LinuxGameCast Weekly 307: Learn How To Docker

Stonehearth cancels their Linux port, Steamy data leaks, Minecraft Pocket launchers and $1,400 Smurfs. Then I Hate Running Backwards faces the CHAIRQASITION!

All this, plus your hate mail.

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Steam: News

$1,400
https://pcgamesn.com/htc-vive-pro-full-kit-launch

1800 canuck bucks for the whole kit and kaboodle with the new fancy base stations
1400 CAD for the pro headset and the old base stations and controller’s
Apparently if you want the largest space supported, you’ll need 2 additional base stations on top.of the base package
Something tells me they are slinging the “professional-grade VR” so they can explain the wicked-low sales.
$800 can be explained away as a big honking splurge but 1.4K is used car tetorry.
Tracking up to a 10 x 10 metre square is neat but requires 4 base stations.
Seriously, you can buy a car for that much money which will last you probably longer than you’d play any VR “experience” currently available.

Top tops
https://www.pcgamer.com/these-are-the-years-top-selling-steam-games-so-far/

Say what you want but there is plenty of Linux on that list.
Lots of games I want to be on linux too. I’m looking at you vermintide
Speaking of games not on Linux, more people bought Elder Scrolls Online than Fallout 4.

Diiiiiiicks
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-07-06-valve-quietly-blocks-new-method-to-estimate-steam-sales-figures
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/07/steam-data-leak-reveals-precise-player-count-for-thousands-of-games/

Defaulting user profiles to private can be explained because GDPR.
This, this is straight up u can not has.
- Yip, this is VALVe saying “We don’t want people to know our numbers”
Which, considering they’re still the biggest completely private company in the gaming industry and possibly of the whole world, stands to reason they want to keep those digits to themselves.
There’s a degree of reputation management going here.
Claiming certain unverified sales numbers might have some unwanted blowback o steam, as devs are already pretty unsatisfied with the platform

Anniversary arena
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-07-04-rocket-leagues-third-anniversary-event-starts-next-week

Driving behind the goal? …monsters.
Throwback Stadium will be made available for selection in Private Matches, Tournaments, and Local Matches as part of Rocket league’s next major update.
Those detached goals should make things interesting!

Level Editor Phase 1
https://steamcommunity.com/games/431240/announcements/detail/1663398418942342952

They warn that it’s terribly buggy.
If you have ever played the game you might be wondering how you could tell.
Updated unity to 2018
Oh good. Enable those sadists

Team Update
https://store.steampowered.com/news/?appids=207140

Teammates share their boost bars
Teammates can swap their items
It’s an interesting alteration to the core mechanic. I wonder how it’ll impact the gameplay

Desperados
https://steamcommunity.com/games/260730/announcements/detail/1681414719795322682

2001 called, it wants to know if you would fancy a THQ game.
Wild West Commandos.
This is what would call a dad game, mostly because my dad loves this and Commandos.

Baseketball
https://store.steampowered.com/app/661940/Regular_Human_Basketball/

If lovers in a dangerous spacetime got wasted and accidentally used a snickers wrapper as a condom during a drunken tryst with hoops, this would be the baby
There be online multiplayer though
This could be some legitimate aftershowzen bait.
QWOP-et Cars?

News:

What about the Linux Port?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1590639245/stonehearth/posts/2231211

Linux was a 200K goal and the project closed northward of 700K.
A lot of the other stuff from additional goals will not be included.
Unfortunately a whole new wave of Kickstarter backers will learn a hard lesson.
Don’t back anything unless it has a functioning Linux demo.
I have a different suggestion: Stop giving people money for NOT developing games.
Do you want to see more games on Linux? Buy the ones which have shipped a Linux version.
Don’t buy promises, buy products.

Master of Orion
https://kilgoretroutmaskreplicant.gitlab.io/plain-html/

Needs both SDL1.2 or SDL2
Works on haiku apparently

Pocket Craft
https://github.com/MCMrARM/mcpelauncher-linux

Launch Minecraft pocket edition on regular ass linux
Not sure what xbla support means though
I guess this would be good for people who want to Minecraft on their calculators.
- I’m not entirely sure C# or .NET Minecraft is any lighter on resources than Java Minecraft.
Besides, you can’t mod this one without paying Microsoft money.
Pulls x86 Android version of Pocket Edition and runs that.
I approve of this unofficial porting trend, but I think most companies won’t.

