LinuxGameCast Weekly EP82 — Tripping The Rift

VALVe releases all the things! Unity challenges Carmageddon for the 2014 nope award, Crytek confirms some rumours, and something about mountain bikes. Then we throw the chairs at The Powerpuff Girls. All this, plus your hate mail.

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Steam News :

Ariola Controlla MKIII

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/announcements/detail/1838898818826593734

No touch
Honestly looks better than the original mess

Geekbench 3

http://store.steampowered.com/app/264020/

Now ARCH users can run a CPU benchmark.
There’s a free version on their website:
http://www.primatelabs.com/geekbench/download/linux/

ToGL open sauced

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/ToGL

Not immediately usable
- Yip! It’s calling Source engine.
- Abstraction and HLSL to GLSL bytecode translator could be useful
MIT Licensed
Inherently difficult to debug, as per the Steam Dev Days Talk
Flibit Sez: Valve released ToGL: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/ToGL …
I’m assuming it’s not immediately usable. It may even be unusable. You should read it anyway.

VOGL Source released

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/vogl

http://richg42.blogspot.ca/2014/03/vogl-gl-debugger-source-is-on-github.html

Still early state of code.
No support for GL 4.x yet, expected later this year

Controls!

http://refract.com/post/78527584222/distance-alpha-build-2553-changelog

Works OOTB ..finally

Race To Mars

http://store.steampowered.com/app/257930/

Race To Mars is a turn-base… nope.

Listen you pathetic primate, it is I who shall destroy the Powerpuff Girls not you! -Him

http://store.steampowered.com/app/274450/

News:

Unity confirms they can eat a bag ‘o dicks

https://twitter.com/unity3d/statuses/444228236453879808

Welp, Unity is a bit shite as far as engines go.
Thanks for all the ~~fish~~ slender clones.

Confirmed!!!!

http://www.crytek.com/news/conference-attendees-can-also-see-a-brand-new-mobile-game-extra-engine-updates-and-much-more-at-crytek-s-booth

Still a ways away before we can see any games made with it
However, its a big name engine with linux support

HALP!

http://www.unvanquished.net/news/118-opportunities-for-coders

Star ARM

http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/15820-starcraft/

HAHAHAHA!
Neat, but I can only imagine how slooooow this critter runs.
Starcraft on the open Pandora… Can you say eye-strain?

Carmageddon: Reincarnation launches ..Thursday?

http://www.carmageddon.com/preorder

“ROLL ON THURSDAY :D“
- ~~Wasn’t it only Early Access on the 27th?~~
  - Oh right, backers get access two weeks earlier.
  - Should’ve seen it coming: http://i.imgur.com/g7CQlJl.png
“Q: What platforms will Early Access support?

A: The Early Access release is for Windows PC only, via Steam. Following the Final Release, the game will also be ported to the Mac and Linux platforms, and the DRM-free non-Steam version will also be made available.”

O rly? Welp… I’m done kickstarting games!
“will also be ported” =’s haven’t even started on that business.

Dangerous Insects

http://www.prandgames.com/en

3D Plants vs. Zombies clone, with absolutely none of the charm or the satisfaction of the original.
Tower defense and yes, 3D clone of PVZ

MTBFreeride

http://mtbfreeride.wordpress.com/

Can you say epileptic seizure warning?
Controls need a bit of work
If this is meant to be played with the Oculus they’ll need to fix a couple of things.

Scale:

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