user has an iCloud account, you can write to iCloud storage without making them "sign in" to your app. It's their data, they can find it in the folder for your app in their iCloud drive on a Mac. And see... - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago
Why do you need them to have an account? What on your roadmap requires it? And perhaps you could leverage Game Center accounts for "play" data, which leverages Apple's sensitivity to provide privacy while allowing achievements, multiplayer, and turn-based games, between partners. https://developer.apple.com/game-center/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago
u/JTostitos is right though that Game Center was designed for this although it has gone out of style with many game studios lately. But it all depends on how the game is designed... If you require constant client-server communications then implementing Game Center doesn't really make sense when you can easily roll your own leaderboard on the server. Source: almost 2 years ago
If it need installation (or has some kind of wizard), probably look into UseBottles and once installed, link the .exe to Steam. Source: 5 months ago
Bottles is very convenient to manage wine https://usebottles.com/. Source: 5 months ago
For "normal" games you could look yourself using ProtonDB regarding every game released on Steam and AreWeAntiCheatYet for most multiplayer games. If a game isn't available on Steam you have three possibilities. First if it's available on GOG, Epic Games or Amazon Gaming, you could use the Heroic Games Launcher. Second you could try to run the launchers through Steam itself using once again Proton. Third you... Source: 5 months ago
Bottles is great for old classic non-steam games. I haven't tried 🏴☠️ with it but I can't see why it wouldn't work. Source: 5 months ago
Lutris is wonderful. I also recommend Bottles. https://usebottles.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Nakama - Nakama is an open-source distributed social and realtime server for games and apps.
Lutris - Lutris is an open source gaming platform for GNU/Linux.
Armor Games - Play free online games at Armor Games! We're the best online games website, featuring shooting games, puzzle games, strategy games, war games, and much more...
Wine - Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems.
Kongregate - Kongregate has free games that you can play online. Choose from thousands of free flash games.
Proton - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components