SteamLUG Cast

Introduction

00:00:08

Cheese ValiantCheese introduces

00:00:20

John johndrinkwater

00:00:23

DerRidda DerRidda

Our Gaming

00:00:55

Cheese played Octodad, Bridge Constructor, Spacebase DF9, Spelunky, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Solar Flux, Serious Sam 3 (event), Stealth Bastard Deluxe, FTL: Faster Than Light, Monaco and Portal 2.

00:01:44

John watched Free To Play (again) and DOTA 2 TI2 replays, poked Eclipse, played System Shock 2, and tested some Humble QA stuff.

00:02:55

DerRidda played Monaco, FTL: Faster Than Light Advanced Edition, System Shock 2.

SteamLUG Community Stuff

00:05:19

Previous fortnight’s events:

TF2, Killing Floor, HOARD, Serious Sam 3 co‐op.

00:07:01

Upcoming Events:

TF2 (post-cast) [source]

Duke Nukem 3D [source]

Oil Rush [source]

Starbound [source] server thanks to Nemoder [source]

Regular GoI Online events outside of the normal schedule [source]

Other new-for-SteamLUG events in April: Little Racers STREET, Synergy

00:08:46

Request for US‐based gamers to manage events for that timezone (North and South America)

Other Community Stuff

00:09:25

Cheese interviewed Tim Schafer “since our first Humble Bundle, we’ve always been really committed to Linux”

Expecting future PC release titles to have simultaneous launches. [source]

00:10:22

norbert_ has been working on a new steamlug-bot. Code is up on github. [source]

00:11:10

John wrote a quick blog at SteamDB to explain how steam works and why some new ports launch ‘broken’ [source]

00:13:21

Game Club will be doing The Book of Unwritten Tales starting this week [source]

00:13:54

Cheese released a new F/OSS project called Transcriberer which we’re using to assist with SteamLUGcast shownotes [source]

Steam/Valve News

00:15:43

Client updates: in-home streaming is disabled *from* Linux, Mac, some Windows [source]

00:16:46

Following on from their GDC talk, John McDonald, Cass Everitt and Graham Sellers held a Reddit AMA [source]

00:17:52

Valve GitHub news, some new repos:

SteamOS Mesa [source]

SteamOS kernel [source]

00:18:38

New Steam Greenlight bunch, 42 out of 75 offering Linux support

Full list [source]

Chaos Reborn s02e06 [source]

Wander s01e09 [source]

Windward [source]

Paragon [source]

Impulse [source]

True Combat: Elite [source]

Gaming News

00:23:24

FTL Advanced Edition is out [source]

00:28:31

Steam Releases:

Escape Goat 2 [source]

SYSTEM bloody SHOCK bloody 2 [source]

00:30:04

Tele (Tele42) mentions that Braid is wine‐wrapped. [source]

00:31:03

We then get into an archival / preservation / DRM conversation

00:34:02

GameSpy servers to be shutdown next month [source]

00:36:22

Back to Steam Releases:

FaeVerse Alchemy [source] [source]

Breach & Clear [source]

00:37:34

Humble Bundle

00:37:40

PC and Android 9

Broken Sword 2, Bridge Constructor, Type:Rider s02e06, Ravensword: Shadowlands, Kingdom Rush, Knights of Pen & Paper

00:38:51

Weekly - Destructoid

Little Inferno, Super Hexagon, Natural Selection 2, PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate, Hotline Miami

00:41:32

‘Open Source’ bundle, Cheese gives us his thoughts, after we encourage him to share.

00:45:45

Facebook buys Oculus for $2 billion dollars, [source] [source]

Quite a few Valve developers are migrating, Michael Abrash being the most prominent

00:54:40

Notch voices his opinion, as a large backer [source]

00:54:41

That tweet: ‘@minliangtan@notch perhaps we can help out. Will be in touch.’ [source]

John mentions TruePlayerGear [source]

Sony’s VR HMD [source]

00:55:42

UE 4.1 has gained partial export to linux/steamos ‐ thanks community! [source]

00:57:50

VOGL supports UE4 [source]

00:58:10

Big bunch of TF2 fixes, hints at new ‘moonbase’ game mode [source]

01:00:31

Linux Game Awards open for voting for this month’s nominees [source]

Crowdfunding

01:04:22

Tom Sparks and the Quakes of Ruin - a Ratchet & Clank-alike action/platformer about exploration, crazy weapons and smashing things [source]

John honestly does mean Clank, he just cannot get the words out for some reason…

01:05:02

Cult County ‐ first-person survival horror game that blends the episodic story‐telling of The Walking Dead with the classic tension‐filled exploration and action of Silent Hill and Resident Evil [source]

Sign‐off

SteamLUG Cast is a casual, fortnightly audiocast which aims to provide interesting news and discussion for the SteamLUG and broader Linux gaming communities.

Visit our site [source] and the cast homepage [source]

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