LinuxGameCast Weekly EP66 — Right Is Left

Coming up on Linux GameCast Weekly: FTL gets advance! Axis releases a game factory, Dead Sky brings the zombies, and we finally get a proper fighting game? Then we throw the chairs at Nuclear Dawn (beta). All this, plus your hate mail.

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PSA

http://gameimps.com/ps3-controller-linux-usb-290

Steam

News

Review

http://www.nucleardawnthegame.com/

Feedback

Colour key: Venn Jordan Dave

Steam News:

Steam Dev Days 2014

http://www.steamdevdays.com/?p=event

Steam Dev Days is a two-day game developer’s conference for video game professionals
Developers will also have direct access to Valve’s Steam Team, and will be given a chance to test-drive and provide feedback on SteamOS, prototype Steam Machines and Steam Controllers
Icculus will be screaming about “Getting Started with Linux Game Development”

The Stanley Parable

http://steamcommunity.com/app/221910/discussions/0/792923683629864763

WHAR PORTAL 2!!111???

Axis Game Factory

http://store.steampowered.com/app/253370/

PREMIUM version ($79.99) is also designed to work in concert with the Free and Pro versions of the Unity 4 game engine to allow further customization and game publishing
This is the first non-game software shipped on the Steam Linux client.

Dead Sky

http://store.steampowered.com/app/259700/

FK mothering “Partial Controller Support” WTH (had to reassign the trigger button)
Graphics are meh and somehow a bit choppy on my 770 ..wow

News:

FTL: Advanced Edition

http://www.ftlgame.com/?p=598

Coming 2014-ish
Adds a whack of new content in the form of new loot
Whar android version

OpenMW v0.27.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ea8NPedKsk

https://openmw.org/downloads/

Acrobatic skill now implemented
GOD MODE
Requires libOgreMain.so.1.8.0 the latest libogre is 1.8.1 that’s if you’re doing updates
Easy fix for lib issue create symlink

The piano

http://www.mistaken-visions.com/topics/games/the-piano-2013

Long intro is LONG ..and boring.
Another fine example of someone “porting” a game without testing.
It constantly rotates to the left. I thought this was some wacky game mechanic until I ALT+tabbed and and it stopped.
Not just on your end. Does the same thing on both amd and nvidia boxen

Lips of Suna 0.8.0

http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2013/11/lips-of-suna-080-released.html

I’ve tried playing this fkr for years.
As with all past experiences I was full-metal WTF am I supposed to be doing after five minutes.
Tried playing this as well models are all female.
It wants an older version of libOgre 1.7
- Ogre deps = nightmare fuel
Builds Fine on F20 Beta
I have no idea what is going on. Where am I? Who am I?

MegaGlest 3.9.0

https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=9301.0

performance improvements
menu gui improvements
Added Hebrew, Arabic, Vietnamese (and others).
needed to relink /usr/lib64/libgnutls.so.28 to /usr/lib64/libgnutls.so.26 and and /usr/lib64/libvlccore.so.7 to /usr/lib64/libvlccore.so.5
Get some video screweyness on the AMD box until you change to a native resolution

Haymaker

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

A brawler set in the 50’s
for the Hillbillies
It is Unity
To play it is recommended to have controller, “You really need a controller to play”
Multiplayer locally not networked.
Interestingly enough, Both Xbox and Ps3 controllers don’t work on this game, at least on F20 beta
Like the rockabilly soundtrack though

Scale:

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

Game: Nuclear Dawn (beta)

Webzone: www.nucleardawnthegame.com

Devel: InterWave Studios

Engine: Source engine

Price: $9.99

Makes with the working

V-

Known memory corruption bug

J-

D-

I’d like to give it a –
Reason for minus chair they have known about this issue for a few days and have not addressed it. No update no patch, maybe beta but come on. Give a fuck about your product.
Turned off multi-core rendering made no diff……..Lock-up, Lock-up, Son of a Bitch Lock up.
Give the following error everytime when trying to play the game
- nd_linux: malloc.c:2369: sysmalloc: Assertion `(old_top == (((mbinptr) (((char *) &((av)->bins[((1) – 1) * 2])) – __builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd)))) && old_size == 0) || ((unsigned long) (old_size) >= (unsigned long)((((__builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd_nextsize))+((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) – 1)) & ~((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) – 1))) && ((old_top)->size & 0x1) && ((unsigned long)old_end & pagemask) == 0)’ failed.

Total-

Shiny / Sounds

V-

The menus are quite nice.
The game? FK all if I know, hard-locks long before I ever managed to play.

J-

I see nazing! NAZING!

D-

Sounds and music are great
Menus function and looks nice
Never got in game so no idea what it even looks like.

Total-

Control

V-

Again, the menu controls are nice and tidy but no idea about the actual game.

J-

D-

Only control I saw was menus and options game control is non existent, due to game not running.

Total-

FUN

V-

All in all Menu Simulator 2014 is a mixed bag.
I Laughed, I Cried, I wondered what else I could have bought for $9.99

J-

D-

Nope, expected a really good game and got a game that get’s one dev response 3 days ago
psychonic [developer] Nov 20 @ 7:51pm
Thanks for your patience guys. I’m still working on a patch for this and some other issues.
No patch yet………………..WTF