LinuxGameCast Weekly EP75 — Solar Fu*ks

Coming up on Linux GameCast Weekly: We’re in the Steam streaming BETA! Alienware looses its damn mind, AMD improves the open sauce drivers, and Natural Selection goes GPL? Then we throw the chairs at Not the Robots. All this, plus your hate mail.

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Steam News :

Neat

http://imgur.com/f7vEAli

Essentially hardware accelerated VNC.
Needs a dedicated streaming PC, people doing other things on your source can fuck with things

Moar pics!11!
Even if I managed an invite *glares at Valve* I would have nothing to stream.
Got invited too, I managed to get 720p Dragon Age.
- Only streams at the max res of the host.
  - Which on a headless 9 year old PC, it’s what I say it is.
- Can only stream FROM windows to Linux. Linux hosting is still WIP.
  - Ah, that explains that. You filthy heathens still use Windows.
    - Hijacked Roommate’s machine. He’s into it
    - Still have a windows 7 install kicking around.

Golden ticket

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/01/msg00006.html

Suddenly I feel the need to see if debian is in need of a package maintainer
- At this point, everyone wants to be a debian developer.

Steam client now offers self use refunds for pre-orders

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3219981

Progress
I would like a 2 hour refund option.
It’s a start, only works on pre-orders and in my whole life I only pre-ordered 1 game.

ಠ_ಠ

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-01-21-alienware-our-steam-machines-cant-be-upgraded

Alienware Steam boxen discontinued in 3.. 2..
- Pretty much
Someone didn’t get the memo.
New alienware steambox every year.

WHAR 420?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/242820/

Certainly looks trippy as hell

Because Pi

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gamesgear/raspberry-pi-and-android-become-steam-machines-with-limelight-50013250/

Pi power
“So hawt”
Definition of the Stream Machine.

31 more Linux titles Greenlit

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=217730751

2 MMO FPSs – Storm United and Voice of Pripyat
Skara: Blade Returns looks nice for an MMORPG
Another STALKER-like FPS RPG, Insula
Final Fantasy and Dead Space 3 clones also greenlit. (Edge of Eternity, Frozen State)

News:

Great improvements for AMD’s open source driver

http://kparal.wordpress.com/2014/01/16/amd-radeon-r9-270-experience-again-this-time-in-fedora-rawhide/

~~Kernel 3.13 and Mesa 10 bring the radeonsi driver to about the same level as r600.~~
~~r600 can do OpenGL 3.3 in Mesa 10, radeonsi can only do 3.1 so far. (No Metro Last Light on the open sauce drivers for people with radeonsi cards, yet.)~~
- Recent update to devel Mesa added OpenGL 3.3 to radeonsi as well.

WINE 1.7.11

http://www.winehq.org/news/2014011701

More D3D command stream preparation work.
Optional Start Menu in desktop mode.

Sierra Ops, anime visual novel-style Sci-Fi RPG has a Linux demo on the Indiegogo

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sierra-ops-a-space-sci-fi-action-rpg

They have a linux demo so good on them for that
The gameplay footage seems kind of meh.
- And it actually is pretty meh

Super Meat Boy on a budget

http://www.vetragames.com/games/you-still-wont-make-it/

Kind of more like I Wanna be the Guy

Natural selection 1 gpl’d

https://github.com/unknownworlds/NS

This comes/w so many gotchas and fk you because that’s whys.

Scale:

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

Game: Not the Robots

Webzone: nottherobots.com

Devel: 2DArray

Engine: Unity

Price: $9.99 / €8.99

Wazzat: You are a robot in an office building. You have to eat furniture and not get caught. A mysterious story unfolds. Not The Robots is this year’s most exciting Roguelike Stealth Furniture Eating Simulator.

Makes with the working

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Shiny / Sounds

V-

If it has sounds they are unmemorable.
The textures are meh on a good day.

J-

P-

Can’t really complain, too much.
Sentinel sirens get annoying real fast though

Total-

Control

V-

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FUN

V-

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Final –

Hate Mail:

Lutris 0.3.3 released

http://slexy.org/view/s20JTt7M1i

S.W.A.A.G.

http://slexy.org/view/s2nqcdxg8R

http://bram.itch.io/swaag

Thanks for the heads up Bram Stolk.
One thing though, the physics and game speed are locked to the framerate (BAD). Means even my calculator, running the game at 60FPS, it’s twice as fast as it should be. Making it unplayable.
- Managed to work around it by v-sync’ing the open sauce driver to 30FPS
- Version 1.5 fixes the framerating issues: http://goo.gl/ljF7pD

Solar Flux

http://slexy.org/view/s21gO1J0me