Games on Whales
games-on-whales.github.io

After 3 years in the making I’m excited to announce the launch of Games on Whales, an innovative open-source project that revolutionizes virtual desktops and gaming. Our mission is to enable multiple users to stream different content from a single machine, with full HW acceleration and low latency.

With Games on Whales, you can:

  • Multi-user: Share a single remote host hardware with friends or colleagues, each streaming their own content (gaming, productivity, or anything else!)
  • Headless: Create virtual desktops on demand, with automatic resolution and FPS matching, without the need for a monitor or dummy plug
  • Advanced Input Support: Enjoy seamless control with mouse, keyboard, and joypads, including Gyro and Acceleration support (a first in Linux!)
  • Low latency: Uses the Moonlight protocol to stream content to a wide variety of supported clients.
  • Linux and Docker First: Our curated Docker images include popular applications like Steam, Firefox, Lutris, Retroarch, and more!
  • Fully Open Source: MIT licensed, and we welcome contributions from the community.

Interested in how this works under the hood? You can read more about it in our developer guide or deep dive into the code.

  • miss phant
    10·
    6 months ago

    Amazing project, I went to try it immediately and it really just works. This is what I always wished Sunshine was like.

    • abeltramo@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      6 months ago

      Thanks mate! It has been a long road but we’ve finally got something that seems to work across a lot of different HWs, so it was time to pin it down into a release.

  • warmaster@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 months ago

    If this works, it will forever change how my family does computing. This project sounds freaking amazing.

    • abeltramo@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      6 months ago

      Yeah we definitely overlap a little with Kasm, our main focus is gaming with out of the box support for Steam, Proton and proper joypad with Rumble, Gyro and Acceleration (a first in Linux!).

      Plus, as you said, we are 100% open source and community based, there’s no company behind us and no monetization whatsoever. 😉