EmuDeck coder pivots to hardware with Linux-based “EmuDeck Machines”
If you're familiar with the name EmuDeck, you're likely a Steam Deck owner looking for an easy and user-friendly way to run emulators on your Steam Deck handheld. Now, one of the coders behind that software suite is dipping their toes into branded gaming hardware with the EmuDeck Machines project, now seeking funding on IndieGogo.
"I used to be a PC guy but in the last 20 years I switched to the Mac and in the Apple ecosystem choosing a computer is easy," project lead DragoonDorise told Ars in an email. "But then I found myself wanting a gaming rig so I started my search and boy oh boy I was lost. The PC industry seems to be trying to trick you every step of the way, gazillions of options, hard to understand what's good and what's not. If you are tech savvy it's not hard, you know what to get and what to avoid. Then it hit me, I made emulation easy with EmuDeck, why not make hardware easy too?"
"The idea behind the EmuDeck Machine is to make hardware easy just as EmuDeck did with software," DragoonDorise writes on the EmuDeck Patreon. "This is not focused to tech savvy people. It's for people that want a no-hassle experience, just buy and play," they added on Reddit.
