LinuxGameCast Weekly EP87 — November Nipples

Valve teases the Areola Controla. Wasteland 2 actually downloads, Eldritch goes open source, and Civilization in spaaaaaaace! Then we throw the chairs at Foul Play. All this, plus your hate mail.

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November nipples

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/133708-Report-Steam-Controller-Will-be-in-Your-Hands-By-November

Without the touch screen i’m a bit meh on the areola controla
- Same

Steam Gauge:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/04/introducing-steam-gauge-ars-reveals-steams-most-popular-games/

Top 6 most played games have almost the same time played as all other Steam games.
- Only 2 of which are not for Linux (Skyrim and Civ. V)
Top 13 most owned games are available for Linux.

Glitchspace

http://store.steampowered.com/app/290060/

Very interesting concept
Seems like something that desperately needs multiplayer
And Partial controller support. But at least you can play it on your Occulus

Nuclear Throne

http://store.steampowered.com/app/242680/

According to its steam store page, it was released in Oct 2013.
- Shows up as early access for Linux in April 2014
- WHY IS THAT NOT A REAL THING
  - ^
Hipster pixel AND early access.

Wasteland 2 Digital Deluxe Edition (beta) makes /w the download

http://store.steampowered.com/app/240760/

http://steamcommunity.com/games/240760/announcements/detail/1822013489918945268

Finally!
Oh shit… this is shaping up to be exactly what I had hoped. Behold! My next time sink.
I, kinda like it.
Devel was quick to ask how it was running

The Last Federation

http://store.steampowered.com/app/273070/

Gratuitous Space Battles, now with more Turn-Based strategy.
Do the backgrounds seem a little flat to you in the trailer?

Drox Operative

http://store.steampowered.com/app/274480/

So….EVE/FTL meets diablo?
Cross platform multiplayer is a nice touch
Price is pretty steep though. I’d wait until a 50% sale at minimum

Earth: Year 2066

http://store.steampowered.com/app/290750/

Why is your game in Early Access?

We decided to make early access to choose the right direction of game development with gamer’s help.

Just the one gamer’s help
DayZ/Fallout 3/STALKER in Unity, or at least that’s what they’re aiming for.
- I don’t feel like paying €20 to find out.
FFS this thing looks like “My first FPS simulator”
HTH does this crap get Greenlit?

Humongous Entertainment Steam Dump

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/42723/

Games from the 90’s, 6 of them plus spin-offs.
- €93 worth of nope!
Fun fact, you can buy the base games separately for €18.94.
- Means there’s just over €74 worth of spin-offs.
Geez. These look like some mindfuckingly awesome games

News:

Civilization: Beyond Earth

http://www.polygon.com/2014/4/12/5600008/civilization-beyond-earth-trailer-screenshots-announcement-sid-meier

Exciting Stuff
NEver got into Civ.
WHAR George Timothy Clooney?!11!

Eldritch Source code released under ZLIB license

http://eldritchgame.com/about.html#source

Ooh! Anti-semitic and open source!
I’mma be sorely disappointed if I’m not killed by the zombie of H.P. Lovecraft after I’m done compiling!
I started a CMake file (cmake can eat a bag) and fixing the static links but someone in Linux_gaming beat me to it and probably did an infinitely better jerb.
- The CMake in r/Linux_gaming did work. You still need the assets to actually play the game.
  - Ya think?

FPS construction kit

https://playgunscape.com/

Minecraft FPS builder /w guns
Could be a helpful learning tool for children or ARCH users.

Noir Syndrome

http://glassknuckle.com/NoirSyndrome/

Java game
Mystery Roguelike is a unique concept.
- Curious if it actually works though. Mysteries are nuanced stories and randomly generating them can have some very huge pitfalls
Every other game who comes out nowadays is a roguelike of some description.

Scale:

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

Game: Foul Play

Webzone: http://foulplaygame.com/

Devel: Devolver Digital

Engine: Custom engine (derived from C++)

Price: $14.99

Wazzat: Play as the daemon-hunter Baron Dashforth in a side-scrolling co-op brawler set entirely on the grand spectacle of a theatre stage that rewards performance over pummeling.

Makes with the working

V-

No issues /w triple monitor setup since I use separate X screens ..like a real man.

J-

What Pedro said

P-

Game starts in Fullscreen mode and sets my monitors to clone each other.
I had to manually rearrange my monitors, because even after changing to windowed mode it kept the clone setting.

Total-

Shiny / Sounds

V-

Love the art style. It’s like a Double Fine brawler
Sounds are there but FFS the grunts

J-

Didn’t care for the music and was nursed by the dulcet voice of Chuck Schuldiner
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgx3sp_hTJw
I like the play gimmick, and some of the stagehands got a chuckle out of me

P-

Art style choice I could dig. The whole stage metaphor made literal is clever and something I could definitely get behind.
Repetitious music, ½ a second of voice acting and the same grunts constantly coming out from the enemies/your character.

Total-

Control

V-

OOTB /w the Xclone

J-

P-

It notified and made a point out of giving me a choice to properly configure my controller
- And it also recognized it properly!

Total-

FUN

V-

The first 20 minutes are a bit of alright.
Really like the audience health meter gimik.
I was hoping multi-player would save it but it’s just more of the same.

J-

This game is brutally repetitive. Same three or four enemies for what seems like an eternity
Haven’t had a chance to try out multiplayer yet

P-

It is a fun brawler, if you find a video or podcast to play in the background in such a way as to not have to listen to the grunting and the same 5-second BGM loop.

Total-

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Hate Mail:

Also yes

https://plus.google.com/+VennStone/posts/7zSN8oDWLL3

Missed it

http://slexy.org/view/s2EwmbJ111

Wonderful

http://slexy.org/view/s26Tzcffzx