John, DerRidda, and Nemoder discuss exciting developments from the 2015 Game Developer’s Conference.

Introduction

  • 00:00:09 John (@johndrinkwater)
  • 00:00:23 DerRidda (@DerRidda)
  • 00:00:25 Nemoder ([https://steamcommunity.com/id/Nemoder])

Our Gaming

  • 00:00:31 DerRidda has been playing FTL, Hand of Fate, CS:GO and the unreleased ‘Reformat Your System Simulator 2015’
  • 00:00:48 Nemoder has been playing some Factorio, the daily challenges in Crypt of the Necrodancer and some Worms: Clan Wars
  • 00:01:00 John played some CS:GO during the event, yet mostly has been in pre‐launch testing of Hotline Miami 2.

Community Events

  • 00:01:23 Past Events
  • CS: GO [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116300968916230728]
  • Worms: Reloaded [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116300968916230624]
  • Don’t Starve Together [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/117428735664117739]
  • Guns of Icarus Online [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116300968916221397]
  • Double Action: Boogaloo [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116300968916221302]
  • 00:05:17 Upcoming events
  • War Thunder [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116303508712702396]
  • Robocraft [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116303508712702541]
  • HOARD [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116303508712710006]
  • Borderlands 2 [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116303508712710134]

GDC News Spotlight

  • 00:06:40 Game Developer’s Conference 2015 [http://www.gdconf.com/]
  • 00:07:18 Before GDC, HTC + Valve announced VR Headset at the Mobile World Congress [https://twitter.com/rockpapershot/status/572160781665640448]
  • Ars Technica has a hands‐on report [http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/03/hands-on-valvehtc-vive-opens-up-the-virtual-reality-experience/]
  • PC Gamer’s take on SteamVR [http://www.pcgamer.com/steamvr-hands-on-valve-overtakes-oculus/]
  • Portal‐themed demo on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKK74Wh-J10]
  • Valve talks about ‘advanced VR rendering’ [http://www.roadtovr.com/valve-talks-advanced-vr-rendering-live-blog-5pm-pst/]
  • 00:15:20 Valve issued a big press release and SteamDB had the full copy [https://steamdb.info/blog/source2-announcement/] [http://store.steampowered.com/news/16000/?snr=1_550_552]
  • 00:15:41 Steam has grown another 50% in the last 12 months
  • 00:16:00 Several new bits of hardware available in November
  • SteamLink streaming device [http://store.steampowered.com/app/353380]
  • Steam Controller [http://store.steampowered.com/app/353370]
  • IGN has some thoughts on the controller [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdMe4mHUH2c]
  • Steam Machines from a variety of partners [http://store.steampowered.com/sale/steam_machines]
  • Developer versions of the VR headset to be available Spring this year
  • 00:22:44 The successor to OpenGL has been revealed: Vulkan is here [https://www.khronos.org/vulkan]
  • AMD gave Khronos a kickstart by handing them Mantle
  • Video of Khronos Panel near GDC [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUNMrU8uU5M]
  • One API for Desktop and Mobile
  • NVIDIA and AMD both had demos on their respective hardware
  • Valve had a demo of Dota 2 running on Intel Graphics
  • 00:30:10 Unreal Engine has dropped the monthly subscription fee for access to the source code [https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/ue4-is-free]
  • 00:31:22 NVIDIA has made the source to PhysX available via GitHub [https://developer.nvidia.com/content/latest-physx-source-code-now-available-free-github]
  • 00:32:25 Unity 5 Personal Edition with all features of the engine available is free [http://unity3d.com/get-unity]
  • 00:33:52 Source 2 has been announced as free to developers so long as the title ships through Steam [http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/237944/Valve_debuts_Source_2_for_free_in_bid_to_compete_with_Epic_Unity.php]

Steam/Valve News

  • 00:37:34 A whole slew of best‐selling games are coming to SteamOS [http://store.steampowered.com/universe/games/]
  • Evolve [http://store.steampowered.com/app/273350/]
  • Dying Light [http://store.steampowered.com/app/239140]
  • Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor [http://store.steampowered.com/app/241930/]
  • Total War: ATTILA [http://store.steampowered.com/app/325610]
  • Batman: Arkham Knight [http://store.steampowered.com/app/208650/]
  • Payday 2 [http://store.steampowered.com/app/218620/]
  • Saint’s Row IV [http://store.steampowered.com/app/206420/]
  • GRID Autosport [http://store.steampowered.com/app/255220/]
  • Company of Heroes 2 [http://store.steampowered.com/app/231430/]
  • 00:42:07 Valve has listed the soon to be available Steam Machines [http://store.steampowered.com/sale/steam_machines]

General Gaming News

  • 00:50:31 Frozenbyte announces Trine 3 [https://twitter.com/Frozenbyte/status/572366960270413824] [https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/trine-3-announcement-and-trailer-analysis.5032]
  • Frozenbyte’s Lauri Hyvärinen about Linux support: ‘It’s alive and well. It’s coming for sure.’
  • 00:51:42 Worms: Clan Wars released [https://twitter.com/WormsTeam17/status/572471701897928704] [http://store.steampowered.com/app/233840/]
  • 00:52:15 Mad Max from Avalanche Studios will be coming to Linux [https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/mad-max-from-avalanche-studios-confirmed-for-linux.5043]
  • 00:53:55 Torchlight II available for Linux [https://twitter.com/RunicGames/status/573184886221115392] [http://store.steampowered.com/app/200710/]
  • 00:54:55 Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number and Cities: Skylines to be released on the 10th [http://store.steampowered.com/app/274170/] [http://store.steampowered.com/app/255710/]
  • 00:55:29 Rex Rocket (another @flibitijibibo port) has had its Linux release [http://store.steampowered.com/app/288020/]

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