Cheese, DerRidda and Nemoder have a humble chat with epic game porter, Ryan C. Gordon, followed by discussion of news relevant to the SteamLUG community.

Introduction

  • 00:00:16 Cheeseness (@ValiantCheese)
  • 00:00:17 Nemoder
  • 00:00:20 DerRidda (@DerRidda)
  • 00:00:24 Ryan C. Gordon (@icculus)

Chat with Ryan C. Gordon

  • 00:00:49 Ryan’s History [http://icculus.org/resume]
  • 00:01:21 Loki Games [http://lokigames.com/] [https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki_Software]
  • 00:01:42 Participated in LokiHack [http://www.lokigames.com/hack/] [http://www.lokigames.com/hack/patches.html]
  • 00:03:20 After demise of Loki Games in 2001, Ryan continued as a contractor, porting games to Linux & Mac OS X
  • 00:03:34 Working at Loki Games led to the creation of some well‐known open‐source tools like SDL and OpenAL [http://libsdl.org] [http://www.openal-soft.org/]
  • 00:06:32 SDL being open source has allowed contributions that enable obscure targets like Sega Dreamcast or Haiku [http://haiku-os.org]
  • 00:09:29 The Humble Bundle and its Humble Indie Beginnings [https://humblebundle.com]
  • 00:09:38 Humble originally hosted on wolfire.com [http://wolfire.com]
  • 00:10:27 Ryan has a recommendation for Braid’s inclusion in the first Humble Indie Bundle
  • 00:15:55 Valve reaches out to Ryan for assistance porting Steam to Mac OS X [https://valvesoftware.com]
  • 00:17:33 After Valve reaches their goal for a Mac version, talks of a Linux version of Steam begin
  • 00:18:14 ‘Get zombies on the screen!’ [http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/steamd-penguins/] [http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/]
  • 00:19:49 ‘The beginning of a very interesting time in Linux gaming.’
  • 00:20:33 Ryan’s thoughts on GLNext
  • 00:23:36 DerRidda asks what Ryan thinks of AMD’s offer to donate code from Mantle to GLNext [http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/amd-working-closely-with-khronos-group-on-nextgen-opengl-gives-mantle-access.4157]
  • 00:25:35 ‘Everything old is new again’ - GLide vs. Direct3D [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glide_API]
  • 00:29:33 Hosts a website that was once intended to act as an incubator for open source projects [http://icculus.org]
  • 00:33:18 Nemoder asks about goals of icculus.org as a place for linux porters to host code
  • 00:34:48 Cheeseness invites Ryan to talk about the impact of proprietary services on open source projects
  • 00:36:56 ‘You don’t really own your data. You definitely don’t own the code.’
  • 00:38:17 Troubles with avoiding cloud services and hosting your own.
  • 00:42:14 Ryan’s recent ports: Another World [http://store.steampowered.com/app/233550/]
  • 00:47:41 Flibitijibibo sends in massive patch for Mojoshader [https://icculus.org/mojoshader/]
  • 00:48:58 Work on Sanctum 2 [http://store.steampowered.com/app/210770/] and Goat Simulator [http://store.steampowered.com/app/265930/]
  • 00:50:14 Unreal Engine 3 porting difficulties.
  • 00:52:08 Unreal Engine 4 ‘could be revolutionary this could be a big big difference in how we make AAA games.’
  • 00:56:58 DerRidda asks about how hard it was to go back to working with UE3 code for newer games.
  • 00:58:15 Porting stresses for Dungeon Defenders [http://store.steampowered.com/app/65800/]
  • 01:00:41 Cheeseness asks if Ryan bore the brunt of Unreal Tournament 3’s failure to ship.
  • 01:03:10 Evropi from chat asks for an explanation on Red Orchestra 2 port status.
  • 01:05:15 Ryan has many unpaid ports like RO2 on his TODO list.
  • 01:08:59 Limbo port’s bumpy history [http://store.steampowered.com/app/48000/]
  • 01:11:42 Dear Esther port and the many faces of Valve’s Source engine [http://dear-esther.com/]
  • 01:14:07 Insurgency and Stanley Parable not yet on Linux.
  • 01:15:35 Cheeseness asks what the most significant events for Linux gaming have been. ‘Loki. Humble Bundle. SteamOS. Unreal Engine 4.’
  • 01:20:43 Ryan discusses John Carmack’s view on id soft's Linux game history.
  • 01:22:34 John (@johndrinkwater) in chat asks how Ryan feels about Valve’s SteamOS controller.
  • 01:23:52 Flibitijibibo realizes his mic is on and jumps in to talk about Valve’s lack of devkits for the controller.
  • 01:28:57 DarkSim offers hugs from chat and Cheeseness asks if Ryan gets enough community love.
  • 01:31:37 Cheeseness asks if post‐port game support is more difficult.
  • 01:33:50 Evropi from chat asks what the hardest port has been.
  • 01:34:47 Ryan talks about building Unreal 2003 on the first experimental 64bit AMD machines.
  • 01:37:47 Ryan quotes original Descent developers ‘not a single line of this code is worth looking at’
  • 01:38:36 Quake3 Arena code quality praised: [http://ioquake3.org/]
  • 01:39:47 Cheeseness asks what can game devs do to make a port easier
  • 01:40:57 Middleware issues with Shank [http://store.steampowered.com/app/6120/] [http://icculus.org/theoraplay/]
  • 01:44:26 LinuxZen from chat asks about the origin of the name Icculus
  • 01:46:44 Cheeseness asks who ends up maintaining ports.
  • 01:48:00 Ryan wants Psychonauts updated for SDL2 [http://store.steampowered.com/app/3830/]