Godot example
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/8usryk/open_sourced_my_wip_platformer_paper_trail/

Dude opened up the game so you can take a look at his work.
Googling for Paper Trail all I could find was inFamous Second Son stuff.
Guy used a lot of open source friendly tools to produce it as well
I think hobbyist programmers should open source more stuff. Improves accessibility for newer game devs

Easy UT
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/8vyb4t/unreal_tournament_2018_with_a_single_command/

The script works.
The game? Not so much.
Not entirely sure I like what the script is doing with setting that alias.
I’d be more comfortable if it created a .sh which ran those commands instead.

oreos 0.0.5
https://xoreos.org/blog/2018/07/03/xoreos-0-dot-0-5-dawn-star-released/

This project has made some decent progress in the past year.
You can get through character creation in both KoTORs and even start the tutorial in the first one
They’re also developing a number of support tools to help explore existing resource paks
The team I’d also looking for a volunteer to help manage their use of SUSE’s OBS, otherwise they’ll stop using it for distribution

Station architect
https://n-body-solutions.itch.io/space-station-continuum

Prison architect in spaaaaaaaaaaace.
- So says the marketing
At first I thought the art was reminiscent of FTL until they zoomed in

CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope

– Not sure if want

– Check it out

– Shutupandtakemymonies

Game: I 💖 running backwards
Webzone: I_Hate_Running_Backwards
Devel: Binx Interactive / Croteam Incubator
Engine: Unity
Price: £10.99 / US$14.99 / CA$16.99

Wazzat: I Hate Running Backwards is a never-ending adrenaline packed shoot’em down roguelite that puts the emphasis on destruction and fighting never ending waves of enemies while time traveling through procedurally generated worlds!

Mandatory Disclosure: They sent keys

Venn:

Does It Launch

Indeed.

Performance @ 1080

60 @ 1080 / 30 @ 2160.

Graphics

The Voxels vox.

Control

Latest update jacked up the Steam controlla.

Jordan:

Does It Launch

The hang on the first launch had me worried for a few minutes

Performance @ 1080

[email protected] Ultra, 60 @ UHD Ultra

Graphics

Yup, I can tell the enemies and the backgrounds apart. Good stuff

Control

Gets some bonus points for having correct button prompts on the dual shock. Good jerb guy!

Pedro:

Does It Launch

It took a while to load the first time, I had to stop myself from killing the transparent window it spawned.
Doesn’t remember fullscreen setting.

Performance @ 1080

Can’t push performance to ultra at 3840, lest I want to play the game at 45 FPS.
Works fine on high at UHD.

Graphics

It’s infinite backpedaling Sam in Minecraft

Control

Mouse keyboard and controlla all work out of the box.
With rebindable keys all around.

QA Score:

Fedora:
Soulless:
Ubuntu:

Fun section: (Catch all) Were the controls good, graphics pretty, nice sounds etc.

Fun?:

Venn:
- My steamy batteries died right at the first boss.
- 53 minutes of me trying to nope that damn Scorpion.
- But, I keep coming back.
- Don’t you love it when a game reminds you of an abusive relationship?
- No online multi, really?
- Listen, the only thing new this game has going for it is running backwards.
- Outside of that it’s voxel guerilla war with a serious Sam skinpack and a side of bullet hell.
- Plenty of weapons & upgrades + you get extra damage by smashing the level to fill a meter.
- What it does it does well but without online multiplayer things get stale with a quickness.
- I’m not saying I hate running backwards, it’s just not my prefered method of locomotion.
Jordan
- It’s reverse 1942.
- That said, I think the serious sam stuff is worked in there pretty well
- The werebulls were a nice example of that
- The scorpion took a few attempts, but that was more to do with getting used to the controls. I ended up perfecting him on my successful attempt. Is it just me or was the 2nd boss way easier
- Shmups don’t usually do it for me. This one’s a good attempt though.
  - Apparently singing along to Donna Summer helps me get into something resembling a flow state
- I will say though, I do think online multiplayer would have easily netted this boy another chair
Pedro
- My biggest complaint is how you can’t aim.
- You always shoot straight and all you can do is move your character.
- I have mentioned before how the simple inability to do something you expect to be able to do always feels so limiting in videogames.
- And while I can concede this is by design, I can’t see in what way not being able to aim helps this game.
- It certainly didn’t help me get past the general feeling of “Meh” I got from the rest of it.
- Sure, it’s an Incubator game, but it’s being sold for actual money now and the actual truth is that, while I can’t find any other major flaws, I still didn’t feel particularly compelled to play this one.