LinuxGameCast Weekly EP105 – Magical Linux Faeries

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 News :

Dead island makes /w the download

http://steamdb.info/app/91310/history/

Also makes /w the not launching
VP made the MAC port *shudder*
“encrypted binary” is a BAD sign
- That just means you need a password to access that particular depot in order to get the binary.
  - Should have said directory structure
- But I’m not very confident either.
I’m not buying the fkr until I know it’s a native port. That’s a sad thing to say in 2014.
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

It’s like VDPAU for Intel graphic chipsets
Makes those old Asus Eee netbooks viable Streaming clients.
- Now they need to get off their ass and fix Linux hosting!
  - Linux game hosting works great. I think you mean linux streaming sources
    - Don’t know which beta you’re on but for me: http://i.imgur.com/uNshNRQ.png
Also opens up some interesting doors for budget steamboxen

…Soon

https://twitter.com/BrianFargo/statuses/501811116226654210

*Patiently waits for PE and Torment*
Finally! I can start playing it, now.
These guys made /w the keys forever ago. Good on them.

Tinertia

http://store.steampowered.com/app/311930/

It features a #YOLO Challenge. Make of that what you will
Rocketjump…THE GAME

Look who showed up

http://store.steampowered.com/app/269790/

I got a whole bag of nope with their name on it!

KeeperRL

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=300252382

Not a fan of greenlight but hey, it’s open source.
Well, the engine is open source.
Can’t wait for SuperTuxCart and Liero to get a steam release!
- Though now that I think about it, 0ad Could theoretically benefit from a steam release

Hat simulator

http://store.steampowered.com/app/257710/

Hat stacking game from The Men Who Wear Many Hats
- Tooting one’s own bagpipe with a dash of ego stroking!

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/

When asked for comment Epic was quoted as saying “That’s adorable”
Bit bucket? Why…
- And Mercurial… because GitHub and SVN are just too mainstream!

So that EON thing didn’t work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTzMelOeKEw#t=6m29s

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
“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/

More likely they want people hacking on Nouveau
Performance parity between the OpenSauce and Proprietary drivers on Linux would be awesome!
- 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.
- Now I just wish Fedora didn’t have some retrograde policies when it comes to updating Mesa in the repos.
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/

I loathe the Blender game engine but if it gets people interested, good.
I remember building entire cities and their environs on the NwN Aurora Toolset when I was 16.
- Do you know how I did that? The Aurora toolset is piss easy to use and build things in.
- Nowadays you have to compete against the carcinogen that is the Unity Editor’s ease of use. A tutorial won’t cut it.

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

The demo seems to work, even if I have fuck all idea of what I’m doing.
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

I was going to let this slide until
“he’s also exposed to a lot of hatred or comments he might interpret as being hateful”
Really, the guy who actively attacked / talked shite about any site he viewed as compitiion?
The guy who would go on a rant and delete all his replies on Linux_Gaming?
Though I guess now’s as good a time as any to remind you folks that LGC is looking for staff writers.
Amazing how he immediately chickens out on the whole thing in the comments.
https://twitter.com/upurtweet/status/503276228376530945

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

V-

I’ve unlocked 15/18 achievements in 12min.
Might want to sort that time tracking.
Does not work in offline mode

J-

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
Sound is busted on first run

P-

Oh look, it attempted to fullscreen into both my monitors!
- Haven’t seen that happen with a Unity game since last week.
Pushing CTRL or SHIFT makes the game glitch out so bad I end up on the non-navmeshed part of the map
- Which, since they force you to duck to progress at one point, means I couldn’t get beyond the first level.
Friday’s update fixed none of the really pressing issues.

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Shiny / Sounds

V-

Look down, you’re hover dancing.
Surprised Frictional hasn’t lawyered up about that shot-for-shot Amnesia opening.
It’s not bad looking (considering Unity) but again, Amnesia.

J-

Like most shit unity games, sound is busted on the first run
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
Also, some squares won’t even be light. Really harms your suspension of disbelief
The Sonic palette leaves much to be desired

P-

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.
They solved the “old and stiff character” by making more “active”
- 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.

Total-

Control

V-

Gerbil sensitivity was hella high but workable /w the hardware adjusty buttons.

J-

What venn said

P-

Mouse sensitivity is all over the place and you’re not given an option to lower it.
In fact, you’re not given any options to change ANYTHING when it comes to controls.
- Which, in turn, means that since I play with the directional arrow keys, I could only move forwards and backwards.
The update did introduce rebindable controls, 1 chair.

Total-

FUN?

V-

Remember how I mentioned the hover legs? Well, that was the first thing I noticed and in a horror game you should not have
running around in your brain organ the entire time.

J-

This game really, really struggles to make me give a shit about anything that’s happening
The atmosphere is shit
When I ran into the first ghost, I wasn’t scared. My first thought was “where the fuck is my proton pack”

P-

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
But I will still add a little something extra:
- 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.

Total-

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