LinuxGameCast Weekly EP99 — Darksiders On MY Linux?

Darksiders brings the Linux! Epic throws wet stinky, Project Cars makes a deal with the devil, and Hands of Fate teases the Master. Then Three Dead Zed faces our Chairquisition! All this, plus your hate mail.

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https://twitter.com/DoubleFine/status/486918031533035520

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Colour key: Venn Jordan Sandy

Steam News :

The Witcher 2 gets a “linux_public_beta”

http://steamcommunity.com/app/20920/discussions/0/45350790916720011/

EDIT: Honest Trolling comments will be deleted!
They’ve gone into plaid
Yes, this is a “beta” for a game that was released as “gold” two months ago.
I thought they said something about open betas not being “common”…
Why even bother calling it a “Open Beta” when it was clearly a wrapped? You fucked up hard.
- It’s an open beta of their eON tech. Don’t be stupid on purpose.
  - Damnit! He’s eON to me.
I like how they’re telling people to disable prelink as opposed to fixing the actual issue. What if I WANT to use the damn thing
- At least the fucking thing works now
- Runs like ass still

Natural Selection 2: Linux devels HALP!

http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/135095/we-need-you-linux-developers-to-join-the-cdt

Community: That closed source buggy mess is still around?

Wasteland 2 Devs: “100% of Early Access revenue going back into development”

http://steamcommunity.com/games/240760/announcements/detail/1802879612069971474

It shows.

Interstellar Marines Linux Maintenance Patch

http://store.steampowered.com/news/?appids=236370

After owning this game for a month I can finally play it.
Getting between 24-30 FPS on my outdated 770s
About fking time. 22-28 FPS on my 6770

Dustforce

http://store.steampowered.com/app/65300/

Finally! This game is fun as shit
Exit the game /w a controlla, I dare ya.

Three Dead Zed

http://store.steampowered.com/app/291390/

Works OOTB /w Xclone
Trine /w zombies.

Manos

http://store.steampowered.com/app/266510/

I’m not spending $24.99 for early access beta test our shite
- Thems some Overgrowth prices
I don’t mind FK you price because that’s what the backers payed.
I do mind paying retail
Magic: The Gathering meets Nethack meets Diablo” – Sydney Morning Herald
- So you mean MTG meets Nethack
- Upon playing the game:
  - This is knights of pen and paper with a hack and slash bent. The game isn’t all that bad. The combat isn’t all that dynamic, but its a decent foundation to what could be a fun game
Makes me want pizza
My only beef is that if you set out a release date, Stop setting the Fking release as a Early Access Game.

Henky

http://store.steampowered.com/app/285820/

“It’s the closest thing to a proper Sonic game I’ve played since 1994.” – Warp door
All I could think of while watching the trailer was:
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLquuVFa2jo
Oh it’s 9000% Sonic inspired. Even the music.
Unoptimized Unity game is unoptimized.
Surprise, surprise can’t rebind the controls. Hurray.

News:

Epic Games throws wet stinkies at Blender

http://www.cgchannel.com/2014/07/epic-games-funds-blender-development/

Good stuff. Seems like blender is refocusing on game content creation as opposed to their BGE crapola
Indeed. I hated seeing resources wasted on that fuster cluck.
What be this moon format “FBX”
It’s mainly used for interchanging character animations between supported applications like Cinema4D, Maya, UE3/4

340.24 driver is out

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/76884/en-us

It’s kinda metal that they’re fixing WINE issues.
- Someone in the reddit thread pointed out that because wine uses funky OpenGL voodoo, it can expose bugs in their implementation that wouldn’t otherwise be detected
Everything else is just baked from the last beta release.

GG AMD

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1407.1/02923.html

Really only affects 8000 series APUs and newer
Essentially facilitates sharing of memory between graphics and CPU hardware. Could potentially be leveraged for better gaming performance as it removes a lot of repeated trivial operations

Humble 2K Bundle

https://www.humblebundle.com/

I’ll gamble on it.
Protip: I don’t gamble.

Nordic Games Darksiders Port

https://twitter.com/THQ/status/487611532906627074

https://twitter.com/TheIneQuation/status/487612207149359104

Well fuck me where i shit, This better not be as shitty as DeadFall. PLEASE DON’T BE!!
But THQ said before they went under was that they were working on bringing games to linux.
For those of you who never played it, its a beat-em up in the style of God of War where you play a horseman of the apocalypse
- Which one? Larry, Curly, Moe or Shemp?
  - Joe you heathen!
These are the folks that brought you “Book of Unwritten Tales”
They also own the rights to destroy all humans. A man can dream, can’t he?

Cars

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/project-cars-signs-worldwide-distribution-deal-wit/1100-6420932/

This worried me at first, but it’s still slated for SteamOS
- I’m more interested how SMS will optimize gameplay for SteamOS with their Madness engine. The company claims that they have always optimized the engine for whatever platform add.
- Long as they don’t go full-metal Skull Girls.

Terminal Overload testing1

http://www.terminal-overload.org/

http://forum.freegamedev.net/viewtopic.php?f=87&t=5628&sid=5eec54a557be70631ec2d60f4dca589a

“LD_LIBRARY_PATH+=. ./overload” is your friend
Also when building on fedora, edit Tools/CMake/CMakeFiles/main.dir/link.txt and remove the “:lib” prefixing -llibvorbis -llibtheora -llibogg
- …my god. So many undefined references. I…I just can’t give any more shits
Successor to ROTC:E

Chairquisition:

– Nooope

– Not sure if want

– Check it out

– Shutupandtakemymonies

Game: Three Dead Zed

Webzone: http://www.threedeadzed.com/

Devel: Gentleman Squid Studio

Engine: Custom Built

Price: Desura: 4.99 Steam: Sale 4.97 normally 5.99 Gameolith:6.40

Wazzat: Take control of an experimental zombie that can transform into three unique and distinct forms. With quick reflexes, a little problem solving, and some rescued kittens, players make a violent exit that won’t be forgotten by their captors.

Makes with the working

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Shiny / Sounds

V-

I’m a sucker for hand drawn characters / environments
Gah the voice work. Devels, spend a few wet stinky on that business.

J-

Hand drawn is alright, but its fairly par for the course
Looks and sounds like something I might have played on newgrounds back in the day, so no points for that

S-

OH GOD THE VOICES!

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Control

V-

From now on (for me at least) any game that recommends a controller and does not include rebindable controls loses two chairs automatically.
Yeah, you had four chair controls but only for the Xclone.

J-

This is one of those games that requires some pixel perfect accuracy
The controls do not facilitate this\
The fucking ladders

S-

I just fucking noticed that now….

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FUN

V-

I can already hear it “but Vinnnn you liked Rocket Birds and it’s kinda the same thing”
Granted this game is quirky like Rocket Birds but it lacks a little something. A FK mothering story that I’m interested it.
You take away what little (also boring) story there is and you end up /w Trine on a budget.
If this game has one original gaming mechanic is must be an Easter egg because I can’t FKN find it.

J-

The trine mechanic is alright. Not really a lot of variety between the different zombies, which was what gave trine it’s charm
THOSE FUCKING LADDERS
The game is an exercise in frustration, because when you’re off by a pixel you have to restart the whole damn level, and again the controls really don’t offer that kind of precision

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