by elisee on 7/1/16, 9:35 PM with 3 comments
by elisee on 7/1/16, 9:42 PM
(Disclosure: I know the devs pretty well but I'm submitting because I think it's interesting content for the HN audience)
They recently released a Steam-like app for browsing, installing & updating games. There's an awful lot of interesting stuff being done like https://itch.io/docs/butler/ (CLI tool for efficiently patching games with diffing for both upload & download).
The latest feature they added is experimental sandboxing which allows transparently running the games you download from itch.io as a separate restricted user / in a jail. The submission link details the research done to make it work.
More info here: https://itch.io/docs/itch/using/sandbox.html and https://github.com/itchio/itch/releases/tag/v18.0.0
by fasterthanlime on 7/1/16, 9:48 PM