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