SteamLUG Community Stuff

  • 01:49:49 Past Events
  • Team Fortress 2 [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116300968916203473]
  • Altitude [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116300968916203618]
  • BattleBlock Theatre [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116300968916213475]
  • Fistful of Frags [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116300968916213544]
  • 01:51:29 Future Events
  • Double Action: Boogaloo (post‐cast) [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116300968916221302]
  • Guns of Icarus Online [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116300968916221397]
  • Worms Reloaded [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116300968916230624]
  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116300968916230728]
  • 01:52:04 Spacepope has put up a bunch of Don’t Starve Together Servers [https://steamlug.org/servers]
  • 01:54:30 johndrinkwater has been putting a bunch of work into the new SteamLUG community website – feedback welcome! [http://staging.steamlug.org]
  • 01:55:27 Double Fine Game Club is playing Grim Fandango with special guests Bret Mogilefsky, Brandon Dillon and Oliver Franzke [http://double-fine-game-club.github.io/]
  • 01:55:59 dscharrer has put together a fix for ALSA users running Grim Fandango [https://github.com/dscharrer/void/blob/master/hacks/grimfix.c]
  • 01:56:29 tergat is involved with organising the RMLL (Recontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre – Libre Software Meeting) which takes place in Beauvais, France in July. A call for papers has just been released for anybody who might be interested [https://2015.rmll.info/programme/article/submit-your-talk] [https://2015.rmll.info/?lang=en]
  • 01:56:51 Cheeseness is stepping down from ownership and administrative duties with the SteamLUG to focus on game development and writing [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#announcements/detail/116302870617455455] [http://patreon.com/cheeseness] [http://winterswake.com] [http://cheesetalks.net]

Tech News

  • 01:59:21 Two more glNext sessions at GDC [https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/2vyk3a/two_more_sessions_about_glnext_outside_gdc_you_do/]

General Gaming News

  • 01:59:53 flibitijibibo has released another ported game for Linux, Bleed [http://store.steampowered.com/app/239800/] [https://plus.google.com/+flibitijibibo/posts/YexHpeL8xzR]
  • flibitijibibo used FNA to port this game in 78 seconds [http://fna-xna.github.io/] [http://www.flibitijibibo.com/]
  • 02:03:38 Don’t Starve Together beta now has official Linux support [http://steamcommunity.com/app/322330/discussions/0/611698195153234791/]
  • 02:03:44 Dead Island gets an update that fixes the loot issues and reduces the executable size [http://steamcommunity.com/games/91310/announcements/detail/126434700514608449]
  • 02:04:14 A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build to be released this month [http://agoodsnowman.com/]
  • 02:05:08 Hand of Fate is now out (Morgan Jaffit will be joining us as a special guest for a future episode) [http://store.steampowered.com/app/266510]
  • 02:05:57 Toonstruck is now available on GOG with Linux support via ScummVM [http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/toonstruck]
  • 02:07:12 The Book Of Unwritten Tales 2 released [http://store.steampowered.com/app/279940/]
  • 02:08:17 Linux specific updates for Metro Redux Games fix a crash issue and other updates [http://steamcommunity.com/games/286690/announcements/detail/114050436325305523] [http://steamcommunity.com/games/287390/announcements/detail/134316634648455242]
  • 02:09:05 Dying Light 1.4.0 patch fixes a cross‐platform messaging issue and the ability to turn off motion blur [http://steamcommunity.com/games/239140/announcements/detail/114050436329586315]
  • 02:11:45 Cities: Skylines release date set for March 10 [https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/city-builder-game-cities-skylines-now-has-a-release-date.4954] [http://store.steampowered.com/app/255710/]

Crowdfunding News

  • 02:12:17 Underworld Ascendant moves Linux from stretch goal to base deliverable (with a delayed release) [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/othersidegames/underworld-ascendant/posts/1140691]

Farewell thoughts

  • 02:15:33 DerRidda suggests getting together again after Steam Machines are reality

Sign‐off

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