SteamLUG Cast

Elegant Diagonal Refunds edited by Corben78

Season 03, Episode 11

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Published
Hosts
Tele (Tele42) ValiantCheese bean
Special Guests
Aaron Melcher Ethan Lee

Description

Aaron Melcher stops by to chat about porting games to Linux and our hosts have a discussion about Steam refunds

Clean language

80.1 MB Ogg 100.19 MB MP3 YOUTUBE

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Shownotes written by bean

Introduction

Tele (Tele42) introduces , bean () and special guest,

Our Gaming

bean ()
Destroyed wave after wave of malfunctioning robots in Assault Android Cactus [source]
Wished for human combatants while pummelling bots in top-down Q3/UT-inspired arena shooter, Daedalus - No Escape [source]
Got his steampunk fix in the team-focused multiplayer airship combat game Guns of Icarus Online [source]
Relived his driving exam by exploding and being exploded in the action racer BlazeRush [source]
Led a conga line of RPG characters into the arena for the honor of #SteamLUG in Nimble Quest [source]
Avenged the death of the last human in twin-stick shooter Ultratron [source]
Shifted between the worlds of light and dark to defeat the forces of chaos in the 2D puzzle platformer Outland [source]
Destroyed some evil robots for killing off mankind in Ultratron [source]
Raced against the clock, other racers and death by rolling grindy rock in BlazeRush [source]
Stared in awe at MASSIVE CHALICE and created some fanart for the game [source] [source]
Tele (Tele42)
Took to the skies to fight enemy airships for the glory of SteamLUG in the semi-weekly Guns of Icarus Online practice events [source]
Cracked some skulls, stalked some minions as the Dark Knight in Batman: Arkham Asylum [source]
Relaxed after porting Shadow Warrior with the ultra-violent, ultra-stylish action of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number [source]
Wandered the world as a bowman with a single arrow, slaying giant bosses in the stylish Titan Souls [source]

Chat with Special Guest Aaron Melcher ()

's background [source] [source]
Attended Full Sail University
Went to work for AMI, manufacturers of bartop video games porting titles like Luxor and Chainz to a custom Red Hat distribution [source]
Moved to Boston and found work with DoubleTap porting between various platforms, console and desktop [source]
Worked at Turbine, Inc. porting Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online to Mac [source]
Left Turbine to branch out on his own as a contractor, worked on HOARD for Humble Bundle [source]
Was part of the Boston Chapter of the IGDA [source] [source]
Porting HOARD to Linux was first solo porting experience and first to Linux
Discussion of responsibility for post-release support of ports
After HOARD, some engine and renderer work for Snapshot [source]
La-Mulana is second port started for Linux, ported from Japanese codebase [source]
After porting Democracy 3 to iOS, began porting Braid to multiple platforms [source]
Ported Outland from consoles to Windows, Mac and Linux including adding Steamworks integration [source]
asks about the inclusion of the XNA Effects Framework in Outland [source]
Super Splatters was made easier to port to Linux due to the foundational work of the original developer [source] [source]
Next big port is Shadow Warrior, home to the best codebase Aaron has seen [source]
The porting work for Quadrilateral Cowboy has already been done [source]
Mighty No. 9 confirmed for Linux [source]
SOMA is also being ported to Linux [source]
has something to say about your code and it's not elegant [source] [source]
Vessel is a good example of elegant code [source]
What game would port if he had the chance? Age of Empires II HD [source]
What platform do you primarily work on? What benefits do you derive from it?
What does your Linux environment look like?
The benefits of early testing on a variety of hardware

SteamLUG Community Stuff

Past Events
Fistful of Frags [source]
Battleblock Theater [source]
Awesomenauts [source]
Upcoming Events
Outland [source]
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel [source]

Steam/Valve News

"Does anyone have an opinion on Steam Refunds?" [source]
Indie developers provide their reactions to the new policy
Puppy Games [source]
Retro Remakes [source]
Peter Moorhead [source]
Licensing can be tricky and some games may lend themselves to performance licenses [source]
Dota 2 Source 2 DLC depots [source]
Steam Hardware now available for preorder [source]
Valve is shipping the HTC Vive Developer Edition [source] [source]

Tech News

SDL2 2.0.4 release approaches [source]
Unreal Engine 4 native Linux editor marked as "complete" on trello [source]
It is "ready for early access" and they are asking for users to help test [source]
#UE4Linux on freenode IRC
Unreal Engine 4.8 released with tons of fixes and new features [source]
Experimental "desktop" target platform which exports Win/Mac/Linux in a single directory
Speedtree is now useable on Linux
RAD game tools never cause issues on Linux [source]
Aaron Melcher is having difficulty porting something using the Play First SDK [source]
GOG.com has added Cyberia 2 Resurrection: [source]
See the latest Linux games on GOG by sorting by date added [source]
Blender Game Asset Creation video tutorial on Steam [source]
Also available on Blender Cloud [source]
XCOM 2 announced for November, Linux port by Feral [source] [source] [source]
Massive Chalice released [source] [source] [source]
With documentary, Massive Knowledge [source]
Steel Storm: Burning Retribution receives beta updates [source]
Humble Indie Bundle: All-Stars
World of Goo, Super Meat Boy, Dustforce DX. BTA: Dungeon Defenders Collection, LIMBO, Braid. BTA + $1: Risk of Rain, Antichamber
Shadow Warrior 2 lists Linux system requirements [source]
Wizorb, Wyv and Keep released on Steam [source] [source] [source]

Crowdfunding

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night [source]
Koji Igarashi, spiritual successor to Castlevania
Funded within hours
The Bard's Tale IV [source]
Perception [source]
Horror game as a blind woman, with a sonar-like vision
Linux/Mac as a stretch goal, $175,000
Power Drive 2000 met its goal [source]

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