LinuxGameCast Weekly EP46 — Left 4 Dead 2 BETA? (Beta)? Buler?

Coming up on Linux Gamecast Weekly: We’re launching another Away Of Give! Steam reaches 1.07% L4D2 is both in and out of beta (we explain) and it’s full-metal lies, damn lies, and Bundles. Then the review chairs go Faster Than Light. All this, plus your hate mail.

Links

Away of Give #4 (pending)

http://linuxgamecast.com/discussions-2/#/discussion/275/away-of-give-4-ftl-the-debate-of-the-ages

PSA

Steam

News

Review

http://www.ftlgame.com/

Feedback

Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro

PSA:

Strike suit zero linux (beta)

https://twitter.com/StrikeSuitZero/status/353090577497206784

http://store.steampowered.com/app/209540/

Developed on the proprietary Xed engine.
Kidō Senshi Gandamu

Away of GIVE #4 FTL (The Debate of the Ages)

The rules? Simple! In your own words: Best rom com. Babylon 5 or Enterprise?

Link: http://linuxgamecast.com/discussions-2/#/discussion/275/away-of-give-4-ftl-the-debate-of-the-ages

Steam News :

Steam Hardware Survey – June. Listed Linux at 1.07%

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=combined

Left 4 Dead 2 Beta is out of Beta back in (Beta) ..beta

http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=10993

(Beta) is the Beta of the non-beta.
First install, missing executable
Second? Shite don’t run on our Steam boxen
- (Beta) once more ಠ_ಠ
  - FIXED IT!
Worked fine right outhabox on my calculator.

Crusader Kings II’ Update v1.103

http://rootgamer.com/5398/news/crusader-kings-ii-update-v1-103-released

http://store.steampowered.com/app/203770/

News:

Nvidia 325.08 Beta Driver

Poor performance on our capture box.
Stick with 319 unless something is wrong.

Lies, damn lies, and Bundles

http://cheesetalks.twolofbees.com/humble/

Number Crusher Porn

Humble weekly Sale

https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

The last few Weekly Sales have been a bit meh.
- Seriously

Silence on the Line

http://www.indiedb.com/games/silence-on-the-line

Wow, that’s a bit shit.
The atmosphere works, until you realize that sound the ghosts make is the same as the Zombies from Minecraft.
Speaking of Minecraft, those graphics… Goshdangit.

The Maker’s Eden prototype

http://screwylightbulb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=35

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-maker-s-eden

I figured out how to open the window and that you could tune the radio to your character’s ID thing… then I lost interest.
Digging the retro comic style but at the end of the day it’s a point-and-click adventure game.
Finished the prototype, got to da streets yo
I like the art direction, but the art itself can be a bit cringeworthy
- Right there!
Reminds me a bit of penny Arcade’s Automata

Mstreetc yDROID Kickstarter?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/235390397/mcdroid

I’m confused…
- On that note, there are two $10 tiers that have the exact same rewards. Except one is limited and the other isn’t.
- Thought you were misreading but nope. Seems legit.
Good luck to them
$35,000
complete the story.
debug.
balance.
Add a companion robot with a laser head. It stays with you from level to level and gains ranking that are used for upgrades.
add one McDROID model with different stats.

Lutris 0.3 released

http://lutris.net/news/lutris-03-released

“The release makes Lutris what is was meant to be: a gaming platform (similar to Steam or Desura), it’s not a dumb frontend for linux games anymore.”

I’m not hating but is this needed or better yet, is there room in 2013?
Its nifty…but a wee useless.

Scale:

– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies

Game: FTL

Webzone: http://www.ftlgame.com/

Devel: Subset Games

Engine: Custom?

Price: $10.00

Makes with the working

V-

J-

MInus a chair because it crashed my mate session the first time I ran it on my ATI box

P-

Total-

Shiny / Sounds

V-

I should give this one chair since I loathe retro graphics but I can tell a lot of work went into this.
Audio is full-metal beep boop.

J-

For what it is, the graphics are adequate.
I do like the music though. Gives a real sense of emptiness

P-

Love the chiptunes
The graphics are nothing spectacular
For the kind of game that it is, it fits but it’s not 4 chair material.

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Control

V-

Blasting the ships and clicking “jump” work just fine. Making the ship minions move about can be a bit iffy.

J-

Again, for what it is, the controls are adequate
The Door controls can get a bit weird though

P-

This is where it shines, I took my laptop out with me a couple of times and played the game using only my touchpad and it works really well.

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FUN

V-

ಠ_ಠ really ..I don’t get the hype for this game.
I guess it would be fun if you have a low-end PC with infinite time. I have neither.

J-

Like most roguelikes, its a nice pick up and play game.
Its fun to play ships captain….Numbah One
Once you start getting non human ships, the game gets more fu n

P-

I was actually afraid to start playing this game, judging how some people lost hours upon hours of their lives just clicking away.
Being the eternal Compulsive Gamer I was scared it might suck me in
Fortunately for me it didn’t; unfortunately for the fun category it didn’t

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