Our duo Cheese and DerRidda deftly step past a recording hiccough and discuss Handmade Penguin, the Steam Holiday Auction, BioShock Infinite, Civilization: Beyond Earth, 7DFPS and more!

Introduction

  • 00:00:18 Cheese @ValiantCheese introduces
  • 00:00:20 @DerRidda
  • 00:00:22 Once more, with feeling...

Our Gaming

  • 00:00:32 @DerRidda has been playing CS:GO, Deponia and The Last Federation
  • 00:00:47 @ValiantCheese has been playing some 7dfps games, Satellite Reign, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Distance and Shovel Knight

SteamLUG Community News

  • 00:01:16 Altitude event [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/124174663437122206]
  • 00:01:36 Screencheat [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/124174663437618719]
  • 00:01:48 TF2 [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/125303093049615137]
  • 00:01:49 CS:GO [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/125303093049623562]
  • 00:01:56 Upcoming post-cast No More Room in Hell [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/125303093052447837]
  • 00:02:04 Upcoming Mount & Blade Warband [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/125303093052457096]
  • 00:02:08 Upcoming Synergy HL2 [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/125303093056753480]
  • 00:02:19 Upcoming X:COM Enemy Unknown [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/125303093056768384]
  • 00:03:07 Upcoming First attempt at a long-form event with Civilization V [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/125303093040332884]
  • 00:03:51 Upcoming DotA 2 for Beginners event run by community members sakuramboo and dougie187 [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/125303093040337515]
  • 00:04:43 Double Fine Game Club is playing Maniac Mansion with special guests Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick [http://www.doublefine.com/forums/viewthread/15881/]
  • Ron and Gary join DFGC during their Kickstarter campaign for Thimbleweed Park [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thimbleweedpark/thimbleweed-park-a-new-classic-point-and-click-adv]
  • Maniac Mansion was first to use SCUMM engine from which the open source reimplementation takes its name [http://scummvm.org/faq/#1_2]
  • 00:05:54 Cheese @ValiantCheese has been looking at games from 7dfps [http://7dfps.com/]
  • About 40% of the games had Linux builds
  • Cheese took some time to talk to some of the developers using Linux [http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-7dfps-challenge-2014-a-linux-perspective.4686/]
  • DerRidda @DerRidda played a bit of The Cabin [http://an0nx.itch.io/the-cabin]
  • Cheese enjoyed the stealth title Adams Drive 32 [http://primaerfunktion.itch.io/adams-drive-32]
  • Photobomb, a highly-polished entry, has the player use multiple time-sequenced photos to identify a bomber [http://milkbaggames.itch.io/photobomb]
  • 00:11:53 Community member Sulix has been creating a companion site to Casey Muratori's Handmade Hero [https://davidgow.net/handmadepenguin/] [https://handmadehero.org]
  • 00:13:46 The backlog of SteamLUG Cast has been cleared!

Steam/Valve News

  • 00:14:32 Steam Broadcasting has now hit beta [http://steamcommunity.com/updates/broadcasting]
  • 00:17:00 Steam's Holiday Auction didn't start quite as planned [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/12/12/new-games-for-old-drops-theres-to-be-a-steam-auction/]
  • 00:20:45 Portal (no number) receives an update that includes some performance fixes for Linux [http://steamcommunity.com/games/Portal/announcements/detail/239018984038934996]
  • 00:21:23 TF2 has another community-created game mode: End of the Line [http://www.teamfortress.com/endoftheline/]

Tech News

  • 00:22:01 AMD releases OMEGA to disappointing reviews [http://support.amd.com/en-us/download] [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_catalyst_1412]

General Gaming News

  • 00:23:17 Bioshock: Infinite is getting a Linux port [https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/bioshock-infinite-looks-set-for-a-linux-release-confirmed.4668]
  • 00:24:51 Feral's GameRadar now shows Linux support [http://www.feralinteractive.com/en/upcoming/]
  • 00:25:28 Empire: Total War's multiplayer is Linux-to-Linux only [http://store.steampowered.com/app/10500/]
  • 00:26:34 Upcoming gorefest Killing Floor 2 shows off during a PS4 event [http://youtu.be/C6C2czPIV3A]
  • 00:27:27 Aspyr has been discussing issues getting Civilization: Beyond Earth to Linux [http://blog.gameagent.com/civilization-beyond-earth-mac-linux-dev-update-7/]
  • 00:28:22 Double Fine announce two upcoming titles for Linux: Grim Fandango Remastered and Day of the Tentacle Special Edition [http://www.doublefine.com/news/comments/playstation_experience_news_wrapup/]
  • 00:30:16 Mevious @portalmevious, a guest on s02e18, has released Rexaura on Steam [http://store.steampowered.com/app/317790/]
  • 00:30:45 The Metro Redux games arrive on Linux [http://store.steampowered.com/sub/44169]
  • 00:31:24 Trine: Enchanted Edition comes to Linux, bringing online multiplayer [http://store.steampowered.com/app/35700]
  • 00:32:06 Croteam's first-person puzzler The Talos Principle has been released [http://store.steampowered.com/app/257510/]
  • 00:32:42 Satellite Reign is available on Steam Early Access [http://store.steampowered.com/app/268870]
  • 00:33:27 NEO Scavenger is out of Early Access [http://bluebottlegames.com/main/node/4003]
  • James from Extra Credits talks about NEO Scavenger [http://youtu.be/51lG-Ulvf2A]

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