Coming up on Linux GameCast Weekly: The Steam winter sale is upon us! Dota 2 comes out of beta, Icculus has a secret, and Humble shows some Linux love. Then we throw the chairs at AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome. All this, plus your hate mail.
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Links
PSA
Winnars
Steam
- http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=steamos
- http://store.steampowered.com/
- http://store.steampowered.com/app/214420/
- http://store.steampowered.com/app/236090/
- http://store.steampowered.com/app/25000/
- http://www.dota2.com/thebetaisover/
- http://store.steampowered.com/app/257120/
News
- http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/amdcatalyst13-12linreleasenotes.aspx
- https://twitter.com/icculus/status/412630570057748480
- https://www.humblebundle.com/
- http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/4fc5f66d63cc
- http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nition/scraps-customisable-vehicle-combat-for-windows-mac?ref=home_location
- http://blog.twitch.tv/2013/11/minecraft-broadcasting-now-in-open-beta/
- http://www.indiedb.com/games/mage-rage
- http://warspear-online.com/en/home
Review
Feedback
- http://slexy.org/view/s2ztrj8KTz
- http://slexy.org/view/s2fX4ZDpr9
- http://slexy.org/view/s20xwERdpd
- http://slexy.org/view/s20Y3xF5Uh
WINNARS:
http://linuxgamecast.com/discussions-2/#/discussion/811/away-of-give-6-win-some-rust
Best – Madhi19
Worst? – Predator8bit(?)
PSA:
YeoldeSteamOS
http://directhex.github.io/steamos-installer/?r2
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam News :
DistroWatch.com: SteamOS
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=steamos
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Itsa real boy
It begins…
http://store.steampowered.com/
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Whole lot of shite I already own
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Portal 2 would be a nice X-mas present.
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That and the Stanley Parable. Dear god I want to play that game
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Somebody learned about the Stem box
http://store.steampowered.com/app/214420/
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Still crashes at launch if you’re not using the proprietary drivers: Fatal error in __driConfigOptions line 1, column 0: unknown encoding.
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Looks deliberate to me.
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I’m guessing they never tested it because reasons.
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Crashes on F20 w/Nvidia 331.20. Fun stuff
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Dust: An Elysian Tail
http://store.steampowered.com/app/236090/
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Ported by Flipitibitijibitibjo
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Made my pad rumble
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https://twitter.com/flibitijibibo/status/413606534606647296
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You know, Ethan. In your own, special way; you reached out and touched me. Sleep tight.
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The FKR saved my progress from the DRM version.
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Actually a pretty fun little side scrolling beat’em up, furries or no
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Fuck that Navi character though. Seriously
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Will have to take it for a spin, eventually. So far only Wine games have made my Dual Shock rumble.
DN4E on Linux
http://store.steampowered.com/app/25000/
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Damn, Was excited for a moment.
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It’s been in development for over 5 years. Not hating but the graphics look primitive in 2013.
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I actually kind of liked Lugaru, but this seems a wee expensive
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7Gigs, alpha Lugaru with shinier graphics/physics for €25… Nope!
DotA 2 officially out
http://www.dota2.com/thebetaisover/
- Nation in shock
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New players have to be queued up to balance the load on the servers. This way people who played the beta before get uninterrupted access to the game.
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You two heathens don’t care, but this is Valve’s money maker game! Even though the TF2 hat economy keeps things going, DotA2 is their one big scale community game.
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Yeah, because that Steam store thingy is loosing wet stinky left and right.
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And I suppose it is yet another reason for people who keep saying they’re gonna ditch Windows to not get around to doing that
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Not The Robots!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/257120/
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Best Roguelike Stealth Furniture Eating Simulator you’ll play all year.
News:
Calculator drivers
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/amdcatalyst13-12linreleasenotes.aspx
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dkms fails to build by default. Got it working with a kludgy hack I refuse to share because it’s horrible. (basically replace kcl_acpi.c file in 13.12 with the one in 9.4 beta)
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Driver isn’t even listed in Linux page, to download it you need to run: wget –referer=’http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux+x86′ http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-catalyst-13.12-linux-x86.x86_64.zip
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Ogre3D games still segfault at launch.
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From reading the posts regarding the much promised performance improvements in DotA2, that’s an outright fabrication as well.
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Nope!
????????
https://twitter.com/icculus/status/412630570057748480
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Kind of Hoping its Magicka
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Personally I hope it’s Orcs Must Die (either one of them). Yeah it’s tower defense, but it is actually stupid fun tower defense!
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Um
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https://mobile.twitter.com/icculus/status/320154602672627712?screen_name=icculus
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Yeah, someone mentioned this one in Linux_Gaming.
