LinuxGameCast Weekly EP 120 – A French Limitation

BioShock Infinite embraces the penguin! Steam enters the casting business, Broken Age: Act 2 gets delayed, and 4K gaming on my Linux? Then Dead Core faces our Chairquisition! All this, plus your hate mail.

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http://store.steampowered.com/app/284460/

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PSA:

4K buy?

The monitor in question

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009659

http://linuxgamecast.com/discussions-2/#/discussion/1309/acer-b286hk-28-2ms-4k-bench

What be this moon tech?

4K MHL Widescreen LED Backlight LCD Monitor

DVI, MHL ,Display port, USB 3.0

For EXACTLY tree fiddy

PROS

28″ 4K goodness

USB 3.0 hub

Ninja stand

Epic colour for a TN panel

Play some games in 4K /w a 770

Cons

You need at minimum a 770

You NEED DP 1.2

Display port connector is fine until you rotate the monitor *POP*

2K is scaled

1K is native but will make your eye organs bleed after 4K

No desktop scaling (would make P-man squint)

Slight cursor ghoting on some colour schemes. Window movement is fine and no issues /w gaming because 2ms.

500 now? NOPE!

Steam News :

Steam stream

http://steamcommunity.com/updates/broadcasting

Everyone thinks VALVe is trying to create a TWITCH competitor.
- Doesn’t really look like it. Twitch hosts all sorts of video streams, this seems to be specifically for gaming. More like a virtual couch
- Beats sharing your screen over skype
These lot think ten years out and anyone predicting what they are up to is a complete moron.
So, let me tell you what they are up to.
Building / testing an infrastructure for streaming games. e.g. no downloads, you stream them into your face organ.
- Interesting hypothesis. Lines up with their existing streaming effort.
- Also, possibly an investment in to the social aspect of steam. Brings a spectator mode for even single player games
What irks me about this is that, being VALVe the company that is pushing Linux, why does the penguin always get the short end of the stick?
The exact same thing happened with the Home Streaming bits earlier, took’em almost 4 months to get that working in Linux.
- But I gave them a pass on that one, it was a new thing. No one else had done it before, so I get it.
- This?! This I don’t get.
And perhaps, worse than that, is that this move makes that Slashdot comment from last month sound all the more likely.

Steam Machines, [ Almost ] One Year Later

http://boilingsteam.com/steam-machines-one-year-later/

“I’m not sure anyone would want to go back to SteamOS with fewer games once they have tasted the full Windows catalog on Steam.”

…WOW
I get that it’s a “hey, wonder if I can cash in on this Linux thing” the blog but FFS pick a target audience.
I was okay with this blog. Didn’t particularly make a point out of reading it, but the couple of articles I had read so far were alright. Boring, bland and as politically correct as they come, but not hypocritical to the point of laughability.
Now I know this person, this Ekianjo, can eat a bag of dicks. (NTTAWWT)
- You shouldn’t be allowed to write about Linux gaming if you keep a Windows partition to go running back to whenever you want to play games.

Remember when I said buy a bundle because RAISINS?

https://steamdb.info/app/8870/history/

https://twitter.com/2K/status/541003305174839296

Sat through roommate playing this one. Visually stunning, but the story didn’t impress me all that much.
Still, another 2K AAA title makes with the linux
Not Asspyre and not Feral.
(Somewhere at 2K) “Let’s make the repo public. That will really fk /w them!”

Meh

http://blog.gameagent.com/new-borderlands-pre-sequel-dlc-announced/

Murder mercilessly as wave after wave of computer controlled idiots get mowed down by gunfire
Or so they say. Pick it up on linux if you’re a fan of the pre-sequel
I’ve logged 2hrs on a $60 game. Might skip the DLC.

Boooo!11!

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/11/30/off-the-grid-distance-available-9th-dec/

I’m soooo not okay /w this.
These are kids /w a money tube and deservingly but ..raisins
The project was funded in Nov 2012
We’re two + years in and this (yeah, I know a lot of devels watch this show ..prepare to hate me) is why you need management.
Don’t go Overgrowth with this. The game is baked and at this point you should have a month long early access for load testing and release.
Yeah…
Bwahahahaha

Delicious

http://store.steampowered.com/app/328940/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1

Pixelly Tokyo Jungle, a game where your one goal is to fuck bitches.
“The Deer God is a 3D hipster pixel game that will challenge your hypocrisy and platforming skills. By 3D we mean it’s a 2D game in a sort of 3D environment, so we can justify to our families the student loans we incurred on the graphics designer course.”

