Introduction
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introduces
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bean ()
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Sanatana Mishra ()
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Tim Dawson ()
Our Gaming
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has been playing Crypt of the Necrodancer, Assault Android Cactus, Airscape and testing some Megasphere
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bean () has been playing The Stanley Parable, Crimsonland, Coffin Dodgers, Risk of Rain, Monster Loves You! and Assault Android Cactus
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has been playing Verdun, Risk of Rain, Crimsonland and Arma 3
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has been playing DOTA 2 and some games at expos and conventions
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hasn't had a lot of time but has been playing some Persona Q on the Nintendo 3DS and some Dungeon League
Chat With Special Guest Tim Dawson and Sanatana (Nart) Mishra of Witch Beam Games
00:07:11
The elevator pitch for Assault Android Cactus [source ]
00:09:18
A little background on Tim
Started work as a cinematic artist for Ratbag Games [source ]
After that, went to Team Bondi doing character work on LA Noire [source ]
Moved on to Pandemic Studios and worked on a cancelled movie tie-in [source ]
Met Sanatana while working at Creative Assembly [source ]
Left their jobs in February 2013 to pursue independent development of Assault Android Cactus
00:15:13
Tim talks about the genesis of the Cactus character [source ]
First Cactus artwork created in 2003
The other characters were created during the course of the game's development
00:18:51
Assault Android Cactus' relation to Antibody Boost [source ]
Came out after work on Assault Android Cactus had begun
Was released entirely free on Android [source ]
00:26:20
Thoughts on Early Access development of Assault Android Cactus
00:28:45
Reaction from players during Early Access was very positive
Daily Drive was a result of watching players during Early Access
00:31:20
Tim talks about creating the boss battles in Assault Android Cactus
00:33:17
Some interesting insight into large game development
00:35:06
Nart highlights some interesting milestones of Assault Android Cactus' development
00:36:34
Some moments that Tim found particularly interesting
00:39:20
Tim addresses the question of new players having a different experience than Early Access players
00:43:33
Cactus' main mechanic, "Aggression is life," separates it from other games in the genre
00:51:55
The launch trailer gives a first look at Assault Android Cactus' opening cutscene [source ]
00:54:31
New EX modes in the official launch, like MEGA WEAPONS and the awful, awful normal-sized head mode [source ]
01:04:17
The release from Early Access includes a secret ninth unlockable Android
01:12:32
Hurdles during development and how they were overcome to get the game to release
01:16:34
Some real surprises during the course of development
Appearance in the Steam Controller advertisement [source ]
Community member Sylaris wrote a comprehensive game guide [source ]
01:24:54
The future for Witch Beam Games
SteamLUG Community Stuff
01:33:57
Past Events
Team Fortress 2 [source ]
Sir, You are Being Hunted Multiplayer [source ]
Coffin Dodgers [source ]
Terraria [source ]
01:36:13
Upcoming Events
Teeworlds [source ]
Seriously Casual Serious Sam 3: BFE [source ]
Hammerwatch [source ]
No More Room in Hell [source ]
01:36:41
xPaw has made it possible to filter by OS in SteamDB's calculator [source ]
01:36:56
published his Planetary Annihilation unboxing video [source ]
01:37:24
chatted with Airscape developers Daniel West and Dieter Theuns [source ]
01:37:57
did a second Winter's Wake dev stream [source ]
01:38:10
published a retrospective on being an Assault Android Cactus Early Access player [source ]
01:40:08
Upcoming guests
Simon Roth ()- Developer of Maia [source ]
Aaron San Filippo () - Developer of Race the Sun [source ]
Question () - Developers of The Magic Circle [source ]
Valve/Steam News
01:40:39
Steam Music in beta client adds more formats including FLAC and OGG Vorbis [source ]
01:41:04
Big list of Steam Machines on PC World [source ]
Tech News
01:42:27
Wine 1.7.50 released - preliminary implementation of DirectX 11 [source ]
01:43:08
nVidia GTX 950 is out [source ]
01:43:33
Unity editor comes to Linux - experimental build now available [source ]
General Gaming News
01:46:55
Duskers released to Early Access [source ]
01:48:05
Megasphere Early Access (Steam and itch.io) release with Linux support [source ]
01:48:19
Universe Sandbox 2 in Early Access [source ]
01:48:35
Project Cars news update, apparently the release is still coming, will be native [source ]
01:49:00
Rocket League coming to SteamOS later this year [source ]
01:50:37
Satellite Reign released out of Early Access [source ]
01:52:04
Arma 3 is in beta [source ]
01:52:58
Previous guest JP LeBreton has released a small example project using Playscii [source ] [source ]
01:53:37
Double Fine have announced a new game - might have a Linux version [source ]
01:54:13
Obsidian Entertainment have spoken about their experiences with supporting Linux [source ] [source ] [source ]
01:55:02
Starbound's Colony Update [source ] [source ]
01:55:44
Armello is out of early access [source ] [source ]
Crowdfunding
01:56:49
Everspace unlocked Linux stretch goal [source ]
Sign-off
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