Dead Island makes with the downloading! Unity goes open sauce, Wasteland 2 is almost ready, and Distance can’t Alpha, Bro. Then Blinding Dark faces our Chairquisition! All this, plus your hate mail.
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Steam
- http://steamdb.info/app/91310/history/
- http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta#announcements
- https://twitter.com/BrianFargo/statuses/501811116226654210
- http://store.steampowered.com/app/311930/
- http://store.steampowered.com/app/269790/
- http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=300252382
- http://store.steampowered.com/app/257710/
News
- http://survivethedistance.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=765&sid=4691514fed0cc38bb4f3e2e085c95393
- http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/08/20/more-open-source-initiatives-from-unity/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTzMelOeKEw#t=6m29s
- http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2014/08/18/want-to-join-the-red-hat-graphics-team/
- http://www.3d-palace.com/2014/08/blender-the-bunker-tutorial-set-by-gmanx/
- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/risingoat/a-rite-from-the-stars-a-3d-graphic-adventure
- http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/a-very-important-announcement-for-you.4165
Review
Hate Mail
- http://slexy.org/view/s2Y7VnAKBC
- https://twitter.com/JotunGame/status/501567460123095040
- https://plus.google.com/+VennStone/posts/2hLuSNSWPiW
- http://slexy.org/view/s2CFWfVr7H
PSA:
AMAZON clicky things are BACK!
http://linuxgamecast.com/podcast/
Steam News :
Dead island makes /w the download
http://steamdb.info/app/91310/history/
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Also makes /w the not launching
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VP made the MAC port *shudder*
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“encrypted binary” is a BAD sign
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That just means you need a password to access that particular depot in order to get the binary.
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Should have said directory structure
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But I’m not very confident either.
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I’m not buying the fkr until I know it’s a native port. That’s a sad thing to say in 2014.
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Even if it is another VP eON BS thing, I take solace in knowing I didn’t pay for the game.
VAAPI on Linux and SteamOS (Beta)
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta#announcements
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It’s like VDPAU for Intel graphic chipsets
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Makes those old Asus Eee netbooks viable Streaming clients.
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Now they need to get off their ass and fix Linux hosting!
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Linux game hosting works great. I think you mean linux streaming sources
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Don’t know which beta you’re on but for me: http://i.imgur.com/uNshNRQ.png
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Also opens up some interesting doors for budget steamboxen
…Soon
https://twitter.com/BrianFargo/statuses/501811116226654210
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*Patiently waits for PE and Torment*
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Finally! I can start playing it, now.
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These guys made /w the keys forever ago. Good on them.
Tinertia
http://store.steampowered.com/app/311930/
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It features a #YOLO Challenge. Make of that what you will
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Rocketjump…THE GAME
Look who showed up
http://store.steampowered.com/app/269790/
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I got a whole bag of nope with their name on it!
KeeperRL
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=300252382
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Not a fan of greenlight but hey, it’s open source.
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Well, the engine is open source.
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Can’t wait for SuperTuxCart and Liero to get a steam release!
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Though now that I think about it, 0ad Could theoretically benefit from a steam release
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Hat simulator
http://store.steampowered.com/app/257710/
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Hat stacking game from The Men Who Wear Many Hats
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Tooting one’s own bagpipe with a dash of ego stroking!
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News:
Distance finally makes /w the beta!
http://survivethedistance.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=765
Open Unity
http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/08/20/more-open-source-initiatives-from-unity/
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When asked for comment Epic was quoted as saying “That’s adorable”
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Bit bucket? Why…
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And Mercurial… because GitHub and SVN are just too mainstream!
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So that EON thing didn’t work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTzMelOeKEw#t=6m29s
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Really? Releasing a busted-ass port didn’t get the warm and welcoming reaction from the fans you expected? Even when you tried to shift the blame on them? 1
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“We are focusing on PC, XBox One and PS4” – because neither Mac nor Linux run on PCs. *slowclap*
Because AMD
http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2014/08/18/want-to-join-the-red-hat-graphics-team/
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More likely they want people hacking on Nouveau
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Performance parity between the OpenSauce and Proprietary drivers on Linux would be awesome!
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Probably won’t happen for NVidia in our lifetime, but it is very much a possibility for AMD and the r600 branch to reach it in the coming months.
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Now I just wish Fedora didn’t have some retrograde policies when it comes to updating Mesa in the repos.
