LinuxGameCast Weekly EP77 — Putin On The Ritz

Coming up on Linux GameCast Weekly: Valve brings the beats! Linus gives NVIDIA the finger, Octodad gains control, and we invade XBMC. Then we throw the chairs at Saturday Morning RPG. All this, plus your hate mail.

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PSA

http://linuxgamecast.com/lgcbbs/index.php?p=/discussion/

Steam

News

Review

http://www.mightyrabbitstudios.com/?page_id=48

Feedback

Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro

PSA:

LGC in your XBMC

http://linuxgamecast.com/lgcbbs/index.php?p=/discussion/912/xbmc-add-on-for-linuxgamecast

This is what we’re talking about. No wet stinky? THIS!
Now /w HD goodness

Steam News:

Steam Music

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steammusic

Secret of the magic crystals
Welcome to 1997 Steam, you can now do the equivalent of having Winamp playing in the back

They listen

http://steamcommunity.com/games/224480/announcements/detail/1783725844596604642

Good on them. Tried it out on the steambox and its pretty decent with a controller
I would have certainly given this game a higher score had controller support not been an issue
- Ditto

Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart

http://store.steampowered.com/app/259740/

Finally! A “retro” game that doesn’t over do it.
Frame by frame puzzle adventure, with proper casual mode.

Inb4 Contra-clone

http://store.steampowered.com/app/252010/

WINE
- Begun in full, the WINE “ports” have…
No gamepad support
No cloud save
I don’t need a WINE wrapped minefield in my Steam store.
Where is the link to the sourcecode of wine wrapper you used? Part of your product etc…
Kids, the moral of the story is to not buy wine ports on steam. EOF

PAPERS!

https://twitter.com/dukope/status/431452266764062720/photo/1

its about gorram time

Little Racers STREET

http://store.steampowered.com/app/262690/

They didn’t ask anyone to port the game for them. They picked up the tools and did it themselves.
Would explain the range of problems people are having.

News:

Yarrr!

http://www.tuxradar.com/content/interview-david-braben-0

“Piracy is much easier because of that openness” wat?
So crap reason #1, Crap reason #2 and crap reason #3. Very good, I’m going to go install windows now
Talk about misinformed devs. Problem is, I think this one is ignorant by choice.

Ten open source games are nominated for the Project of the Month March 2014

http://www.linuxgameawards.org/award-instance/project-of-the-month-march-2014

My vote goes for Tales of Maj’Eyal

Pandora 2 electric boogaloo

http://www.pyra-handheld.com/fosdem/

Remember when I said Pandora was a dead project?
At this point, have at. Nobody listens to Zathras.

Linus gives NVIDIA the finger

https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/TQDXxxr6ixm

TAMI Heavy Industries

http://www.indiedb.com/games/tami-heavy-industries

Top-down Livalink with graphics to make Teleglitch look advanced.

Cannonball

https://github.com/djyt/cannonball/wiki

You need to futz /w the CMake file before building on Debain.

Scale:

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

Game: Saturday Morning RPG.

Webzone: http://www.mightyrabbitstudios.com/?page_id=48

Devel: Mighty Rabbit Studios

Engine: Unity

Price: $6.99

Wazzat: Saturday Morning RPG is an episodic JRPG set in world heavily inspired by 1980s Saturday morning cartoons and pop culture. Players take the role of Martin “Marty” Michael Hall, an average high-school student who has just been granted an incredible power – a power that ultimately leads him to attract the ire of the world’s most notorious villain, Commander Hood! Saturday Morning RPG features a full soundtrack by legendary 80s composer Vince DiCola (Transformers: The Animated Movie, Rocky IV) and his composing partner, Kenny Meriedeth (contributor for DuckTales, Power Rangers, X-Men, and others).

Makes with the working

V-

J-

Crashes on my AMD boxen after the first autosave
- http://steamcommunity.com/app/263320/discussions/0/558746745585324542/
- Possibly issues with the AMD beta driver
On the Nvidia box it screwed up monitor detection and I had to change the resolution though the prefs file

P-

Total-

Shiny / Sounds

V-

I’m well known for my love of retro pixel games.
Skirting copyright simulator 2014

J-

Unity3d textures mixed with pixel art hurts my brain. pick a style and stick with it!

P-

I have astigmatism. I’m the guy that has to disable Ambient Occlusion in games to be able to play them for longer than 10 mins.
Blurry characters and sharp pixelated backgrounds make my head hurt.

Total-

Control

V-

Kiss that D pad goodbye.

J-

Jerking around your joystick simulator 2014
Dinging it a chair due to timing based minigames for combat

P-

Holy mother of unintuitive mess.
Fuck Quick-time events, fuck them up the ass.

Total-

FUN

V-

Are we supposed to care about the character?
Or is the “plot” just a nostalgia delivery mechanism?

J-

A wizard who loves to powerglove. Its so bad.
Worth two nostalgia chairs

P-

I like JRPGs. This isn’t it.
This is another high brow indie game that hides its shortcomings behind the guise of parody. Except it’s not even parody, it’s referencing. Pure, unadulterated pop-culture referencing without a vestige of humor.
Yeah me, the guy who giggles like a goddamn lunatic, didn’t find your game funny despite the obviously desperate attempts the game has.

Total-

Final –

Hate Mail:

Want some pancakes?

http://slexy.org/view/s21ZNKn777

Fair is fair, I’ll be taking it for a spin next week.

Columbia

http://slexy.org/view/s20nZydcGG

This is how we lose friends.

nohomo

http://slexy.org/view/s2ecmaq41a

I’ve often considered leaving my carrier in child therapy.
You mean quit his job doing voicework for radio in order to do voicework for radio? BRILLIANT!