SteamLUG Cast
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Introduction
- Cheeseness (ValiantCheese)
- Nemoder
- DerRidda (DerRidda)
- Ryan C. Gordon (icculus)
Chat with Ryan C. Gordon
- Ryan’s History [source]
- Loki Games [source] [source]
- Participated in LokiHack [source] [source]
- After demise of Loki Games in 2001, Ryan continued as a contractor, porting games to Linux & Mac OS X
- Working at Loki Games led to the creation of some well‐known open‐source tools like SDL and OpenAL [source] [source]
- SDL being open source has allowed contributions that enable obscure targets like Sega Dreamcast or Haiku [source]
- The Humble Bundle and its Humble Indie Beginnings [source]
- Humble originally hosted on wolfire.com [source]
- Ryan has a recommendation for Braid’s inclusion in the first Humble Indie Bundle
- Valve reaches out to Ryan for assistance porting Steam to Mac OS X [source]
- After Valve reaches their goal for a Mac version, talks of a Linux version of Steam begin
- ‘Get zombies on the screen!’ [source] [source]
- ‘The beginning of a very interesting time in Linux gaming.’
- Ryan’s thoughts on GLNext
- DerRidda asks what Ryan thinks of AMD’s offer to donate code from Mantle to GLNext [source]
- ‘Everything old is new again’ - GLide vs. Direct3D [source]
- Hosts a website that was once intended to act as an incubator for open source projects [source]
- Nemoder asks about goals of icculus.org as a place for linux porters to host code
- Cheeseness invites Ryan to talk about the impact of proprietary services on open source projects
- ‘You don’t really own your data. You definitely don’t own the code.’
- Troubles with avoiding cloud services and hosting your own.
- Ryan’s recent ports: Another World [source]
- Flibitijibibo sends in massive patch for Mojoshader [source]
- Work on Sanctum 2 [source] and Goat Simulator [source]
- Unreal Engine 3 porting difficulties.
- Unreal Engine 4 ‘could be revolutionary this could be a big big difference in how we make AAA games.’
- DerRidda asks about how hard it was to go back to working with UE3 code for newer games.
- Porting stresses for Dungeon Defenders [source]
- Cheeseness asks if Ryan bore the brunt of Unreal Tournament 3’s failure to ship.
- Evropi from chat asks for an explanation on Red Orchestra 2 port status.
- Ryan has many unpaid ports like RO2 on his TODO list.
- Limbo port’s bumpy history [source]
- Dear Esther port and the many faces of Valve’s Source engine [source]
- Insurgency and Stanley Parable not yet on Linux.
- Cheeseness asks what the most significant events for Linux gaming have been.
‘Loki. Humble Bundle. SteamOS. Unreal Engine 4.’
- Ryan discusses John Carmack’s view on id soft's Linux game history.
- John (johndrinkwater) in chat asks how Ryan feels about Valve’s SteamOS controller.
- Flibitijibibo realizes his mic is on and jumps in to talk about Valve’s lack of devkits for the controller.
- DarkSim offers hugs from chat and Cheeseness asks if Ryan gets enough community love.
- Cheeseness asks if post‐port game support is more difficult.
- Evropi from chat asks what the hardest port has been.
- Ryan talks about building Unreal 2003 on the first experimental 64bit AMD machines.
- Ryan quotes original Descent developers ‘not a single line of this code is worth looking at’
- Quake3 Arena code quality praised: [source]
- Cheeseness asks what can game devs do to make a port easier
- Middleware issues with Shank [source] [source]
- LinuxZen from chat asks about the origin of the name Icculus
- Cheeseness asks who ends up maintaining ports.
- Ryan wants Psychonauts updated for SDL2 [source]
SteamLUG Community Stuff
- Past Events
- Team Fortress 2 [source]
- Altitude [source]
- BattleBlock Theatre [source]
- Fistful of Frags [source]
- Future Events
- Double Action: Boogaloo (post‐cast) [source]
- Guns of Icarus Online [source]
- Worms Reloaded [source]
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive [source]
- Spacepope has put up a bunch of Don’t Starve Together Servers [source]
- johndrinkwater has been putting a bunch of work into the new SteamLUG community website – feedback welcome! [source]
- Double Fine Game Club is playing Grim Fandango with special guests Bret Mogilefsky, Brandon Dillon and Oliver Franzke [source]
- dscharrer has put together a fix for ALSA users running Grim Fandango [source]
- tergat is involved with organising the RMLL (Recontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre – Libre Software Meeting) which takes place in Beauvais, France in July. A call for papers has just been released for anybody who might be interested [source] [source]
- Cheeseness is stepping down from ownership and administrative duties with the SteamLUG to focus on game development and writing [source] [source] [source] [source]
Tech News
- Two more glNext sessions at GDC [source]
General Gaming News
- flibitijibibo has released another ported game for Linux, Bleed [source] [source]
- flibitijibibo used FNA to port this game in 78 seconds [source] [source]
- Don’t Starve Together beta now has official Linux support [source]
- Dead Island gets an update that fixes the loot issues and reduces the executable size [source]
- A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build to be released this month [source]
- Hand of Fate is now out (Morgan Jaffit will be joining us as a special guest for a future episode) [source]
- Toonstruck is now available on GOG with Linux support via ScummVM [source]
- The Book Of Unwritten Tales 2 released [source]
- Linux specific updates for Metro Redux Games fix a crash issue and other updates [source] [source]
- Dying Light 1.4.0 patch fixes a cross‐platform messaging issue and the ability to turn off motion blur [source]
- Cities: Skylines release date set for March 10 [source] [source]
Crowdfunding News
- Underworld Ascendant moves Linux from stretch goal to base deliverable (with a delayed release) [source]
Farewell thoughts
- DerRidda suggests getting together again after Steam Machines are reality
Sign‐off
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