LinuxGameCast Weekly EP54 — Scooby-Doo Simulator

Coming up on this Linux GameCast Weekly: Metro: Last Light is on the way! Natural Selection 2 emulates Gary Busey’s career. Arcade racing comes to Linux with a vengeance and Green lights ..everywhere. Then we throw the chairs at Gone Home. All this, plus your hate mail.

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http://www.swanson.ukfsn.org/loki/

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Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro

Steam News :

Green lights ..everywhere

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=171260210

Legends of Aethereus
Gravi
Dead Robot
Road Redemption
Teslagrad
100 titles were greenlight, 44 of which have promised Linux support. Well alrighty then…
Always good to see the linux catalogue on steam expand

Metro: Last Light (soon)

https://twitter.com/MetroVideoGame/status/372393446134136832

Sooo in the next four months?
Finally an excuse to buy new graphic cards
After doing a little research, it seems I may be able to play MLL on my calculator, at least on the lowest settings.
The linux gaming community holds their breath

Natural Selection 2 (thank pyguy for the keys)

http://store.steampowered.com/app/4920/

Woo
75% off and play for FREE this weekend
Loads slow (20+sec) and nopes out during the tutorial
Getting around 47 FPS on the old 560Ti
Getting 29-32FPS on my calculator, tutorial crashes and there’s no sound.
Runs acceptably on the Fedora boxen

Electronic Super Joy

http://store.steampowered.com/app/244870/

Hardstyle, platforming orgasm simulator?
Devel was at fanexpo. Gameplay seemed interesting, didn’t check it out

FEZ port still in the works?

http://steamdb.info/app/224760/#section_history

Flibitijibibo did say on twitter that he was going to keep working on it, I guess Phish didn’t object it when he dropped the mic.
Well, it won’t take much to make it better than the Win version.

Distance alpha live for $55 backers

http://survivethedistance.com/

Runs OOTB on the Steam box
Needs optimizing and additional controler support
$15 backers are o_0 and begging to up their pledge
Gotta wait for the beta, here.

News:

Tuxing the Rift

http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/oculus-rift-first-impressions/

So… effectively speaking, all we need are proper drivers for the motion sensors and we’re gold?
“The wall wart blew up when I first plugged it in.”
“hard to work out a sequence that reliably brings up the Oculus.”
- It is a Display, after all. Plugging everything in with both the Occulus and the PC powered down may just do the trick, hm? (xorg.conf? XD)
I just don’t see people wearing sh*t on their head for gaming.
- I think it lends itself to a particular style of game and game play er. People who are hardcore dear esther and amnesia players might dig this.

The Corpse Horror Game Beta v2.1

http://www.indiedb.com/games/thecorpse-beta-v2

http://modisoft.webs.com/

“I going to make full version if it get over 1000 downloads and one youtube gameplay video”
Well I’m not helping you.
64bit Linux only… Nope!
- ^ THIS!
- BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Retrobooster demo updated to version 0.7.5

http://www.reallyslick.com/blog/2013/08/retrobooster-demo-updated-to-version-0-7-5/

http://www.reallyslick.com/retrobooster/

I’ve actually played this developer preview version for a little bit, still amazing!
Upgraded from SDL 1.2 to SDL 2.0
Added anti-aliasing choice to Settings menu
Added customizable menu navigation buttons to USB game controllers

CLR Demo

http://www.indiedb.com/games/clr-cannons-lasers-rockets

Eve Online on a budget?
Eve is another spreadsheet simulator that actively rewards you for not playing the game.
Everything of interest that happens in Eve makes the news, everything else is simulated corporate bs. A job you have to pay for.
This… this is a multiplayer arcade space combat game.
- Or at least I think it is, because fuck all if I can play it.
Yeah, this’uns a bit weird.

Browser based MMO: Ironbane

http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2013/08/browser-based-mmo-ironbane.html

Doesn’t work for me in Chromium.
In firefox I can at least see the loading screen.
- It’s doing “something” from the look of it: http://i.imgur.com/SIo7idX.png
  - Waited for 10 mins, nothing else happened.
Runs OOTB but it’s a pixel game BLECH!

Scale:

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

Game: Gone Home

Webzone: thefullbrightcompany.com

Devel: The Fullbright Company

Engine: Unity

Price: $19.99

Makes with the working

V-

J-

P-

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Shiny / Sounds

V-

Holy unoptimized bluntman! This thing is full-metal herky-jerk on MAX and HIGH
I bring this up since the graphics are meh+ at best.
Voice work is top notch for indie.
First time I ever told rain to STFU.

J-

Holy Choppy Batman! I wanna take the stairs and not enter bullet time

P-

I disabled VSync and Anti-Aliasing , pushed everything else to 11 and the game ran smooth on my calculator. (If Oblivion has taught me anything is that Bloom and AA don’t get along)
The sounds are amazing, the atmosphere will suck you in like a $10 hooker.
1.4GB for a 90 minute “game”, those are some High Res textures.

Total-

Control

V-

It controls well enough but had the gerbil input flip out once or twice while running about maniacally screaming “here’s johnny” while slinging shite around the room putting things down.

J-

I too got the input flipout a few times.
Slowdown while climbing down stairs are

P-

Finally, a Unity game that comes pre-configured with the directional arrows and the mouse sensitivity settings actually work!

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FUN

V-

This game is a real tearjerker. I wanted me a suicided teen up in that basement but nooooo. Happy, fk, mothering, ending. I was in tears ..of rage.
If this was a $4.00 title I would give it two chairs.

J-

Talk about a lack of payoff
All the creepy atmosphere and for nothing? Bah!

P-

It’s a 90 minute movie you play through.
Too short and not enough variety for me to give it a better score

Total-

Verdict –

Thoughts?

$20 for a 90min “game” that has zero replay value.
This is a short story with bad graphics and very unoptimized.
That said, the story was fine. No issue with it.
Is it worth $20? No, not even to the Dear Esther fan crowd. This should be priced considerably lower. That said, I did enjoy it but, like Venn, I’d rather have found Samantha’s mangled body than just a frickin’ diary saying she ran away from home.

Feedback:

Now in hard copy

https://plus.google.com/105130872099394975836/posts/H8vPW8tRS6E

KarBOOM now playable on Linux

http://slexy.org/view/s2pXpZ1zk5

http://karboom.net/

“The simple controls mean up to 4 players can play on one keyboard. Gamepad support means up to 8 players can play on one computer.”
- My skepticism is acting up.