LinuxGameCast Weekly EP47 — Impromptu Second Chances

Coming up on Linux Gamecast Weekly: DOTA 2 finally makes with the working! Guns of Icarus gets a massive update, Crytek comes to Linux and Apogee brings the source. Then we throw the review chairs at Gateways. All this, plus your hate mail.

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Links

PSA

http://teslagrad.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=21

Steam

News

Review

http://www.smudgedcat.com/gateways.htm

Feedback

Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro

PSA:

Teslagrad for Linux. Testers needed

http://teslagrad.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=21

Anyone else get the “Step 1” email?
Three paragraphs (and five steps) to join the alpha?
Yeah… I’ve completed all the steps and you know what? It’s not available yet!
Protip: You send a link to the game. I play the game and provide feedback.
Or…you know just provide a link to the game…

Voice work

It goes like so. You have a for-profit game? Ask for my rate card. Go into shock. Then we try to work something out.
Now, FLOSS games? Ask the guys at 0 A.D. No cost. Always willing to help out.

Away Of GIVE #4 Winnars:

http://linuxgamecast.com/discussions-2/#/discussion/275/away-of-give-4-ftl-the-debate-of-the-ages

Freejack_
colinkeenan
Sore_Loser7

Steam News :

Steam Client Update Released

http://store.steampowered.com/news/11052/

Added support for 64-bit Linux titles
Fixed finding Steam client skins on Linux
Fixed crash looking at community images on Linux
Fixed Linux Steam overlay not restoring the proper mouse cursor in certain situations
Fixed resource leak on game exit leading to graphics corruption on Linux
That beta update we mentioned awhile back has been promoted to official client update.

Sales Error 503 everywhere!

http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/

ಠ_ಠ Savings on things I already own.

Folk Tale (Linux is teh hard)

http://steamcommunity.com/app/224440/discussions/7/864971287485579661/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/224440

The devel tossed out the following logic “we’d have to make the minimum supported specification NVIDIA cards only.”
Until AMD unfucks itself
Oh so they didn’t test on AMD, just did the usual “AMD on Linux Sucks!”-thing and went on their merry way. ಠ_ಠ
- I have to agree. What a way to bitch out. How the fuck am I supposed to play shit on my giant TV!?!

DOTA 2

http://www.dota2.com/thebetaisover/

~~“The Mac and Linux builds are currently in testing and will be available soon.”~~
~~“soon” =’s Valvetime™~~
- ~~Until then, there’s only a missing executable to keep us comfy.~~
- HA! Knocked Steam offline for a few minutes.
- Looks like a scaled down version of HON
- Oh, everyone claiming DOTA2 “is the last straw that would make me switch permanently from Windows” No, it’s FKN not. STFU and EABOD (in a bad way).
- Someone on Reddit went so far as to say once DOTA2 was on Linux and AMD graphics drivers were as good as in Windows. Oh dude… You’re stuck with Windows!
- Noooope! Now that type will move the goal line.
Good for valve. This is gonna sweeten the pot for some people who are on the fence about kicking their windows partition.

Guns of Whateverthehellitscalled 1.3

https://gunsoficarus.com/community/forum/index.php/topic,1604.0.html

http://gunsoficarus.com

New gun, new ship, new costumes, higher level cap.
This is what I call a patch! If this was EA they’d charge €20 and call it DLC.

News:

Unvanquished Alpha 17

http://www.unvanquished.net/news/64-alpha-17-is-ready

It works!
It’s kinda like Natural Selection, only based on the id Tech 3 engine.
YAY! For bot improvements
Start it up, connect to a server, crash

Blake Stone Planet Strike source code released

http://apogeesoftware.com/uncategorized/apogee-releases-blake-stone-source-code

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8YQEyrbVpE

Dat box art
- Reminds me of space mutiny
It’s Wolf3D in spaaaace.
I hope we get the new ROTT on Linux
Hooray for old shit being open sourced! Let the fans do all the work guys!

Crytek looking for a Linux programmer to work on the Linux PS4 version of CryEngine

http://www.crytek.com/career/offers/overview/frankfurt/programming-engineering/linux-programmer

“Willing to relocate to Germany” :D
“Keep a positive team-oriented attitude.” >:( !!11!

Linden Lab (makers of Second Life) buys out Desura

http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/linden-lab-makers-of-second-life-buys-out-desura.2147/

BREAKING! Failed project buys failed project. In other news; water wet, sky blue.
- I wouldn’t call Second Life a failed project. It’s aimed at the needy attention whores on the internet and I think it does wonders in that respect.
  - All those people playing the same game, together in one place on the internet, not clogging other mediums/games… That’s a positive thing if you ask me!
- And Furries

Scale:

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

Game: Gateways

Webzone: http://www.smudgedcat.com/gateways.htm

Devel: Smudged Cat Games Ltd

Engine: ???

Price: $4.99

About: “Grab the gateway guns and explore a huge lab filled with mysterious puzzles in this classic platforming adventure.”

Makes with the working

V-

J-

on both ATI and Nvidia

P-

Had to force enable VSync from AMDCCC before I could even create a profile.
How do you cock up the menu so bad?

Total-

Shiny / Sounds

V-

Retro, pixel, platformer. It’s like Mari0 /w puzzles.

J-

The Visuals aren’t horrible but the sound is

I know there is a bias against pixel platformers
but the music gives me a headache

P-

I would excuse retro graphics and 16bit sounds if there was something about the game to redeem it. Unfortunately there is not.

Total-

Control

V-

The menu navigation was upside down using the gamepad.
After playing for a bit I obtained the portal gun THEN we need a hat pad. Had to switch to the key/gerbil.

J-

The controls can get a bit tedious with keyboard and mouse
Controls are equally as tedious with the controller. Logitech generic controller didn’t work but ps3 controller did

P-

Save for the jump function being a bit temperamental and having to keep the button pushed for almost a second to do the full jump. I don’t really mind the controls much.

Total-

FUN

V- –

Fun is a strong word. I’m going with challenging on this one. This is something you can pick up, tinker with, and forget about.

J-

After about 30 minutes I got reaaaaaaaaaaaaal bored with this one

P-

The game screams: “We wanted to make Portal. But our budget only allowed for a 2D retro-platformer and no snarky, homicidal computer voice actors stepped up.”

Total-

Verdict-

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