Cheese and DerRidda have brought community member and Lead Linux Maintainer/Developer of the Unity engine on the show.

Introduction

  • 00:00:12 @ValiantCheese introduces
  • 00:00:17 @DerRidda
  • 00:00:20 Levi Bard (Tak to the community)

Our Gaming

  • 00:00:35 DerRidda has been playing Strife (S2 Games), Among the Sleep, Antichamber, Hexcells & Hexcells Plus, Shadowrun: Dragonfall (Director's Cut), Wasteland 2
  • 00:03:00 Cheese played Another World, Spacebase DF-9, Boson X, Space Run, Hack 'n' Slash, Thinking with Time Machine, Mark of the Ninja, Stranded
  • 00:04:33 Levi played Gang Beasts, Knight Squad, Assault Android Cactus and Broforce

Chat with special guest Levi Bard of Unity Technologies

  • 00:08:13 Levi's history with Unity [http://unity3d.com/]
  • 00:08:51 What are you working on that you can share with the community?
  • 00:09:26 What kind of response did you get to the call for gamepad configurations? [https://plus.google.com/104339689434081533648/posts/d3oBCgkthDT]
  • Unity 5 will support SDL2 style gamepad profiles
  • 00:10:06 At what point did you decide you wanted to start bringing Unity to Linux?
  • Linux support was developed by Levi, Na'Tosha and others during Unity's internal "Fridays Are For Fun" flexible time [http://blogs.unity3d.com/2009/11/18/fridays-are-for-fun/]
  • 00:12:34 What kind of response did you get to Linux support in Unity?
  • 00:12:57 General reception from Linux users to the engine?
  • 00:13:37 Is publishing for Linux really a single-button export? [http://unity3d.com/unity/multiplatform/desktop]
  • 00:14:12 DerRidda notes the downsides of such easy export capabilities
  • 00:15:05 Any word on the Unity editor on Linux?
  • 00:15:31 Would the editor be born of Friday Fun time?
  • 00:15:51 Other engines targeting Linux for their editors could be incentive to Unity
  • 00:16:26 Biggest obstacles for Linux support for Unity?
  • 00:17:06 Is controller support a Linux-specific problem?
  • 00:18:17 Upcoming features in Unity 5 for Linux users? [http://unity3d.com/5]
  • Gamepad support and OpenGL improvements are not Linux specific but should be of value
  • 00:19:06 Cheese says thank you from the community for the Unity 4 fixes especially the mouse issues
  • 00:19:38 What two issues caused the mouse problems?
  • 00:20:22 What are some of the difficulties identifying issues?
  • 00:21:09 What can the community do to convince developers to update their games' build of Unity?
  • 00:21:37 Tips for developers who are reluctant to break existing games by upgrading?
  • 00:23:17 Levi's favorite game using the engine?
  • Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut [https://www.humblebundle.com/store/shadowrun-dragonfall-directors-cut]
  • Wasteland 2 [https://wasteland.inxile-entertainment.com/]
  • Assault Android Cactus [http://www.assaultandroidcactus.com/]
  • Gang Beasts [http://gangbeasts.com/]
  • 00:24:50 Anything else to share with the community?
  • 00:25:08 DerRidda points out that Levi is a member of the community and can often be found in the #SteamLUG IRC channel [https://steamlug.org/irc]
  • 00:26:00 Community members bring up issues before developers in many cases
  • 00:27:33 Levi asks what the community would like
  • 00:29:12 Is there a Web Player for Linux?
  • 00:29:42 Will we see the WebGL version in Unity 5?
  • Unity WebGL announcement [http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/04/29/on-the-future-of-web-publishing-in-unity/]
  • 00:30:29 Discussion of browser-based games ensues
  • 00:32:19 Chat conclusion

SteamLUG Community Stuff

  • 00:32:37 Past Events
  • Monaco [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/146686310026413929]
  • Sanctum 2 [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/146686310026415258]
  • Team Fortress 2 [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/146686310026438490]
  • Forced [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/146686310026440815]
  • 00:33:47 Upcoming Events
  • Frozen Synapse [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/124168944283321522]
  • No More Room in Hell [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/124168944283322584]
  • Planetary Annihilation [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/124168944283345986]
  • Orbital Gear [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/124168944283347522]
  • 00:35:31 DerRidda nudges Cheese to talk about getting an old favorite ported to Linux
  • 00:36:33 Another World launched for Linux [http://store.steampowered.com/app/233550/]
  • 00:36:49 Cheese jotted down some brief notes about the game [http://cheesetalks.twolofbees.com/anotherworld.php]
  • 00:39:27 Cheese waffles about his fanart for Another World [http://twolofbees.com/artwork.php?iid=1275]
  • 00:44:26 Fabien Sanglard's Another World code review [http://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/]
  • 00:44:53 Cheese is looking for perspectives from players who like Another World for a follow up article cheese@twolofbees.com
  • 00:45:25 DoubleFine Game Club will be streaming Stacking with special guest Lee Petty [http://double-fine-game-club.github.io]
  • Live interview [http://cheesetalks.twolofbees.com/dfgc_leepetty.php]
  • 00:46:20 psymin posted some guidelines for giving useful feedback to developers [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug/discussions/2/616187839465309235/]

Valve News

  • 00:47:38 SteamOS talk from DebConf 2014 [http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2014/debconf14/webm/SteamOS_and_Debian.webm]
  • 00:49:17 Is targeting one distro really necessary? Or could support be extended to any distro on which the Steam Runtime works?
  • 00:53:59 Valve opened a forum thread in the Steam Universe group regarding feedback on AMD graphics drivers [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/616187839533548192/]

Tech News

  • 00:55:26 NVidia releases driver 343.22 with support for latest cards [https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/776025/unix-graphics-announcements-and-news/linux-solaris-and-freebsd-driver-343-22/]

General Gaming News

  • 00:57:10 Gaming on Linux article on Another World launch with quotes from @icculus [http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/another-world-now-available-for-linux-plus-cheeses-thoughts-and-some-words-from-icculus.4303]
  • 00:57:26 Spacebase DF-9 will be releasing next month [http://spacebasedf9.com/post/97755808095/the-road-to-1-0]
  • 01:02:42 Tropico 5 released for Linux [http://store.steampowered.com/app/245620/]
  • 01:04:22 Humble Indie Bundle 12 released [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Humble_Bundles]
  • 01:09:05 Hack 'n' Slash was released with source [http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/hack-n-slash-10-now-available-with-sources-and-workshop-support.4282]
  • 01:11:27 Wasteland 2 released [http://store.steampowered.com/app/240760/]
  • 01:17:37 Starbound changes ahead [https://twitter.com/Tiyuri/status/512590682914312192]
  • 01:19:32 Chasm devs share Linux screenshots [https://twitter.com/DiscordGames/status/508445720446513152]
  • 01:21:03 Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut released (free for owners of Shadowrun DLC) [http://store.steampowered.com/app/300550]
  • 01:22:12 Leadwerks Halloween Game Tournament II (ends October 31st) [http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/blog/41/entry-1284-halloween-game-tournament-ii-kicks-off/]

Crowdfunding Items

  • 01:24:18 Totem HMD has Linux support and on-board positional tracking [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2091603040/totem-the-premium-full-featured-virtual-reality-he]

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