SteamLUG Cast

Introduction

00:00:10

ValiantCheese introduces

00:00:16

bean (beansmyname)

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Hero (HeroOhOne)

00:00:21

with special guest, Morgan Jaffit (morganjaffit) of Defiant Development

Our Gaming

00:01:03

Bean got through Hand of Fate, Hoard, Guns of Icarus: Online, Torchlight 2, Counter‐Strike: Global Offensive, Journey of a Roach, and finally… Assault Android Cactus

00:01:29

Hero has been playing Hand of Fate, Guns of Icarus: Online, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Distance, Torchlight 2, and Star Wars: Jedi Academy running in the FOSS client [source]

00:02:12

Cheese has had a small amount of time to play Hand of Fate, Assault Android Cactus, Crypt of the Necrodancer, and Shovel Knight and Worms: Clan Wars

00:02:52

Morgan played a tonne of Card Crawl

Chat with Morgan Jaffit

00:03:46

Background

Irrational, Relic, Ubisoft, A2M (Artificial Mind and Movement), Pandemic

Set up Defiant Development as they saw an opening in the market

Been working on Hand of Fate for last two years

00:05:59

Hand of Fate development timeline

00:08:47

Early access experience

00:10:00

Is HoF a CCG?

00:14:23

Inspirations

00:17:29

Release reception

17th February

00:18:40

ValiantCheese discloses his relationship with Defiant Development

00:20:00

Setting expectations

00:23:22

Being approachable to consumers

00:24:40

Feedback makes for a better game, better controller input support

00:26:03

Early access helped improve supported systems

00:27:41

What drove the cross-platform strategy

Rumored upcoming mobile hardware with controllers

Evolved during early access beyond mobile focus

Unity good multiplatform tool for that goal

00:30:41

How long Defiant Development has used Unity

00:31:45

Thoughts on updating to Unity 5

00:35:00

Contributing upstream to resolve Unity issues for Linux users

00:35:57

Feedback on Linux community

Linux users provide useful feedback, report bugs that can lead to resolution of upstream issues

00:38:21

Upcoming content updates to Hand of Fate

First DLC introduces new ways to approach the gameplay

More cards, more quest chains

00:39:52

Deck building's impact on Hand of Fate's gameplay and flow

Some cards are difficult and intended for token hunters

00:43:22

The design of Hand of Fate's difficulty and story progression

00:46:36

Communicating mechanics and story through game elements

00:48:00

Upcoming DLC free for Kickstarter backers and Early Access purchasers

Backers likely to get all DLC

00:50:09

Differences between the digital and physical version of the game

00:52:52

Player perspectives on Hand of Fate

00:57:02

Morgan's aviary awakes

00:58:48

Further thoughts on Early Access

01:00:37

Discussions on token hunting in Hand of Fate

01:04:24

How Defiant Development defined the character of The Dealer

01:10:13

Morgan's favorite bit of Hand of Fate

01:14:32

The Dealer finds his voice

01:15:48

Morgan's favorite game

Community Stuff

01:17:19

Past Events

War Thunder

Robocraft

Hoard

Borderlands 2

01:17:50

Upcoming Events

Frozen Cortex

7 Days to Die

Hammerwatch

King Arthur's Gold

01:18:07

The new SteamLUG site is now live and testing continues on the staging server [source] [source]

New Mumble tree (coincides with new address: mumble.steamlug.org)

Streaming page for SteamLUG members who stream on twitch or hitbox

Steam Authentication for polls and future features

Hosting provided by Corben78

01:19:46

Double Fine Game Club played Spy Fox 2 (joined by Sandy Spangler and Leah Verre) [source]

Steam / Valve News

01:21:04

Over 1,000 Linux games on Steam

Which one was #1,000? [source] [source]

Makes up over 20% of Steam's available library

Tech News

01:22:30

Valve's GDC talks are now available online [source] [source]

01:22:49

NVIDIA announces high-powered, high-priced Linux-powered development box [source]

Designed for deep learning research or other GPU-intensive tasks

Four Titan X GPUs

Pre-installed Ubuntu 14.04

01:24:17

NVIDIA releases CUDA 7.0 with Linux x86 and POWER8 support [source]

General Gaming News

01:24:49

Cities: Skyline has been released [source]

01:26:07

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number released [source]

johndrinkwater and soeb_ helped with testing the port to Linux

01:27:11

Dying Light gets another patch with some Linux-specific improvements [source] [source]

AMD Radeon support added

Performance improved significantly

Fixed a few other crashes & glitches

01:28:21

Spec Ops: The Line shows signs of Linux activity [source] [source]

01:29:33

Outland has been released for Linux [source] [source]

01:30:04

Bioshock: Infinite [source]

Released by Virtual Programming using eON technology, same as Witcher 2

01:31:25

Humble PC & Android Bundle 12 includes a few Linux games

Tetrobot & Co [source]

Titan Attacks [source]

The Inner World (Linux debut) [source]

VVVVVV [source]

Costume Quest [source]

Ironclad Tactics [source]

Shadowrun Returns [source]

01:32:35

GOG releases another group of LucasArts point-and-click adventures including Zak McCracken, The Dig and Loom

Crowdfunding

01:35:03

Descent: Underground will include Linux support

Sign-off

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