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Well sunyamabitch
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That thing 8
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Really? All games have a Linux version?! Humble, are you feeling alright?
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Gemini Rue doesn’t appear on Steam for Linux yet.-
ITDOESNOW
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Hero Academy needs proprietary drivers to work.
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Holy shit! The Weekly bundle also features an all Linux compatible roster.
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Quick! Someone divide by 0 to restore the status quo!
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Shame its mostly games that everyone owns already. Remember the days when humble would actually get people to try and port their games
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And it wasn’t that long ago either. HiB5 included some really awesome games.
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Wayland support just landed in SDL2
http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/4fc5f66d63cc
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MIR IS THE FUTURE
Scraps gets kicked ..started
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7k Kiwi dollars above their original goal, including paypal donations!
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Linux version tested only on Ubuntu. But the 0.2.8 alpha builder demo works fine on the calculator.
No MineTwitch for Linux
http://blog.twitch.tv/2013/11/minecraft-broadcasting-now-in-open-beta/
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“Linux support is currently not planned due to licensing issues surrounding the encoding software.”
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WAT?
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Don’t ship the H264 component.
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What about that Cisco Open sourced H264 Implementation?
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Really, good fk mothering luck finding a Linux boxen without ffmpeg or gstreamer.
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If a high-functioning alcoholic (I know a guy) can figure this out INHISSPARETIME so can you.
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There is no technical reason for noping out of this.
Mage Rage (thanks Gustavo)
http://www.indiedb.com/games/mage-rage
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“Mage Rage is a First Person Puzzle Platformer set in a world of magic and mystery, where not even the fourth wall can protect you from the alcohol infused shenanigans of the College of Sandy-Crack and its intoxicated inhabitants.”
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Bitchin’!
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Or it would be if it wasn’t 64bit only! Nowhere in the indiedb page is a mention that the Linux version is 64 bit only.
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It certainly feels like a wizard frat house. Gotta re-use that pizza box model
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warspear-online
http://warspear-online.com/en/home
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On Android this was pretty fun. For a PC game I don’t think the hippy pixel graphics do it any favors.
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It’s similar to SEYKEN, only with more microtransactions.
Scale:
– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
Game: AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome
Webzone: www.dejobaan.com/awesome
Devel: Dejobaan Games
Engine: Gamestudio Engine
Price: $9.99/€9.99/72CTC (Canadian Tire Cash) (because fucking regional pricing)
Wazzat: A Reckless Disregard for Gravity.
Makes with the working
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Gerbil flips the hell out in the menu.
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Cursor in the middle of the screen
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Had to restart Steam for it to launch
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Shiny / Sounds
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Some of the advance levels look hellla neat.
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I would like to see some motion blur.
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Sound is for what it is.
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Loses a chair for blowing apart my ear pussies on the first launch.
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Jeez, that music gets annoying super quick
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Holy mother of Loud narrated ads!
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Control
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Gerbil input seems a bit twitchy no matter what I do.
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Keyboard control albeit a bit muddy works.
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heeheehee…splat
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I guess the controls are the only thing providing a challenge in the game.
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Unless you’re one of “those people” who care about the leaderboards.
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FUN
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I’m sure if I had an Oculus, it’d get a better score. I don’t though, and there’s only so much you can play a suicide simulator until you yourself start contemplating it.
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Hate Mail:
Starbound review
http://slexy.org/view/s2ztrj8KTz
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I think we struck a nerve on this one.
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Soo you have a problem with some blokes who review games /w lawn chairs?
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“Your worst review yet” tells me you have watched a few (thanks for that)
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Seriously doubt it’s our worst review. Did you even watch Secret of the Magic Crystals?
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Interesting place to draw the line. Did we piss on your new favourite game?
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OH WAIT! WE DID! \:D/
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I dub thee, SlimmyDimmy.
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He’s a youtube commenter. He’s already one by definition
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From where I’m sitting, the only ones that would look like “offensive idiots” would be us.
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The fact that you’re including yourself means there’s probably a part of you that agrees with what we said.
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You look like you’re projecting so hard, you could aim yourself at a wall and run a slideshow presentation.
Dem mics be takin’ screen real estate!
http://slexy.org/view/s2fX4ZDpr9
Your offer
http://slexy.org/view/s20xwERdpd
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So… You’re asking for money to recreate the game in an engine that doesn’t allow monetization? Does the word IRONY mean anything to you?
From Mother Russia
http://slexy.org/view/s20Y3xF5Uh
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Thanks for the Jagged Alliance Collector’s Bundle comrade.
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Well fuck all if I want your sloppy seconds
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Hm, so what does this one have that Running With Rifles doesn’t, besides turn-based yawn sauce?