News:

Broken Age Act 2 delayed to early 2015

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/138823-Second-Half-of-Double-Fines-Broken-Age-Delayed

Alright, now i’m getting a little worried.
At the same time, do we want them to ship an unfinished product?
- They have no issues /w that
  - Well I do
  - Tim, I love you man, but you gotta get your shit together
And of course, people in the comments are giving them crap and comparing this to SB:DF9

Flibit Needs your help!

https://plus.google.com/102593483001615978126/posts/APaRKXRt3po

In short, because he has no visual acumen whatsoever, Flibit is looking for volunteers to work on an FNA site so that prospective and current developers have a nice thing to look at for documentation and marketing
FNA is a fucking awesome project, so I implore anyone with web design skillz to at least get in contact with Ethan

Leadwerks Winter Games Tournament Kicks Off

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/blog/41/entry-1335-leadwerks-winter-games-tournament-kicks-off/

Will someone actually create a game on leadwerks that is actually worth playing? Tune in for the next episode of Dragonball Z
Sad that the only engine /w a native Linux editor (minus UE4) has almost zero traction.

Quake Wine Launcher

http://www.webupd8.org/2014/12/qllauncher-quake-live-launcher-for-linux.html

And nobody cares.
- Wait…no, you’re right
Seriously, when support was dropped there was a collective “that was still around?”

Scale:
– Nooope

– Not sure if want

– Check it out

– Shutupandtakemymonies

Game: Dead Core (pending on ass-pyre update)

Webzone: http://www.deadcore-game.com/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/284460/

Devel: 5-Bits Games

Engine: Unity

Price: $/€ 9.99

Wazzat: DeadCore is a Platformer-FPS blending exploration and speedrun.

Makes with the working

V-

Despite lacking the ever elusive (but recommended) “1go VRAM” the game ran without issue.

J-

hasn’t screwed up fullscreen yet
Resolution selection doesn’t scroll properly

P-

You can tell it’s a Unity game because it attempted to fullscreen into both my monitors and failed miserably.

Total-

Shiny / Sounds

V-

No support for 4K? What is this? 2014?!
I’ve had 4K goodness flowing through my eye pussies and into my brain meat since Monday.
1080 @ 28″ looks just cricket …until you’ve seen the megawesomeness that is 4K
This is not a limitation of Unity, just a limitation of the French.
It’s pretty for ze Unity. You can tell some time went into the texture organs.
The sounds range from annoying to fk all, why are you even bothering?

J-

It’s certainly a cool looking game
It appeals to my inner 14 year old in that regard
The sounds are barely there though

P-

The graphics look alright. But again, Unity!
And if they tried to look any more like Portal, I’m pretty sure Valve would have to get the lawyers involved.
- Nory took a look at it and immediately said it looked a lot like Portal.
Starting the game while I was watching a YouTube video garbled up the sound worse than Fallout 3 on the Alsa plugin.
The game also creates not one audio stream, but 2!
- The intro movies and gameplay volume is controlled on the FModEx stream, the menu sound effects and music are controlled in the DeadCore.x64 stream.

Total-

Control

V-

Oh look! A 3-D platformer! Hope the controls are tight!
Aaaah! Why is everything covered in Teflon? Seriously, how did you get Teflon in the AIR?! Monster.
The controls work and by that I mean they fk mothering function.
All of the movement in the game feels …I don’t know, slow? airy? fucked?
You honestly expect people to speedrun this?

J-

The controls are really floaty. Kind of hard to tell when you’re on ground or not
Teflon…

P-

Allows for proper mouse sensitivity control
Allows to rebind almost all keys, except the mouse ones.
- I like to bind the scroll wheel click to Jump. It wouldn’t let me.
Control in the later levels with the sprint/dash become a matter of luck.
Are you going to make it to that little floaty cube? Probably, but you’ll slide right out of it.

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FUN

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