Introduction
00:00:09 Cheese introduces
00:00:21 DerRidda
00:00:24 Nemoder [source ]
00:00:25 Special guest Leszek Godlewski
Our Gaming
00:00:40 DerRidda has been playing Dota 2, Hammerwatch, Nekro and Broken Sword
00:01:25 Nemoder has been playing Nuclear Dawn, Frozen Synapse and Factorio
00:01:37 Leszek has been playing Battlefield 4 (plus the game he has been working on)
00:02:06 Cheese has been playing Guns of Icarus Online, Battleblock Theater, Spelunky and Kentucky Route Zero Act III
00:02:23 Kentucky Route Zero runs well on Linux, but has had Unity freezing issues for some players [source ]
Chat With Special Guest Leszek Godlewski From Nordic Games
00:03:37 Unannounced Linux related work at Nordic Games [source ]
00:03:53 The Farm 51 [source ]
Painkiller Hell & Damnation [source ]
Deadfall Adventures [source ]
Contracted to work on Linux ports after leaving
00:04:53 Game development lecturing
00:05:41 Leszek’s LinkedIn profile [source ]
00:06:09 Response from Linux gamers to Painkiller H&D was ‘Overwhelmingly positive.’
00:08:00 Outstanding issues with Painkiller H&D
00:10:52 What vintage UE3 does Painkiller H&D use?
00:12:51 Support from Epic and/or other UE3 Linux porters
00:13:08 Ryan C. Gordon
00:13:20 Dungeon Defenders [source ]
00:13:30 Ryan’s initial unreleased UE3 port [source ]
00:14:46 Surprises and hurdles in porting UE3 titles
00:15:26 Valgrind [source ]
00:16:21 APITrace [source ]
00:17:42 Thoughts on community comments that porting Unreal Engine 3 is easy
00:18:00 Digital Dragons 2013, Linux As A Gaming Platform, Ideology Aside [source ] (errata [source ])
‘The relative engineering cost of a Linux port is low’
00:19:45 Unreal Engine 3 shader system is ‘totally unfit for use with OpenGL’
Digital Dragons 2014, One Year Of Porting [source ]
00:20:39 ‘Hey, Ryan Gordon ported Dungeon Defenders and it didn’t have those problems.’
00:22:44 Future work at Nordic Games
00:24:31 Grimlore Games [source ]
00:25:04 ‘The very fact that Nordic Games decided to hire me, I think it really speaks for their intent for publishing games for Linux’
00:25:55 Thoughts on publishers’ role in Linux porting in the future
00:27:18 Ethan Lee
00:29:12 GOG are recruiting Linux oriented developers [source ] [source ]
00:31:37 Battlefield 4 [source ]
00:32:13 AMD Mantle [source ]
00:33:12 Telltale’s The Walking Dead [source ]
00:34:08 Linux is ‘on the radar’ for Telltale [source ]
Sam & Max [source ]
Tales of Monkey Island [source ]
Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People [source ]
00:36:43 Steam Dev Days [source ]
00:37:50 Doubts about Mantle
00:39:49 Thoughts on OpenGL vs Direct3D 12
00:40:51 ‘Aikidō development’
00:41:07 Turning your Steam Machine into a devkit [source ]
Building for Linux, the smart way [source ]
00:41:48 Steam Dev Days atmosphere
00:42:10 ‘I kind of am afraid that SteamOS will become to Linux gaming what Android is to Linux mobile phones’
SteamLUG Community Stuff
00:45:32 Past Events:
Post-cast Dota 2 [source ]
Nuclear Dawn Release Celebration [source ]
Frozen Synapse [source ]
Counter Strike: Source [source ]
00:47:12 Upcoming Events:
Post-cast Left 4 Dead 2 [source ]
Team Fortress 2 [source ]
Sanctum 2 beta, possibly falling back to Fistful of Frags [source ]
Gear Up [source ]
Other Community Stuff
00:48:02 Cheese wrote a first impressions article on Crypt of The NecroDancer [source ]
Devs undecided on pre-release availability [source ]
Details of NecroDancer giveaways are being disseminated via their newsletter [source ]
NecroDancer themed dance mats [source ]
00:51:08 SteamLUG Fistful of Frags thanks to Spacepope [source ]
00:51:25 The SteamLUG IRC bot has !time and !seen commands and relays new game announcements thanks to Norbert [source ]
00:51:48 Cheese wrote preview of The Fall with some thoughts on what it’s like to be a crowdfunding backer projects [source ]
Release has been rescheduled for May 30th since recording
00:52:10 Corben attended LinuxTag and has written a summary in the forums [source ]
00:52:41 Factorio sales increase [source ]
Steam/Valve News
00:53:14 Steam Hadware and Software Survey stats don’t show significant platform shifts [source ]
Big shift towards Ubuntu 14.04 within Linux numbers
00:55:22 Steam client updates [source ] [source ]
00:56:22 Source SDK Update [source ]
00:56:33 Dota 2 International 4 American Qualifiers have begun [source ]
Compendium offers rewards [source ]
00:57:41 Rich Geldreich’s OpenGL blog posts
The Truth on OpenGL Driver Quality [source ]
Things That Drive Me Nuts About OpenGL [source ]
General Gaming News
00:58:21 Community developers have beaten internal porting efforts to get initial UE4 editor Linux support [source ]
00:59:17 Kentucky Route Zero Act III is out [source ]
01:00:17 Large Assault Android Cactus update [source ]
01:00:45 Correction: Team Liquid were runners up in the Dota 2 TI4 qualifiers [source ]
01:00:59 Killing Floor 2 for Linux has been confirmed [source ]
Port being done by Terry Hendrix II [source ]
01:01:50 Krautscape now has Linux support on Steam Early Access [source ]
01:02:58 Stanley Parable Announcer Pack for Dota 2 [source ]
01:03:32 Tesla Effect launches, Linux client to come soon [source ]
01:04:26 Don’t Starve Together [source ]
01:06:37 Humble Weekly Bundle Platforming [source ]
01:07:09 Humble Daily Bundle
Re-Bundle 8 [source ]
Deep Silver Rebundle [source ]
Other Space Bundle [source ]
Banner Saga Bundle [source ]
01:08:57 Steam releases
01:09:08 Fistful of Frags [source ] (Smokin’ Guns [source ])
01:10:12 BattleBlock Theater [source ]
01:10:41 Hack ’n’ Slash [source ]
01:12:15 Paragon [source ] (mentioned in s02e07 )
01:12:31 Elite [source ]
01:12:52 X3 [source ]
01:13:11 May 14th Greenlight Batch (37 our of 75 with signs of Linux support) [source ]
NAEV [source ]
Zero-K [source ]
Dogfight Elite [source ]
The Maker’s Eden [source ]
Unpossible [source ] (Proun [source ])
Whitewash [source ] (GOL article [source ])
Crowdfunding News
01:17:29 SUPERHOT [source ]
Linux prototype [source ]
SUPERHOT’s 7DFPS profile [source ]
Sign-off
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