SteamLUG Cast

Introduction

00:00:10

ValiantCheese introduces

00:00:18

DerRidda and

00:00:21

HeroOhOne

Our Gaming

00:00:48

HeroOhOne has been playing Nuclear Dawn & DOTA2

00:02:42

DerRidda has been playing Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™ and tinkering with the Godot engine

00:05:16

ValiantCheese has been playing Ark: Survival Evolved, Apotheon, Parallax, Shovel Knight, Magic Circle, Satellite Reign, The Swindle & Airscape

SteamLUG Community Stuff

00:06:35

Past Events

Codename: CURE [source]

Planetary Annihilation [source]

Half-Life: Deathmatch [source]

Mercenary Kings [source]

00:08:47

Upcoming Events

Team Fortress 2 [source]

Sir, You Are Being Hunted Multiplayer [source]

Coffin Dodgers [source]

Terraria [source]

00:10:45

Community member norbert has released a new version of the Prince of Persia level editor, Apoplexy [source]

00:11:52

ValiantCheese has released a demo for Winter's Wake [source]

Valve/Steam News

00:16:30

Valve removed support for suspend in SteamOS [source]

Due to software/hardware issues [source]

00:17:52

More than 1,400 Linux games listed on Steam [source]

Tech News

00:20:27

Vulkan on Android demo [source] [source]

00:22:30

Vulkan on Nvidia video up on the interwebs [source]

00:24:00

Smach Zero (formerly SteamBoy) has release details: late 2016, around $300 USD [source]

00:25:15

nVidia releases Linux Graphics Debugger 1.0 to debug and profile OpenGL 4.x on Linux [source] [source]

00:26:50

HTC Vive is coming to Linux at launch [source]

00:29:39

The Witcher 2 Windows vs Linux (eON) benchmark reveals near performance parity [source] [source]

00:31:02

Similarly, DiRT Showdown, which has just been ported to Linux by VP (eON), has better perf than Windows except with AA on [source] [source]

00:33:17

DebConf 15 (15th ‒ 22th in Heidelberg/Germany) [source]

00:34:39

Wine development release 1.7.49 is now available [source]

DirectWrite is now good enough for rendering text in Steam [source]

00:35:23

PolyKnight Games artist switched from Maya to Blender [source]

General Gaming News

00:43:42

OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood released for Linux/Mac/Win on Steam and GoG [source] [source]

00:44:34

Put your Linux games on a wishlist in the Humble store [source]

00:45:24

Steam store-page for XCOM 2 is up: er...do we care? you can put it on your wishlist now! [source]

00:47:05

Brigador, isometric tactical vehicular combat game is available for pre-order (DRM-free and steam) early access release [source] [source] [source]

00:48:24

RollerCoaster Tycoon World has Linux/SteamOS system requirements listed indicating Linux support [source]

00:49:47

Sentris, a musical performance game released [source]

00:50:55

Terraria out of Steam beta and available drm-free on gog: [source] [source]

00:51:09

Humble Weekly Bundle "The Return of Space Boy" [source]

00:51:44

Humble PC & Android Bundle 13 had several titles for Linux [source]

00:53:13

Company of Heroes 2 arrives on Linux 27th August [source]

No cross-platform multiplayer [source]

00:55:30

GOG.com supporting Linux for over a year and announced new Linux installers [source]

00:57:55

Crypt of the NecroDancer is on GOG for Linux (without Galaxy integration) thanks to dev efforts after community requests [source]

00:59:17

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS released [source]

01:02:58

Airscape has been released (Linux demo should be coming soon) [source]

01:04:45

The Swindle has a Linux beta [source]

01:06:46

Satellite Reign launch is being launched on the 28th

New trailer [source]

01:11:38

Civ: BE Rising Tide gets a new trailer and confirmation of a simultaneous release [source] [source]

Crowdfunding

01:13:24

XO: a retro sci-fi strategy game for Win/Mac/Linux - Soundtrack by Jim Guthrie [source]

01:14:09

Everspace 60%+ funded -> as a thank you: 10 Minutes gameplay video: [source] [source]

Linux now as the first stretch-goal [source]

01:16:22

New crowfunding platform only for video games: [source]

01:19:56

First Fig project: Outer Wilds (also for Linux) [source]

Interview [source]

01:22:45

Aquanox: Deep Descent [source]

FAQ re: Linux Support [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.

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