Hi all
Valve have just launched their Linux blog!
Here are a few tidbits:
I know we've got a couple of other Steam/Valve Linux threads, but I figured this deserved its own post ;) Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Valve have just launched their Linux blog!
Here are a few tidbits:
QuoteAvoid the rumors and speculations that multiply on the Web.
QuoteSince the Steam client isn’t much without a game, we’re also porting L4D2 to Ubuntu. This tests the game-related features of the Steam client, in addition to L4D2 gameplay on Ubuntu. Over the last few months, excellent progress has been made on several fronts and it now runs natively on Ubuntu 12.04. We’re working hard to improve the performance and have made good progress (more on that in a future post). Our goal is to have L4D2 performing under Linux as well as it performs under Windows.
QuoteAfter successfully porting L4D2 to Ubuntu, interest grew within Valve and, as a result, the team and projects we were working on also grew. Currently, our focus is on the following projects:
- getting the Steam client onto Linux with full functionality
- optimizing a version of L4D2 running at a high frame rate with OpenGL
- porting additional Valve titles
I know we've got a couple of other Steam/Valve Linux threads, but I figured this deserved its own post ;) Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: "Bumadar, post: 4961, member: 93"ooh i am proven wrong :) now lets hope that eventhough they develop on ubuntu there will be none .deb releases
I hope that it will be distributed in .tar archive just like Desura. That way I can install it wherever I want and then move into another partition if needed. I don't like games packaged in .deb installing to system directories. Games should be put in their own places.
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Cheeseness Jul 17, 2012
Hard to know what their plans will be for packaging. Windows and MacOS have a single binary that downloads the rest of Steam and then includes games in its own self-contained location (pretty much how Desura works). That's definitely an option, but who knows how they're planning to handle dependencies. I did shoot them an email suggesting that might be a good topic (amongst others) for a future blog post.
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i hope no deb, cuz i like to have my stuff installed portable, not in the /usr folders.
if there is deb tho. u can pretty much extract it and probably use with any distro, with some small symlinking probably.
if there is deb tho. u can pretty much extract it and probably use with any distro, with some small symlinking probably.
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Quoting: "Cheeseness, post: 4964, member: 122"Hard to know what their plans will be for packaging. Windows and MacOS have a single binary that downloads the rest of Steam and then includes games in its own self-contained location (pretty much how Desura works). That's definitely an option, but who knows how they're planning to handle dependencies. I did shoot them an email suggesting that might be a good topic (amongst others) for a future blog post.
I left a comment on their blog to point them to my [URL='http://www.mygamecompany.com/articles/index.htm']Linux Game Development[/URL] articles, which talk about how to handle dependencies and packaging, but my comment never showed up. :(
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Quoting: "MyGameCompany, post: 4967, member: 68"I left a comment on their blog to point them to my [URL='http://www.mygamecompany.com/articles/index.htm']Linux Game Development[/URL] articles, which talk about how to handle dependencies and packaging, but my comment never showed up. :(
the guys from the Xenonauts kickstarter had a questionnaire about which packaging and such people preferred, pointed them to the same article and told them to contact you. Just curious if they ever did?
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Looks like there will be another great game for launch of the Steam on Linux [URL='https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=434466463243506&set=a.434466459910173.92434.191676850855803&type=1']Serious Sam 3: BFE - running on Linux![/URL]
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Not surprised - Croteam did basically say the only reason they did not want to release a Linux version was because of the lack of Steam. Someone should check up on the Red Orchestra guys and see if they were serious about that as well.
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Quoting: "Bumadar, post: 4968, member: 93"the guys from the Xenonauts kickstarter had a questionnaire about which packaging and such people preferred, pointed them to the same article and told them to contact you. Just curious if they ever did?
Nope.
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Cheeseness Jul 19, 2012
Quoting: "MyGameCompany, post: 4967, member: 68"I left a comment on their blog to point them to my [URL='http://www.mygamecompany.com/articles/index.htm']Linux Game Development[/URL] articles, which talk about how to handle dependencies and packaging, but my comment never showed up. :(
I'm pretty sure that comments are moderated. I didn't see mine show up until the day after I posted it.
Edit: Looks like [URL='http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/steamd-penguins/#li-comment-1896']it's up there[/URL] :)
I sort of gather that woth the people they've got onboard that they probably have their heads wrapped around the issues. Wouldn't hurt to send them an email though :)
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