LinuxGameCast Weekly EP81 — Five Heretic Purchases

GlaDOS gets permissive! Sticks get truthy, NVIDIA brings the updates, and something about roaches. Then we throw the chairs at Nightmares from the Deep. All this, plus your hate mail.

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Links

PSA

http://www.reddit.com

Steam

http://steamcharts.com/

http://steamcommunity.com//sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=232455855

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Valve-Ask-Users-to-Disable-SELinux-to-Play-Portal-2-Linux-Community-Reacts-430985.shtml

http://store.steampowered.com/app/255300/

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=29979

News

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/73666/en-us

http://www.indiedb.com/games/lift

http://www.unvanquished.net/news/117-alpha-25-feeling-the-squeeze

http://www.indiedb.com/games/war-torn-lands

http://opengameart.org/content/accouncing-the-procedural-death-jam

Review

http://www.artifexmundi.com/page/piraci/

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

Feedback

http://slexy.org/view/s20GxPvcMO

http://slexy.org/view/s205xMkrHX


Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro

Steam News :

Steam Charts

http://steamcharts.com/

  • ⅘ of the top steam titles have linux clients.   WHAR CSGO!

    • ^ This, right here!

 

March 4th List of Greenlit Titles

http://steamcommunity.com//sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=232455855

  • 25 Linux titles

  • Decadence and Zed: Absolution look interesting

  • Anime Strip bejewelled,  Hunie Pop

  • 4 supposed “horror” games. All I see is Unity in their screenshots.

 

GlaDOS runs in permissive mode

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Valve-Ask-Users-to-Disable-SELinux-to-Play-Portal-2-Linux-Community-Reacts-430985.shtml

  • Portal 2’s MP3 decoder needs to make heap memory executable, which could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code embedded in mp3s

  • Most valve games can deal with it being denied by SeLinux, but Portal 2 Can’t.   I didn’t really have any issues with it.

 

Journey of a Roach

http://store.steampowered.com/app/255300/

  • Post-apocalyptic, point-and-click, rad-roach simulator. You play as a pair of roaches in the quest to reach and explore the surface of the world after nuclear war has ravaged he planet.

  • I blame Broken Age!

 

The Stick of Truth (pointed out by RedDorf)

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=15930

  • Roommate and I have been playing this on his PS3 .   Good stuff

  • I recommend wine-ing this game.   Its worth your time to play this

  • By the look of it, I’d say Obsidian finally made a game that despite the bugs doesn’t suck complete ass.


News:

334.21

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/73666/en-us

  • Support for the 750 series

    • Now I really hope I get one from PCPer

  • TITAN Black

  • Updated the nvidia-settings control panel to allow the selection of display devices using RandR and target ID names when making queries targeted towards specific display devices. FINALLY! Fk all idea what the means but woooo!

 

Yeah, I think shes fallen

http://www.indiedb.com/games/lift

  • flight sandbox + real world physics

  • Build shite and crash into it ..the game.

  • It’s a nice tech demo, I’d like to see a good game made from the mechanics.

    • Of course, we live in the age of early access and they’re probably never going to finish it.

Unvanquished Alpha 25 Universal

http://www.unvanquished.net/news/117-alpha-25-feeling-the-squeeze

  • This one runs…for once

  • better textures, new models

  • Min Requirements are now opengl 2.1

  • Turret firing has been played with – damage done is affected by distance, and it’s bursty. We’ve experimented with dretch health and found that 35 seems to work well given the turret changes and various other factors.

  • Jetpacks are now useable even without enough stamina to jump. We’ve fixed a problem with the game thinking that you’ve landed due to having touched ground by checking for upward acceleration. Ignition cost is reduced.

  • Builders can build again without waiting for building completion, but some waiting is still needed (it’s currently set at 60% completion).

War Torn Lands

http://www.indiedb.com/games/war-torn-lands

  • Need to set execute permissions

  • Geez…You don’t even get to see your guns

  • All I see is Unity grass

 

Procedural Death Jam

http://opengameart.org/content/accouncing-the-procedural-death-jam

  • I foresee a whole bunch of retro-hippy pixel graphics.

  • I like the nomenclature


Scale:

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


Game: Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart

Webzone: www.artifexmundi.com/page/piraci/

Devel: Artifex Mundi

Engine: Spark Casual Engine

Price: $6.99 / €5.99

Wazzat: You are a museum owner pursuing an undead pirate who kidnapped your daughter. You quickly realize that the villain is entangled in a tragic, centuries-old love story, and wants to resurrect his mistress with the girl’s life force. You feel sorry for the pirate, but you have to stop him before it is too late for your daughter.


Makes with the working

V-

J-

P-


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Shiny / Sounds

V-

J-

  • The in game kind of reminds me of phantasmagoria, but the animation?   Geez

  • Dat voice acting

P-

  • Frame-by-frame was done back in the day when computers couldn’t handle fully 3D rendered worlds.

  • Nowadays even my calculator can render Metro: Last Light on medium graphics, there’s no need to do it anymore

  • Sounds are alright. The voice acting is kinda meh, but the subtle ambient noises do make up for it some.


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Control

V-

J-

  • You point, you click.   Pretty hard to screw that up

P-

  • When I clicked on clickable things, things looked like they had been clicked on!


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FUN

V-

J-

  • Its just like phantasmagoria!   But worse

P-

  • In this day and age, I find that frame-by-frame is more of a hipster gimmick than an art choice. It doesn’t really help the game at all in my opinion.


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Hate Mail:

We want a free mention!

http://slexy.org/view/s20GxPvcMO

  • www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJXYMDu6dpY

  • Rules are hard.

 

Puppy Arcade 11

http://slexy.org/view/s205xMkrHX

  • Took it for a spin and the Rom Loader thing he’s making a big deal of, yeah… it just freezes as soon as it starts.

  • Emulators work fine, getting the ROMs manually and setting everything up yourself works too.

    • Sorta defeats the purpose of the whole distro though, doesn’t it?

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