Introduction
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introduces
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Levi Bard (Tak to the community)
Our Gaming
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DerRidda has been playing Strife (S2 Games), Among the Sleep, Antichamber, Hexcells & Hexcells Plus, Shadowrun: Dragonfall (Director's Cut), Wasteland 2
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Cheese played Another World, Spacebase DF-9, Boson X, Space Run, Hack 'n' Slash, Thinking with Time Machine, Mark of the Ninja, Stranded
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Levi played Gang Beasts, Knight Squad, Assault Android Cactus and Broforce
Chat with special guest Levi Bard of Unity Technologies
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Levi's history with Unity [source ]
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What are you working on that you can share with the community?
00:09:26
What kind of response did you get to the call for gamepad configurations? [source ]
Unity 5 will support SDL2 style gamepad profiles
00:10:06
At what point did you decide you wanted to start bringing Unity to Linux?
Linux support was developed by Levi, Na'Tosha and others during Unity's internal "Fridays Are For Fun" flexible time [source ]
00:12:34
What kind of response did you get to Linux support in Unity?
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General reception from Linux users to the engine?
00:13:37
Is publishing for Linux really a single-button export? [source ]
00:14:12
DerRidda notes the downsides of such easy export capabilities
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Any word on the Unity editor on Linux?
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Would the editor be born of Friday Fun time?
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Other engines targeting Linux for their editors could be incentive to Unity
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Biggest obstacles for Linux support for Unity?
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Is controller support a Linux-specific problem?
00:18:17
Upcoming features in Unity 5 for Linux users? [source ]
Gamepad support and OpenGL improvements are not Linux specific but should be of value
00:19:06
Cheese says thank you from the community for the Unity 4 fixes especially the mouse issues
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What two issues caused the mouse problems?
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What are some of the difficulties identifying issues?
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What can the community do to convince developers to update their games' build of Unity?
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Tips for developers who are reluctant to break existing games by upgrading?
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Levi's favorite game using the engine?
Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut [source ]
Wasteland 2 [source ]
Assault Android Cactus [source ]
Gang Beasts [source ]
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Anything else to share with the community?
00:25:08
DerRidda points out that Levi is a member of the community and can often be found in the #SteamLUG IRC channel [source ]
00:26:00
Community members bring up issues before developers in many cases
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Levi asks what the community would like
00:29:12
Is there a Web Player for Linux?
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Will we see the WebGL version in Unity 5?
Unity WebGL announcement [source ]
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Discussion of browser-based games ensues
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Chat conclusion
SteamLUG Community Stuff
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Past Events
Monaco [source ]
Sanctum 2 [source ]
Team Fortress 2 [source ]
Forced [source ]
00:33:47
Upcoming Events
Frozen Synapse [source ]
No More Room in Hell [source ]
Planetary Annihilation [source ]
Orbital Gear [source ]
00:35:31
DerRidda nudges Cheese to talk about getting an old favorite ported to Linux
00:36:33
Another World launched for Linux [source ]
00:36:49
Cheese jotted down some brief notes about the game [source ]
00:39:27
Cheese waffles about his fanart for Another World [source ]
00:44:26
Fabien Sanglard's Another World code review [source ]
00:44:53
Cheese is looking for perspectives from players who like Another World for a follow up article cheese@twolofbees.com
00:45:25
DoubleFine Game Club will be streaming Stacking with special guest Lee Petty [source ]
Live interview [source ]
00:46:20
psymin posted some guidelines for giving useful feedback to developers [source ]
Valve News
00:47:38
SteamOS talk from DebConf 2014 [source ]
00:49:17
Is targeting one distro really necessary? Or could support be extended to any distro on which the Steam Runtime works?
00:53:59
Valve opened a forum thread in the Steam Universe group regarding feedback on AMD graphics drivers [source ]
Tech News
00:55:26
NVidia releases driver 343.22 with support for latest cards [source ]
General Gaming News
00:57:10
Gaming on Linux article on Another World launch with quotes from [source ]
00:57:26
Spacebase DF-9 will be releasing next month [source ]
01:02:42
Tropico 5 released for Linux [source ]
01:04:22
Humble Indie Bundle 12 released [source ]
01:09:05
Hack 'n' Slash was released with source [source ]
01:11:27
Wasteland 2 released [source ]
01:17:37
Starbound changes ahead [source ]
01:19:32
Chasm devs share Linux screenshots [source ]
01:21:03
Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut released (free for owners of Shadowrun DLC) [source ]
01:22:12
Leadwerks Halloween Game Tournament II (ends October 31st) [source ]
Crowdfunding Items
01:24:18
Totem HMD has Linux support and on-board positional tracking [source ]
Sign-off
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