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They want folks with kernel, X, Wayland and Mesa experience. If you have those and a desire to move to Baahsten, this might be your bag
Will it game
http://www.3d-palace.com/2014/08/blender-the-bunker-tutorial-set-by-gmanx/
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I loathe the Blender game engine but if it gets people interested, good.
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I remember building entire cities and their environs on the NwN Aurora Toolset when I was 16.
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Do you know how I did that? The Aurora toolset is piss easy to use and build things in.
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Nowadays you have to compete against the carcinogen that is the Unity Editor’s ease of use. A tutorial won’t cut it.
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A Rite from the Stars (From Jose, character designer and animator)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/risingoat/a-rite-from-the-stars-a-3d-graphic-adventure
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The demo seems to work, even if I have fuck all idea of what I’m doing.
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There are some graphical glitches with the lighting and shadows.
A Very Important Announcement For You
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/a-very-important-announcement-for-you.4165
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I was going to let this slide until
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“he’s also exposed to a lot of hatred or comments he might interpret as being hateful”
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Really, the guy who actively attacked / talked shite about any site he viewed as compitiion?
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The guy who would go on a rant and delete all his replies on Linux_Gaming?
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Though I guess now’s as good a time as any to remind you folks that LGC is looking for staff writers.
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Amazing how he immediately chickens out on the whole thing in the comments.
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I left of my own volition, he stayed around long enough to get banned! *slowclap*
Scale:
– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
Game: Blinding Dark
Webzone: http://www.blindingdark.com/
http://store.steampowered.com/news/?appids=303870
Devel: Games Hut
Engine: Unity
Price: $/€ 9.99
Wazzat: “Blinding Dark is a First Person Adventure horror game. Complete puzzles, collect items and power-ups, fight enemies and do your best to manage the very thin resources you have at your disposal to uncover terrible secrets.”
Makes with the working
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I’ve unlocked 15/18 achievements in 12min.
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Might want to sort that time tracking.
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Does not work in offline mode
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Busted my multimonitor setup. New rule, every time I need to open up the prefs file in a unity game to fix this resolution issue, minus two chairs. Its 2014 guys
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Sound is busted on first run
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Oh look, it attempted to fullscreen into both my monitors!
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Haven’t seen that happen with a Unity game since last week.
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Pushing CTRL or SHIFT makes the game glitch out so bad I end up on the non-navmeshed part of the map
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Which, since they force you to duck to progress at one point, means I couldn’t get beyond the first level.
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Friday’s update fixed none of the really pressing issues.
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Shiny / Sounds
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Look down, you’re hover dancing.
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Surprised Frictional hasn’t lawyered up about that shot-for-shot Amnesia opening.
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It’s not bad looking (considering Unity) but again, Amnesia.
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Like most shit unity games, sound is busted on the first run
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Lighting in this game is completely fucked. If you turn around, there will be a full second delay before the lighting re-adjusts. Makes the room look very trippy
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Also, some squares won’t even be light. Really harms your suspension of disbelief
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The Sonic palette leaves much to be desired
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I like how if you look at a movable object in a certain angle the camera immediately makes it look like your character inhaled a bunch of cocaine.
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They solved the “old and stiff character” by making more “active”
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What that means is that now, if you look down, you’ll see your character floating around like a light breeze keeps waving him around.
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Control
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Gerbil sensitivity was hella high but workable /w the hardware adjusty buttons.
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What venn said
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Mouse sensitivity is all over the place and you’re not given an option to lower it.
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In fact, you’re not given any options to change ANYTHING when it comes to controls.
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Which, in turn, means that since I play with the directional arrow keys, I could only move forwards and backwards.
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The update did introduce rebindable controls, 1 chair.
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FUN?
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Remember how I mentioned the hover legs? Well, that was the first thing I noticed and in a horror game you should not have
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running around in your brain organ the entire time.
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This game really, really struggles to make me give a shit about anything that’s happening
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The atmosphere is shit
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When I ran into the first ghost, I wasn’t scared. My first thought was “where the fuck is my proton pack”
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Well, most of the points I could make to justify the score I’m giving this game have already been made by these two lovely pieces of man-meat
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But I will still add a little something extra:
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It’s quite obvious they copy-pasted some features of the Penumbra engine (given that it was open sauced and all that). Unfortunately, they failed miserably in their implementation.
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Final –
Hate Mail:
craftmine
http://slexy.org/view/s2Y7VnAKBC
Fire your PR guy
https://twitter.com/JotunGame/status/501567460123095040
halp
http://slexy.org/view/s2CFWfVr7H
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D-does Google Translate have a setting for 12yr olds?