We’re back with a new season after a short holiday break. Cheese is joined once again by johndrinkwater and swordfischer to chat about the recent community events, Steam Machines unveiling at CES, new Humble Bundles and the credits interface present in Double Fine’s adventure game ‘Broken Age’! Enjoy!
Mint 16 64 bit is the biggest riser from the previous month’s results
No sign of SteamOS yet
GitHub activity
A pretty quiet Christmas but theres a beta update coming soon that fixes overlay from not using custom themes, library issues with the runtime/overlay. The known issue about running non-steam games without the runtime is being considered. There’s a feature request to opt-in, per game, to use the runtime.
Download Steam games not marked for Linux [source]
Our Gaming
swordfischer has been playing lots of Rogue Legacy.
ValiantCheese has been playing Gear Up, Runner 2, Joe Danger 2, Surgeon Simulator, Kairo, Spelunky, Assault Android Cactus, Fester Mudd (will be doing for Game Club next), SBDF9 and Worms: Reloaded.
johndrinkwater finished Thomas was Alone. He also has been playing Gravity Badgers, Hero Academy, TF2 and the Humble Bundle X games (To the Moon, Joe Danger 2, Papo & Yo, Reus and Surgeon Simulator)
Gaming News
Linux Game Award’s first Project of the Month Award goes to 0 A.D [source]
Discussion point: How do we find out about crowdfunding projects and how do we personally decide what to back? Are we having to be more discerning now than this time last year?
John refers to Pillow Castle’s The Museum of Simulation Technology [source]
Correction: Broken Age part 1 will be available to the public on the 28th, not the 30th. [source]
Correction: Only 13,500 or so of the 90,000 Broken Age backers are included in the credits.
Cheese deserves a slap on the wrist for talking about dates before they were publicly announced.
Sign-off
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