Introduction
00:00:09 Cheese introduces
00:00:16 DerRidda
00:00:18 Nemoder [source ]
00:00:20 Josh Klint
00:00:26 Our Mumble server misbehaved during the recording, apologies in advance for all of the issues you may encounter during the listening of this cast
00:00:35 Sadly John couldn’t join us today (he passes on his apologies)
Our Gaming
00:00:46 DerRidda played Dota 2, FTL, Rising Storm
00:00:57 Nemoder played Factorio, A Tale in the Desert, Guns of Icarus
00:01:05 Cheese played The Fall, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Guns of Icarus Online, Sanctum 2, Worms: Reloaded, Synergy, FTL, Nuclear Dawn, Neverball.
00:01:31 Josh played Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, L4D2
Chat With Special Guest Josh Klint from Leadwerks
00:02:21 Leadwerks in a nutshell [source ]
00:03:38 XCode [source ]
Code::Blocks [source ]
Visual Studio [source ]
00:04:04 History of Leadwerks
00:05:31 What made supporting Linux attractive?
00:06:45 Leadwerks’ Kickstarter campaign (211% funded) [source ]
00:07:39 Crowdfunding response
Canonical [source ]
LinuxCon [source ]
00:09:21 Estimating your funding goal on Kickstarter
00:09:57 Linux support
OpenGL 4 renderer for Leadwerks 3.1 [source ]
AMD/ATi [source ]
NVIDIA [source ]
Intel HD Graphics [source ]
00:11:21 Porting hurdles/pleasant surprises?
OpenGL [source ]
GTK+ [source ]
Qt [source ]
GTK+ 3 [source ]
00:13:44 Projects using Leadwerks engine
Steam page [source ]
Hoodwink [source ]
Combat Helo [source ]
Dangerous Rays [source ]
00:14:55 Leadwerks availability
Leadwerks [source ]
Steam page [source ]
Ubuntu Software Center [source ]
00:16:21 Thoughts about the competition (UE3, CryEngine) changing to very aggressive pricing policies.
Unreal Engine [source ]
CryEngine [source ]
00:18:33 Blender Plug-in
00:19:44 How do you approach the challenge of supporting a wide range of Linux distributions?
00:21:32 Do you intend to target Steam Runtime in the near future?
Steam Runtime [source ]
00:23:03 Taking advantage of Steam Workshop and the sharing capabilities within the Steam platform
Steam Workshop [source ]
00:30:23 Technical level required to approach Leadwerks Engine
SteamLUG Community Stuff
00:33:08 Past Events:
Guns of Icarus Online (post-cast event with over four full ships - played for 12 hours with people dropping in and out) [source ]
Little Racers STREET (fun event, some lag issues) [source ]
Worms: Reloaded [source ]
Synergy (full HL2 run plus some HLe1) [source ]
00:35:43 Upcoming Events:
Post cast Dota 2 [source ]
Nuclear Dawn release celebration event [source ]
CS: Source [source ]
Other Community Stuff
00:36:14 A number of people participated in Ludum Dare [source ]
Tigge worked on a diving game [source ]
00:36:36 Game Club had Marco Rosenberg from King Art join us to chat about BoUT [source ]
The Book of Unwritten Tales [source ]
00:36:44 Game Club will be playing Spy Fox (kid oriented point and click adventure with Linux support) [source ]
Spy Fox in ‘Dry Cereal’ [source ]
Steam/Valve News
00:37:01 Large client update [source ]
00:37:42 Cheese had the opportunity to have a go of SteamVR
SteamVR [source ]
Oculus Joins Facebook [source ] (mentioned previously on s02e07 )
Facebook’s Oculus acquisition Press Release [source ]
General Gaming News
00:46:03 HIB weekly sale [source ]
Awesomenauts, Rocketbirds. Sanctum 2 has Linux beta but not listed in the sale
00:46:27 Note: When Cheeseness says ‘There’s nothing in this bundle’, he actually said ‘There’s nothing *new* in this bundle’ but the ‘new’ got lost due to Mumble issues
00:47:45 Shadowrun weekend Steam sale [source ]
00:48:39 Hack ’n’ Slash trailer, Steam Early Access on 6th [source ]
00:51:29 Factorio trailer [source ]
00:52:21 Crypt of the NecroDancer will have Linux builds for pre-orderers super soon [source ]
‘FYI,we support Linux because we <3 Linux. Linux games usually don’t sell enough to justify the extra effort but we do it anyway out of love!’ [source ]
00:54:29 The Fall will be released on June 1st [source ]
Backer-only update [source ]
00:56:14 Neverball has a new release soon (next week most likely) [source ]
Neverball 1.6.0 release notes [source ]
00:57:51 Escape Goat 2 has strong Linux stats after first month [source ]
Rust [source ]
Garry’s Mod [source ]
01:02:19 Unreal 4.1 has Linux publishing support (editor still coming) [source ]
01:03:50 Borderlands 2 Linux hype [source ] [source ]
Gearbox Software [source ]
01:05:41 Full Bore part 2 coming soon [source ] [source ]
Steam releases
01:06:02 Freddi Fish and Luther’s Water Worries [source ]
Freddi Fish 2: The Cave of the Haunted Schoolhouse [source ]
Spy Fox 2 [source ]
Putt-Putt and Pep’s Dog on a Stick [source ]
The Last Federation [source ]
Wing IDE (python IDE) [source ]
Nekro entered Early Access [source ]
Jagged Alliance 1: Gold Edition [source ]
Out of the Park Baseball 15 [source ]
Broken Sword 5 Episode 2 [source ]
01:11:13 Steam Greenlight April 29th Batch [source ]
43 out of 75 titles mentioning Linux support
Flashout 2 [source ]
Outcast Reboot HD (unlikely to meet its primary Kickstarter goal nor its Linux stretch goal) [source ]
CHAOS - In the Darkness [source ]
Nikki and the Robots [source ]
Source [source ]
The Universim [source ]
Crowdfunding
01:14:48 The Universim [source ]
Spore [source ]
01:18:41 Last Life [source ]
Sign off
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