Coming up on Linux GameCast Weekly: All your devel days are belong to Valve. NVIDIA brings the bling, Octodad hugs the penguin, and no more Greenlight? Then we throw the chairs at Broken Age. All this, plus your hate mail.
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Away of GIVE #7
http://linuxgamecast.com/discussions-2/#/discussion/871/away-of-give-7-last-light
PSA:
DualShock 4 bluetooth driver for Linux
https://github.com/chrippa/ds4drv
Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam News :
Steam Dev Days
http://www.steamdevdays.com/?p=event
Participants got free Steam Machines and Areola Controllas https://www.facebook.com/FrontiersGame/posts/397911570343172
Steam Greenlight may be going away: https://twitter.com/DaveOshry/status/423514948182884352
Exclusives will probably be a thing, even though Valve said no: https://twitter.com/omglazerkittens/status/423522992153710592
MOAR Highlights: http://steamdb.info/blog/42/
I want one of these: https://twitter.com/flibitijibibo/status/423663806661685249
No more bobbie tassels?
http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/15/steam-controller-changes/
The Areolas are staying. It’s the touchscreen in the middle that’s going away.
Standard A/B/X/Y configuration.
I liked the touchscreen idea. >.>
I recall that some of the early preview models only had buttons in lieu of a touchscreen
Valve looking to drop Greenlight?
That would explain the list of shite getting greenlight
It’s not a bad system but I never liked the uneven playing field.
Valve’s VR thing is making devs cream their pants left and right
https://www.facebook.com/FrontiersGame/posts/398554210278908
Bzzzt! http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/17/valve-not-releasing-vr-hardware-giving-tech-to-oculus/
Well it still made them cream their pants, regardless.
The goggles! They do nothing!
Broken Age Pre-order
http://store.steampowered.com/app/232790/
Available: January 28th, 2014
This is only act 1. Act 2 will be a free download.
Reus FINALLY makes /w the download
http://store.steampowered.com/app/222730/
I couldn’t figure out how to play it *yells at cloud*
Sort of a Black and White-ish god game. And a vengeful god I am
Estranged: Act I
http://store.steampowered.com/app/261820/
Finally! Now even ARCH users can install it.
Framerate is still shaky on my end.
News:
NVIDIA Driver 331.38
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/72249/en-us
Added NV-CONTROL attributes to control the brightness of the illuminated logos on certain graphics boards ..BRO
Spells, Vampires and Slaughterfish
https://openmw.org/2014/openmw-0-28-0-released/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9lTWjXAi9s
Combat AI
Vampirism
spell casting, ranged, self, and touch magic
If they keep up this rate, there may be a “playable” beta by the end of the year. /pureconjecture
Octodad ..soon
http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/01/16/octodad-release-date/
The PC, Mac and Linux versions of the game will be available on Steam, GOG and through the Humble widget and store starting January 30th
So…Open world QWOP
New retro booster
http://www.reallyslick.com/blog/2014/01/retrobooster-demo-updated-to-version-0-9-1/
Added Alt-F4 key command to quit game.
Overhauled sound effects.
In single-player games any attached game controller will now work, so you don’t have to select your controller in the Controls menu.
Scale:
Game: Broken Age
Webzone: www.brokenagegame.com
Devel: Double Fine
Engine: Moai
Price: $24.99 / €22.99 / A FUCKLOAD of dogecoin (10% off during Pre-Order)
Wazzat: Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story of barfing trees and talking spoons. Vella Tartine and Shay Volta are two teenagers in strangely similar situations, but radically different worlds. The player can freely switch between their stories, helping them take control of their own lives, and dealing with the unexpected adventures that follow.
Makes with the working
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Shiny / Sounds
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Foxxy brown as mom, Riker as Dad?
And Princess Clara as yoru rivals. When’s Spanky going to come and urinate on everything
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Actual actors doing the voices for once!
Handpainted graphics transmit the “coming of age” vibe perfectly.
Sounds stop just short of becoming annoying. Experience at work, ladies and gentlemen.
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Control
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Click everything, all the time: the game!
Will duck it a chair because, like most adventure games, it’s only challenging until you get in the mindset with which the game was created.
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FUN
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Ya know how people tell you to avoid revisiting childhood nostalgia? Things like A-Team, Air Wolf, He Man, Debbie Does Dallas and the like? They say they because reason.
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The writing can be pretty sharp at times
Story is interesting enough
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This episodic fad TellTale Games started, is getting old. Early Access is bad, but purposefully splitting what would be a 10-20 hour long game is just damn annoying.
3.5mill better have payed for the development of the rest of the episodes.
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Hate Mail:
Questions about Papo & Yo Linux technical issues
http://slexy.org/view/s2EJwbGfIF
The Mims
http://slexy.org/view/s202mnTIUP
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-mims-beginning
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