SteamLUG Cast

Introduction

00:00:14

Cheese ValiantCheese introduces

00:00:15

Sword swordfischer

00:00:17

John johndrinkwater

00:00:22

Matthew Hartman Keyvias Public relations specialist of Muse Games

00:00:25

Howard Tsao howardctsao CEO of Muse Games

Chat w/ Howard Tsao and Matthew Hartman of Muse Games, Guns of Icarus: Online

00:00:30

What is Muse Games? [source]

00:03:46

Evolution of Unity over time (usability, robustness, platform compatibility)

00:05:49

Experience with deploying Unity games on other platforms

00:07:00

Exporting Linux builds in Unity

00:08:43

Unity Issue Tracker [source]

00:09:45

Crowdfunding experiences

00:11:09

Guns of Icarus Online (352% funded) [source]

00:11:33

GoIO Adventure Mode (198% funded) [source]

00:12:23

Guns of Icarus Online Adventure Mode

00:15:34

Development timeframe

00:16:38

Any chance of CreaVures or Guns of Icarus Classic coming to Linux?

00:17:34

Feedback from Linux players regarding GoIO

00:20:39

GoIO Flash Sale (66% off) on the Steam Holiday Sale Day 1 [source]

PewDiePie’s video about Guns of Icarus Online [source]

Daily Deal [source]

Be Mine 11 [source]

00:21:44

New types of combat/encounters

00:22:51

PAX East [source]

00:23:22

PAX Australia [source]

00:23:47

Eurogamer Expo [source]

00:25:18

gamescom [source]

00:26:26

Working remotely at Muse Games

00:27:12

How to reward and encourage teamwork among players

00:32:33

Steam Dev Days [source]

00:36:32

Oculus Rift support for Guns of Icarus Online

Our Gaming

00:38:30

Cheese has been playing Little Racers STREET, Guns of Icarus, Spelunky, The Plan, Hoard, Starbound, Surgeon Simulator, Octodad, Papers Please

00:41:00

Sword has been playing Rogue Legacy, CS:GO (using Steam In-Home streaming)

00:45:31

John has been playing TF2 and DOTA 2, Estranged Act 1, Guacamelee, Pixeljunk Shooter, Toki Tori, Hoard, Painkiller: Hell & Damnation, Portal 2, and CS BombGame with Xpoo

SteamLUG Community Stuff

00:47:17

Past Events:

Post-cast Dota 2 [source]

Overview of the matches [source] [source] [source]

L4D2 [source]

CS: S [source]

Hoard [source]

00:47:46

Upcoming Events:

Post-cast Guns of Icarus Online [source]

Worms: Reloaded [source]

No More Room In Hell [source]

Other Community Stuff:

00:48:09

Cheese wrote an article about managing LUGs and community groups [source]

00:48:51

SteamLUG Starbound server on the way thanks to Nemoder [source]

00:49:38

Cheese is coordinating a Double Fine community project to bring one of the unsuccessful Amnesia Fortnight pitches into reality (targeting Linux) [source]

Steam/Valve News

00:51:34

Steam for Linux turns one! (57 titles on launch, 230 in November to over 300) [source] [source]

00:52:44

GitHub activity

00:52:53

Steamworks VR API [source]

00:55:35

Steam Dev Days videos now available [source]

Steam Dev Days YouTube playlist [source]

00:57:16

Steam tags [source]

00:58:26

Steam Tags: The Game [source]

01:00:22

Linux/SteamOS removed from Steam Store main menu bar

01:01:23

Client update includes fixes some streaming crashes [source]

01:01:31

SteamOS updates [source]

Mysterious upcoming feature [source]

Greenlight News

01:02:50

February 19th Greenlight titles [source]

01:02:55

Krita (GPL2 paint program) [source] [source]

01:03:33

Circuits [source]

01:03:57

TRI [source]

01:04:34

Hover: Revolt of Gamers [source]

General Gaming News

01:05:00

New Steam Releases:

Guacamelee [source]

The Swapper [source]

Little Racers STREET [source]

Papers Please [source]

Journal [source]

01:17:00

NS2 update {contains linux fixes for OOM + gtk errors on non-gtks} [source]

01:17:19

Nuclear Dawn stuck in beta, InterWave went out of business [source]

01:20:05

Mysterious Crytek SDK depot [source]

01:22:38

Godot Engine has now been open sourced (MIT licenced) [source]

01:23:51

Broken Age DRM free downloads are now available to backers/Humble purchasers [source]

01:25:05

Mode details on FTL’s upcoming expansion (new systems, ‘Hard’ mode) [source]

01:26:55

Humble stuff

Last Humble Weekly Sale: IndieCade; half supported linux, And Yet It Moves, Luxuria Superbia, Dear Esther [source]

Current Humble Weekly Sale: Adventure Company and Friends (3 out of 12 titles support Linux); The Raven, BoUT and BoUT:CC [source]

Humble Indie Bundle 11: Guacamelee, Dust, The Swapper, Antichamber, Monaco and Giana Sisters (Linux port coming ¿later this year¿) [source]

Crowdfunding

01:29:07

StarCrawlers - sci-fi first person roguelike [source]

01:29:47

Tabletop Simulator [source]

01:32:07

Book of Unwritten Tales 2 [source]

Sign off

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