Coming up on this LinuxGamecast weekly: Steam gets Gratuitous, BOOM goes the Humble, a tormented Kickstarter and cyborgs get dead.
Key: Venn Jordan Pedro
PSA:
Mir: Just like the space station, it should fall out of out orbit and burn up
http://www.muktware.com/5353/kdes-kwin-wont-support-ubuntus-mir
- We should send Shuttleworth back to space…and leave him there
Steam News :
Steam Box to be ready for testing in four months time
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21677119
- If the point is using sub-par hardware to play games… I’m WAY ahead of them.
- In all seriousness, I love the fact that it is coming out in time to give Sony and the $hills a run for their money. I don’t care how much it will suck / how much flak it will take, I will applaud it… I’ll applaud it so hard my unborn children will suffer masturbation guilt.
- I totally read $hills as a bash variable. I need to de-unix my brain
- In all seriousness, I love the fact that it is coming out in time to give Sony and the $hills a run for their money. I don’t care how much it will suck / how much flak it will take, I will applaud it… I’ll applaud it so hard my unborn children will suffer masturbation guilt.
Valve’s Steam installer to be compatible with Debian Wheezy systems. I’m looking for people that could test it to see if it works properly.
https://github.com/GhostSquad57/Steam-Installer-for-Wheezy
- … Oh wait, we’ve already packaged it and it’s been available on our repo for the past 2 months or so and it can be yours for a single yum install steam.
Gratuitous Space Battles comes to Steam
http://store.steampowered.com/app/41800/
- Stupid time vampire of a game
News:
Lets get ready to Hum-Ble
https://www.humblebundle.com/
- Beat Hazard Ultra, Dynamite Jack, Solar 2, NightSky HD, Super Hexagon, Dungeon Defenders
- Linux is winning the average bid and beating Mac on total payment per platform
- Another weaksauce bundle
Unreal Engine 3 Game ‘Painkiller Hell & Damnation’ Coming to Linux in April
http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2013/03/unreal-engine-3-game-painkiller-hell.html
- Frickin’ finally!
- Mod-Kit of Painkiller Hell & Damnation which will enable them to produce their own personal game
- The beta of the Mod-Kit is expected to go online early April 2013
- Linux and Mac this April/May
Torment: tides of numenera kickstarter
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera
- Built on unity, so It’ll run under linuxSequel to arguably THE greatest crpg of all time
- I just about shit my pants when I found that out
- Lots of the original creative team from planescape torment is back including Monte Freakin’ Cook!
- Fully funded in ~6h. Not too shabby
- Damn… Granted it’s Torment, I’m pretty sure if Double Fine decided to remake Grim Fandango they’d get the money they asked in a matter of hours too.
Oh, you got to be shi*ting me
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flippfly/race-the-sun-endless-racer-with-mod-tools-and-mult
- $21,579 out of $20,000 goal
- Good on them ..I guess.
Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues by Lord British, with Linux support from day 1
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/portalarium/shroud-of-the-avatar-forsaken-virtues-0
- Looks like another higher budget android game, hopefully I’m wrong. Linux could really use a decent RPG à lá Skyrim right about now.
- It’s Ultima as Mr. Garriott wanted it to be made. Hopefully (not) just as time consuming as Ultima Online originally was.
- Hopefully they’ll get away from the android like graphics once the game is closer to release. (At a $1million pledge goal, they better!)
Hi Linux gamers, I made a utility to improve gaming on Linux by running games in a separate X server. Care to help me test it?
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/19y009/hi_linux_gamers_i_made_a_utility_to_improve/
Games :
Luminesca
http://www.luminesca.com/
- Crashes on Fuduntu 32bit after the Feedback question with a simple “Aborted”
- Apparently it’s a known bug with Unity 4 and FGLRX, fuck all if AMD gives a shit.
- $0.99 US with the keyword KRAKEN when buying directly from their website
- $4.99US on Desura
- Couldn’t get running because their store wouldn’t accept my credit card. Lulz
Free Orion 0.4.2
http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2013/03/free-orion-042.html
- first game I ever played on linuxWorks fine on fedora x64
- the symlink thing to /home/orion is dumb
- Garbled up text on Fuduntu
- Code:
libGL: screen 0 does not appear to be DRI2 capable
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/tls/swrast_dri.so
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
AL lib: (EE) oss_open_playback: Could not open /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
SWIFT ☆ STITCH by Sophie Houlden now available for free.
http://www.sophiehoulden.com/games/swiftstitch/
- Question: Do you trust your click and hold ability?
- Dodge walls and collect sparkly things.
- A bit simple for my taste
- This lady really likes her puzzle games
Dead Cyborg scifi adventure episode 2 now available
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/dead-cyborg-scifi-adventure-episode-2-now-available.1809
- From the trailer, it has a Fallout 3 look to it. I’m already setting the bar way too high, hm?
- Blender game so it looks nice but the controls are a bit meh
- I’m glad the devel finally swallowed his “artistic vision” and added mouse support. He intentionally left it out of the first version. I shite you not.
- Works alright. A bit unclear on what i’m supposed to do though. Fix cameras?
- Got bored looking for Five Red Buttons.
Región Muerta: Abandoned Zombie Survival Project
http://linuxgamecast.com/2013/03/region-muerta-abandoned-zombie-survival-project/
- I think Venn’s description of a much more boring, isometric, 3rd person view version of Killing Floor is accurate.
- Somehow… I think the Linux gaming world isn’t any worse off for not having this game finished.
- Another example of something that could have been fun but will die due to burnout.
Star Villains And Space Heroes Demo Released
http://linuxgamecast.com/2013/03/star-villains-and-space-heroes-demo-released/
- Those faces…geez
- ^THIS!
- Buggy on f18 x64, mouse control is pretty stale
- Could barely keep my interest during the tutorial..press enter this, press enter that. These are not things that require me to stop my though process
- Menus say “exit to windows”…lulz
- Gets really boring, really fast.
- Mouse sensitivity is too high for any kind of precision
Feedback:
LGC chrome voodoo
http://slexy.org/view/s2B73zXaeI
Dune Legacy 0.96.3
http://slexy.org/view/s2k0IcYCSh
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/dunelegacy/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://play-dune.com/
- Works out of the Box in Fuduntu 2013.2 32bit