LinuxGameCast Weekly EP19 — What Wouldn’t You Do With A Helicopter

Coming up on this LinuxGamecast Weekly. Garage Games needs about tree fiddy. Shank 2 finally works, Ensign-1 gets an update and Venn wears a sweater.

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Steam News

http://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?threads/steam-working-towards-better-supporting-other-distros.1580/

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Steam News :

Steam working towards better supporting other distros
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?threads/steam-working-towards-better-supporting-other-distros.1580/

Gotten a lot of feedback around the hacky way that Steam manages dependencies
Some of this is because of lingering multiarch problems on Ubuntu 12.04
One proposal is to separate out the package management logic (basically the install_extra_packages() part of /usr/bin/steam.sh)
I

News:

(PSA) GLC Pulseaudio branch

This allows GLC to use Pulse in place of ALSA
Combined with pavucontrol you can set system wide audio levels
It’s a PITA to install
Fortunately there’s an ARCH package. We know you guys get get confused when things like “compiling” and “cloning a git repo” come up

New games added HIB 7
http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/38966530458/three-games-added-to-humble-indie-bundle-7

The Basement Collection
Cave Story+
Offspring Fling
Two new things, which is nice. Still very impressed with selection of games this bundle

@icculus @derridda Great news you got UE3 working on Linux. We should talk ;)
https://twitter.com/RammJaeger/status/284845942681788416

Will we ever get a port of U3?
This could net us Red Orchestra 2

Shank 2 FIXED
http://linuxgamecast.com/2012/12/shank-2-hib-7-now-with-gamepad-support/

Gamepad support!
Four days after the developers fixed the issue; Humble tossed out the shank2-linux-update2-1356639361 update.
Requires another 1.6GB download
HIB really needs a patch system.
Where is the steam entry mang?

Ensign-1 Update
http://www.desura.com/games/ensign-1/news/new-sounds-hud-afterburners-enemy-missiles

New sounds
Updated HUD
Afterburners

GarageGames needs about tree fiddy $27k to port Torque 3D
http://www.indiegogo.com/torque3d-for-linux

Recently open sourced Torque 3D under the MIT license
Since open sourcing it, we have had nearly 300 forks of the codebase on GitHub.
We want a dedicated Linux-native game development platform.
There will also be a Linux branch live on GitHub where you can watch the developers porting the engine to Linux.
Can’t the community take care of this?
- Doesn’t make much sense. Perhaps they want to have someone with butt in seat working on it

Install Hawken Open Beta With WineTricks
http://linuxgamecast.com/2012/12/l-g-c-how-to-install-hawken-open-beta-with-winetricks/

This has been tested with Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit using closed source Nvidia drivers.
Takes 10 minutes minus the download.
Game performance is fantastic even /w a low end quad core CPU + Nvidia 500 series GPU.

Games :
Linux build of Unity game “Windward”

Fast-paced naval combat
Randomly generated booty to discover
Unity engine
Runs a bit sluggish on our new system
Segfaults on my system

Knytt Underground
http://nifflas.ni2.se/?page=Knytt+Underground

2D platform game featuring a quirky story
The demo includes the first of the game’s three chapters.
DRM-free.

Ancient Beast
http://ancientbeast.com/

Turn based strategy game played online against other people
Uses HTML, PHP, and JavaScript, so it is playable from any modern browser without the need of plugins.
There are a lot of good javascript game frameworks allowing for fairly complex games. Can provide another means of cross platform gaming

Feedback:
Jordan Brock writes in
http://slexy.org/view/s21wabDdJN
Hi,
I actually didn’t know about your site until I saw you are following us on Twitter, so I checked you out I suppose you already know, but, my team and I are working on a game called “Just Tactics.” It is a turn based, 1v1, online multiplayer, tactical war game involving squads and deck building. Here is the website: https://www.justtactics.com/
We just entered Beta, so I’m spreading the word. Please let me know if you can help us spread the word even more

Cheers,

-Jordan Brock

Roger S writes in
http://slexy.org/view/s2WF6GOgIU
Subject: ZeroK

Message Body:
http://zero-k.info/
It’s a RTS game based on spring enigne.
Zero-K is a fast, competitive game with a focus on a streamlined economy and advanced interface that takes the focus off tedious tasks and back on the action. A huge roster of interesting, unique units and a variety of unit abilities provides tremendous tactical and strategic depth to the game.