When I play classic Serious Sam, I use this port with Vulkan rendering. You can just grab the AppImage and drop it alongside the original executable. I believe it also fixes the infamous half fire rate bug. (I’m genuinely not certain; I usually play each level “from scratch” via the level select, so it would never be a problem for me in any case.)
However, the original game is still perfectly playable with a simple config edit for higher resolution and FOV.
Here’s one I know. Creates aesthetic wavy things.
It is an HTML/JS pair, so it would require some wrangling to get it to write to a file instead of an HTML canvas. Though it looks like someone translated it to Python with file output here. (I have not tested this.)
This might be the first time I’ve ever seen something productive happen in the Phoronix forums. I love that place. Go to any topic with more than about a dozen posts and it’s almost guaranteed to be a flame war. Genuinely one of the funniest places on the Internet.
Check out this one. It took like three posts!
Hexbear is an instance formed mostly by former r/chapotraphouse users after that sub was banned from Reddit a few years ago. Hexbear used to run on a custom fork of Lemmy so that the community could add extra features that they wanted (like custom emoji) but it was recently ported back to mainline Lemmy after merging or reimplementing as many changes as possible.
Currently, Hexbear does not have federation enabled, and there is discussion about who to federate with or even whether to federate at all. The community is very active and self-sufficient and some members prefer the isolation.
Content-wise, it’s a leftist-focused instance. Some shitposts, some serious posts, and a lot of inside jokes.
It’s not quite a pistol start; the game gives you a set of default weapons on a per-level basis. I wouldn’t call a fresh start something almost standardized like it is in the Doom community, though. The game is clearly intended for continuous play. However, it is also designed around the default weapons being entirely practical. In the end, it is a preference thing. I like the slight challenge boost.
For a first time ever playthrough, definitely choose Hard. Serious has double damage, which is real harsh if you aren’t familiar with the general landscape and enemy behavior. Serious is well worth an eventual revisit though, since the extra enemies (and double ammo!) wildly change how the game plays out.
My other general advice is never quicksave mid-fight. Often you checkmate yourself long before you die, and it’s really easy to save where, it may not look like it, but you’ve already lost.