LinuxGameCast Weekly EP05 — Adamantium Gamepads

Humble Indie Bundle 6 is out! Shuttleworth does damage control, and we hammer out some installation issues.

Notes:
Jordan’s System specs
Thinkpad T430

  • – i5 3320M
  • – 12GB DDR3PC8400
  • – NVS5400 w/ 1GB DDR5
  • – 120GB Intel SSD w / /usr /opt /boot and bios
  • – 500GB Samsung w /var /home


Venns

  • Some MSI mobo
  • AMD640 X4
  • 5GB DDR2
  • NVIDIA 560Ti X2 1GB
  • OCZ Technology 200 GB
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Links:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/22/1319216/ubuntu-will-now-have-amazon-ads-pre-installed
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182
http://linuxgamecast.com/2012/09/steam-for-linux-get-the-big-picture/
http://garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/21886
https://github.com/th3flyboy/Forque3D
https://www.humblebundle.com/
http://dustforce.com/
http://www.recoilgames.com/
http://www.shattergame.com/
http://spacepiratesandzombies.com/
http://www.torchlightgame.com/
http://www.strangeloopgames.com/

Dustforce

  • You need a controller for this critter
  • Menu UI is laggy
  • Gamepad works out of the box
  • Button masher.


Rochard

  • UUUGH – Mono
  • Will all Unity games be “native” /w Mono? Yip! All the game logic in Unity is implemented in mono bytecode
  • No installer
  • Playable without gamepad
  • Reminds me of Trine
  • Freezes during intro cinematic on fedora + Optimus <- I HAD THE SAME ISSUE


Shatter

  • You may need to tell Shatter which monitor to use if using Nvidia Twinview
  • You must edit ~/.sidhe/Shatter/application_parameters.xml to change screen res
  • There is support for joypad controllers (mouse works fine)
  • Fedora  + optimus
    • ======================= LOG INITIALISED =======================
    • Name : Shatter ( SH )
    • Build: 12091801 ( pc )
    • MabCore v1.0 Initialised. ( $Id: MabCoreLib.h 108864 2011-12-01 01:07:59Z rgreen $ )


S.P.A.Z.

  • Uses Mojo Installer \m/
  • Fetch resources / build ships. Not my type of game but I get it


Torchlight

  • Motherfucking Torchlight!
  • No gamepad support

Vessel – We will be getting Vessel out to bundle buyers as soon as possible (24-72 hours).

  • Whar Vessel? WHAR?!
  • The status has changed
  • We will be getting Vessel out to bundle buyers as soon as possible.
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